The structure you had no longer holds up what the company is today.
You hire on instinct. There is no rigorous method behind it.
You promoted your best technician. Now you have an overwhelmed technician and an unmanaged team.
Each area performs on its own. Together, it doesn't flow.
We redesign the company's processes from the inside: administration, sales, projects, communication, purchasing and more. Written down in a process manual, so anyone on the team can find what they need on their own.
We define the profile. We design the hiring process and teach your team to interview with a method. We train the middle managers who will carry the next stage.
We choose, connect or build the tools that save your team hours every week and let decisions be made with data, not gut feeling. When off-the-shelf doesn't fit, we build custom software for you.
We stay with you through integration and adoption. Close and constant at first. As the change takes hold, we hand more authority to your managers. Always available for one-off reviews and regular check-ins.
An exploratory call to understand where the company is today and what you would like to happen in the coming months. If you're not sure, we'll help you set priorities.
We step into day-to-day operations with your team and give you an exact picture of what to improve and where to start. Fixed price, fixed time.
We stay close to the execution as a strategic partner, on the ground with your team. We change what needs changing, measure progress and adjust course.
We train your managers, review every quarter and see the next threshold coming before it arrives.
Your management team makes decisions without coming back to you to sign them off.Department heads answer with data, not hunches.And you get back to deciding where the company grows.
First we sort out the process. If it then needs a tool no standard program covers (a point of sale, an ordering app, warehouse or production control), we build it to measure.
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A multidisciplinary profile. He started as a human resources and recruitment consultant, with more than 2,500 interviews behind him. From there he moved into corporate finance and operations for multinationals and family businesses in Germany, France and Belgium. At Ankorstore (B2B commerce, Paris, valued at one billion euros) he led the design and roll-out of an operational verification system that took the team from 20 people to 5 and saved €500K a year.
At Alcara he is the first conversation with every client and leads the strategic side of each project: defining profiles with clear criteria, interviewing with a method and training middle managers who know how to make decisions. The layer that lets a company run without the founder signing off every deal.
She has redesigned the operations of European technology companies — ecommerce, digital health, B2B platforms — that were growing faster than their systems could support. Before co-founding Alcara, she led at XO Life (health, Munich, Germany) the design and roll-out of a key system that turned a 6-month, 20-person process into one afternoon for one person, adding €900K in revenue in just 3 months and opening the way to a Series A round.
At Alcara she leads operations and technology: how the company works on the inside, which tools support it and how it learns to run without depending on the founder. Before proposing any change, she works out how decisions are made today and why the current model is starting to fall short.
Tell us what is happening in the company and what you would like to happen. We would love to understand it and see how we can help.
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