THE SILVER BULLET TO ENSURE BUSINESS SUCCESS
The transformative pressure exerted on automotive companies by the disruptive forces of digitalization, connectivity, and electrification goes to the heart of what defines a business. Successfully weathering and executing such a transformation holds the key to securing a company’s future.
We transform companies by helping them put into place organizations that are fit-for-purpose, synchronized to their strategy, capable in culture and skills, and steered by leaders who have the skills to bring complexity under control.
This is no small feat. To be viable in the long term, our clients must reconcile the conflicting priorities of strategy, structure, and culture in their respective market environments. The resulting issues are complex and require the right balance of conceptual strength and industry expertise. This is exactly what we bring to the table.
As a cross-functional practice team, we help our clients navigate business transformation successfully using a holistic methodology and deep expertise in industry and transformation.
Together, we find solutions for the “why, what, and how” questions our clients are asking.
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We believe that successful transformation is built on both people and organizations. And we believe that people and organizations always have the ability to change and develop themselves further. How? By systematically and radically questioning the status quo.
Transformation is complex and requires holistic system thinking. From ambition to implementation, from executive to employee, from downstream to upstream. Our offering connects the dots end-to-end.
If you don’t know where you want to go to, every step is in the wrong direction. To avoid this, the key is to formulate a winning transformation purpose and develop your organization’s strategy. This is something that must be based on hard facts, identified through strategic assessments of external drivers such as markets and competitors as well as internal factors like shared beliefs and your organization’s overarching strategy.
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The transformation should not run parallel to your organization like a separate project. To successfully bring about fundamental change, the strategy must be translated into success-critical tasks and specific implementation requirements, using methods like Objectives & Key Results or Hoshin Kanri.
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During the transformation, the organization changes holistically. This starts with the underlying operating model design including development of a viable system model and strategic partnerships. In addition, the overall process design must shift the organization toward more agility, resilience, and adaptability. Foundational work must also include defining a new target culture as well as new key capabilities.
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Individual and team leadership coaching goes far beyond managing the status quo: rather it is about anchoring the big picture, embedding concepts of ownership, and engendering transformation from within the organization itself. It also includes training in resilience, entrepreneurship, responsibility, and ambidexterity. And we always aim at combining different perspectives for leadership: It’s about leading your business, leading others, and leading yourself.
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Throughout the transformation, good communication should be the drumbeat of change - a regular, predictable ‘voice’ that creates transparency and ignites new ways of working. This starts with a tailored communication plan and employee engagement. In so doing, we evaluate where the organization stands today, which strengths it can make better use of in the future, and which cultural patterns may stand in the way of successfully implementing its strategy. With our step-by-step implementation approach, we accompany managers and organizations from analysing the current culture to designing and implementing a new target culture.
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Sometimes organizations are ready to transform but lack certain key skills. Identifying qualification requirements and suitable training design are the first priority. Staff development, including awareness, reskilling and upskilling can then begin. In some cases, it may also be advisable to work with strategic partners and to enable collaboration.
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A holistic approach and conceptual framework from strategy development to implementation is critical. Similarly, transformation support is required as needed, from sparring to training to full support. This also includes agile transformation management, with a data-based transformation monitoring.
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A different perspective, a collaborative spirit, courage, experience, and enthusiasm are what distinguish us. We see ourselves as long-term transformation agents and not as short-term catalysts. Sustainable solutions are what we strive for.
To realize this ambition, we not only use our own team's cross-entity know-how but also have access to a broad network of experts and institutions that we rely on whenever necessary.
What makes our team unique? The people and their experience. Whether it's the challenges of providers in the mobility ecosystem - manufacturers, suppliers, dealers, mobility providers, startups - or functional issues along the entire value chain. We bring these perspectives together to develop solutions that work.
Together with you, we examine, design and implement the organizational structures your company needs for a successful future. Because nowadays the greatest performance potential lies in properly designed decision-making and communication structures.
The "right culture" represents a crucial investment in an organization's future and viability. Improving functionality in an uncertain environment while remaining attractive to people isn't a contradiction, but rather, an intriguing challenge. We accompany organizations on their way to the right culture.
At RELEVANT, we connect data and personality so that companies make fair and resilient decisions to help leaders create safe and enabling environments where everyone's potential can be realized. We love science-based data and we want to make room for individuality in the workplace.
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