Our Services.
Proven strategy tools
and AI for greater success and a desirable future.
From ambition to transformation
Whether as a method expert, strategy process designer, or sparring partner: We pass on our many years of implementation experience and support you in every phase of your strategizing actitivies. With hybrid agentic AI systems, your strategy process becomes faster, better, more cost-effective, and more scalable. People continue to play a central role in this process but will be effectively supported by AI technology. We start where you are today and where you see the greatest need for action—in foresight and analysis, strategy and business model, or implementation and transformation.
Keynotes to inspire executives, supervisory boards, multipliers and those in charge of implementation
- Inspiring keynotes and presentations (conferences, corporate events, etc.)
- Specialized presentations (live or online)
- Panel discussions (as a panelist or moderator)
- Online training and eLearning
- Lectures and seminars (universities, executive schools, corporate academies)
Strategy bootcamps for qualifying and developing teams as well as for designing state-of-the-art strategy processes
Strengthen the strategic capabilities of your teams in organizational areas such as strategy and corporate development, sustainability, marketing & sales, business development, finance & controlling or also in the technical business units. So that you engage people in your organization to become effective. We provide you with approaches and methodological competence to improve the innovation capability, resilience, and sustainability of your business. This also includes a narrative with which you see socio-ecological developments not as a brake or cost factor, but as an innovation driver and entrepreneurial opportunity.
- Develop situational awareness and strategic foresight
- Identify strategic need for action
- Create a common understanding of strategy
- Design a strategy process and select effective strategy methods
- Leverage agentic AI for strategizing: benefits, limitations, implementation
- Jointly develop concrete strategy content as initial deliverable.
- Develop a common narrative and gain multipliers
- Leverage practical recommendations and avoid pitfalls
- Establish a strategy office (Office of Strategic Management) & strategy process
- If desired: Top University Certificates
Foresight & Strategie-Check zur strategischen Situationsanalyse und Vorausschau sowie zur Überprüfung von aktuellen Strategien
Contemporary strategies and business models are economically robust, resilient to nature-related and other risks in the business environment, and sustainable throughout the value chain and value proposition. Companies, investors, banks or insurance companies are increasingly questioning established business models of their customers and business partners. Get a solid picture of your initial strategic situation in a short time with our foresight-driven “Strategy Check”. We help you to assess the future viability of your strategies and business models and derive concrete areas for advancements. This will enable you to gain and sustain tomorrow’s competitive advantages and avoid future costs.
- AI-based identification of change drivers in various perspectives
- Prioritization of drivers and scenario development for critical uncertainties
- Identify critical dependencies in the value chain
- AI-supported resilience and risk assessments of global locations and key suppliers
- How sustainable and future-proof is your value proposition to customers?
- Identification of untapped potential for value creation
- Derive initial ideas for shaping strategies and business models
Strategie & Business Model Innovation zur Gestaltung von robusten Strategien und zukunftsfähigen Geschäftsmodellen
We help you to develop future-oriented and inspiring strategic guideposts (“north star”) and describe your desired path with robust strategic thrusts and business models. This provides answers to the questions “why” and “where to” a business wants to transform. It creates orientation and motivation for your corporate development. Selected strategy types and business model patterns provide valuable starting points for ideation and are essential for strategy refinement.
- Ambition: Develop future-oriented and inspiring strategic guideposts
- Leverage robust strategy types and business model patterns for ideation
- From problem to solution with regenerative strategies
- Climate strategy (mitigation & adaptation) and climate transition planning
- Refine your strategy with systematic business model design
- Business models for realizing a triple dividend
- Evaluation of strategy options and strategic decision making
- Initial roadmapping for strategy execuction
Strategieaktivierung & Execution Excellence zur Mobilisierung von Menschen auf verschiedenen Ebenen der Organisation
The success of a business is based on two essential factors: the right strategies and effective execution. With strategic approaches for more innovation, resilience and sustainability, a company can realize a «strategy premium». But unique and hard to imitate strategies are rare. The reality is often a head-to-head race with similar strategies and business models. Here, execution capabilities become a source of competitive advantage. With a good master plan and excellence in execution and adaption you overcome structural and cultural inertia and transform faster, more efficiently and better than your competitors. The effective and responsible use of artificial intelligence can make a valuable contribution to this process. We help you design strategy, organizational structures and processes as well as the corporate and leadership culture in such a way that the required changes are enabled. The results are enhanced entrepreneurship & innovative strength in your organization!
