Specialist topic · Transformation · Kraus & Partner
When the real construction site is the organization.
Our craft is making leadership teams more effective. The changes that come with it we guide ourselves: through sparring, workshops, or coaching. Only when the entire organization is on the table does Kraus & Partner join: our parent company, with decades of experience in designing, planning, and steering the full rebuild.
Transformation experts since 1987, co-owners of Die Dranbleiber, with regular mutual project staffing.
The problem
Some levers sit not only in the team but in the organization itself.
Working on leadership and collaboration sometimes brings it to light, not seldom in a strategy workshop: the decisive lever sits not in the team itself but in outdated structures and processes. The obvious next step, a big anonymous consultancy, risks exactly the openness and closeness that took real effort to build. That is where our partner K&P comes in.
- Work with the leadership team shows: the real lever sits in structures and processes.
- A new strategy is decided, but the old organization needs a new setup to carry it.
- Two units or two companies need to grow together, and the concrete blueprint is still missing.
- Structures grown over years are to be questioned and reworked, but nobody has a clear picture of where the biggest potential sits.
- The agreed culture change needs structural rebuilding, not just new formats.
- New ways of working are to be introduced across the whole organization, not just in the leadership team.
Die Dranbleiber × Kraus & Partner
One brand, embedded in a larger house.
Since 2024 we have been an independent brand within the house of Kraus & Partner. We sharpen leadership and teams; K&P thinks and rebuilds the whole organization. Two approaches, one home. Or put differently: one address for every challenge.
What Kraus & Partner brings
Change at scale.
Almost 40 years of transformation expertise, led by Prof. Dr. Georg Kraus since 1987. No off-the-shelf solutions, but organization designers who tick like we do.
Kraus & Partner shapes organizations in change: from strategic realignment through structure to lived culture. The transformation discipline at a scale a boutique cannot carry alone.
To Kraus & Partner
Worth a listen
The transformation podcast by Kraus & Partner.
How do you take more than 300,000 people into the digital future while restructuring at the same time? Martin Seiler, board member for HR and Legal at Deutsche Bahn, in conversation with Michael Schön (Die Dranbleiber) about transformation, restructuring and AI. In German.
Martin Seiler, HR board member of Deutsche Bahn:Transformation, restructuring and AI.
“Over the past five years we have seen 100,000 employees into retirement and hired 130,000 new ones.” A conversation about change at a scale that exists only once in Germany. At the microphone: Michael Schön (Die Dranbleiber). German audio.
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We stay with it, however big the rebuild gets.
Every real change starts with naming what is really going on, simplifying it and getting it delivered, and we stay until it holds. If the lever grows beyond a workshop, Kraus & Partner puts the whole house at our side.
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