The EY 7 Drivers of Growth

In today’s disruptive world, realizing your ambition and growing your business is an exciting challenge. EY has a long history of working alongside many of the world’s most ambitious CEOs, owners and entrepreneurs to support them to accelerate their journey to market leadership. Drawing on their successes, we have distilled these insights to create the EY 7 Drivers of Growth.

What EY can do for you

The EY 7 Drivers of Growth is a framework that enables ambitious leaders to think differently about their businesses, unlock their full potential and successfully deliver their growth strategy. Find out more in the video below.

A 7 Drivers session will help you:

  • Assess your current capabilities relative to your future aspirations
  • Gain insight into the practices of market-leading companies
  • Clarify your strategic priorities, opportunities and challenges
  • Validate and refine your business strategy
  • Build an action plan to help you achieve increased resilience and sustainable growth
  • Achieve consensus among your leadership team about the future of your business and how to get there

EY 7 Drivers of Growth

Using the wisdom of thousands of resilient, high-growth businesses – including EY Entrepreneur of the Year™ winners - the EY 7 Drivers of Growth is a tried, tested and trusted framework that can enable you to think differently about your strategy for protecting, building and transforming your business to help it flourish.

EY 7 Drivers of Growth

Learn from the successes of the world’s leading entrepreneurs

Our research into the growth journeys of the world’s leading businesses – amid all kinds of market conditions - has shown that the most successful companies look at a broad set of capabilities and balance their investments in time, money and energy across all 7 Drivers as they grow. This has proven to be a key success factor for building resilience and driving sustainable growth.

Learn more about each of the 7 Drivers:



“The session helped me to understand key focus areas that will allow our business to scale. I feel empowered to make better strategic decisions.”




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How a shift in focus unlocked an ambition to help high-risk patients

HMG Systems Engineering GmbH applied the 7 Drivers framework to transform their gene identification business.

04 Nov 2019 | Ryan Burke

How JUMBO Seafood is paving the way to international growth

JUMBO Seafood applied the EY 7 Drivers of Growth framework to fulfill its ambition of bringing Singapore-style food to diners around the world.

22 Jan 2020 | Peter Bos

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