The world is in a state of constant flux, and the speed of transformation is increasing. Product cycles are becoming shorter, and customer expectations are changing. Organizations need to be agile to remain competitive, and they need to adapt predictively to new circumstances. Cost pressure forces companies to become more efficient, and to restructure. Market consolidation leads to mergers and acquisitions. All of these factors have repercussions on company structures and on the people working within the organizations.

We support companies during organizational assessments, restructuring, or mergers, also in the design of organizations that are fit for the future.

Organizational Assessments

We take a holistic and integrative approach. First of all, we look at the company, its environment, and the general circumstances:

Vision & strategy, market & customers, products & services, structures & processes, leadership & culture, people & collaboration. We apply a structured SWOT analysis to help infer organizational strengths, areas requiring development, also risks and calls for action.

There is equally the option of including the employees in a survey or in the form of a future workshop, depending on the specific corporate culture and project strategy. An interdisciplinary team spanning the various hierarchical levels should be in charge of the workshop.

A final workshop with company management defines the future strategic direction and corporate culture.

Here, the following aspects in particular set us apart from other consultants:

• We have the necessary experience and instinctive touch for sensitive topics, which help us create an open, trusting atmosphere. This is the only way to identify and analyze the true weaknesses.
• We take a holistic, systemic, and integrative approach. We do not analyze your company based on just a template. Instead we only look at the external and internal factors that directly impact your organization. 
• We use participative methods, and invite everyone affected to get involved. A lack of transparency and comprehensibility frequently render calls for action provided by external consultants ineffective, although they are based on best practices.
• We combine the analysis process with a view to the future. This mobilizes time and energy to achieve true realignment instead of waring these factors simply on coming to terms with the past. 
• We use innovative methods to generate ideas with a future. “Future workshops” mobilize the participants, and help in the development of distinctive concepts. 

Restructuring

Appreciation and efficiency
Employees frequently perceive the imminent loss of their jobs as an immense emotional burden associated with stress, uncertainty, and many other questions, which makes these situations hugely challenging for professional, private and family settings.

External expertise can be of immense help, especially in restructuring and downsizing projects. We approach those affected respectfully, fairly, and appreciatively, also with the right degree of professional impartiality.
We work closely and in a spirit of trust with everyone involved: Company management, executives, HR management, and social partners.

Project management, consulting or support – it's up to you
We look after the management and execution of your entire restructuring project, or lend your internal project leaders a helping hand – tailored precisely to suit your needs.

We possess the expertise and experience acquired from many different restructuring projects throughout the world.

• We assist you in reviewing a viable, strategic alignment, in adapting organizations and processes, and along the road to cultural transformation
• We conduct systematic analysis of the necessary changes, and support you in the design and execution of integral change management architectures
• We define a clear project framework with targets, opportunities & risks, realistic milestone and resource planning, a communication schedule, cost and success controlling, and professional process support
• We develop communication concepts that are tailored to your specific target groups and that relate directly to the planned change
• We assist you in negotiations with social partners in order to achieve fair solutions
• We provide additional support teams, Q&A help desks or simply as a port of call to assist you in the dismissal process.

We can also provide help and accompaniment to your employees throughout the entire process of change and reorientation.

• Outplacement consulting (group and individual support)
• Training measures

Mergers & Acquisitions

The markets remain gripped by a process of consolidation. In Switzerland, the volume of M&As, fusions and takeovers was US$188 bn in 2014 alone.
In most cases the transactions were intended to create growth in the core business.
Moreover, many SMEs in Switzerland and Germany remain faced with the serious issue of succession planning.

And while company transactions certainly come with opportunities, there are nevertheless associated risks, also. Hidden pension obligations, incompatible management teams, complex compensation programs and a confluence of differing corporate cultures can cost a lot of time and money. These factors may even end up deciding whether or not a deal will even happen.

PICHLER HR SOLUTIONS helps companies in all industries to recognize and come to grips with payroll costs, risks, and other challenges that occur during company transactions – throughout all of the individual phases. We support you from the get-go during appraisal of your HR programs, develop a detailed integration plan on your behalf, and provide your HR positions and other departments with the right equipment to manage the central phase of integration. Once integration is complete, you can use our special tools and technologies to successfully initiate the change and project management.

We provide:

• support during the due diligence process
• Implementation of organizational assessments & culture audits
• Harmonization of HR processes
• Planning and execution of integration processes, also accompaniment of change management