FOR MID-SIZED COMPANIES AND CORPORATE DIVISIONS
Organizations rarely behave the way they were planned.
You can feel that something is slowing you down. It rarely becomes tangible, because the patterns lie beneath the symptoms.
Insight means seeing them before you step in. Clarity means deciding on that basis. Impact is measured by what stays in daily work.
I help managing directors in mid-sized companies set up their organization so that decisions get made faster, managers have time for their people, and good people stay. It starts with a picture of how your organization decides today, seen by your whole leadership team.
You start where it fits your situation and go as far as you want.
You'll find an overview of everything I offer under Work.
A conversation about your situation, unhurried and with a clear structure.
Based on the Organization Twin (Management Insights) · evidence-based · confidential · online, wherever you are (on-site optional in German-speaking countries)
FREE · NO SIGN-UP
Reading an organization.
An anonymized demo with invented figures and the real logic. It shows what a Management Baseline brings to light: the central pattern, the strengths, the brakes and the questions your leadership team will have to take up. It's the same report you get at the end. Here you see four of its nine pages.
“That puts into words what I'd had as a vague feeling all along.”
Division head, pharmaceutical industry (translated from German)
THE WAY IN
Management Baseline: know where you stand
Unclear structures have a price, and it's usually paid in six places:
- Time: Every decision goes round extra loops, because it's unclear who may make it.
- Leadership capacity: What could have been decided further down is escalated upward and takes up the time of people who are needed elsewhere.
- Speed: Every interface produces coordination where implementation should be happening.
- Quality: Knowledge you already have reaches the decision too late.
- Ability to change: A new strategy meets old incentives, and the incentives win.
- People: Good managers make up for structural gaps personally. That works for a while. Then they leave.
None of these items appears in your cost accounting. You pay for them anyway, every month, and it's mostly the same people who pay.
The Management Baseline is the smallest step that changes this: a focused online diagnostic, condensed into your Organization Twin report with benchmark and read together in the baseline review, a joint session of your leadership team with me. After about three weeks you have a picture your team believes.
The Management Baseline also looks at AI. Beforehand, your managing director answers five short questions about where AI takes work off people in your company and where the remaining work goes. In the baseline review we look at one of your AI uses together and check whether it saves work or only moves it elsewhere.
At a glance
- You get
- your Organization Twin report with the pattern that is slowing your organization down right now, compared with a benchmark of 458 organizations. We read it together in the baseline review.
- Your effort
- about 30 minutes of online survey per leader (in English, German, French, Italian or Spanish), about 15 minutes for the managing director's five AI questions and 60 to 90 minutes for the baseline review.
- Duration
- about three weeks.
- Price
- €2,900 for up to 7 leaders, €4,200 for up to 12, from €6,900 for larger leadership teams, each plus VAT where it applies.
- Stopping here
- The engagement ends with the baseline review. If you move on to Organizational Design within three months, the amount is credited in full.
Who it's for:
- Owner-managed mid-sized companies facing a decision that sets the course
- Managing directors who want to pin down a vague “something is slowing us down”
- Leadership teams who'd like to try out the format, the method and working with me first
- HR and organizational development teams who want to start a well-founded baseline
What you have at the end:
- which pattern is slowing your organization down right now and where the work pays off
- a baseline review with sharpened patterns and levers
- a first picture of where AI is shifting work in your company and who does that work today
- your Organization Twin report focused on “Where do we stand?”, backed by figures
- detailed pictures of people, work, organization and leadership
- as a basis: master control index, maturity level and benchmark ranking, also within your industry (I'll tell you the size of the comparison group in the baseline review)
From my work: A group of fourteen family-run wellness hotels in Tyrol had booked a talk on leadership. Beforehand, each hotel went through the diagnostic voluntarily. Each management team got its own baseline with personally written feedback, plus a comparative analysis across all fourteen.
Prices
Team
(up to 7 leaders)
€2,900
plus VAT where it applies
Company
(up to 12 leaders)
€4,200
plus VAT where it applies
Corporate Baseline
(larger leadership groups and business units)
from €6,900
plus VAT where it applies
If you book Organizational Design within three months, the amount is credited in full.
