Your challenge
You want to create or update your growth- or recovery-strategy but you‘re afraid of investing too much of your valuable time and money with hughe uncertainty whether your employees will like and run for it?
Our approach
We provide strategy upgr8 without overwhelming analysis, addressing current and future challenges, co-created and supported by engaged employees, ready for instant implementation.
Tailor-made to your needs, we fit best for companies that want to sharpen, concretize and sustainably implement their strategic direction together with their management and leadership teams.
We follow a clear path of igniting your organization, co-creating the target picture and actions to get there, ensuring the readiness of the organization with a sound roadmap, and finally supporting the implementation until results are visible.
In our strategy work, we bring together the best of two worlds: We integrate strong content-driven, instructive and high-quality standards from expert consulting with a communicative, facilitating, and inspiring attitude from systemic consulting.
DEVELOPMENT
standard: Linear and periodic, focused on top-down directives and extensive documentation
↑ upgr8: Agile and iterative, emphasizes frequent reassessment, adaptive roadmaps, and strategic sprints
DATA & INSIGHTS
standard: Relies heavily on historical data, benchmarks, and expert intuition with slow, heavy data analysis
↑ upgr8: Uses real-time data & information, the wisdom of the crowd, and AI analytics for fast insights from diverse sources
INVOLVEMENT
standard: Focus on executives and consultants with very limited employee input
↑ upgr8: Collaborative and co-created, involves cross-functional teams, bottom-up feedback, and continuous alignment
CULTURE
standard: Low transparency and trust, knowledge is power, culture follows strategy
↑ upgr8: Transparently building on each other, sharing is caring, culture enables strategy
IMPLEMENTATION
standard: Execution handed off after plan creation
↑ upgr8: Commmunication and execution is supported by the development teams
– Complicated systems
– Rigid hierarchy
– Selected decision-makers
– Clear rules & optimized processes
– Communication = instruction
– Security
– Complex systems
– Adaptive hierarchy
– Many decision-makers
– Few basic rules
– Communication = alignment
– Speed