Human Insights in Private Equity

Results from our survey of industry leaders by Mikkel Krenchel and Martin Gronemann

Following a growing number of successful projects for Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies, ReD is now conducting a research project to understand how investors and operators use insights on people and culture to drive business results today, and how they perceive the value of such information.

Our research examined how three kinds of human insight affected company performance: Namely, we looked at the effect of building a strong, data-driven perspective on how to improve 1) company’s people, culture, and competencies, 2) Talent and team dynamics of the executive team and 3) how to serve current and future customers, up against insight into how to improve other areas like operations, technology and physical and financial assets.