In the next five years, the business succession is expected to take place in approx. 135,000 companies in Germany. Within the context of such generation change, S&P Consulting will support a leading bread and baked goods producer. Family-owned businesses follow their own logic Time and again, the organizational type “family-owned business” confronts stakeholders and the…
Innovation and culture Innovation is born through creativity and change. In order to capitalize on both of these factors, a company needs a culture that encourages open-mindedness and commitment. A suitable company culture is crucial for success, yet most companies do not really understand their own company culture. Understanding company culture Culture is hard to…
Thinking and acting with confidence when handling uncertainty and risk The current challenges like currency crisis, stagnation, shortage of skilled workers, digitalization, complexity and volatility are all placing new demands, also on your management. In future, leadership will be more about navigating than steering. Enabling is in the focus. It means to open up spaces,…
The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce invited to the “3. Industry Forum Consulting” on November 6th, 2015. The topic of the event was the digitalization in the consulting business. Addressing the topic of “Blended working and social media as a key success factor in the daily practice of management consulting”, Guest Prof. Robert A. Sedlák spoke…
Last week, our Shanghai office moved from Pudong, the old town, to Puxi. Puxi is the newly developed area of Shanghai in which our new office is located in the wonderful district of Changning (French Concession). We would like to thank you for your greetings and wishes from all over the world. On the occasion…
From 1 January 2015, Yiqing Zhang succeeded Hanhan Jia as the General Manager of our Shanghai office.
PERFORMANCE SIMULATOR® is designed to prepare teachers for the future. In context of the Chinese governmental initiative, which aims at a middle- to long-term reform of the educational system, Prof. Zhiting Zhu and Prof. Hanbing Yan initiated a comprehensive training program. The primary goal of this program is to improve the educational opportunities and study achievements of pupils and students through…
On 31 October, the office was closed and the answering machine was switched on. Around 9 am, the S&P team made its way to Hamburg for an entertaining team event to celebrate 3 anniversaries. As participants in an agent training, the team discovered a new side of Hamburg. Around 1 pm, the agents entered the restaurant VLET for a…
Organizations are operatively closed and cognitively open to their environment What are the implications for the management? Since an organization’s environment typically has a cumulatively higher complexity than can be displayed within its own organizational structure, organizations need to reduce complexity by selecting relevant environments, thereby allowing them to remain stable and active systems. It is…
Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Prize winner in physics writes on the topic of ‘different viewpoints and reality’: “We cannot unambiguously identify, which interpretation of reality is the right one. One interpretation can be right for a certain purpose, another can be right for a different one.“ Customer Segmentation is a specific construction of reality, heavily influenced…