Service area 4
Our workshop for thinking, for the phase where no requirement exists yet. Sometimes the most valuable contribution is not an answer but a better question.
In mid-sized companies strategic responsibility often rests with a single person. That person has an advisory board, perhaps a second managing director, usually a bank — but rarely anyone to think an unfinished idea through with, without it immediately becoming an expectation.
This matters. Decisions nobody has challenged do not go wrong because they were poorly reasoned, but because certain possibilities never came up. Someone who does not know the industry from the inside sees exactly the assumptions that in-house nobody treats as assumptions any more.
The Think Tank is the setting for that. It promises no deliverable and carries no project brief — and that is precisely why it works. Whatever comes out of it moves into strategy consulting or into delivery if you want it to.
From a single session to ongoing accompaniment.
We bring method and an outside view, your team brings the subject knowledge. The result is not a collection of ideas but an assessed selection with a path to delivery. The method comes from innovation scouting work in an automotive supply group.
Not improving what exists, but finding an additional source of revenue. Often it lies in a capability the company already has and so far uses only internally.
A regular session every four to six weeks, with no fixed agenda. You bring whatever is on your mind. No minutes, no action list, no accountability — otherwise it turns back into a project.
Assembling the right group around a concrete question: someone from the industry, someone technical, someone from outside. One day, three perspectives, a record you keep.
Deliberately low-threshold. A think tank you have to write a concept for is not one.
One hour. You describe what is on your mind. We propose a format — or say that no format is needed for this.
Who sits at the table, what question is in the room, how much time is realistic? For expert panels we select the participants from the network.
A day, half a day, or a recurring session. On site when it is about people; by video when it is about matters of fact.
Either nothing — a legitimate outcome too — or a concrete engagement. We do not push for the second; sparring meant to generate follow-on work loses exactly the openness that makes it valuable.
That is exactly what this is for. Call, or write briefly what it is about — a preliminary conversation costs nothing and commits to nothing.