- Assessment of your transformation readiness
- Identify roadblocks and drivers of “Execution Excellence”
- Develop strategic goals in different perspectives
- Strategic “story telling” for effective strategy refinement and description
- Systematically align strategic priorities of different organizational areas
- Realize company-wide synergies between organizational units
- Develop a climate transition plan for the transition to climate neutrality
- Create a shared understanding of strategy throughout the company
- Promote acceptance and motivation through individual strategy contributions
- Link performance management and control systems to strategy
- Establish regular strategy reviews and shape learning processes
Integrierter Strategieprozess & Umsetzungsbegleitung zur kontinuierlichen strategischen Steuerung und für nachhaltige Erfolge
We support you in establishing a state-of-the-art integrated strategy process. This will foster effective and partially autonomous strategizing activities in your organization. All steps and strategy methods will be seamlessly linked and integrated – from strategic baseline assessment and foresight to strategy refinement and business model design, all the way to strategy activation and operational execution. This ensures continuous strategic control, systematic strategic learning processes, and improves your adaptability to unexpected changes in the environment. Strategy becomes a continuous process. Based on hybrid agentic AI systems you will conduct your strategy process faster, better, and more cost-effective than before. Managers still have a key role for strategy but will be effectively supported with data-driven and semi-autonomous processes.
If desired, we will help you to install and qualify a strategy office to anchor effective and efficient strategizing in your organization.
In strategy execution and transformation, there are always challenges for which you need robust solutions quickly. We want to ensure that your ambitions, strategic goals and action programs are not only “concepts” but successfully implemented. With our special mentoring, a personal mentor continuously accompanies you in all strategic matters and, for specific questions, brings in our experts as a specialist coach or sparring partner – on-line or in person. In this way, you get exactly the skills and methods you urgently need for answering pressing questions or finding quick fixes. Event-driven, fast value-adding, cost-effective, and tailored to your specific needs.
Let us join forces to shape your path for greater competitiveness through more innovation, resilience and sustainability.
Testimonials
"The well-founded strategy clarification and the Business Model Check greatly helped me and my leadership team to develop a clear strategic direction. Throughout the process, everyone was fully engaged, and the team gained enthusiasm for implementation. A highlight was the "Wunder-Box", which sharpened situational awareness of our initial strategic position. Thank you also for the valuable support in the management committee of our parent company."
“The Strategy Bootcamp helped us, with the newly formed sustainability team, to successfully develop our ESG strategy, roadmap, and concrete next steps. The inspiring presentation on the megatrend of sustainability, the thorough analysis of socio-ecological impacts in our value chain, the valuable discussion on economic opportunities and risks, the outlook on CSRD requirements, and practical case studies supported us in further shaping the sustainable path of the Hirschvogel Group.”
University Certificate Courses
Upon request, university certificate courses are also possible in collaboration with top business schools from our network. We strive for the best possible practical transfer, so that the learned approaches can be implemented quickly and effectively.
We see companies as an essential driver for a desirable future.
SustainUp is a network of thought leaders and doers for future-oriented strategizing. We collaborate with a highly qualified team of experts who have successfully managed projects in the fields of strategy, resilience, and sustainability. With robust and scientifically validated methods, new AI technologies, as well as a great deal of management experience and sensitivity, we support executives across industries in their strategy refinement and execution activities.