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Corporate Governance (2025/2026)
Corporate Governance
Rethinking Corporate Governance in times of instability (2025/2026)
In an international environment shaped by political, economic, and social instability, a lack of long-term visibility, and sluggish European growth, corporate leadership bodies are seeing their responsibilities expand—and become increasingly complex.
As a result, the knowledge and capabilities expected of CEOs, Supervisory Board members, and Boards of Directors have evolved significantly, in order to address the full range of challenges companies must now navigate.
Executive Search
The value of Executive Search:
why use a search firm? (2023)
We are regularly confronted with organizations which have made the wrong hire on senior-executive level and the consequences are catastrophic: costs of replacing the wrong CEO or board member, impact on sales and market position, customer confidence, negative impact on the organization… whereas the immediate benefits of the right executive hire leads the company to the next step: shareholder confidence, organizational effectiveness, and team engagement.
Corporate Governance
Advisory Board best practices at hand - part I (2023)
Leaders have always surrounded themselves with independent councilors to advise and assist them in running their businesses. Advisory boards play an increasingly important role in today’s corporate governance. The use of advisory boards in companies has not decreased. In fact, it is on the rise, especially in Germany and the United States. Advisory boards enable corporate executives and board members to fill gaps in their expertise, advance their strategic goals by providing a long-term perspective, and navigate growth cycles, while benefiting from critical, thoughtful, and, most importantly, independent advice.
Regardless of the path chosen, governance that is adapted to each stage of a company’s development is designed to create long-term value and to foster the coalescence of talent around a common project.
CEO, New Leadership, Vergütungsparameter & Herausforderungen der Kontrollgremien (2023)
Die Rolle des heutigen CEO hat sich geändert
Die meisten der von uns befragten CEOs, haben die Beschleunigung der Entscheidungsfindung und des Wandels sowie die zunehmende wirtschaftliche Unsicherheit hervorgehoben. Die Kollision zwischen der COVID-19-Pandemie, den Forderungen nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit und den zunehmenden Umweltbelangen haben sie auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Diese Herausforderungen ergänzen die Megatrends, die schon die etablierten Geschäftsmodelle verändern: die rasante Entwicklung der Technologie in Verbindung mit den sich schnell ändernden Kundenanforderungen und dem Aufkommen neuer Wettbewerber, die Ankunft der neuen Generation am Arbeitsplatz zwingt CEOs zu Innovationen in einem noch nie dagewesenen Tempo und Ausmaß.
Leadership advisory
Leadership advisory
How Companies Break Through To Higher Performance? (2023)
Boards, Executive Boards, CEOs: What are the fundamentals of a successful collaboration?
As discussions about the appropriate standards of good corporate governance have clearly shown, boards of directors and supervisory and advisory boards are becoming increasingly important for the success and credibility of corporate policy.
In this study, we will show how companies are breaking through to achieve higher performance. What are the criteria for a successful board? What is the best way for a board and an executive board to work together? What mutual expectations will help these boards lead a company to success? We will also look at corporate strategy through the prism of corporate culture and a culture of innovation
Leadership advisory
CEOs, breaking even and creating value
Experience shows us that a new job really begins during the initial interviews for the position. Candidates who succeed in assuming the duties of the CEO have prepared themselves by getting to know about the company ahead of time. They have not hesitated to go in-depth, asking friends, relations, and the firm’s competitors questions such as: How does the general public view the company? What are the company’s culture and values, and how is it run? Is the company open to change? How does it innovate? Does its culture allow it to evolve?
Surveys
The major trends that will impact the tourism & the hotel sector by 2030 (2021)
A new international school of tourism and hotel management is scheduled to open in Nice, France in December 2021. BECHTEL-CONSULTING has had the privilege of participating in this opening by conducting a prospective study of the major trends that will impact the tourism and hotel sector by 2030. We were also tasked with defining the new skills that professionals will need to acquire as they face these new challenges. We hope that you will enjoy reading this report and that it will provide you with a useful overview of how
the sector is developing.
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