
Continuously and sustainably increase company performance
Challenge
We support you in phases of existential crisis and restructuring up to the realization of ambitious growth strategies. The objective is to achieve a 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 at the same time establish thinking and working according to excellence principles. Our holistic approach safeguards existing successes and creates a basis on which a change toward new business models and structures can be successfully managed.
Typical topics
- Predictive Restructuring – Proactively approaching and successfully shaping upheavals and change
- Restructuring Reports/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 potentials and measures
- Cashflow Management – Optimizing working capital, securing liquidity and designing financing structures
- Strategig alignment – Positioning businesses for the future and successfully developing strategies
- Operational Due Diligence – Create and integrate with other audits


What you get
Comprehensive transparency about decisions
- Clarity thanks to a well-founded and objective assessment
- Identifying weak points and their causes
Rapid implementation and sustainable successes
- Fast and consistent implementation of measurable results
- Systematic application of Lean principles to ensure that sustainable successes are implemented
Developing custom-tailored solution concepts and approaches
- Evaluating economic consequences
- Creating a solid foundation for decisions by management and committees
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