Adopting Strategies and Shaping the Future

Client Challenge

A service company – one of Germany’s top ten companies in its sector – was acquired by a private equity company, consisting of a network of subsidiaries that operated independently on the market. Our clients, the CEO and the chairman of the company, identified a need to specify the market strategies of the subsidiaries as well as the strategy of the company as a whole in a comprehensible way that would allow for systematic growth in the future.

Mandat Intervention

In a multi-stage moderated process with the chairman, the CEO and the newly appointed CFO, we first defined the corporate strategy with greater precision, and then documented the resolutions to make them traceable in the future.

With further involvement of the managing directors of all the subsidiaries, we developed market segment strategies for the subsidiaries. We took a critical look at potential strategic and operational risks, focused some of the companies more precisely and also conducted a dialogue to examine the potential of the staff charged with responsibility.

This top-down approach – combined with the continuous alignment of the core team with the chairman, the CEO and the CFO – made it possible to explore additional synergies, which could be leveraged through more coordinated collaboration between the subsidiaries.

As part of the optimization of the holding processes, we paid particular attention to the administrative and IT processes. In moderated meetings, we identified bottlenecks and potentials. We also ensured that an execution plan was drawn up, which was then worked through in course of the company’s regular meetings.

We compiled all of the findings in structured documentation, which in turn formed the basis of a dialogue with the investor.

Results

The strategies of the holding company and its subsidiaries were defined and approved with binding effect by both the company management and the investor.

The strategies were communicated in a targeted manner. The subsidiaries know precisely where they fit into the group. Misunderstandings have been eliminated.

Two newly acquired subsidiaries have been successfully integrated into the group of companies.

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