When good ideas get stuck in silos.

When good ideas get stuck in silos. A typical starting point is “Trapped in silos”: structures that have grown over time, departmental thinking and long decision paths slow down cooperation, speed and execution. Organisations have natural tendencies that lead them into serious problems unless their leaders are able to counteract them.

Our promise: realign the organisation. Friction becomes collaboration. Endless coordination becomes decision. Structure becomes future viability. transformis® is an organisational development consultancy with a systemic approach and a clear focus on structure, processes, communication and decision-making.

An organisation is a highly complex social system that cannot simply be rebuilt from outside. It clings to proven routines even when they are no longer needed. That is why effective organisational development is more than moving boxes around an organisation chart.

We group the 34 services in this field of action into 4 areas: “Shape transformation”, “Understand the organisation”, “Structures, roles and decisions” and “Collaboration and the ability to learn”. Those described in detail include transformation architectures, change communication, post-merger integration and organisational diagnostics. The full overview is further up this page; in the initial call, we relate each service to your situation.

We facilitate every working session, agree all results together in the room and document them online. Each session ends with minutes accepted by everyone present. Afterwards, transformis reviews each session internally and uses what it learns to prepare the next one.

External consultants add clear value when blind spots need uncovering, unhelpful established patterns need breaking, complex change needs facilitating, structuring and stabilising, or when neutrality and independence are needed, especially if conflict, competing goals or internal politics are blocking decisions.

In a documented logistics project, twelve of 13 leadership positions were filled internally after the organisational diagnosis, according to the project report. In the DVVision programme, reviews in 2023 and a clarified division of roles between line management and corporate development are documented. Markus Peterhänsel in PVH-Magazin 2021: “The broad involvement of the E/D/E leadership team and the use of the system intelligence of the organisation and of the wider association were decisive for the success of the process.”

Your contacts are Markus Peterhänsel (Senior Expert in Strategy and Organisational Development) and Eva Scholz (Senior Consultant, head of the Organisation competence team, business mediator). We start with an initial call about your situation, the people involved and the right next step. Outside advisers bring structure and fresh observations, not the business decision; that responsibility stays with you.