Companies Organisations Systems

Organisations are living entities. They are fundamentally capable of adapting to the conditions of the market, their environment, their cooperation partners, and their employees - continuously and often without any effort. They do this with their own values, control mechanisms and behavioural patterns that have evolved over the course of their history.

Sometimes, however, this ongoing process of adaptation is not enough. Fundamental changes may be on the horizon: the methods used so far no longer meet the requirements of the market; fractures or crises occur in the environment or in the organisation that require targeted reactions; companies or parts of companies with different cultures are merged; people leave, people with different ideas join. This can trigger hope, a spirit of optimism, but also disquiet and uncertainty.

In such situations, one cannot rely on everything working itself out automatically. Change must be shaped. It may be sufficient to review and adjust and to optimize the existing business and strategic management tools. Alternatively, a comprehensive renewal process may be necessary to deal with the new requirements: questioning products and offers, reflecting on one's own values and behaviour patterns, finding a new strategic positioning and, building on this, designing, planning, and implementing new structures, processes, and a new way of working together.

We have many years of experience in designing change processes in industry, commerce, service providers, in schools, in administration, in value-oriented and non-profit organizations.

We support our clients in the following ways:

• We analyse with them which changes - if any - are necessary.
• We design and structure optimization and renewal processes.
• We develop and facilitate events and workshops in change processes.
• We coach project leaders, managers, and teams in dealing with change.

Markus Konrad

onion: ConnAction GmbH

What fascinates me is the complexity of life, and I am really interested in how we try to tailor our concepts and actions to master the various tasks necessary for ensuring a successful future, be it on a general scale or in detail.

The development of communication technology over the past few years has led to an enormous acceleration in all processes. At the same time, the world has become a village.

This also affects my clients and their staff. I will gladly help evaluate the resulting development potential, I enjoy questioning apparently accepted traditional principles that have been extrapolated into the future and I am pleased to be able to examine unconventional indications on the basis of my experience and put into practice the results I get.

Professional background

• Director of onion: ConnAction GmbH since 1996 and partner in onion: Consultancy Network since 2000
• 7 years working in the Department for Basic and Further Training at the BWI Foundation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich:
  • management coach for team work and chairing meetings
  • establishing and developing further training courses offered by the BWI Foundation
  • helping to organise Swiss Management Courses
• Independent sound engineer

Educational background

• Diploma in corporate training
• Pädagogisch-Soziales Gymnasium, PSG

Clientèle

• Independent company consultants and coaches
• Consultancy firms and organisations in the field of higher management training
  Examples
  • Management Weiterbildung BWI, www.bwi.ch
  • onion: Consultancy Network
  • platypus institute, www.platypus.ch
  • Schweizerische Management Gesellschaft, www.smg.ch
  • Schweizer Kurse für Unternehmensführung, www.sku.ch
• Organisations, professional associations and individuals (advice and support concerning communication)

Extramural interests

• The arts (music, theatre, fine arts)
• Eating and drinking
• Exchanging and networking