OUR APPROACH TO YOUR SUCCESS

Our particular strength lies in actively providing support on site. We don’t just sit back and watch, we lend a hand. As many of our consultants have long held management positions in industry. We work closely with you to implement lean methods, track down waste, increase your productivity and improve the quality of your products. And we place our focus on every division and department, from the reception desk to the executive floor.

In applying this approach, we work with you to uncover the potential that has remained hidden in your company. The effect will clearly be noticed on your operating income, cash flow and achieving the demonstrate a sustained positive momentum.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

The demands on operational and indirect processes in terms of adaptability and performance continue to increase. The aim is to increase performance with stable and flexible processes and thereby secure competitiveness in the long term.

Our contribution to your success: Excellent processes throughout the company, meeting the highest quality standards, at low cost and top delivery performance. With a noticeable effect on your bottom line.

We show you how you can effectively counteract increasing cost and performance pressure.

• Optimization of end-to-end value streams according to Lean Management principles
• Functional excellence in sales, research & development, procurement, production and service
• Increasing competitiveness and yield by reducing costs
• * Reduction of overhead & indirect costs in direct and indirect areas
• “Growing without growing”: Securing planned growth with existing resources
• Global operational excellence by implementing a value creation system
• Workplace design based on lean principles
• Increase market share through fast, agile and efficient time-to-market strategies

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Those Who Wish to Lead must move.

In times of great change, leaders need to acquire new skills. In addition to being a strategist
and supervisor, today they must also act as organizational developers and mentors. Employee development has become a central management task.

More than ever, however, team effort and high-performance teams are needed to master the current challenges and make organizations capable of change and fit for the future.

We support you in the targeted establishment and implementation of new structures, processes, behaviors and models of collaboration, thereby enabling your organization to achieve sustainable change.

• Success in change: Transformation towards becoming an agile and learning organization
• Leading in times of crisis: Focus, speed, impact
• Leadership Excellence: Effectively leading yourself, others and the organization
• Improvement culture and best performance with leadership and Shop Floor Management
• High-performance teams: Clear goals, focus on levers for success, collaboration with synergy
• Agility: Collaboration models, mindset, leadership, tools
• Change Management: Leading change programs to success
• Customized qualification programs for leaders and improvement experts

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT & RESTRUCTURING

Continuously and Sustainably Increase Company Performance.

We support you in phases of existential crisis and restructuring all the way to the implementation of ambitious growth strategies. The objective is to achieve sustainable improvement in profitability and earnings and to make a relevant contribution to increasing the value of the company. With our specific top-down/bottom-up approach, instead of pure “cost cutting,” we achieve fast results and establish thinking and working according to excellence principles.

Our holistic approach safeguards existing success and creates a basis on which transformation to new business models and structures can be successfully managed.

• Predictive restructuring : proactively addressing and successfully managing upheaval and change
• Reorganization report/IBR : creating transparency in accordance with IDW and BGH standards
• Potential analysis/top-down, bottom-up : validate business planning assumptions and identify P&L and cash-relevant levers
• Program management/PMO : operationalize and implement potential and measures
• Cash flow management : optimizing working capital, securing liquidity and designing financing structures
• Strategic alignment : positioning businesses for the future and successfully developing strategies
• Develop operational due diligence and integrate with other audits

HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION

The business world is undergoing rapid change. Advancing digitization, increasing competitive pressure, rising complexity, poor earnings – many companies are facing existential challenges, and not just since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, great opportunities and new possibilities are also emerging.

Simply optimizing processes and coaching managers is often not enough in many situations.
To continue to be successful or to consistently expand their top position, companies must constantly question themselves, partly reinvent themselves and fundamentally transform themselves.

• Ensure competitiveness and future viability in terms of business model, strategy, structures, processes and collaboration
• Clear awareness of the problem and alignment with a common and compelling target image with appeal for all employees
• Maintain and improve what is tried and tested, consistently rethink and implement other aspects
• Determination and focused power of change across the entire organization
• Increase value creation from the customer’s perspective and eliminate waste
• Create a performance-promoting and appreciative corporate culture
• Increase the value of your company long-term