What I do and why

These are some of the reasons why I do what I do. That is helping organisations to determine then structure their most important changes and improvements, followed by disciplined execution.

Digital transformation

Whilst the term itself has become a buzzword, its impact is nonetheless real. Organisations that are unable to make the leap further into digitisation will have difficulties, especially it they are not able to cater for all human/people aspects that come with it. What is Digital Transformation?

Accelerated change

Needless to say, organisations have to change continuously in order to survive. However, I have not only seen a clear acceleration in these entities, but also a complexity to understanding and a saturation of change that is challenging for people to manage, that is if they are not taken through these multiple transitions correctly.

Human adoption

Resonating the two other aspects, this is likely the most important barrier to successful change. There is nothing more critical than human beings as they are at the core of everything and will make or break process and technology. Social dynamics of today have further increased complexity.

Who I am

For the past 25+ years I have been an independent management consultant and trusted advisor in strategy execution, supported by holding an advanced degree in sociology (PhD).

My consulting and coaching services are available through Stefan Bertschi Ltd, and organisation consultancy. Skills and experience result from spending an extended time in various industries, and working more than a decade for a leading, global consultancy exclusively focusing on project, programme, portfolio management and people change.

Today, I use this foundation to offer a new kind of consulting and coaching service, one that is bolder than traditional consulting ever could be.

My areas of expertise and interest include corporate strategy, foresight, culture, knowledge, implementation and organisational change and improvement. Next to corporate development, understood in the widest possible sense and reaching far beyond its limited, narrow meaning, I am continuously involved in scientific research on social processes in commercial awareness, management and policy. Topics include:

  • improved strategic planning and advanced roadmapping,
  • fast-moving strategy execution,
  • meaning and perception in successful communication and the transfer of knowledge (including the interplay of individuals and corporations, institutions, society),
  • disappearing technologies, products in service industries (mobile telecommunication, financial services: credit cards, insurance and reinsurance etc), complex manifest goods/artefacts, mental concepts and their social implications,
  • architecture, urbanism, fortified communities and cities of the 21st century, and housing policy within the contemporary metropolis,
  • last but not least, agile methodologies both in thinking and execution to achieve all of the above.

I subscribe to the Latin phrase most related to agile transformation: ‘non progredi est regredi’ (to not go forward is to go backward). Having signed the Agile Manifesto, with the proviso that ‘software’ is to be substituted with ‘solutions’, my aim is to make others (and myself) move forward and to consider whatever is cognitively needed ‘to know to move forward’. Stefan Bertschi on ResearchGate.

Enterprise Architecture

I am a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect. The Open Group Architecture Framework is possibly the mother of all frameworks, encompassing the full range from business to technology and from strategy to operations.

Agility in Leadership and Organisation

There is an ever increasing need to bring new ways of thinking and new cultural working practices to enterprise level and integration. I am fully conversant in the SAFe framework (Scaled Agile) despite deliberately discontinuing my membership. I have created far more effective methods and approaches since.

Project Portfolio Capability

Between 2017 and 2024 I acted as the certified Lead P3M3 Assessor (through AXELOS Consulting Partner MIGSO-PCUBED). Today, I use this knowledge and experience to include capability assessments into my practice, increasing an organisation's effectiveness in delivering change and transformation through better ways of working (including how project, programme and portfolio are run). I usually add the perspective of culture/leadership into my review.

How I do it

This describes the cornerstones of both methodology and philosophy that are used to help my clients succeed.

Director @ Stefan Bertschi Ltd

Prior to starting my own firm I held various positions at MIGSO-PCUBED; most recently as Senior Technical Manager. Together we help clients to successfully master and execute their most important changes. Clients benefit greatly from the combination of driven analysis and structured consultancy. See Consulting.

Mastermind @ DEFINED INTEGRATION

DEFINED INTEGRATION is the culmination of 20 years of experience and will create an integrated model and philosophy to tackle the challenges in-between people and technology. It introduces an Agile governance that appears counterintuitive at first, but is aimed to deliver to an increasing toolkit required to enable smooth transitions. What is CHANGE OMNIBUS?

Founder @ The Unicorn Firm

The Unicorn Firm (TUF) is a virtual advisory board. Specialist teams are being utilised in providing consulting services to clients. TUF replaces the loginb consulting project. Founded in 1999, loginb consulting was a research-based management consultancy specialising in strategic development, communication, and understanding social and cultural processes within teams, departments, corporations and organisations. It has helped a selected number of clients to resolve their challenges through implemented analysis and specialist expertise. This is being continued through TUF.

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