Accelerating Profitable Growth

We find what’s
holding you back –
and remove it.

Profitable growth is never stronger than its weakest factor. We identify the most critical bottlenecks and act precisely there, so your company realises its full growth potential – from strategy to execution.

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Accelerating profitable growth – where it stalls today

Profitable growth is a product, not a sum. Time and again, we see that a single weak factor drags down everything else.

Your markets, revenue drivers, market access, organisation, commercial excellence, performance management, immediate action and technology foundation all work together – and the weakest of them sets the pace.

We pinpoint the most critical bottlenecks and act exactly there: pragmatic, focused and always geared to your bottom line.

With over 25 years of experience in multinational industrial companies and global management consulting, our executive advisors know that one weak factor does not just hold itself back – it devalues all the others. Without access to customers, investments in new products fizzle out. Without a reliable forecast, even the best strategy never reaches the bottom line. Without clear business decisions before IT builds, systems and AI miss the growth agenda. The company stays well below its growth potential – and often cannot see why.

That is why we do not spread our efforts thinly, but strengthen the factors with the greatest leverage. That may be the choice of markets, the ability to rescue a fiscal year at risk, or a technology foundation that carries your growth instead of standing in its way.

Because growth does not come from more initiatives, but from the right ones – clearly decided and consistently executed.

Operational results from our engagements

+€1bn  growth defined·+50%  revenue in two years·+€3bn  strategic value·+€285m  pipeline stabilised·+€195m  new business model·+8 pts  EBIT margin·+€90m  EBIT lifted·2 new  segments opened·+€1bn  growth defined·+50%  revenue in two years·+€3bn  strategic value·+€285m  pipeline stabilised·+€195m  new business model·+8 pts  EBIT margin·+€90m  EBIT lifted·2 new  segments opened·
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Growth is the product of eight factors.

If one factor is weak, it holds back all the others. That is why we start at the bottleneck.

Factors one to six

  1. Factor one

    Markets

    Are we focusing on the right markets (geographies, applications and customer segments)?

  2. Factor two

    Revenue drivers

    Do we have the right product and service portfolio for each market?

  3. Factor three

    Market access

    Are all prerequisites in place to work our markets successfully?

  4. Factor four

    Organisation

    Are sales, marketing and BUs enabled and aligned with each other?

  5. Factor five

    Commercial Excellence

    Do we reach a higher level of performance in working our markets every three years?

  6. Factor six

    Performance management

    Does our strategy show up in sales and company results?

Factors seven and eight

  1. Factor seven

    Immediate action

    Do we respond immediately as soon as our company or one of our business units is at risk of missing its targets?

  2. Do we continuously upgrade and leverage our systems (AI – Automation – Digital) in line with our growth ambitions?

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Executive advisors who have done the job

Proven strategic leaders with hands-on transformation experience and measurable bottom-line impact.

Our name is our standard: Strategy Execution Excellence – lived every day, on site with our clients.

Line experience as CMO, CSO, CFO, Managing Director Digital, SVP Sales, SVP Marketing, SVP Innovation and VP Business Transformation.

Strat-Exx is a small team of executive advisors, backed by a curated network of senior experts. Our founders are former partners at leading consultancies, and between us we have held line roles in international corporations and family-owned businesses. Every engagement is led personally by an executive advisor, never delegated. We work hands-on as part of your team rather than handing over a report and leaving – that is why decisions reach the bottom line fast.

Based in Switzerland and Germany, with partners across the entire value chain.

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