Black box China?
Clear analysis, sustainable optimization – strategy consulting with vision.
Unclear figures from China, stalled projects, and the feeling of not knowing what is really happening on the ground. Without an external perspective, critical problems often remain undetected.
Our analysis identifies untapped potential and tackles problems at their root. Together, we gain strategic clarity for informed decisions and sustainable success.
Person, country, or system?
The basis of our expertise at Steinkellner China Search is personnel consulting for hand-picked executives. From our many years of working with our clients, we know that the problem often seems to lie with one person, but the real causes are structural in nature.
Before you make an expensive personnel decision, we provide you with clarity at all levels. Using our strategic diagnostic tools, we identify the actual causes of sluggish performance—whether personnel-related, structural, or strategic. This gives you an objective basis for making the right decision and concrete options for action instead of costly misjudgments.
Security before the next step: Objectively evaluate and manage performance in China.
Many companies with operations in China are familiar with the feeling of uncertainty:
- Is performance truly optimal, or are there hidden inefficiencies?
- Are our local managers acting in line with the overall strategy?
- Do the structures and processes still meet current market requirements?
- Are there cultural or communication barriers that hinder success?
Distance, cultural filters, and often opaque information make it difficult to make an objective assessment from afar. This is where our experience and consulting services come in.
Our China Performance Check forms the basis of all our analyses. It provides an initial, unvarnished outside view of your key figures and structures. It delivers an objective outside view of your status quo. In a short space of time. Without consuming your resources. Without alarming your organization.
Tailored analysis: Our approach to your specific questions about China.
Our strategy consulting consists of flexible analysis tools that have been developed based on the specific, individual challenges faced by our clients.
The core components of our approach are typically:
- China Performance Check: Evaluation of key KPIs in the context of the local market and your business objectives.
- Evaluation of leadership structures & key personnel: Objective assessment of the skills, potential, and cultural fit of your local management team.
- Identification of efficiency bottlenecks and untapped potential: uncovering weaknesses in processes, structures, and collaboration.
- Risk analysis: Identification of hidden operational, personnel, or compliance risks.
- Well-founded presentation of results: We provide you with a direct, unsparing, but always constructive analysis with clear, prioritized recommendations for action.
Your added value: informed decisions, optimized performance.
- Objective clarity about your current situation: You make decisions based on facts, not assumptions, and regain control over your China business.
- Identification of specific causes of problems: You invest resources in a targeted manner in solving the actual problems and avoid ineffective individual measures.
- A solid foundation for strategic decisions: You minimize investment risks and can implement growth or restructuring strategies with a higher probability of success.
- Differentiated evaluation of your local managers: You optimize your most important resource – local management – and ensure that your management team can truly support your goals.
- Avoidance of false solutions: You stop ineffective ad hoc repairs and instead implement sustainable solutions that have a long-term effect.
- Stronger control of your China branch: Greater transparency and influence on local performance, even from a distance, lead to better overall results.
Deepen your knowledge: Strategic insights for China.
Customer testimonials that speak for themselves:
Trust & results.
„Steinkellner China Search is now a long-standing cooperation partner of DEWETRON GmbH – with complete success and great satisfaction.
This cooperation took place from the very beginning with extensive preparation, a strong understanding of the requirements of our business – we were presented with candidates with an optimal requirement profile – as well as the excellent additional component of being able to think into the other person’s mind and, as a result, to act accordingly.
Even in this challenging time with COVID-19, the recruiting process in cooperation with Steinkellner China Search was very professional. Instead of face-to-face interviews, video calls for an initial interview were conducted very promptly and flexibly.“
„Although the requirements profile changed several times, Steinkellner China Search reacted quickly and presented us with very good plant manager candidates in line with the requirements profile. 9 months after recruitment, I can say that I am very satisfied with the choice and performance of the candidate.“
„The intensive consultation from start to finish was very important to me. Not everyone can do that. I was also surprised by the speed with which we found the right candidate.“
„We now finally have an unbeatable man on site with whom we can really make progress – even though we never got to meet him in person despite coronavirus.
The new plant manager was the best personnel decision of 2021!“
„They provided us with two perfect candidates for the final selection and our joint venture partner was able to choose one of them. Just as we had planned in advance.“
Lay the foundation now for future success and a high-performing China organization.
A successful strategy demands absolute clarity on the status quo. Our China Performance Check provides a rapid initial diagnostic of the performance, leadership integrity, and actual transparency across your China business.
As a boutique consultancy, we prioritize profound insights over surface-level reports. Because Manfred Steinkellner personally leads every audit, our availability is strictly limited.
Achieve strategic clarity in just 14 days—with complete discretion and zero disruption to your daily operations.