Organizational Development
Being experts in organizational development, we help to improve the performance of your company. Our holistic approach aims to align organizational goals with the needs of people within an organization.
Catalyst for organizational development
Change management
Change management creates conditions to minimize resistance, foster acceptance and focus the energy of people towards a common goal. This is achieved by
- tailored communication,
- an engaging change story,
- effective involvement measures,
enablement of affected stakeholders.
In reality, change projects are too often not accompanied by effective change measures, or they are implemented only partially or too late. Many times, the expected business success falls short of the possibilities, or projects completely fail.
We are your partners for both the design and implementation of a tailored change approach for your transformation challenge (e.g., reorganization, integration, strategic realignment). For us, strategy, structure, and culture form a complex unit that has to be aligned.
Strategy development is overestimated and strategy implementation underestimated
Strategy Development & Strategy Implementation
Most companies have a – more or less well-known – strategy. However, there is often a lack of clear implementation steps and for employees the connection between their daily work and the company’s strategic goals is not obvious.
“Strategy development can only be leveraged in combination with a clear concept for strategy implementation.
To be successful, employees have to understand specific changes for their daily work and need to be motivated to implement those.”
As part of our consulting work, we use both traditional concepts and modern tools taken from agile toolboxes. This is essential, as the high dynamics of today’s markets and technologies no longer allow for a pure long-term view to be successful.
Developing strategy and cultural is mutually dependent!
actively shaping Culture requires openness and time
Cultural Development
Cultural development is a common topic today: Companies want to change their leadership culture, improve their failure culture and strengthen their innovation culture. When working towards these intentions it is often overseen that culture is not an isolated element that can be “decreed” to employees.
Culture grows from the interaction of shared values, norms, beliefs, and behaviors within a group or organization. It develops over time through repeated interactions and lived rituals.
Successfull cultural development requires openness to talk about leadership principles, role models and values as well as implicitly and explicitly defined processes and behavioural patterns.
Case Study
Strategy & Cultural Development
Background
“We cannot continue like this!”
Cumbersome processes and slow implementation combined with a working culture which does neither serve the need of the 140 employees nor the professional demand. A turnaround could only be successful with a holistic change in mindset, behaviour, structure and processes and a clear strategic focus.
Guided actions
- Implementing a strategy development process.
- Building the strategy implementation process using OKRs.
- Forming a transformation team with focus on culture.
- Intensive team development elements for the leadership team.
Outcome
- Strategy development and implementation: Clearly defined processes enable cross-hierarchical influence and accountability in both elements of the strategy processes. Cross-functional teams develop iterative solutions and implement the strategy consistently.
- Prioritization and decision-making techniques: Focus and clarity are achieved through applied agile practices.
- Leadership culture: Shared (agile) leadership within the management team, the transformation team and the implementation teams allows for distributed (leadership) responsibilities.
"Sebastian both supports and demands sustainable development when he dedicates himself to a transformation project. With his optimistic and consistent manner, he helped me and my team to to realize given behavioural patterns and establish new ones. His many years of management experience combined with a great interest for people and their skills are extremely valuable.
A big thank you for the intensive support."
DB InfraGO AG
Innovation management is closely linked to strategy & culture
Innovation Management
Innovation management benefits from a culture that promotes openness, creativity and a willingness to change in order to achieve strategic goals through new ideas and solutions.
We are ready to help you creating conditions that foster innovationwithin your company: This can mean talking about “silo thinking” in specific departments (e.g. between R&D and Sales) as well as introducing easy-to-use modern innovation tools.
"I help people and organizations to bring clarity and structure to complex relationships - for optimal positioning, targeted communication and the right steps for a successful future."
What our customers say
Effective programs and projects build strong relationships.
We develop trust and long-term partnerships.
Sebastian supported us for over 1.5 years in the development and implementation of participatory strategy development and strategy execution with OKRs. He was always responsive to our needs and adapted to the constraints that inevitably exist in large organizations. What stood out to me personally was that our own development was always his priority. It was only with his support that we made a significant and important step forward in our agile development.
Sebastian consistently challenged us as a company, pushing us out of our comfort zone! With holistic, tailored concepts, we successfully shaped the cultural transformation process. His refreshingly unconventional approaches and modern working methods inspired creativity and pragmatism.
Sebastian encourages, inspires, and drives us forward. His facilitation skills, methodological expertise, creativity, and personal passion for exploring new paths make a strong impact. Sebastian generates a lot of positive energy and excitement for change! Thank you so much for your support!
SV Informatik GmbH
