We help our clients grow and transform their businesses to meet the pressures they face today and position their businesses to compete in the future.
OUR SERVICES
To create organizations that can grow and adapt, we focus on the ABCs of highly effective organizations. Our clients tackle the adaptive challenges they face every day by creating high degrees of alignment, practicing the disciplines of high performance behavior, and building capabilities to lead and sustain change.
Alignment
Aligning leaders and the organization for strategic advantage
The degree of “fit” between the business strategy and core elements of the organization, including leadership, is a key determinant of business success.
ALIGNMENT SERVICES
Organization & leadership assessment
Vision and strategy development
Leadership team alignment
Organization design
Behavior
Shifting thinking and action to produce greater impact
Behavior change happens when we identify patterns of thinking, which determine our actions and consequently impact results. Shifting thinking allows leaders to dramatically improve outcomes.
BEHAVIOR SERVICES
High performance team development
Organization culture change
Senior leadership development
Executive coaching to lead change
Change
Increasing capability to effectively lead and sustain change
Highly effective organizations are masterful at designing and implementing large-scale change initiatives in ways that produce lasting results.
CHANGE SERVICES
Transformation roadmap development
Talent strategy
Communication and engagement strategy
Implementation of large-scale change
OUR CLIENTS
Our clients are senior leaders in large organizations who have a strong desire to tackle the challenges before them to achieve exceptional results—they want to go to the next level.
While our work tends to be focused on organizations ranging from at least $1B in revenues to Fortune 500 companies, we have worked with organizations of all types and sizes, from non-profit and academic institutions to small founder-led firms. The character of the leader, and the nature of their ambition, is more of a determining factor to partner with us than the size or type of organization they lead.
“Tandem Group brings a unique blend of hard-nosed strategic and analytical thinking combined with a deep understanding for how to create change in an organization. Tandem Group was instrumental in the results we were able to produce in the business.”
OUR RESULTS
We are passionate about creating results that are important and meaningful for the leaders we serve. Often the outcomes we produce go beyond what our clients previously thought possible. Together with our clients, we stretch ourselves and the organizations we are working with to realize their full potential.
Grow
CHALLENGE
Double revenues in a flat market over the next 5 years
Global Automotive Parts Manufacturer
ACTIONS
We partnered with the CEO and his executive team to define an aggressive growth strategy to double revenues within 3-5 years in a flat market. The leadership team was aligned by reframing the role of the executive team as an “internal board” responsible for the whole company rather than as presidents of separate business units. An accelerated strategic planning process was used to define the strategic orientation of the company and define the adaptive challenge. The top 70 leaders translated the new growth strategy into a targeted set of organization-wide initiatives.
RESULTS
The most significant result was the continued increase in the company’s earnings year after year, thereby reaching their goal of doubling revenue. Senior leaders fully owned the product leadership vision and strategy, a new product development process was implemented, resource allocation and financial decision tools were developed, and many other successful changes were made by the initiative teams.
Align
CHALLENGE
Align the organization structure to deliver
on the growth goals and strategy
Global Manufacturing Company
ACTIONS
Worked with the President to accelerate growth by streamlining the structure from a complex matrix to a market focused organization. We facilitated the development of a clear strategic vision, supported the strategic planning process, and aligned the senior executive team around the new structure and leadership implications. The top 75 leaders were engaged in order to own and implement the new strategic direction and structure, build their capability to lead through the change, and communicate effectively.
RESULTS
One of their growth businesses rapidly began growing at > 30% a year. The New Markets Business Unit began evaluating new market opportunities at a much faster rate because it now had dedicated resources and was not buried in other mature business units. Growth in mature businesses exceeded the growth of competitors in the same markets. The main business was on track to be EVA positive within the target time frame.
Transform
CHALLENGE
Transform the R&D organization to double both productivity
and the value of the product pipeline in 3-5 years
Leading Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Company
ACTIONS
Collaboratively built a strategy to double productivity and a transformation roadmap to accelerate the rate of innovation for the R&D organization, aligned the top 70 leaders to deliver the results, cascaded metrics to create clear line of sight at all levels in the organization and accelerated the onboarding of a new leadership team.
RESULTS
The organization exceeded their productivity goal by 120% and increased the breadth & depth of the portfolio. Savings in the first year were reinvested in new drug programs to fuel growth and the number of patents and patent incentive programs was increased significantly.
Adapt
CHALLENGE
Build high performance leadership team from merger
of two large IT functions
Fortune 500 Manufacturing Company
ACTIONS
Through our work, we challenged leaders to create a third new company different from either of the legacy companies by applying chaos and complexity principles. We helped build a cohesive extended leadership team with the top 40 people in the new organization. We facilitated the development of a clear vision and strategy for moving forward and a strong base of transformational leadership capabilities in the core group.
RESULTS
Our client exceeded their financial post-merger integration targets and effectively merged two IT groups with significantly different cultures into one high performance organization.