Advisory Services
Maximize today's performance. Build for future success.
We help you understand how your business environment is changing, what it takes to sustain your success, and devise the optimal strategy to move your organization from present to future. Working with us allows you and your leadership team to optimize your current business, give it a substantial performance lift, and reinvent it from a position of strength to carry today’s success into the future.
We provide services both for your executive leadership and your board to make sure every level of your organization works optimally together around creating the best possible future for your business while increasing the performance already today.
We leverage our Dreams and Details methodology to deliver tailored business strategy services. The model provides the framework for leadership- and strategy development to sustain and increase growth and competitiveness in fast and radically changing business environments. We help you maximize performance today and facilitate your transformation towards future success.
Strategy Development
Strategy & Focus: Stay ahead of change. And your competition.
We’ve spent years optimizing the process of developing business strategies. Through workshops based on our patented ‘Dreams & Details’ approach, we’ll help you and your leadership team:
- Anticipate industry development, future profit pools, and growth opportunities.
- Create a concise, ready-to-execute strategy map that maximizes your organization’s value and growth.
- Adopt a progressive, digital-age leadership mindset to unleash your organization’s and employees’ full potential.
- Generate a substantial performance lift while making sure lead future industry changes.
- Create a lasting increase in innovation speed and capability.
Strategy Execution
Transform & Cascade
You already have your strategy in place? We can help you implement it. With our partner, former SAP CIO & COO Herbert Illgner, we help you increase your execution speed, time to market, and customer value through:
- LEAN, agile, and continuous improvement process practices
- Support in managing crucial strategic projects, including:
- Critical problem clustering
- Identification of improvement measures
- Setting up the next steps and defining responsibilities.
- KPI definition and success management
What our clients say about working with us:
In a world marked by constant change, boards can’t only focus on compliance anymore. They have to become pillars of resilience and create the optimal environment and dynamics to drive both performance and transformation. Our board services assess your readiness for change, create alignment within your board and the executive level, and ensure that you discuss the most crucial questions to transition the business into the future.
Board Evaluation
Pulse: Are you ready for radical change?
Do you have a sense of how resilient your business is and how ready you are to meet the challenges and opportunities of the future? This assessment provides you with all insights of conventional board evaluations, with the critical additional benefit of allowing your board to prepare for reinventing the business. You get:
- A quantitative board evaluation (which can – on request – can be supplemented by qualitative interviews).
- All classic board assessment data, incl.: General efficiency, governance proficiency, and board composition.
- Additional unique insights on: Readiness to change and resilience.
- Feedback and actionable advice by prominent chairs.
Annual Strategy Seminar
Strategize: Getting focus on the strategic questions facing the business and the critical capabilities needed to succeed.
Did you take the time to create an understanding and consensus on the business’s future and how it will change? Do you have a solid overview of the breakthroughs required to succeed? Do you monitor both performance and the pace of your transformation? Your outcomes from this seminar include:
- Strategic alignment regarding: Industry development, growth opportunities, future positioning & transformational efforts.
- A board-level strategy map that inspires inside and outside stakeholders and drives both performance and transformation.
- A shared understanding and implementation of modern strategy practices for boards to keep your business ahead of the curve (based on the latest insights from some of Europe’s most successful organizations).
Board Alignment Seminar
Unite: Getting the board aligned to transition the business.
Put a day (12:12) aside to make sure that the board has the composition, focus, and dynamics necessary to challenge and support management optimally. You’ll also ensure that your board has the time and metrics required to drive the development in those areas that are crucial to reinventing the business. Your outcomes from the seminar include:
- Optimal board dynamics and internal alignment.
- Board diversity: The ideal composition & expertise amongst the members.
- Structural & process optimization of the annual wheel based on our tried and tested formula for success.