Our areas of expertise

Since 2003 we have been providing specialized advisory services to Executive Management Teams, Boards of Directors and Investors. We have the experience of more than 15 years in top management consulting and an equal amount in executive management positions. Our approach is to advise not only according to best practice, but also based on our own empiric experience and our fundamentally holistic process.

Strategy & Governance

The methods for strategy development have reached a high level of maturity. The value contribution of mas, therefore, consists rather in questioning basic assumptions, in the assessment of future developments, in the delivery of alternative scenario planning and in the integrated observation of relevant factors. We also bring to light influencing factors such as governance, policy and reputation. By helping you see and think through a broader range of issues our solutions are smarter. As sparring partners we increase your level of confidence and at the same time, help you drastically reduce the probability of the downside.

Organic growth

“We will only have two sources of competitive advantage: The ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition, and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.” Jack Welch, former CEO of GE. A recent observation shows that whilst 56% of the CEOs think of their companies as customer centric, only 12% of the customers share this view (Hunsaker, 2010).

We support the sustainable and profitable growth of your company with actionable and measurable solutions based on our long-term experience in market development as business consultants and executive managers . Integrated quantitative and qualitative approaches like the "Growth radar" and the "Growth accelerator" reveal the potential of your existing customer base and help to access untapped market potential.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Only a few M&A transactions succeed in fulfilling investor’s expectations. The percentage of transactions that would have made a lot of sense and that did not take place is not even known. Through empirical study and practical learning from numerous transactions we have identified the main reasons for these poor outcomes. The fact is, a pure technical m&a transaction team is not enough. Our approach addresses systematically complementary but decisive factors, like the lack of industry knowledge and social skills and the associated failure to generate a win-win concept upstream and poor post-merger integration downstream.

Performance improvement

Very often, underperformance has to do with poor management or inadequate approaches towards existing problems. In our experience there are substantially more cases of poor operational management than true strategic deadlocks. In a co-execution mode, our team works together with operational management to fix the identified problems within a given time-frame. Our goal is to increase the operational performance as a prerequisite to enhancing the financial performance of a company. Our team does not rely on pure strategy. We have senior experience as line managers and consultants to better accelerate and safeguard company performance.

Investment advisory

The combination of our services and skills is designed to protect and to leverage investments made in the area of our expertise. mas offers to private and institutional investors an ideal alternative to classic, financially managed funds. We assess companies on behalf of investors and develop concepts to improve their operational performance. Then, we help to put in place the proposed measures. As we believe in our performance, we are also ready to be remunerated to a large extent in shares. Where appropriate, we will even take a position in our client’s enterprise.