We’re ALIGNMT, a new kind of corporate finance resources company
By: Ian Shanno
Tags: Productivity, Efficiency, Innovation, Alignment, Profitability

When I first started ALIGNMT, it was a lo-fi weekly newsletter of business hacks, best practices and Q&As with executives and experts who I was fortunate enough to encounter in my daily life. We’ve grown up a lot since then; staying true to our persistent curiosity and unyielding desire to find the best corporate finance insights, solutions and experiences. Thanks for joining us on our #businessstyle journey.

When was the last time you truly enjoyed solving a persistent business problem? Truly solving a problem — discovering, dismantling, getting inspired.

Corporate finance was supposed to make business management more precise and effective, and for everyday accounting practices, it has. Sell, spend, close the books, done. But in making the process all about the books, it lost much of the joy of discovering valuable new information that you truly can leverage to enhance productivity and profitability. This is always great for business.

In the few years since we started, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the differences between the status quo and making innovation a top priority, and the emotions that drive both. We see an opportunity for a corporate finance company to bring joy back to business as usual and do it at scale with the ease of accounting systems and fast information we’ve all come to expect.

When we talk to executives, many share our concerns about the current state of business as usual. They want to improve their employee productivity and business profitability to reach new heights, to transcend and transform, but few platforms align with their values. They are being asked to pay for more employees, battling unproductive cultural issues and onboarding woes with little recourse, all to the detriment of their productivity.

That’s where ALIGNMT comes in. Our aim is to create an alternative corporate finance system that better serves both management and employees, ultimately creating a better customer experience. We’re spending time evaluating and selecting the most innovative corporate finance innovations that meet our standards and resonate with our clients. We’re building an online innovative resource destination that will continue to evolve to meet executives’ needs so our innovation partners will thrive. We’re making a place that elevates our innovation partners’ identities so stakeholders will have more delightful opportunities to discover great businesses.

By assessing a company’s goals, resources, processes and analyses we can gain valuable insights on a viable strategy and the tactics that will take a business to the next level — the result is an alignment map.

Our team here at ALIGNMT has deep knowledge in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and investor relations, starting with our founder. Our founder and Managing Director hails from Citigroup, where he served company owners as a valued M&A advisor, helping to position them to achieve maximum value by reorganizing, restructuring and realizing efficiencies when connecting with the best buyer for their unique situation. We’re excited to innovate and are deep into our mission.

If you are an executive who’d like to discuss an innovation partnership, drop us a line at alignmt@alignmt.com. And if you’re as excited as we are for a place to find innovative corporate finance solutions for your organic and strategic growth, sign up to join our growing subscriber base.

It’s easy to get wrapped up in big ideas and forget about practical innovation — constantly improving the components of your business to help you make money.

The right idea is one that lives at the intersection of customer appeal, feasibility and profitability. Finding that sweet spot is easier said than done.

We can’t wait to show you what’s in store.

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