CRO study 2017: Corporate performance programs gain in significance, the job profile for the CRO must reflect this. But what expertise is required?


Restructuring & Corporate Performance

A new basis for restructuring your business
Most companies treat restructuring as a reactive solution to a crisis, but there’s more to it. Change can be initiated proactively.
Restructuring has undergone significant changes over the last few decades. At first, the focus was on restructuring the balance sheet and on getting the financial basis right. This was followed by a period driven by cost cutting. Nowadays, restructuring takes a holistic approach that starts with a sustainable business model from which cost structures, organization, and adequate financing are derived. Mainly due to changing financing environments, complex coordination issues, and dramatically rising numbers of involved parties, corporate transformation can no longer be thought of as a special tool that’s only brandished once the wheels start falling off—it is an ongoing process that can deliver enormous benefits to your company.

We are the market leader in German speaking countries and hold a strong international position. We guide companies through a goal-orientated process that helps them systematically rebuild their business systems, and we can show you how to intelligently connect restructuring with innovation, cost optimization, and growth. The aim of transforming a company is not simply to keep afloat with adapted cost structures, but to create an efficient, agile, and sustainable basis for your future business.
When we look at restructuring case portfolios, we identify them as one of two major groups. On one hand there are the classic restructuring cases. These are usually in a severe earnings or liquidity crisis, often driven by various stakeholders including the financing parties. On the other hand there are cases that have just reached—or are about to reach—an earnings crisis. These we consider as Corporate Performance cases.
While the underlying analysis and tools are very much alike, the way to initiate change is fundamentally different. In a crisis, we deliver speedy first aid and help to lay a new foundation for structural measures. Here, the need for change is usually widely understood. In a Corporate Performance situation, however, this urgency needs to be argued for and professional change management plays an even more important role. Specific tools apply in each case, with Transformation and Leadership always needed to support the necessary change
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We connect restructuring with innovation, cost optimization, and growth.

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