Management Consulting

What is a management consultant?

He is a trusted partner on an equal footing with project-specific expertise, industry experience, market knowledge and a great part of empathy.

What can he do?

It can support projects directly and immediately, efficiently and thus cost-effectively and promisingly, or handle them itself. Successful companies, from SMEs to large corporations, use consultants in a targeted manner. In the vast majority of cases, this is not due to a lack of existing skills. With the commitment of a consultant, the company buys specialist know-how and additional necessary capacity for a specific project, for example for future-oriented projects or for solving complex problems. This brings advantages to the company, such as time savings due to immediate availability of the consultant, flexible, variable and limited costs compared to permanently employed personnel, etc. We are happy to show you what our experts can do with reference examples. can perform.

Success can be planned!

However, in order to develop and implement a project with a consultant, there are a few decisive steps to consider:

A) Selection of the consultant

The consultant should meet thematic requirements. Professional experience, industry knowledge, references, availability.

B) Precise definition of the contract

Advice can never be better than the job. Measurable objectives and scope of work must be precisely coordinated with the consultant and formulated in writing.

C) Procedure

Complex tasks become clear. By an outline into individual steps, such as carrying out rough analysis, pointing out solutions, setting priorities, detailed work, the challenge becomes transparent. The solution concept should be presented, if possible, with variants, showing costs and benefits as well as the personnel and material consequences.

D) Clear fee scheme

Clarity is a way of controlling costs. Depending on the order, a flat-rate or expense fee can be agreed. For expense fees by working days or hours, it is advisable to set a cost roof.

E) Implementation

Unfortunately, many projects become paper tigers. In order to prevent this from being the case, it is of great importance that, on the one hand, the responsible employees are involved in the project from the very beginning, from the consultant as well as from the management. On the other hand, the consultant must also be involved in the implementation.

F) Control of success

What counts is only success! Joint ongoing and final control and evaluation of the results by the client and consultant sat is a condition. Have the objectives set been achieved? If not, what are the reasons? Are additional measures required?

Interim Management

Unexpected loss of management capacities usually happens just at the wrong time. This may cause serious problems with lasting effects. In such a situation, an external expert might be the right stop-gap solution. He/she is not affected by past events and can show the company a new way of solving its problems.

The challenges for an interim manager vary according to the situation in the company but he offers

fast availability
scalable skills
multi-company experience

and the costs are predictable.

We have just the right, qualified and motivated interim manager readily available for you.

Strategy Consulting

The larger the company the more consultants and consulting sessions.

The smaller the company, the smaller the number of consultants and consulting sessions.

Neither strategy might prove successful as many examples show us. Success is not a function of quantity, but of quality. And it depends on the choice of consultants and their competence.

e4e consultants are thoroughly practice-oriented. Every partner has had a successful business career and has consistently improved his/her know-how and skills with professional further training courses. The entire e4e Switzerland team can thus provide a unique range of professional competence to the table.

Second Opinion and Coaching

A typical e4e customer runs a successful business and knows what he/she wants. Nevertheless many are interested in our product ‘2-O+C’ (second opinion and coaching). What does ‘2-O+C’ entail?

Regular exchange of views with the e4e consultant of his or her choice about visions, ideas, strategies, and execution.
Reappraisal of decisions and their implementation.
Presentation of alternative scenarios, based on market knowledge gained from years of practical experience.
Support in implementation processes – short-term, interim expansion of management capacity during restructuring.

‘2-O+C’ is a product tailored to the needs of each individual company. Our consultants are only too happy to answer your enquiries. We are at your disposal to provide further information about this unique product offering.

Assessments

Our assessment method helps to encourage your staff to improve their skills and to deploy them in accordance with their potential. Ask for a competent ‘second opinion’.

Encourage and challenge company staff and deploy them according to their capability.

Take use of the talents of your employees in an optimal way in your company!

Recognise the candidates’ skills and potential and avoid unnecessary weaknesses by single or group assessments.Deploy the abilities of your own staff. We support you in this process:

Potential analysis
Behavioural analysis – PersProfile
Personnel development
Career and succession planning
Team building measures

Structured interviews and a behavioural analysis, combined with our partners’ extensive practical experience, lead to a well-founded assessment of the candidates, their abilities and future career prospects.

All assessments are carried out in close cooperation with local specialists having the necessary psychological qualifications and tools readily available.