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The Swiss management consultants Staufen.Inova AG have again received the coveted ASCO Award. With a project involving the sustainable transformation at Pistor AG, the market leading supplier for bakeries, confectioners and the catering business in Switzerland, the consulting specialists are the winners in the category „International Consulting“. In June 2016 already, the former Inova Management AG was awarded the highly esteemed prize of the Association of Management Consultants Switzerland (ASCO).

Work hours, salary and vacation regulations: 36 percent of German companies have already adapted these to Working World 4.0 or are in the process of doing so. Another 19 percent of organizations are already thinking along more concrete terms about how they will deal with the digitization of the working world. However, for almost every second company, the possibilities and rules of the future working world are not even on the agenda. These are the results of the study “Success in Change”. As a part of the study, more than 650 top management executives were surveyed by Staufen Consultancy. The complete study will be presented early July at “BestPractice Day 2017”, Europe’s leading lean management congress.

What the production failures at BMW show: The sector has to focus more on how its supply chains work. Most of the demand is on the system suppliers. Staufen AG’s market analyses show that nothing is done until there is a problem with suppliers at the end of the value chain, and this is usually too late. There is also still a lot of potential to make the entire supply interruption free by reducing complexity. With the electric car market on the upswing, being proactive is becoming increasingly important, since new suppliers with little industry experience have to be integrated.

Nine out of ten managers assume that their company will undergo a high or very high degree of change in the next five to ten years. At least half the managers are expecting far-reaching change within their organization in as little as two years. However, as shown in Staufen’s “Change Readiness Index 2017”, many companies overestimate how well equipped they actually are for this upheaval. As a part of the “Success in Transformation” study, more than 650 top management executives from German companies were surveyed for the results of the index. The complete study will be presented early July at “BestPractice Day 2017”, Europe’s leading lean management congress.

The key focus of the BestPractice Day, Europe’s leading Lean Management Congress, is the current state of industrial, technological, and societal change. On July 4 and 5, in Darmstadt, in keeping with this year’s slogan “Go further – Learn. Lead. Design the change”, international lean pioneers and industry leaders will demonstrate how companies can successfully shape their digital transformation.

In 2017, too, Staufen AG is seen as one of the best consulting companies in the country. The renowned industry study by brands eins and Statista once again sees the company from Köngen near Stuttgart attain an absolute top position in six industries and sectors. Top managers interviewed for the study awarded top marks for Staufen AG in several fields.

GPS-controlled 40 ton trucks and geometrically visualized buildings have long been commonplace on many German construction sites. However, the actual potential of digitalization and networking is still mostly underutilized in the construction industry. Even if change has been noted among many industry leaders in the past few years with respect to cooperation, a far-reaching cultural shift in the industry is still pending, as shown in a market study conducted by Staufen Consulting.

Automobile manufacturers are currently experimenting with new types of production – they are moving away from the assembly line and towards digitally-networked assembly cells. While this development is proving to be a big challenge for OEMs, the advent of e-mobility is bringing them together under one roof when it comes to grappling with a huge increase in complexity. As shown in a market study carried out by Staufen Consulting, when it comes to powertrain suppliers in particular, these far-reaching changes present both a great opportunity for development as a well as a potential threat to a company’s existence.

This year, Staufen AG has once again been recognized as one of the best workplaces in Germany. For the third time, the Great Place to Work® Institute recognized the consultancy as one of the 100 leading companies in the 50 to 500 employees category. Furthermore, Staufen AG, with more than 260 employees worldwide, was awarded “Best Workplace in Baden-Württemberg”.