Value Creation
Unleash your full growth potential
DHM Advisory combines strategic clarity with consistent implementation: We identify the key value drivers, prioritise effective levers, and achieve measurable improvements in EBIT, cash flow, growth, and enterprise value. Our approach unites operational industry and transformation experience with a pragmatic, implementation-focused working style – partnering alongside shareholders, advisory boards, and management teams.
Let us jointly examine what value potential can be realised in your company in the short term and sustainably.
We create a fact-based picture of value creation: results, cash, capital commitment, market position, operational performance, and organisation. This makes the essential value drivers, bottlenecks, and improvement potentials along the business model transparent. We particularly focus on the areas:
Value-Creation-Governance:
Steering model, decision rights, initiative owner, PMO, and binding review routines.
People, Leadership & Change:
Leadership alignment, communication architecture, capability building, and change management as prerequisites for sustainable implementation.
Cash, Risk & Resilience:
Working Capital, Capex discipline, liquidity, supply chain and customer risks as well as compliance/ESG should be systematically integrated into diagnosis, prioritisation and control.
We assess the identified levers by value contribution, feasibility, time to impact, investment needs and risk. This creates a focused agenda that concentrates resources on the measures with the highest EBIT, cash and enterprise value contribution.
The Value Creation Workstreams are divided into the following areas:
- Governance and Leadership
- Commercial
- Operational
- Strategic
- Financial
- Digital / Tech
We translate the prioritised levers into concrete initiatives with clear target images, business cases, responsibilities, milestones and key figures. The action plan connects strategic ambition with operational feasibility and secures the necessary organisational anchoring.
We consistently realise the initiatives in the operational business – with quick decision-making, clear ownership and a pragmatic implementation rhythm. The focus is on measurable impact, accelerated learning and the early removal of obstacles.
We steer the value creation agenda through effective performance management with transparent KPIs, regular reviews, and active tracking of actions. Deviations are identified early, causes are addressed, and priorities are dynamically adjusted to secure value realisation.
We make value enhancement transaction-ready: robust metrics, a comprehensible equity story, solid processes, documented value levers, and a convincing management organisation. This positions the company at all times for financing, succession, partial sale, or exit.
Value Creation Levers
Governance
Establishing a competence atlas, leadership, and implementation power
- Definition of roles, decision rights, and responsibilities
- Development of strategy and transformation
- Creation of a competence atlas for management, key roles, and organisation
- Establishment of leadership, ownership, and cross-departmental collaboration
- Definition of clear target systems, KPI routines, and management reviews
- Delivery of programme control, transparency, and consistent follow-up
Commercial
Strengthening top-line growth and market position
- Sharpening market, customer, and segment priorities
- Optimisation of pricing, terms, and sales control
- Expansion of sales pipeline, key account management, and conversion power
- Development of profitable offerings, services, and business models
- Increase in customer loyalty, cross-selling, and upselling
- Building scalable go-to-market structures
Operational
Improve bottom-line performance and operational excellence
- Increase productivity, capacity utilisation and delivery reliability
- Reduce material, procurement, production and quality costs
- Optimise value streams, lead times and inventories
- Improve S&OP, planning and supply chain performance
- Reduce complexity and strengthen process stability
- Establish effective performance management
Strategic
Develop a future-proof business model and clear market position
- Sharpen vision, portfolio, target markets and positioning
- Evaluate growth areas, innovations and new business models
- Develop the logic for make-or-buy, internationalisation or buy-and-build
- Optimise the product and customer portfolio based on value contribution
- Strategic realignment in response to market changes, transformation or turnaround
- Translate the strategy into a prioritised, measurable implementation programme
Financial
Strengthen cash, capital commitment and financial steering capability
- Release working capital through inventory, receivables and payables management
- Optimise cash flow, liquidity planning and forecasting
- Improve result and cost transparency at all levels
- Review investments, capex discipline and capital allocation
- Further develop financing structure, covenant and bank management
- Establishing a decision-oriented controlling system with clear KPIs and scenarios
Digital / Tech
Utilising technology as a scaling and productivity lever
- Developing a digital roadmap with clear value and implementation logic
- Automating data-intensive processes in sales, operations and administration
- Using data, analytics and AI for better decisions and higher speed
- Modernising IT/OT landscape, ERP, data architecture and interfaces
- Digitising products, services and customer interfaces
- Building digital competencies and scalable technology platforms
Our performance promises to you
We do not develop standard programmes, but a value-creation agenda that is consistently aligned with the business model, starting position and value potential of your company. This prioritises the right levers for profitable growth, performance improvement, cash flow and sustainable increase in corporate value.
We combine operational experience with a robust network of industry, technology, finance and M&A. This allows us to tap into relevant market impulses, partnerships, customer potentials and implementation expertise more quickly and purposefully.
We act discreetly, independently and solely in the interest of our clients. Our neutral perspective creates transparency about opportunities, risks and conflicts of interest – especially in demanding transformation, shareholder or transaction situations.
We swiftly create decision-making foundations and bring prioritised measures with high implementation speed to fruition. Clear analyses, pragmatic decision logic, and professional programme management ensure early visible impact while simultaneously achieving sustainable embedding.
We accompany Value Creation continuously – from diagnosis and strategy through measures planning and implementation to measurable value realisation. In doing so, we work in partnership with shareholders, advisory boards, and management teams, taking responsibility for progress, transparency, and results.