Project experience
Shaping strategy and organization across different business contexts
The selected engagements reflect experience across strategic realignment, organizational and governance design, performance and efficiency programs, and organizational transformation.
The projects span different industries and organizational contexts. What connects them is the combination of structured analysis, organizational design and collaboration with relevant functional and senior stakeholders.
Media & Print
Strategy review, long-range planning, organizational design and governance
Situation
A European media and publishing group conducted a group-wide strategy process. Strategic priorities needed to be connected with long-term resource requirements as well as organizational and governance questions.
Contribution
- Long-term workforce planning across corporate functions
- Development and assessment of organizational models
- Development and detailing of governance adjustments
- Connection of strategic planning with organizational implications
Collaboration
Direct collaboration with business-unit and country CEOs, CFOs, COOs and functional leaders.
Relevant expertise
- Strategy & Performance
- Strategic planning
- Strategic workforce planning
- Performance & efficiency
- Organization & Operating Model
- Organizational design
- Governance
Textile Services & Logistics
Adapting organizational and governance design to new executive responsibilities
Situation
A European business group changed its executive structure. This created the need to realign organizational structures, governance, processes and accountabilities.
Contribution
- Responsibility for the COO workstream
- Analysis and design of organizational structures
- Governance and process design
- Preparation for implementation of the organizational target state
Collaboration
Direct collaboration and discussion of results with the CEO, COO, CCO and international executives.
Relevant expertise
- Organization & Operating Model
- Organizational analysis
- Organizational design
- Governance
- Process design
- Transformation Management
- Implementation planning
Energy & Mining
Strategic realignment and redesign of organizational structures
Situation
An energy and mining company was undergoing a fundamental strategic and organizational realignment. Alongside efficiency requirements, existing organizational structures needed to be analyzed and alternative organizational options developed.
Contribution
- Development of cost-efficiency measures
- Quantitative organizational analysis, including span-of-control analysis
- Development and assessment of organizational options
- Preparation of management and governance materials
Collaboration
Close collaboration with functional and divisional leaders.
Relevant expertise
- Strategy & Performance
- Performance & efficiency
- Organization & Operating Model
- Organizational analysis
- Span-of-control analysis
- Development and assessment of design options
Automotive Supplier & Engineering
Integration of two business entities and Target Operating Model detailing
Situation
Two historically largely independent business entities of a family-owned company needed to be integrated more closely. The Target Operating Model had to be detailed for selected integration-critical functions and end-to-end processes.
Contribution
- Structuring of Target Operating Model detailing
- Facilitation of the design process with internal stakeholders
- Support for organizational integration of selected functions
- Integration of end-to-end process perspectives
- Support for change-enablement structures
Collaboration
Direct collaboration with several management board members, HR leadership and functional leaders.
Relevant expertise
- Organization & Operating Model
- Target Operating Model
- Organizational design
- Processes & interfaces
- Transformation Management
- Stakeholder alignment
- Change enablement
Automotive Supplier
Developing the Change Management concept for a procurement transformation
Situation
As part of a global procurement transformation, change impacts needed to be analyzed systematically and a conceptual framework developed for addressing stakeholders, resistance and change requirements.
Contribution
- Stakeholder analysis
- Change impact assessment
- Structured assessment of potential resistance
- Development of a Change Management concept
- Development of a change roadmap
Collaboration
Collaboration with international functional leaders.
Relevant expertise
- Transformation Management
- Stakeholder analysis
- Change impact assessment
- Roadmaps
Supporting expertise
- Change Management
Banking & Financial Services
Value stream transformation & capability building in Lean and Change Management
Situation
For a European private bank, value streams needed to be further developed while internal multipliers were enabled in Lean and Change Management approaches.
Contribution
- Value stream mapping
- Process analysis and improvement
- Support for Change Management activities
- Training and coaching of internal multipliers
- Capability building to enable continued internal application
Collaboration
Collaboration with team and department heads as well as cross-functional teams.
Relevant expertise
- Organization & Operating Model
- Process analysis
- Value stream mapping
- Process improvement
- Transformation Management
- Capability building
Supporting expertise
- Change Management
- Coaching
Experience overview
Experience across different organizational contexts
The project portfolio covers strategic, organizational and transformation-related challenges across different company sizes, ownership structures and functional contexts.
Industries
- Automotive Suppliers & Engineering
- Banking & Financial Services
- Chemicals
- Energy & Mining
- Life Sciences
- Media & Print
- Textile Services & Logistics
Organizations
- Listed corporates
- Mid-sized and family-owned businesses
- Private-equity portfolio companies
- international organizations with business-unit, country or matrix structures
Functions
- Corporate functions
- Strategy & Transformation
- HR
- IT
- Finance
- Procurement
- Operations & Production
- R&D
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