rethink Business
with Business Development and Services.

Using creativity to successfully forge new paths.

While the environment becomes more and more dynamic, companies constantly have to question whether the path they are following is still right. Customer needs are changing more frequently, competition is getting more aggressive and, last but not least, also the regulatory framework is changing with unprecedented speed in some markets.

In order to maintain or ideally increase competitiveness and thus secure the long-term success and survival of a company, it needs to react actively to changes in the environment. Changes might bring both, opportunities and risks. Developing suitable strategies to gain competitive advantages out of these opportunities and risks is one of the core tasks of strategic corporate development.

Together with the clients, BDS – Business Development and Services develops creative and customized strategies for corporate development. Our goal is to achieve customer specific and individualized development objectives. We help our clients to review, rethink and dismantle stalemated thought processes, established courses of action as well as operational processes to help them identify a new strategic and operational direction.

Services of BDS

Market potential analysis

Customer and competitor analysis

Business unit strategies

Creating and evaluating business models
Creating business plans
Definition of market entry strategy
Development of sales organizations
Selection of strategic partners

M&A-support

Post-merger integration

Company valuations

We combine creativity with expertise.

We combine proven methods with innovative approaches to find the best solution for our clients’ challenges. We creatively identify and evaluate business models and growth opportunities, thereby helping our clients to improve their strategic orientation. Based on a highly analytical approach, we build strategies on sophisticated quantitative and qualitative analyzes.

In all activities, BDS – Business Development and Services operates as an expanded team of its clients as well as a sparring partner. Only in cooperation with our customers we can achieve the highest performance.

Our background and future-oriented perspective has led us to set the highest performance requirements for the services we provide, both in terms of the quality of our work and our ability to exceed our client’s expectations.

Projects

Optimizing after-sales logistics for an automotive manufacturer
Optimizing after-sales logistics for an automotive manufacturer

Optimizing after-sales logistics for an automotive manufacturerThe client was faced with the challenging situation of balancing a growing spare part assortment that was also becoming more varied due to increasing numbers of models and options offered. The prevailing...

Market and company analysis for strategic investors
Market and company analysis for strategic investors

Market and company analysis for strategic investorsA strategic investor with a diversified portfolio (trade companies etc.) was looking for new investment opportunities. Various options had already been defined internally during a preliminary project from a large...

Market potential analysis for a joint venture
Market potential analysis for a joint venture

Market potential analysis for a joint ventureA joint venture company in the automotive and telecommunications industry was looking for ways to implement new business models within its existing technical infrastructure (inside-out approach). The technical performance...