Future Compass · starting your transformation

Ideas become a plan your leadership team stands behind together.

Not a strategy paper – a roadmap for 24 months

Transformations rarely fail because of the strategy. They fail because nobody in the room can say exactly where the company stands, what needs to happen next – and whether the organisation has enough strength for the next step. The Future Compass creates this clarity: a shared picture, a clear target vision and a plan that works in everyday business.

Your North Star: a clear vision in a few sentences that gives direction – developed together rather than imposed
8–12 concrete sub-projects with project lead, team, target vision and milestones
A roadmap for 24 months – and, if you wish, a kick-off that really gets implementation started

For new customers: €21,000 ~~€30,000~~ net

Book the Future Compass Talk first – no obligation

Weert Jacobsen-Kramer, founder of TEAMTHINK

Sound familiar?

Many initiatives, but no shared direction.

Everyone pulls in a different direction

Sales, production, development and finance pursue their own goals. The leadership team lacks a shared picture of where the journey is heading.

Strategy papers gather dust

There have been retreats and concepts. In the end, all that remained was a document – but no implementation that reached everyday business.

Too many construction sites at once

Everything is important, nothing gets finished. What’s missing is a clear priority on which projects make the biggest difference now.

When the Future Compass pays off

At the start – or when things stall midway

At the start of a transformation

Your leadership team has not yet found a common language for change. The Future Compass brings everyone to the table and onto a shared map – before the real work begins.

When progress stalls

Change is under way, but it isn’t moving forward – and nobody knows exactly why: is it the process, the skills, the leadership or the energy of the organisation? The Future Compass makes it visible.

The method

Five dimensions make your situation tangible

Instead of discussing change in the abstract, the Future Compass works with four points of the compass and a centre. Each stands for a key leadership question. This way you capture both sides of every transformation: the factual and the human.

The Future Compass: North – vision and strategy, East – processes and organisation, South – leadership and culture, West – business model, products and skills, centre – energy and dynamics

North – target vision & strategy: Where do you want to go? Which goals and strategic projects matter in the coming years?
East – processes & organisation: How efficient are your cross-departmental processes? Is your organisation fit for the future?
South – leadership & culture: How well do leadership and collaboration work – and where is the potential?
West – business model, product & skills: Are your business model and products fit for the future? Do you have the skills for tomorrow?
The centre – energy & dynamics: Where is there momentum, where inertia and resistance?

Your advantage: Everyone in the room talks about the same picture. This reduces the friction that arises when every manager brings their own idea of “where we stand” – and it shows the real capacity to deliver beyond glossy slides.

Your benefits

What you’ll have at the end

An honest assessment of where you stand

From interviews and data analysis: where does your company really stand – from your managers’ point of view and based on facts and figures?

A shared North Star

A clear vision condensed into a few sentences and the main fields of action for change – developed together and therefore supported together.

A transformation project ready to start

8–12 sub-projects with project name, project lead, team, target vision, milestones and schedule, prioritised and outlined for 24 months.

Momentum instead of paper

Your team leaves the workshop with a plan it developed itself. If you wish, we start implementation with a kick-off for everyone involved.

How it works

Six steps to your transformation project

The workshop is part of a consulting process lasting around 12 weeks.

Step 1

Project scoping

Goals, participants and planning – including inviting the management team.

Step 2

Preliminary interviews and data analysis

Interviews with all workshop participants based on guiding questions for all four compass points, plus an analysis of your facts and figures.

Step 3

Report

We bring the results together in a report and propose concrete fields of action – the basis for the workshop.

Step 4

“Future Compass” workshop

Two days with your management team in a hotel of your choice, away from day-to-day business.

Step 5

Results

You receive the summary: report, Future Compass and transformation project including sub-projects and time horizon.

Step 6 · optional

Kick-off

If you decide to implement: a follow-up workshop with everyone involved as the concrete start of the transformation.

The core

The workshop: two days, four parts

Part 1

Where you stand

Your team validates the report and discusses the challenges.

Part 2

Main fields of action

Your team defines the fields of action and priorities for change.

Part 3

Sub-projects

Usually 8–12 sub-projects, each with project lead, team, target vision, milestones and schedule.

Part 4

Transformation project

Setting priorities and starting the outline plan for the next 24 months.

Your investment

A clear fixed price

Future Compass · 10 consulting days

€21,000 ~~€30,000~~

For new customers (−30%): 10 consulting days at €2,100 instead of €3,000. For existing customers €30,000 (10 consulting days at €3,000).

Fixed price for the entire process, including a 2-day workshop. All prices are net, plus statutory VAT, expenses, travel and hotel costs.

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What you contribute

Your management team for interviews and two workshop days
Access to the relevant KPIs and documents
A workshop venue away from day-to-day business – we are happy to help you choose
A willingness to take an honest look at your own company

Tip: If you’d like a quick outside view first, start with the On-site Quick Check.

FAQ

Good to know

No. It is the fast, visual starting point that brings your leadership team to the table and onto a shared map. Where needed, we use more in-depth analyses during the subsequent transformation.

For managing directors and management teams of industrial companies that want to tackle a transformation – for example in production, development, order processing or project organisation.

The Quick Check is a two-day outside view with concrete starting points. The Future Compass goes further: your leadership team jointly develops a vision of the future and a transformation project with sub-projects and a schedule for 24 months.

10 consulting days at a fixed price – for project scoping, preliminary interviews and data analysis, report, the two-day workshop and the summary of results.

All consulting days for project scoping, interviews, data analysis, report, workshop and summary of results are included – plus the kick-off if you wish. Expenses, travel and hotel costs and the cost of the workshop venue are invoiced separately. All prices are net, plus statutory VAT.

Our General Terms and Conditions apply, in particular the cancellation policy in § 6. Talk to us early.

Companies that have not previously commissioned TEAMTHINK. The introductory price of €21,000 instead of €30,000 applies to them.