Success Stories with Smaller Companies

ArMiD

"The FMG team truly managed to shape a compelling future vision with a volunteer board through weekly sprints and translate it into practical action steps. We successfully put on our future glasses and developed a distinctive picture of the association until 2030."

Klaus F. Jaenecke
Vorstand

Goals

• Elevate existing success factors of ArMiD’s mandate holder support to a new forward-looking level and become a role model for future governance.
• Development of a clear future vision.

Pütz

"With FMG, we developed a Zukunftsstrategie that creates genuine joy in the future across generations. This is how we secure the future of Pütz Folien."

Ferdinand Pütz & Familie Pütz
Eigentümer

Goals

• Secure sustainable growth: Clear strategic priorities, new revenue streams and an improved market position.
• Achieve a differentiated positioning that leads to higher sales and earnings.
• Create strategic clarity: Establish a consistent strategy understood across the company.
• Make the business model future-proof: Build resilience to market changes and create scalability.
• Increase execution strength

WELOTEC

"We have gained a clarity for the future of our company that we never had before."

Dr. Reinhard Lülff
gf. Gesellschafter

Goals

• Systematic focus of a multitude of ideas.
• Development of a compass with clear guidelines for daily work.
• Prioritization of a company-wide strategic focus over project orientation.
• Clarification and communication of the company’s sustainable future planning.

Bitech

"We spoke to many providers beforehand, but then we decided on Dr. Mićić and FMG as the original that many copy. The program expanded my horizons and made many things that were previously out of reach tangible and achievable."

Serge N’Silu
Vorstand

Goals

• Building a future-proof business using a solid and methodically structured approach.
• A future strategy developed from within the company with a highly motivated team.

KDO

"Without you, we would not be moving so purposefully and efficiently."

Dr. Rolf Beyer
Geschäftsführer

Goals

No goals.

Kloster Eberbach

"FMG effectively supported us in developing a motivating and forward-looking strategic vision in a clearly structured manner and within a short time."

Dieter Greiner
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Future strategy development in 4 steps.
• A Future Radar was conducted to better understand future market changes and potential business models.
• Changes in customer groups were analyzed using specific Sinus Milieu analysis.
• Development of vision candidates led to reviewing multiple potential company alignments.
• After determining the strategic vision, necessary measures and projects were derived with a project roadmap.

Infraserv Wiesbaden

"We identified many innovative business potentials that will significantly advance us toward our vision – to be the most attractive and innovative industrial park for SMEs in the Rhine-Main area and beyond by 2025. We have already implemented first measures, others have begun."

Peter Bartholomäus
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Identification of innovative approaches from start-ups and best-practice companies for maintenance management.
• Supplementing the external view with internal expert ideas and developing future opportunities as a basis for new offerings.
• Motivating project participants for work on future topics.

Labexchange

"We have learned to understand the workings, mechanisms and structures of our company at a previously unknown depth, which now lets us work on the future of Labexchange in a focused and prioritized way."

Dr. Wolfgang und Maximilian Kuster
Geschäftsführende Gesellschafter

Goals

• Development of a future strategy.
• Clarifying future direction during the generational change in management.
• Systematic and focused engagement with future trends and technologies.

marcapo

"We have gained the confidence of knowing nearly all areas of a possible future and being adequately positioned for it. That gives us a very good feeling."

Thomas Ötinger
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

Goals

• Knowing the great technological changes of this world and leveraging them for the company.
• Securing competitiveness with a clear future orientation.

Schneiderbau

"We were very impressed by the multitude of possible vision candidates for Schneider Bau. Interim results were initially surprising, and the structured discussion then showed that absolutely meaningful new paths were considered."

Bruno Schneider
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

Goals

• The shared future strategy is based on solid assumptions about relevant developments.
• Alternative future visions were systematically developed and the most relevant selected.
• Clarity about the path (goals, action fields, projects) for the next three to five years.

