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Support for Company Transformations

Dynamic Realignment and Readjustment of Companies

„Nobody saves us except ourselves. We have to walk the path ourselves.“

Buddha

A key requirement for companies is to constantly adapt to changing environmental conditions. The ability and willingness to change are essential prerequisites for this ongoing adaptation. Both begin with top management, which must succeed in creating value- and KPI-orientated leadership, which should consist of three components: a strategic discourse, the empowerment of the workforce and a functioning feedback culture.

On this basis, supposed conflicts of objectives, such as those that exist between lean management and strategic and operational flexibility, will be resolved. Processes are continuously coordinated and adjusted, and decisions are made where the relevant expertise exists, always in dialogue with the parties at the interfaces. To this end, the ongoing harmonisation of expectations and possibilities at the interfaces within and between the business processes is just as essential as transparent information and communication and agile decision-making.

If companies lose these skills, or have never learnt them, they will lose touch with the markets at some point and risk getting into economic difficulties. In this phase, a transformation project makes sense, in which not only necessary changes are implemented, but above all the company’s ability to continue adapting is restored. I call this change ‘second-level-transformation’. If this indispensable capability is not taken, the need of a further transformation project is foreseeable.

If no transformation is initiated at all, the need of a hard restructuring project is likely – if it still can take effect at all. Otherwise, it will be a break-up scenario.

Ongoing Adjustment

  • Value and KPI-orientated management
  • Ongoing strategic discourse
  • Enablement and empowerment
  • Functioning feedback culture
  • Lean management and strategic and operational flexibility
  • Ongoing harmonisation of processes
  • Agile decision-making and action at the base, where the best expertise is available

Restructuring, Sanitizing

  • In the short-term: Acute protection of company existence through immediately effective measures (cash availability, safeguarding the operative business, cutting losses and effectively reducing cost)
  • In the medium term: Taking effective performance improvement measurements and optimizing the finance structure of the company
  • Top-down project management and high involvement of the teams
  • Professional internal and external crisis communication

The transformation of organisations requires special leadership skills, change management expertise and project management skills. The essence of these three qualities enables an organisation to face changing requirements strategically and operationally and to align its market performance, processes and structure with the market in a competitive and agile manner. This requires a balance between short-term profitability and commitment to future viability.

It also requires putting previously tried and still practiced business models to the test and questioning them relentlessly. Transformation is about making a sufficient leap into the current market situation with the entire company. Essential prerequisites for a successful transformation are healthy self-criticism, relentless confrontation with the gaps that need to be closed, creativity in finding solutions, courage in breaking new ground and determination and consistency in implementation in order to avoid the unfortunately widespread ‘too little, too late’.

Our Services for Corporate Transformation

To begin with, we can only successfully transform companies if our potential clients mandate us in good time. If too much valuable time has already passed, a restructuring is usually on the cards, which requires much tougher measures and is less likely to succeed than a transformation.

Transform your company with us in time, systematically, profound and quickly.

Causes of Performance and/or Stability Deficits

Deviation from the ‘ideal line’ is usually a gradual process in companies. The perception of the causes of negative developments in management is correspondingly low. As the pressure on results increases, the demands on management in day-to-day business increase and awareness of the actual causes of deviations dwindles.

With an unbiased view and our experience in transformation projects, we engage in dialogue with your motivated employees to find out the real reasons why your company is no longer working as closely to the market or operating as efficiently as it should. Together with your teams, we identify key levers for tangible improvement. You can expect us to work towards the rapid identification of effective and realistically realisable levers.

Structuring of Transformation Projects

In the next step, we translate the identified levers for significant improvements into operationalisable measures. In doing so, we identify the necessary prerequisites for project success and possible dependencies. Together with your teams, we work out realistic goals, effective measurements, necessary resources and deadlines and agree them in a binding manner. One aspect that is critical to the results is ensuring that the project members have sufficient capacity for the project work. If they get ‘stuck’ in day-to-day business, hardly any significant progress can be expected.

To ensure implementation results, we set up an effective and transparent project organisation and install a transparent and comprehensible action-orientated results monitoring system.

Project Management for the Transformation

During the implementation phase, we carry out ongoing tight and agile project management to ensure the agreed results. Project management requires specific expertise that differs significantly from the requirements of line management. It is particularly important to motivate the teams to commit to the upcoming changes, to align and coordinate the initiated activities (change management) and achieve results. You can expect both from us: the proven expertise and high engagement. Do not underestimate the advantage that we keep line management free from project details.

In our transformation projects, we raise organisations to a level that once again meets the requirements of the market. We also enable organisations to continuously adapt to future changes. In this way, we make organisations resilient.

At the end of the project, we not only hand over the project results in a comprehensible manner, but also anchor changed processes, structures and valuable new skills in our clients’ organisation.

For restructuring projects speed is crucial.

Project Review

A few months after the formal conclusion of the project, we conduct a review with our clients to determine whether the organisation is still on track. If we identify any deviations, we investigate the causes and help the organisation to remove any remaining or new hurdles in order to continue on the path to success. The employees in organisations that we have accompanied are usually happy to see us again. For us, this is the best recognition of our performance.

Customers who trust us

Contact us now on the topic of corporate transformation!

Whether you just want to get ahead of a negative trend or are already on the way to a crisis – a corporate transformation can be an effective measure to initiate a turnaround in good time. We can do this, are happy to support you and advise you in various areas of such transformation projects. Our approach is bold, decisive and solution-orientated. Just get in touch with us!

Ein Foto des Unternehmensberaters und Interim-Managers Dr. Werner Boysen.

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. rer. pol. Werner Boysen
Dr. Boysen Management + Consulting GmbH

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