Changing Times
We are living in volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous and disruptive times (VUCAD) that threaten organisations’ survival, but also offer tremendous opportunities for prosperity. Organisations are facing increasing consumer and stakeholder demands, driven by various socioeconomic crises, game-changing technologies, shifts in the geopolitical landscape, disruptive market developments, and increasing societal and environmental pressures. These developments call for fundamental change in the way business is done within the organisation, with stakeholders, and within the overall context. Sustainable Growth Associates and their partners are experts in helping you to navigate these rapidly changing times.
Systems View
Disruptions at all context levels – Political, Economic, Social, Technical, Legal and Environmental (PESTLE) – will go on. Leaders who take a systems view will be better prepared for the unpredictable, are more agile in their responses, and allow leadership to emerge. Changing from a reductionist to a systems view, focusing on the primacy of relationships and interconnections, challenges all organisations to find and redefine their true purpose. A clear understanding of the “big picture” enables any organisation to recognise the infinite innovation potential of socio-ecological sustainability for a profitable business and as the basis for creating a positive impact. Opportunities for whole-systems thinking are there to be embraced, wherever and whenever they emerge. Sustainable Growth Associates and their partners provide the required insights, methodologies, resources, skills and tools for context-driven and purposeful transformation and strategy development based on a systems view. With us, you can start right now!
Insights
Digital transformation with purpose
Digitalisation is disrupting value chains and forcing companies to rethink almost everything they do. For one thing, progressive digitalisation is causing concerns in the C-suites. On the other hand, digital transformation has taken off during the last few...
The SDGs and how they translate into business
On 25 September 2015, 197 countries adopted the follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals, the 2030 Development Agenda entitled: Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It comprises the 17 United Nations Sustainable...
Welcome to the new C-suite
It’s a challenging time for corporations and leadership development. Industries are being disrupted, markets are shifting and changing. So are the C-suites and leadership teams. A recently published survey from North Carolina State University’s ERM...
Who we are
Welcome to the Sustainable Growth Associates network. As a diverse team of industry professionals, we think and act as developers of people, business and enterprises who can make your organisation fit for the future. Our constantly growing network of experienced and high-profile professionals share the same exciting view of a prosperous future in which transformational developments innovate the way we live and do business. As seasoned business managers with recognised leadership expertise, we are able to engage with you as consultants, trainers, interim managers and entrepreneurs – which is why we choose to call ourselves developers. We are part of a global network of experts with scientifically robust and business-proven frameworks, methods and tools. We are at your service if you want to exploit your organisation’s full potential in becoming fit for the future, no matter where we start.
Dirk Uhlemann
Managing Partner
+49 (89) 2123121-11
Rüdiger Röhrig
Managing Partner
+49 (89) 2123121-12
Edwin Janssen
Senior Partner
+49 (89) 2123121-15
Dr. Thomas Riegler
Chairman of the Board
+49 (89) 2123121-16
What we do
At SGA, we help organisations to become game changers by putting a revitalised purpose at the heart of their innovation strategy and leadership processes. We think and act holistically. Looking at your strategy, operations and leadership from a systems perspective, we are aware of their mission-critical interdependencies. Whether our client’s immediate need or challenge concerns projects and/or programmes for people and leadership development, operational efficiency (house-in-order programme), building innovation capabilities, or defining masterplans for mid- to long-term strategic change, we build our work on a science-based system understanding that is applicable to business. Our services focus on mid-sized and larger companies operating in but not limited to the following industries: chemical, clothing, manufacturing, electronics, energy supply (utilities), environmental technology, automotive and mobility, high-tech and engineering, IT and telecommunications.