Insight · Organization and AI
Organization and AI: looking at what sets your pace, together
When AI speeds something up, the gain often ends up at a point that was already stuck before: knowledge that only one person has in their head, or an approval nobody has time for. If you only improve the tool, you speed up steps that weren't slowing you down in the first place.
So there are two ways of measuring at the start. The Management Baseline shows how your leadership team experiences the organization, and the Checking Load Assessment shows what your systems actually do. Read side by side, the two reveal the bottleneck that sets your pace.
Management Baseline
Basis: a survey of your leadership team, read against a benchmark of 458 organizations.
Shows: the pattern that is slowing your organization down right now.
About three weeks, from €2,900 plus VAT where it applies.
Checking Load Assessment
Basis: data from your business systems, no survey.
Shows: where systems pre-sort or score, and how much time is left for checking.
Two to three weeks, from €3,400 plus VAT where it applies.
To the Checking Load Assessment →
The two run independently and can start at the same time. The Management Baseline needs your leadership team's survey, and the Checking Load Assessment needs data from your business systems. A report from the Management Baseline is credited toward the Checking Load Assessment.
In the Clarity Call we look at both sides and work out where it pays to look first in your company.
You have your baseline and want to turn it into decisions with your team?
Then go on to Organizational Design.
THE NEXT STEP
Afterwards: turning the picture into a new structure
A baseline doesn't change anything yet. The difference comes from what your leadership team decides on the strength of it. In Organizational Design, it reorganizes within six to ten weeks who decides in your most important processes, who delivers and who takes over. You end up with a decision map, a twelve-month roadmap and a measure.
The design costs from €12,900. A Management Baseline from the past three months is credited in full. The organizational constitution then makes the new structure binding and costs from €9,800, or €2,900 less straight after the design. All prices plus VAT where it applies.
In the Quarterly Review we then check together whether the new structure works in daily practice. Formats for single questions, such as the Rule Inventory or the Checking Load Assessment, are on the Work page.
Same logic, different scale: mid-sized companies and corporate divisions
All three stages are also available for corporate divisions and business units. The method stays the same: see what's slowing you down, then decide what to do. Only the context differs, with more people involved, more interfaces and more governance.
Mid-sized & family businesses
- from about 50 employees
- a manageable leadership team
- short decision paths
- focus: Organizational Design and roadmap
Corporate divisions & business units
- division or BU with its own P&L responsibility
- 15–40 people in the relevant leadership group
- several parties involved, interfaces, governance
- in addition: alignment & documentation that fits into group processes
We'll work out which option suits you in the Clarity Call.
Clarity before change.
The Management Baseline is based on the Organization Twin (Management Insights): an evidence-based picture of how your organization works as a system. It shows patterns in the system and doesn't assess individual people. Organizational Design builds on this picture. If you already have a reliable picture, it can also start without a Management Baseline.
Patterns in the system
A systemic view, no assessment of individual people.
Tested models
Scientifically tested models, longitudinal data from hundreds of organizations.
Insight in conversation
Insight comes from a facilitated conversation about the figures.
458 organizations in the benchmark · 25 years of developing the instrument · 100% confidential individual answers
FAQ
Where do I start?
With the Clarity Call, a short, free conversation. There we work out whether the Management Baseline, going straight to Organizational Design or the Quarterly Review suits your situation. If you'd like to talk first without a survey, ask for a 20-minute call.
Is the Management Baseline credited?
Yes. If you book Organizational Design within three months, the amount is credited in full.
How long does it take?
Management Baseline: about three weeks. Organizational Design: six to ten weeks. Organizational constitution: four to six weeks. Quarterly Review: at least four quarters.
Online or on-site?
Reviews, evaluations and workshops take place online as standard, wherever you are and without travel. On-site days are possible in German-speaking countries only and are priced separately.
What about confidentiality?
Individual answers stay confidential. The Organization Twin shows patterns in the system and doesn't assess individual people.
What if we're bigger than a typical mid-sized company?
For corporate divisions and business units the same logic applies on a larger scale, with more coordination and documentation that meets group requirements. We go into the details in the Clarity Call.
Still unsure where to start?
Some questions can't be settled by reading. In the free Clarity Call we look at your situation together, with no obligation. You decide afterwards what follows from it.