Strametz & Associates

"I label the project with a gained clarity and focus on the forward-looking topics and tasks of our company. We have gained attractive perspectives and our employees are motivated to shape the changes."

Michael Kühner
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

Goals

• Systematic engagement with future trends and technologies.
• Future-robust alignment of the company.

FPZ

"Especially during the pandemic, the future strategy developed in the program was the light in the distance that gave us strength and energy. For our employees, it is a blessing. Our goals have never been so transparent and clear."

Dr. Frank Schifferdecker-Hoch
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

Goals

• A clear "why" that the whole team follows.
• A clear picture of what the company wants to achieve for its customers.
• A strong future vision that inspires the entire team.

Selmoni

"It is impressive how masterfully FMG navigates through the strategy labyrinth and guided us to results with precision. I am very satisfied with the results. The vision and strategy provide a motivation boost for employees."

René Fässler
Vorsitzender der Geschäftsleitung

Goals

• Clarity and orientation on the positioning, mission and business model of the Selmoni Group.
• Confidence that the right path has been taken.
• Agreement on the right and necessary actions for strategy implementation and daily business.

Jetter AG

"FMG successfully supported us in developing an effective strategic vision for our corporate group until 2023 within a short time."

Christian Benz
CEO

Goals

• The goal of the project was to identify future growth fields for Jetter AG.

Stiftung Waldheim

"The project guidance by FMG was very competent, goal-oriented and systemically structured. The project was perfectly prepared and moderated. Thanks to the results, we now know where the journey is heading."

Werner Brunner
Direktor Stiftung Waldheim

Goals

• Everyone uses a shared mental set of language and principles for strategy work.
• It is clear which strategy elements are retained, changed or adapted.
• It is clear and transparent what is deferred.
• Alternative answer options for key strategy questions are identified and discussed.
• A jointly desired ambition is formulated for key strategy questions. Next steps are transparent.

TOWN & COUNTRY Haus

"Every year we are again thrilled by how Dr. Mićić manages to focus the discussion purposefully on the essential things. It is wonderful to see how he moderates events with highly engaged entrepreneurs to achieve concrete results."

Gabriele & Jürgen Dawo

Goals

• Create clarity and agreement on strategic direction.
• Develop the shared strategy of franchise headquarters and partners.
• Trend and scenario analysis of the future market environment as a basis for well-founded assumptions.
• Systematic opportunity development to ensure all possibilities for securing market position are exhausted.

ECO World Styria

"This Future Radar supports companies in achieving even greater economic success while relieving the environment. By leveraging countless economic opportunities, new ‘Green Jobs’ are created."

Niki Berlakovich

Goals

• Development of a Future Radar system for Eco World Styria.
• Overview of the most important future factors in the energy and environmental sector.
• Concrete market impacts, challenges and opportunities.

SCMT Steinbeis Center

"I am very satisfied with the project results. We have thoroughly thought through our opportunities and have a clear vision and shared understanding of our mission."

Rainer Gehrung
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Development of a clear, shared and identity-creating vision for SCMT.

Gemeinschaftsklinikum Mittelrhein

"That was exactly what I imagined. The results are more concrete and useful than I could have hoped for. I am extremely satisfied with the results a year later."

Dr. Thomas Nüßlein
Chefarzt

Goals

• Future workshop to identify the future questions relevant to shaping pediatric medicine, with the clinical leadership team.

Spier Fahrzeugwerk

"We have never had an external consultancy with which we worked so efficiently."

Jürgen Spier
Inhaber & Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Development of a shared strategic vision "Spier 2023" and a roadmap toward the vision.
• Defining clear goals for 2013/2014, their precise elaboration, and linking them to individual leadership goals.

Wohlstandsbildner

"As entrepreneurs, we always toil too much in the present. I know no other program that tackles this problem so deeply. I regularly encountered transformative insights that could change the entire picture in one stroke. I had real moments of happiness during the program."

