Scale Efficiently.
Define products and services customers love, scale operations and maximise capital efficiency.
Operator-led planning and execution for ventures, SMEs, PE-backed and complex engineering-led businesses.
The Product Business Scaling Company
PBScaleCo.
Robert Hobson
Most product and engineering-led businesses don't fail because the technology doesn't work, they fail because of complexity.
For 25+ years I've delivered product, engineering development, operational scale and business transformation for global companies across 4 continents.
Now I help impactful companies and their investors produce products and services customers love, scale great businesses around them, and increase enterprise value.
Experience From:
Empower Growth
"Great technology - who's the customer?"
"Operations increasingly disorganised"
"Margins are shrinking despite growth"
"The product portfolio is too complex"
"Teams are busy but execution is slowing"
"Decision-making is slowing"
"AI workflows & automation unfocused"
"Investors want value realised"
Solve Now.
The Solution Starts Here
Get a clear picture of your business opportunities and the data, tools and support to deliver the change.
Performance Diagnostic
Run
Discovery, Evaluation & Roadmap for Scale
A rapid diagnostic that identifies where the real product, operational, commercial and profitability bottlenecks exist and delivers a prioritised roadmap ready for scale.
Operational Acceleration Sprint
Operating Model Readiness for Scale
A deep-dive through the operating model, portfolio and systems that become complex with growth. Then unlocking and accelerating through improved alignment, decision-making, scalability and execution.
Profitability Expansion Drive
Growth, Margin & Scale Delivery
Identify the operational, product portfolio and execution issues suppressing margin performance, and build a focused roadmap to expand profitability, operating leverage and enterprise value.
Working Together
There are several ways to work together so please get in touch to explore opportunities. Examples include:
Fractional Operating Partner
Support leadership to drive change and scale execution
Portfolio Value Creation & Operational Diligence Partner
Assess acquisitions & plan, improve and realise value across the portfolio
Product & Commercialisation Partner
Pure unfiltered product and commercialisation support
Who we work with
Product & Services Companies
We’ll help you solve your innovator’s dilemma, optimising your product portfolio and business operations today, whilst identifying customers’ problems to solve for tomorrow's success. We’ll build a strong roadmap and help you execute, from product or service to business transformation and investment decisions, you’re in experienced hands.
Venture Capital & Private Equity
We’ll work with your ventures and investment team on value creation and operations, product portfolio and services, roadmaps, go-to-market, organisation and scaling plans. We’ll deliver a compelling investment narrative to exit and support you and the venture's team to scale and deploy capital with confidence.
Commercialisation & Readiness
We’ll work with your teams and stakeholders to establish best practices, development processes and support. Through training, models, coaching and business readiness, we’ll empower your people to turn their great ideas, R&D and knowledge into viable, sustainable and scalable businesses ripe for investment.
Consulting & Trade Agencies
Whether your client is developing products or services, an app, plans to scale internationally, or you’re working pre/post on an M&A deal, our expert domain knowledge and business transformation experience is ideal for plugging gaps in your project team and delivering targeted value to you and your clients.
About
Rob has over two decades of multinational experience at senior levels and at new ventures developing products, building operations, driving performance and transforming businesses.
Rob has built and led global teams and developed and executed multimillion-dollar board-level strategies for automotive, consumer technology, advanced manufacturing, capital asset-intense operations and SaaS companies across four continents, including Dyson, Autodesk, Jaguar Land Rover, Deutsche Bank, Arup and a range of clients.
Using leading tools and techniques, and increasingly AI-driven workflows, the work is backed by research and based on data, helping companies modernise, focus on the customer, grow and achieve great things.
