Dirk is the global leader for CGI’s Strategic Alignment and Business Agility business consulting service. Based in Germany, he is a strategy consultant and innovation expert with a special focus on effective implementation.
Across industries, executives must navigate increasingly dynamic markets driven by macro trends, such as technology acceleration and changing social demographics, as well as manage complex, interconnected systems. They are challenged to pursue long-term transformation while responding more rapidly to change in the short term. Balancing these imperatives requires moving from a traditional predict-and-plan model to a sense-and-respond approach.
Such an approach enables leaders to manage transformation as a continuous journey and create lasting stakeholder and societal value, while also adapting to ongoing change.
Change must deliver value, especially in uncertain times
We help leaders think boldly and act pragmatically as they transition their organizations to sense-and-respond planning and build value-led strategies, operating models, and roadmaps.
Our integrated approach focuses on closing alignment gaps, increasing business agility, and addressing the critical human aspects of change through cultural, organizational and change leadership.
What is strategic alignment? It is the alignment of an organization’s business strategy, operating model, and change roadmaps. This includes alignment among business and technology leaders, functions, and processes across the value chain.
What is business agility? It is the ability of an organization to continuously adapt to changing market conditions, customer needs, and internal or external disruptions. Agile organizations break down functional silos, embrace an innovation mindset and empower teams to act more autonomously.
How to improve end-to-end alignment
CGI’s strategic alignment services, frameworks, scorecards, and digital platform can accelerate your business outcomes by:
- Capturing critical insights from the outside in and providing a deeper understanding of the trends impacting markets, customers, and citizens
- Aligning your strategy, capabilities, and actions to improve visibility, connections, and transparency across the value chain
- Connecting strategy to execution through agile change models that drive value creation and enable rapid response to shifting priorities
These are the core capabilities CGI brings to help organizations translate strategy into measurable results.
- Value-Driven Digital Strategy Framework – aligning strategy, people, and technology to outcomes
- Portfolio Management and Value Management Office – prioritizing initiatives and managing investment decisions for maximum value
- Business and Enterprise Architecture – designing enterprise-wide structures that connect strategy to delivery
- Organizational Design and Culture – embedding the behaviors and mindset needed for lasting change
- Agile-Lean Solution Delivery – delivering value iteratively and adapting to evolving market and customer needs
Market change areas |
| Internal assessment, macro-economic analysis, market intelligence, stakeholder management, innovation management |
Enterprise change areas |
| Ambition design, human-centered experience, decision design, value proposition design, business model design, operating model design |
Execution of change areas |
| New ways of working, change leadership, cultural diagnosis, scenario planning, value realization, workforce organization, diversity and inclusion |
We offer flexible engagements based on where you are on your journey—whether you need to refresh your business strategy, identify and improve performance gaps, or address specific scope areas.
What you can expect
We’ve applied these services and tools across industries and geographies to help clients:
- Confidently develop and execute their business strategy, operating model, and roadmap
- Visualize and manage their increasingly complex, interconnected systems and processes
- Accelerate shared value realization to include value to all stakeholders and society
- Enable every leader in the organization to become a strategist and collaborate on a cohesive strategy across all levels and departments
- Support open collaboration, reduce complexity, and improve trust, transparency, and communication
- Help leaders establish the right agile transformation strategy for their context and conduct the change in an iterative and incremental approach
Cases in point
CGI business consultants collaborate with industry leaders to help them overcome the challenges they face. Here are examples of proven use cases where CGI has supported clients and their journeys from strategy, operating model to delivery of results.
- Unlocking transformation opportunities for Scottish Borders Council through value-driven digital strategy
- City of Munich advances strategic digitization
- Partnering to bring Beneva’s bold digital plan to life, powered by business agility
- Helping a large telco transform into an agile organization by aligning business and IT around value
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By connecting strategy to execution and bridging competing imperatives, we help clients think boldly and act pragmatically through our business consulting services. Learn how we combine decades of consulting experience and a deep understanding of our clients’ operations with best practices, tools, and frameworks to accelerate results. |
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