Operations Strategy
We help you make operations your source of competitive advantage
Operations Strategy is about the few irrevocable choices that decide where and how a company develops, engineers, sources, makes, delivers, and plans — and about aligning all of them with the strategic goals of the business. Made well, these choices turn operations from a cost to be managed into a durable competitive advantage. In a market shaped by faster innovation cycles, volatility, and rising complexity, defining a clear and coherent strategy is essential.
Our expertise lies in crafting an end-to-end operations strategy across product development and R&D, engineer-to-order, sourcing, supply chain, manufacturing, service, and the global footprint — including the make-versus-buy and centralised-versus-decentralised decisions that frame everything else. We help you decide where to develop the standard and where to engineer to order, how to structure your network, and how to plan across it, so the business stays competitive, agile, resilient, and positioned for growth.
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Hans Kuehn
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Andreas Abt
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Operations Strategy
From Fragmented to Best-in-Class: An End-to-End Supply Chain Strategy Rebuild Delivering ~€100M
When healthy demand and a global footprint mask a supply chain leaking value at every step — how HK-MP helped a global industrial machining equipment manufacturer re-architect end-to-end and capture …
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Operations Strategy
From Decline to Comeback: Rebuilding R&D at a Global Energy Equipment Maker
We turned R&D from a drag on growth into a strategic growth engine — by rebuilding capabilities, portfolio, processes, and culture in parallel
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