Growth Structuring

Structured growth development creates transparency, reduces friction, and helps companies consistently achieve their strategic goals.

The right structure ensures that your organization, employees, and processes grow in line with company requirements, creating a stable foundation for future development. This way, growth is not left to chance, but is instead planned, manageable, and sustainable.

Growth is a key objective for many medium-sized companies. However, with rising sales, new customers, additional locations, or expanded business areas, it is not just the company itself that grows, but also the complexity of the organization.

When existing structures reach their limitsWhen existing structures reach their limits

Structures, processes, and responsibilities that work well in smaller companies soon reach their limits. Targeted growth structuring helps create the necessary conditions for sustainable and controlled growth.

It is not just about tapping into new business opportunities. The crucial factor is ensuring that the organization, processes, resources, and leadership grow along with the company.

How does a growing company remain capable of action in the long term?How does a growing company remain capable of action in the long term?

Clear responsibilities, efficient processes, forward-looking resource planning, and effective management tools create the foundation for sustainable growth. This allows the company to remain agile, respond flexibly to changes, and secure its performance in the long term.

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Shaping growth successfully

Building blocks for structuring growth

Growth strategy & target picture

We develop a growth strategy with clear goals, priorities and fields of action. This provides orientation for decisions, investments and projects, and a shared direction for the company's future development.

Organisational structures for growth

We analyse the organisational structure and workflows as well as roles and responsibilities and develop them further in a targeted way. The result is structures that grow with the company, create clear accountability and allow quick decisions even as complexity increases.

Scalable processes

We review and improve existing processes so that companies can successfully handle rising order volumes, additional locations and new business areas. Clear, standardised workflows provide the necessary stability, reduce friction and take pressure off employees and managers in day to day business.

Leadership & governance structures

We create clear decision making, communication and accountability structures that keep working as complexity grows. This keeps the management of the company transparent, comprehensible and able to act.

Resource & capacity planning

We analyse future needs for people, skills and resources based on the company's growth targets. Bottlenecks become visible early and the conditions are created to secure growth and support it for the long term.

Steering & key figure systems

We develop meaningful key figures, reporting structures and steering instruments and create transparency about growth, performance and profitability. This lets you recognise necessary changes early, take well founded decisions and steer the development of your company deliberately.

PROJECT EXAMPLES

THE MAK'ED TEAM helps its clients with strategies for structured growth—for business development that truly goes according to plan.

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Revenue growth

Industry: Services

Our role: Consultant

Project objectives

Increasing revenue by extending the national sales territory
Securing the financing of the growth phase
Ongoing performance controlling and anchoring the lessons learned for further expansion

Key results

A business opportunity that had only been a gut feeling turned into a transparent business plan, with the consequences for the company's balance sheet made clear

Potential financing partners involved early and supplied with transparent information in the form of projected annual accounts

Financing secured for the project, a stable balance sheet structure built and liquidity assured for the delivery period

Reporting established for management and shareholders and for financial communication with the lending banks

Approach

Analysis of business performance to date and definition of the critical success factors
Examination of the market in the planned sales territory and derivation of the planning parameters
Development of a growth plan, translated into integrated corporate planning (using the LucaNet planning tool) and into a project plan, with the financing requirement for the growth phase determined

Structuring of the liabilities side and selection of financing components to cover the requirement

Approach to selected banks and collection of credit offers, negotiation and conclusion of the required financing

Establishment of ongoing controlling and performance review

Structuring growth

Structured growth development creates transparency, reduces friction, and helps companies consistently achieve their strategic goals.

When existing structures reach their limitsWhen existing structures reach their limits

How does a growing company remain capable of action in the long term?How does a growing company remain capable of action in the long term?

Are you looking to implement structured growth development?

Building blocks for structuring growth