Focus on the future
possibilities for joint efforts
Mission
Support for the new business field development
Result
Client
Medium-sized textile company
180 employees
Target group
Executives from a business area, management board, sales (8 persons)
Question/Issue
How can we jointly develop the business area to make it future-proof?
Activities
- Setting up a project group
- Kick-off – and synchronisation workshops with the participating executives
- Exploring and enhancing the understanding of framework conditions, new ideas and feasibility tests
- Mutual decision-making
- Implementation: Developing and restructuring the organisation unit
- Ongoing continuous adjustments
Factors for success
- Trust in the MB in the participation-oriented process
- Overcoming a cooperation culture that tended to “build walls” in favour of an open goal-oriented cooperation
- Qualification of the involved parties during the ongoing process (“learning by doing”) and strengthening the confidence in their own capability
Duration of the project
2 years
Particular aspects during the course of the project
There has never before been a similar mutual thought process and such a share mutual responsibility in the history of the company. Instead of lonely experts’ decisions, this important strategy topic has dynamically been developed by goal-oriented internal cooperation and the communication of the major key players.
Ergebnis
- Realignment of the business field
- Successful implementation of a new business model
- Development of individual and organisational competence for future challenges