Restructuring & Corporate Performance

In our view, it takes an entrepreneurial perspective to properly restructure a company. That’s why we call our state-of-the-art approach Entrepreneurial Restructuring. It means quickly crafting tailor-made business models to support sustainable success for our clients, and combining strategic, operational and financial tasks. Starting with a convincing business model, we help to identify the "healthy core" of a company. This may mean that parts of the business are no longer deemed sustainable and other solutions must be found—for example, partial sales or partial closures.

We take a different approach to key performance indicators. Moreover, we employ senior teams with sound experience. Our clients can rely on our project base of more than 2,000 cases and a team that consists of restructuring and industry specialists, who cover strategic, operational and financial aspects. Th is is our USP, worldwide. We support our clients throughout the entire implementation, and you can even appoint one of our team to act as the chief restructuring officer within your company.

Many companies are in the best of economic health. Yet even among these players, top executives seem increasingly uncertain about what to do in the face of geopolitical uncertainty and the changing dynamics of digitization. After all, you don't pare back a flourishing branch unless you really have to. We have developed a method that we call Smart Efficiency precisely for this situation.

We see the concept of "smart" as having two main components: acting with strategic vision, and combining efficiency with elasticity. We apply the logic of Smart Efficiency only to companies that are in good shape. This gives management plenty of room to maneuver—room that they should exploit boldly. We believe that concentrating on efficiency alone is too short-sighted, therefore we introduced elasticity as a new parameter for modeling flexible and agile companies, and we look at cost structure flexibilization in order to brace companies for unexpected blows. This agility results in team mobilization, with change management playing an ever increasing role. Taken together, this means that Smart Efficiency simultaneously improves the profitability and adaptability of our clients' core business—in both the short and medium term.

Change can no longer be enacted from the top—there is simply no time to debate during a storm. On the other hand, it’s obvious that transformation will fail unless everyone believes in it and is on board. From management to the employees, you need all hands on deck to realize change in the midst of disruption.

With a dedicated group of specialists and ample experience, we can help you motivate and mobilize your team. We participate in a constant exchange with relevant academic circles, putting your company at the center of the latest theoretical and practical know-how. Our comprehensive advisory services relate to all aspects concerning corporate organization, HR management, corporate transformation, and overhead efficiency. Corporate headquarters, for example, need leadership advantages to justify their costs. They are expected to add value to the company as a whole, acting as a business partner to the operating entities while still maintaining their traditional roles. Managing complexity, innovation, and talent are often where they fall short of their new expectations, but those are also the most pivotal areas for their future.

Our individualized benchmarking is designed to guide companies into highly efficient yet elastic organizational structures. We've identified six specific areas where corporate headquarters can shine in a new role, and we’ve already worked with more than 400 clients to bring these value-adding principles into action—transforming today's headquarters into tomorrow’s ahead-quarters.