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Expertise St. Gallen

St. Gallen Consulting finds the paths that promise success.
Sets the right parameters.
Provides the strategic foundation.

Research

Integrated Management

In our research activities, we focus on the issues that are relevant for companies.

It is of the utmost significance to undertake long-term studies on the impact of management methods in a variety of contexts challenging an organization.

Our advisory services are the result of the insights we have gained in research. They all relate to specific contexts our clients are exposed to.

Research focus

Normative Management

  • Resurrection of ethics and morality
  • How to articulate top level objectives?
  • Corporate social responsibility

Business Development, Innovation, Growth

  • Pro-active adaptative strategies
  • Innovation as a trial and error process
  • Growth as a must-do and can do strategy
  • Reinventing the business model

Positioning

  • Consolidation of industries
  • Market calibration in early stage markets
  • Low-income strategies for emerging economies
  • Market power as an aspect of strategic management
  • Growth in saturated markets
  • Multi-channeling – New approaches to distribution
  • Strong brands for differentiation
  • Market penetration with new distribution strategies
  • Aggressive pricing
  • Strategies for mature industries
  • Success in niches
  • Core competencies
  • Ingredient branding: Brand strategies for suppliers
  • Geographical expansion: Developing new country markets

Profitability and Value Growth

  • Creating corporate value
  • Focusing on the core business
  • Better returns through direct distribution
  • Capital structure as a key enabler
  • Flexibility: Managing the breakeven point
  • The right elements in the value chain
  • Liquidity management
  • Rescue companies as value generators
  • Margin systems for trade and distribution partners
  • Cost leadership by platform strategy

Structure and Process Management

  • Competition within the company
  • Competition as a survival principle
  • How structuring business activities can drive organizational development
  • How to become a top performing organization

Leadership. Excellence in Management

  • Holistic management
  • Motivation by self-organization
  • Strategic Human Resource Management
  • Efficiency gains through leadership
  • Finding the right people for the right job
  • Managers as brands
  • Employer Image
  • Leadership and complexity
  • Communication in the leadership context
  • Trust and reliability as leadership principles

Theory and Practice

Management know-how is produced everywhere across the globe today. We collate and evaluate this growing repository and develop tailored best practices for our clients.

Project inquiry

Call us or send an email about your project. An initial personal conversation, which is free of charge, is available at your convenience.