REAL RESULTS

What changes when a company adopts CVM? We asked the senior leaders who lived it.

Three companies. Each surveyed twice, on the same 20 questions — once before working with Insights7, once after — scored by their own senior leadership. Here is what changed.

THE HEADLINE NUMBER

An average jump from 1.9 to 4.9, out of a possible 5

This comes from the Work-to-Value Quarterly Performance Survey: 20 statements across six categories of organizational alignment — whether teams share a clear picture of their direct customers and stakeholders, whether they can see current performance against target, how well decisions get made, how productive meetings are, and whether people feel like valued contributors to the outcome. Each statement is scored 0 to 5. Three companies took it twice: once before adopting CVM (Corporate Value Management), once after.

1.9 → 4.9

Average score across three client engagements, out of a possible 5

An average gain of about 2.9 points, from 1.93 to 4.87. Together, the three companies closed 96% of the gap between their starting score and a perfect 5 (points gained divided by 5 minus the starting score).

WHO ANSWERED THESE QUESTIONS

Not a survey panel. The leadership team who lived it.

These scores did not come from a broad employee survey. They came directly from each company's senior leadership, the executives most directly accountable for, and most exposed to, the shift from their prior way of operating to Corporate Value Management. A small number of respondents, and exactly the right ones: nobody sees a company's true before-and-after more clearly than the people who ran it, both times.

THE THREE ENGAGEMENTS

Before and after, company by company

Individual results vary, as they should — every company starts from a different baseline. All three moved substantially.

Client A
Q3 2025 engagement
1.40→4.85
out of 5
+3.45 points · 96% of the gap to 5 closed
Client B
Q1 2025 engagement
2.25→4.95
out of 5
+2.70 points · 98% of the gap to 5 closed
Client C
Q1 2025 engagement
2.15→4.80
out of 5
+2.65 points · 93% of the gap to 5 closed
WHAT ACTUALLY IMPROVED

Six areas of alignment, tracked before and after

Averaged across all three engagements. The gains are not concentrated in one flattering number — they show up across how teams understand their customers, how they work together, and how they decide. Each bar shows the average score out of 5: the light segment is where the companies started, the full bar is where they ended.

Value Delivery TeamsRoles, collaboration, prioritization, course-correction
1.4 → 4.8
Direct CustomersShared understanding of who they are and what they need
1.6 → 4.8
Impacted StakeholdersSame clarity, extended to stakeholders beyond the customer
1.8 → 4.8
MeetingsTime and productivity
1.9 → 5.0
Decision-MakingQuality and speed
2.4 → 5.0
You as a Value CreatorA single self-perception item, not a team measure
2.7 → 4.7
HOW TO READ THESE RESULTS

Early results from three engagements

These are early results: three engagements, scored by each company's senior leadership before and after adopting CVM. We treat them as a strong early signal, not a controlled study.

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