A wide range of skills for your sustainable business development
Our consulting services
Our environment is becoming increasingly complex and is in a constant state of change.
Only those companies that truly understand their market environment as well as their own core capabilities and continuously develop themselves in a way that creates sustainable competitive advantages can be truly successful. We are the right partner to take this path.
Strategy & Innovation
Defining and describing concrete goals and the orientation of a company is a necessity so that forces and resources can be bundled. A regular review is also necessary to verify one’s own position. We support organizations in developing, defining, and communicating this strategy in a targeted and effective manner.
Ensuring sustainable corporate growth through inorganic growth or through innovations? We help to identify starting points for inorganic growth. As innovation experts, we value developing the content of innovation projects together with our clients and anchoring them sustainably in the company.
Checking your own economic actions for strategic sustainability? As strategy experts, we put the company’s sustainability orientation and current level of implementation to the test and work with our clients to develop appropriate measures that contribute to a sustainability agenda.
Main focus
- Strategy development
- Acquisition in Inorganic Growth
- Due Diligence Support
- Innovation Management
- Sustainability
Your contact person
Carsten Gropp
Organization & Transformation
“Transformation is the consistent implementation of strategy”.
In today’s turbulent times, with some disruptive developments, setting up one’s own organization to be future-proof, robust and at the same time flexible and sustainable is one of the most important management tasks of any company management.
This is a complex, challenging task that takes time, involves a wide range of issues, and requires extensive expertise and experience to succeed.
We know the challenges and answers to many questions of making organizations fit for the future. With profound and long-standing industry experience as well as a lot of expert and methodological knowledge, we support our clients in transformation and reorganization processes with individual, holistic, and innovative approaches and procedures. A very important aspect for us is the intensive involvement of employees in this process.
We are convinced that changes in organizations always work well when six factors are in place: an attractive picture of the future, extensive knowledge of the market, environment and customers, a strategic roadmap, targeted leadership and communication, effectiveness monitoring and the establishment of learning architectures.
We successfully accompany our clients in all six fields, always keeping an eye on the organization in all its facets and the goal of the change. This enables us to steer the transformation process in a very targeted man
Main focus
- Accompaniment of Transformation Processes
- Development of Sustainable Organizations
- Information security
Your contact person
Christoph Schrader
Leadership & Talent Management
The most important value of a company is its employees.
We are convinced that corporate success and satisfied, supported and valued employees are in harmony. One look at the world of work is enough to see that this is accompanied by major challenges:
- Young generations are making new demands on the compatibility of family and career, are demanding development opportunities, want to realize their potential and expect a sustainable corporate policy.
- The shortage of skilled workers leads to competition for top candidates. Above all, your mission statements and visions are decisive in determining whether or how connected your employees feel to the company.
Today’s working world is characterized by complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. Digitalization or the use of artificial intelligence are leading to new forms of work and require companies and their employees to adapt accordingly.
To enable our clients to actively meet these challenges and remain competitive in the future, we support them with five key areas of consulting.
Main focus
- Leadership Principles and Guidelines
- Management Development
- Direct contact
- (1:1) Coaching
- Onboarding and Offboarding
Your contact person
Operations & Support Functions
For us, “operational excellence” is characterized by the stringent implementation of strategic goals in operations and the continuous improvement of core processes and their supporting functions In this context, it is essential to first clarify what the core processes are, what expectations internal and external customers have of them, and who is responsible for their results. Competitive advantages, efficiency gains, and ecological and economic sustainability are our drivers here.
Production, asset management and asset services or infrastructure operations are core functions in which we have expertise and which we develop further in our projects. Shared services such as (energy) billing, receivables management or warehousing/logistics are support functions in which we have proven expertise. To improve those core and support processes, we apply methods from Lean Management, Six Sigma, but also self-developed, proven tools, among others.
We support companies in realizing their full potential — across organizations or in specific functions.
Main focus
- Asset Management
- Asset Services
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing / Production
- Shared Services
Main focus especially for the energy sector
- Network Operation
- Network Planning and Construction
- Metering Point Operation
Your contact person
Markus Krambs
Supply Chain Management & Production
Volatile market demands require efficient and flexible processes.
Successful companies are able to adapt to the ever-increasing demands of volatile value networks. It is essential that all players in the value chain work together in synchronisation. Transparency, integration and efficiency in the flow of materials and information within a company and across networks are prerequisites for growth and sustainable competitive advantage.
Our mission is to create efficient, flexible and responsive structures and processes that enable our customers to meet the demands of the marketplace.
We help companies implement and optimise processes throughout the supply chain, using our digital expertise to make sense of all the data available. As consultants, we help to ensure that existing processes work together seamlessly and that existing barriers are removed for the long term, laying the foundations for future success. In addition to value-adding operational processes, we also keep an eye on planning, control and communication processes.
Main focus and objectives of our work
- Productivity: Increase efficiency and achieve optimum performance.
- Flexibility: Fast and agile response to market changes.
- Cost optimisation: Measures to reduce costs and maximise profitability.
- Transparency: Data-driven analysis for insight into all processes and decision making.
- Task force management: Effective management and operational support to safeguard care in crisis situations.
Your contact person
Christian Schauler
Sales and Service
A successful customer interface is one of the most relevant levers for business success. We are convinced that a holistic view of the customer journey is essential and that this must include all other areas of the company in addition to the view of marketing, sales service.
Knowledge about the market, customers and competition that is as comprehensive as possible, continuously generated and available within the company, is an essential component for the development of (sales) strategies that build on a sustainable competitive advantage.
We help companies to sharpen their focus on the needs of their customers and thus make the entire organization sustainably successful.
Main focus
- Sales Service Strategies
- Sales Performance
- Customer Experience
- Digital Sales & Service
Your contact person
Dr. Gerrit Buss
This is what our clients say
»From strategy checks, functional analyses and the development of new products and services to process and organizational development in all areas of the company, the team brings professional competence, a high degree of empathy and strong communication skills to the table. Consensus and solution orientation are always at the heart of our collaborative, equal partnership.»
»FourManagement has been a reliable and competent partner for us for many years. Die enge und vertrauensvolle Zusammenarbeit hat stets zu nachhaltigen Ergebnissen geführt und dies sowohl in strategischen als auch operativen Fragestellungen.«
»The personal relationship has grown continuously over the years. The design and implementation of workshops is always carried out with high methodological quality, innovative and varied methods and a strong involvement of the participants – a decisive factor for the success and interaction of all.
We value FourManagement as a valuable partner and look forward to working with them in the future.«
»FourManagement impresses with its clarity, expertise and implementation strength.
A consultancy that not only thinks but also acts in demanding transformation processes – absolutely recommendable.«
»And by the way, the collaboration is also fun! Thanks to this approach, we are very satisfied with the results
and can recommend FourManagement without reservation.«
»FourManagement was recommended to us as a suitable sparring partner – and that’s exactly what they were from day one: committed, cooperative and always close to our teams. Instead of standard off-the-shelf solutions, they provided tailor-made answers – which is why we still enjoy working with them today.«
»FourManagement quickly familiarized itself with the specifics of our industry and has already supported two RPM sustainability projects (development of the sustainability strategy, selection of a CO2 accounting solution). We are now successfully working together for the third consecutive time on implementing regulatory requirements and preparing a CSRD-compliant materiality analysis.«
»The collaboration with FourManagement is always very pleasant, productive, and characterized by mutual trust.
The consultants impress with their high level of professionalism and profound expertise. I particularly appreciate the approach tailored to our specific needs and the close cooperation with our leadership team. This results in outcomes that are perfectly aligned with our company and our goals.«
