STRATEGY
„Winning should be at the heart of every strategy” – A.G. Lafley & Roger Martin
A winning strategy is the key to sustainable success. It provides the framework for business decisions and the effective management of all company resources.
We support management teams in crafting winning strategies through inspiring, interactive formats. Additionally, we help corporate leaders critically evaluate existing strategies and test their resilience against current trends.
Our strategy workshops foster open dialogue among decision-makers, encouraging shared perspectives on the current situation and future challenges. Thus, we lay the foundation for determined implementation already in the strategy process.”
Strategy Development at the Situation Table – Fast, Effective, Mobilizing
Our strategy sessions at the situation table deliver precise, actionable, and broadly supported decisions. In focused workshop sessions, we tap into your most valuable asset: the diverse experiences and perspectives of your management team. We bring the assessments of all participants “to the (situation) table” and interactively analyze the situation and possible courses of action.
Drawing inspiration from proven strategic frameworks, we center our approach around two pivotal questions:
- Where to play – In which market segments do we want to operate in the future, and which ones should we leave behind?
- How to Win – How should we position ourselves to succeed in these chosen market segments?
Building on the workshop insights, we craft clear and actionable strategy options, working together to select the most promising path forward.
What you gain:
- A strategy crafted by your team, perfectly aligned with your values, framework conditions, and goals
- A management team aligned in its understanding of the situation and options for action
- A shared, team-wide understanding of the rationale and challenges behind the new strategy – creating a strong foundation for decisive and energized implementation
Strategy Monitoring and Trend Resilience Review
In today’s fast-paced world, corporate leaders and board members are more challenged than ever to keep theire company on the path to success. Global trends are impacting your business faster, more broadly, and more intensely – often with significant consequences: Existing market positions are under attack, competitive advantages are eroding, and at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that must be seized.
Our streamlined workshop formats for strategy and trend reviews are purpose-built for strategy retreats with management and supervisory boards. They enable you to clearly present key interrelations to the entire board in a short amount of time and transparently map both risks and opportunities within the business model.
This is achieved in three steps:
- Discussion of the business model and its integration into the ecosystem
- Identification of success factors and differentiation features, as well as evaluation of existing strategic directions
- Analysis of the impact of global trends:
- Emerging technologies, digitalization, and AI
- Demographic change
- Sustainability
- Geopolitical disruptions
Using our Method you gain clear insights into weaknesses and untapped opportunities in your current strategy. Based on this, you can make well-informed decisions about where strategic adjustments are needed.
Our compact strategy review workshop has proven effective in numerous leadership and supervisory boards and is regularly used as part of the training for supervisory and advisory boards in the “Qualified Supervisory Board” program (certificate by Deutsche Börse AG).
Fundamental Analysis and Business Model Design
Through fundamental analyses and systematic business model design, we validate, refine, and quantify strategic positions, value potentials, and business models.
The methods we use:
- Business modeling with the “Business Model Canvas”
- Value driver analyses
- Fundamental analyses and determination of company value
These approaches complement our experience- and intuition-focused workshop formats, for example, to further validate developed concepts or to quantify strategic directions in greater detail.
Design of the strategy process
With our strategy process design offering, we help you establish a continuous strategy development process within your organization and effectively anchor it throughout the company.
We structure your strategy process in a way that allows all departments to contribute their perspectives in a targeted manner—without losing focus on the core of the new positioning. This is achieved through an integrated process across all disciplines, ensuring that your strategy is built on the collective knowledge of your entire organization.
Specifically, we offer:
- Design and implementation of strategy processes
- Moderation of strategy processes
- Support for strategic control
M&A und Buy&Build Programs
With our expertise, you can achieve value-enhancing acquisitions and integrations. We support you in all phases of a transaction with clear judgment and a focus on the essentials. This includes:
- Developing and reviewing the strategic rationale for the planned acquisition or buy-&-build program
- Identifying suitable and attractive targets, including second-tier options, using digital, AI-supported search methods
- Carefully assessing the business, strategic, and technological substance of targets (Commercial, Strategic, and Technical Due Diligence)
- Realistically determining synergies and challenges of the necessary integration
- Supporting negotiations and agreements on commercially advantageous and secure transaction terms
- Planning, setting up, and implementing a fast and secure post-merger integration – if required, including comprehensive program management
Our streamlined approach keeps your costs low during the initiation phase and focuses on the key points for your decision-making process (red flag due diligence). Additional information and review points, such as those required by financing partners and banks, are handled subsequently once you receive a sufficiently positive indication from your internal decision-making body (bankable due diligence).
