Succession
Why One Successor Is Rarely Enough
Founder dependency is often the result of founder excellence. Succession involves transferring much more than ownership.
Gerhard Botha6 min read
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The transaction is only one part of the question.
A business can change ownership in a day. What made it successful took decades to build.
That is why we are interested in what happens around a change of ownership as much as the transaction itself: succession, leadership, manufacturing, ownership, acquisitions and the Alpine region.
We also want to understand the places these businesses come from. In the Alpine region, industrial capability is often closely connected to local skills, suppliers, technical traditions and communities.
These are the subjects we explore here.
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The Alpine Region
When Place Becomes an Industrial Advantage
A specialist manufacturer may sell almost everything it makes abroad while depending heavily on the town or valley around it. Some of that dependence is obvious. Much of it is not.
Hannes Offenbacher · · 8 min read
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Questions we think matter
The questions around ownership are rarely only about the transaction.
We write about the issues that tend to matter before, during and after an ownership transition, and about the businesses and industrial communities we are interested in building around.
Ownership
What makes a good long-term owner of an established industrial business?
Leadership
How do you strengthen a company beyond its founder without weakening what made it successful?
Group building
When does an acquisition genuinely strengthen the cornerstone?
Manufacturing
Where does enduring technical advantage come from in specialist industrial businesses?
The Alpine region
When does place become part of an industrial company's advantage?Our focus
Succession · Ownership · Leadership · Manufacturing · Group Building · Alpine Region
We write about the questions that matter before, during and after an ownership transition, and about the industrial businesses and communities we are building around.