TOOLS FOR PRACTITIONERS
Concept focus: implementation
Expertise
You have a clear view of your company. You understand the situation, you know the goal, and you have a good idea of how to get there. However, you lack a sparring partner on equal footing – someone who questions things for you, takes a closer look at crucial points, and fights alongside you and your team for successful implementation.
Our methods and tools are designed to provide common orientation in the shortest possible time, create an overview of goals and measures, and accelerate change. At the heart of it: close cooperation with you and your management team.
Our expertise stems from decades of restructuring practice, where every second counts. In our transformation and turnaround situations, we put this expertise to use in a different way: instead of taking a directive top-down action, we facilitate the analysis- and conceptual process with those who will carry the change in the long term: your entire management team. This way, it may take two to three weeks longer to develop the concept, but, on the other hand, it (almost) implements itself.
If necessary, we accelerate change by providing support where you have bottlenecks, where our technical expertise is needed, or where our unbiased opinion is required. At your side.
Our services
Your situation:
External and internal challenges require a fundamental shift in perception, reflection and action. The room is there to maneuver, and it needs to be used consistently—across departments and hierarchies.
Our service:
In close coordination with your first and second management level, we develop a transformation concept within a few weeks that presents the situation, target vision, and measures in a comprehensive and coherent way – in line with your business model and financial circumstances. Depending on your needs, we support you in the setup, operation, and steering of your transformation program.
Our process
“We involve your employees – and all other key stakeholders – in the concept development process from the outset. This allows us to meet them where they are and create the conditions for consistent and effective implementation.”
Ulrich Reinfeld
Manager | Aspera Partners
Your success in 5 steps
Our systematic approach for holistic transformations and turnarounds
Getting to know each other
Initial hypotheses Initial consultation, 2-3 hours
During a two- to three-hour conversation, you will gain a first impression of us and we will develop an initial understanding of you: your situation, your goals, and the challenges you are facing. Afterwards, you will receive an initial assessment of whether we see additional value in a joint effort and if so, what our approach looks like – as well as some initial ideas that may help you even without a further engagement.
Orientation
Assessment of potentials, 2-4 weeks
Within two to four weeks, we identify and evaluate your organization’s potential and uncover additional opportunities – to guide your management team, enable coordinated prioritization, and facilitate closer analysis. A highly effective team of experts conducts personal interviews with selected executives and experienced analysts create quantitative analyses. This phase closes in a joint evaluation of the results in a jointly held workshop. For decisions requiring detailed consideration, we provide you with proven methods of analysis.
The way forward
In black and white. Concept phase, 4–6 weeks
In a phase lasting four to six weeks, we develop qualified templates for particularly wide-ranging transformation measures so you can make confident decisions about them within this timeframe. We also create a concept that presents the situation, goals, and management agenda in a coherent and easily understandable way—making it comprehensible for all stakeholders who will be involved. Finally, we map out the complete program of measures in an integrated financial plan. This ensures that the transformation leads to the desired earnings target and does not overstretch the available financial resources along the way.
Team line-up and first steps
Initiation phase, 4-8 weeks
Within four to eight weeks, we establish an effective implementation organization that ensures the success of the transformation. Together with your operational managers, we detail the measures from the concept, translate them into a high-performance project organization, establish communication formats, and set up quantitative performance monitoring. This paves the way for successful implementation.
The marathon
Implementation phase, 6-24 months
To accelerate implementation, we provide you with support in terms of capacity and expertise over the following months: at the operational level, in project management, and/or, if required, in management as consultants with general power of attorney or in executive management as Chief Transformation Officer or Chief Restructuring Officer. We are also happy to assist you in the search for and selection of suitable executives.
We look forward to getting to know you.
Armgard von Bockum