Our Consulting: Building Organisations That Thrive on Change
When Agile Falls Short
You’ve done the agile transformation. The workshops, the sprints, the sticky notes. But decisions still crawl through committees. Products still ship late. And somehow, smaller competitors keep beating you to market while your teams feel more overwhelmed than ever.
Here’s what nobody tells you: agility is just the starting point. Real adaptiveness, intended as the kind that turns market chaos into competitive advantage, requires something more profound. It’s about rewiring how your organisation is structured, how it thinks, makes decisions, and drives implementation. It’s difficult, but there’s hope, and here we show you how…
Stop Reacting. Start Leading.
We help organisations do more than survive disruption. We help them cause it so it becomes a competitive asset for success. Our work isn’t about installing another framework or methodology. It’s about empowering you to sense shifts before they happen, pivot without losing momentum, and make adaptiveness your defining strength.
We have almost 20 years of experience in accompanying our clients through these steps to adaptiveness, so much so that we have codified our knowledge in ELSE, The Emergent Large-Scale Evolution, a toolkit or principles that we co-developed together with a group of companies that, like us, have a proven experience in large organisational evolution projects. Therefore, we focus on what actually matters:
- Speed that counts - Moving fast AND being able to change direction fast when you need to
- Market creation - Being able to chase trends is good; creating the trend is better
- Teams that care - “Do the work” is good; Strive to deliver value to actual customers is better
- Execution that delivers - Ideas are cheap; reliable delivery is gold
How We Work: Built Around You
We’ve seen enough “best practice” disasters to know better. Your organisation has its own history, culture, and challenges. That’s why we shape our approach around you, not the other way around. You can trust that we understand and can adapt to your unique situation.
Understanding Your Reality
As a first step, we want to understand where you are, not through maturity models or scorecards, but through genuine investigation. We examine how your organisation is structured, how your teams operate, and how information flows (or doesn’t). This groundwork reveals the pressure points where even small changes might create significant impacts. Over the years, we have developed a set of assessment tools and interview techniques to elicit relevant information. The result is a comprehensive mapping of the current state and the possible evolutionary steps we recommend based on our field experience.
Leadership That Enables
Traditional leadership development won’t cut it in adaptive organisations. Your leaders need new instincts to understand when to step back, when to intervene, and how to create clarity without micromanaging everything. We work directly with leadership teams to develop these capabilities through training, coaching, and mentoring them on their real challenges, not case studies. While we employ a variety of techniques and tools, we’ve found that Host Leadership and Solution Focus provide a solid foundation for this work.
Growth Without Gridlock
Most organisations slow down as they grow. More people mean more processes, and more processes mean less speed. We know this pattern can be avoided: using approaches like ELSE - The Emergent Large-Scale Evolution and Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), eventually your organisation will gain the competence to evolve autonomously in a way that is tuned for your context. This allows you to maintain startup speed at enterprise scale.
Learning by Doing
While theory is important, it’s practice that truly transforms organisations. Our consultants work alongside your teams and with the leadership on real projects, sharing their expertise and facilitating knowledge transfer. We enhance this process with ideas from other fields, such as Neurodidactics techniques, the 4MAT method, and Dr. Ina Weinbauer-Heidel’s “12 Levers of Effective Transfer”, to ensure the speed and quality of the transfer.
One-Stop-Shop
From leadership to development practices, our training and consulting programmes cover all aspects of organisational adaptiveness. They are deeply integrated and planned to work together, providing a comprehensive solution to your transformation needs. Organisational evolution has naturally different implementational layers: pure technological evolution is very different from leadership consulting. However, magic appears when working holistically on all these layers. We believe there is no such thing as “fix the team” or “implement a new operations system”: the evolutionary changes we propose as part of ELSE are, by their very nature, designed to have the company working together towards one goal rather than each part separately pursuing a separate objective.
Facilitation for Meetings That Matter
We’ve all suffered through workshops that generate enthusiasm but no outcomes. Our facilitation is different. Whether it’s product strategy, team formation, or crisis response, we employ techniques that move groups from talking to deciding to taking action. Open Space, Design Thinking, and our own methods—whatever gets you unstuck and moving forward.
Let’s Have a Real Conversation
If you’re done with transformation theatre, i.e. initiatives that look good in presentations but change nothing in practice, we should talk!
No sales pitch. No methodology evangelism. Just an honest conversation about where you are, where you want to be, and whether we can help you get there.
Get in touch and let’s explore what becoming genuinely adaptive could mean for your organisation.