Corporate Performance

The growing challenges and rising complexity of today's markets and competitive landscape demand bold and forward-looking actions. We help our clients take these actions and raise their profitability, cash flow and resilience to the next level.

Companies across all industries are facing enormous challenges. Pressure on revenues, bottom-line earnings and liquidity is growing. The root causes are complex and range from the economic situation at home to geopolitical tensions around the world. Key factors include:

• Persistently high inflation, which impacts interest rates, procurement costs and especially staffing costs
• The marked decline in domestic demand and the loss of traditional export markets
• Intensive competition, especially from Asian products which have achieved a competitive quality level
• Increased supply shortages, tariffs and trade restrictions that complicate the business of international trading
• The speed of technology developments like artificial intelligence, which forces companies to pour more funding into research, new products and production facilities in ever shorter investment cycles.

At the same time, the returns expected by investors and shareholders remain high. Companies must finance growth, innovation and transformation all at once, which means they must find ways to sustainably protect and increase their profitability. This is a challenge faced by businesses across all verticals and size categories – from large corporations to SMEs to private equity portfolio companies.

Roland Berger performance improvement – holistic, modular, sustainable

The challenges facing business today demand more of companies than just increasing their revenues, bottom-line earnings and liquidity. There must also be a focus on realigning strategy, optimizing the target operating model (TOM) and strengthening the company's resilience. Our holistic approach is modular in structure, which means it can be flexibly adapted to our clients' individual needs.

We analyze the entire income statement (P&L) along financial and operational KPIs in various excellence modules to identify the greatest potential for performance improvement. Together with our clients, we develop customized, actionable optimization measures to measurably leverage this potential. The program is managed according to clear and centralized governance principles – a decisive success factor, especially in complex transformations.

The success of a performance transformation is measured by the sustainable increase in value for the company and the visibility
of the effects achieved in the income statement. This is where our implementation expertise comes into play, enabling us to efficiently manage the implementation of measures, including workforce transformation. This is a key success factor, especially in countries with complex co-determination structures.

Successfully executing complex performance transformations calls for a highly skilled, experienced team – on both the consulting side and the client side. Our teams consist of industry experts and performance experts who work together with our clients on site to develop and deliver practical optimization measures.

Performance DNA and AI power

For us, performance transformation is much more than just a consulting methodology – it is deeply rooted in our DNA and has been at the heart of our service portfolio for over 50 years. We support national and international companies on the road to success in a spirit of trust and with the continuous evolution of our methodologies, tools and expertise. We focus on applying artificial intelligence (AI) in targeted use cases where it makes strategic sense, adds value and improves quality.

The loyalty of our clients and their appreciation of us, as expressed in our high scores in numerous consulting rankings, motivates us to demonstrate the quality and thought leadership of Roland Berger every day. Working hand in hand with you, we seek to master the challenges of the future and sustainably improve your corporate performance.

Publications

We regularly release papers and articles on the topic of corporate performance. These publications contain the results of our latest studies and the opinions of Roland Berger's global experts. They serve as think pieces, add context to the issues facing businesses today and offer valuable insights into our consulting work on corporate performance.

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