Andreas Ogger
Referent, Investor und Gründer

Goals

• Make the company significantly more productive with technological tools.
• Make the business more future-proof and scalable.

Schmitz Vermögensverwaltung

"The collaboration with FMG was phenomenal! It is groundbreaking for our business and brought us invaluable, lasting value. Thanks to you, we were able to set anchor points and received a compass pointing toward a brilliant future."

Dr. Thorsten Schmitz
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Process optimization with the goal of automation.
• Greater appeal to clients.
• Making the company ready for handover to the next generation.

Hafen Trier

"Our strategy is perfectly tailored to us. We were enabled to develop well-founded results."

Volker Klassen
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Position the company robustly and future-proof.
• Develop the best possible measures to be prepared for the changes of our time.

URANO

"Our future strategy was not developed in an ivory tower but by all departments and teams. It serves as a lighthouse for all of us and clearly sets the direction and goals. The meaningfulness of our daily work is clearly visible. We created strong commitment in the team."

Sebastian Schmalenbach
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Future orientation that gives all employees direction and new energy.
• Development of mission and vision at team level as a contribution to URANO’s alignment.
• Roadmap with concrete goals and activities to practically implement the future direction.

VLH

"The very broad perspective on the future, combined with many practical examples and a very clear process, helped us widen the blinders of everyday life."

Adrian Weiß, Georg Hennings, Uwe Rauhöft
Vorstände der Vereinigte Lohnsteuerhilfe e. V.

Goals

• Solid basis for developing the strategic vision.
• Orientation on what we need to prepare for in the next 10 years.
• Confidence of having identified the most threatening disruptions and their potential impacts.
• Optimism from having identified many good opportunities for shaping the vision.

BV Med

"Developing a shared vision within an association is a special challenge. The FMG team managed the project successfully through its extensive toolkit, diverse facilitation techniques and vast experience."

Natalie Gladkov
Referatsleiterin Digitale Medizinprodukte

Goals

• Development of a detailed future vision of digital healthcare through MedTech in 2035 and an implementation strategy.

Braun Metall

"With FMG’s methodology and focus on the impact of our products, we were able to very quickly develop new opportunities in existing and new business fields and derive an implementation plan that will lead us to further success."

Klaus-Rüdiger Geschwill
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Refined mission and opportunity fields as a basis for opportunity development.
• Long list of all future opportunities.
• Evaluation of future opportunities against multiple criteria.
• Concepts for the greatest future opportunities with implementation plan.

Viertler

"To position our company for the future, the FMG team guided us with concentrated expertise in a targeted and structured way to our strategy and vision. They inspired our employees at all times and created enthusiasm for strategy implementation."

Ingo Viertler
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Creating space for strategy and implementation.
• Developing a robust strategic direction.
• Optimizing the business model for productivity and revenue.
• Developing the entrepreneurial future vision.

Hüttenhein

"FMG revealed our blind spots and greatly expanded our horizons. We finally have a convincing and solid strategy. FMG also supported us long-term in overcoming hurdles and implementing projects in detail. All of this has made us much stronger in a challenging business."

Gerald Rees
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

Goals

• Systematic engagement with future trends and technologies.
• Future-robust alignment of the company.

Neugart

"The result of the work is far more than we expected. We developed a huge solution space of possibilities and chose the opportunities that are ideal for us."

Bernd Neugart
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

Goals

• Strengthen the company’s future security through new revenue sources.
• Develop and prepare the next era of the company.
• Increase corporate agility and resilience.
• Create well-founded enthusiasm for the future within the company.

Railpool

"The workshop helped us shape our future direction in the area of AI. The results are central to our digital transformation and the further development of our processes."

Torsten Lehnert
Geschäftsführer

Goals

• Develop a positive future vision for Railpool.
• Bring leadership into responsibility for the future.
• Leverage the intelligentization of the world to our advantage.
• Learn a new way of rethinking the company.