our unique approach
The Progress Engine
Future Readiness
Thriving Today, Shaping Tomorrow
In an era of mounting uncertainties, traditional planning reaches its limits. We empower organizations to create clarity in the face of ambiguity, enabling them to confront disruptions and Black Swan events with confidence and foresight.
The critical capabilities for organizations in the Black Swan decade are Visionarity, Pre-Adaptivity, Singularité, Accelerativity, and Deep Trust.
Managing Unpredictability
This represents a cornerstone of future-ready organizations: Visionarity to see what’s ahead, Pre-Adaptivity to pivot without hesitation, Singularité to harness unique strengths, Accelerativity to act with speed and precision, and Deep Trust to anchor creativity and collaboration. Together, they form the foundation for thriving in a world of constant change.
Our Framework
Visionarity
Anticipate futures, uncover opportunities, and inspire bold action today
Pre-Adaptivity
Build strengths compatible with a wide range of future scenarios
Singularité
Define and align your organization’s unique strengths
Accelerativity
Design your organization to act and adapt with speed and agility
Deep Trust
Build trust in a shared future to drive unity, creativity, and progress
Visionarity
Always Ahead
Visionarity is the ability to balance present focus with forward-looking insight, empowering leaders to shape thriving organizations.
The ability to balance a sharp focus on today with a truly forward-looking perspective is the cornerstone of leadership for a thriving future. Visionarity empowers leaders to anticipate emerging trends, seize opportunities, and navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.
We support executives and decision-makers in mastering this balance, enabling them to integrate strategic foresight into daily decision-making, inspire their teams, and drive sustainable success in an ever-changing world.
Scenario Lab
A Core Pillar of Visionarity
Diverse and far-reaching scenarios form the foundation of future readiness. We uncover both immediate and long-term impacts on markets and value creation, evaluate existing business scenarios, and address gaps.
From this, we derive actionable measures for strategy, R&D, market positioning, leadership and people development, skill-building, and recruitment. Our approach ensures your organization is prepared to navigate complexity and seize emerging opportunities.
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Scenarios
A short overview of some of our standard scenarios.
Pre-Adaptivity
Pre-Adaptivity (or Exaptation) is a concept from evolutionary biology that describes a process where a trait or structure takes on a new function it was not originally intended for.
For businesses, this means developing and enhancing existing resources, skills, and technologies to remain operationally effective, even in the face of unlikely or disruptive changes.
We help organizations systematically increase the likelihood that their capabilities and resources remain compatible with future developments.
Beyond Resilience
Resilience is the ability to endure change. However, this ability becomes insufficient when change evolves into a constant companion.
What we need instead are organizations that grow stronger through change. These organizations are often referred to as anti-fragile – capable of transforming uncertainty and disruption into opportunities for growth and innovation.
Singularité
Uniqueness and veracity
The unique essence of an organization, often referred to as its DNA, is something clear, structured, and well-researched.
We call this essence: Singularité.
Singularité is the scientific method for determining the uniqueness and special nature of an organization – tested in hundreds of projects.
Singularity allows an organization to discover for itself what its DNA, its spirit, its uniqueness is.
Singularité shows management what an organization’s greatest potential is and how it can be unleashed.
Singularité helps to predict the cultural compatibility of partners in M&A and cooperations and to resolve conflicts.
Singularity is the most resilient starting point for designing a brand, for formulating a vision, for building an image of the future.
The better an organization understands what it really stands for and what makes it credible, the easier it can sail close to the wind.
It’s all about future readiness.
In times of rising uncertainty, fierce global competition, accelerating technological change, and geopolitical disruptions to local supply chains, companies need a unifying force that aligns and strengthens them.
Singularité offers a framework that guides companies to tackle challenges with ease, resilience, and the implements the ability to thrive through change.
Patrick Mathieu
Principal Researcher Singularité
„Our customers suddenly understand their organization in an intimate way: Distance becomes trust. A power play becomes empowerment. Uncertainty becomes clarity.“
Thriving in the Speed of Change
Accelerativity
Accelerativity is the ability to adapt and transform with speed, enabling organizations to quickly respond to changes in the business environment and reshape structures, processes, and strategies within days. In a world where agility is non-negotiable, Accelerativity ensures your organization not only keeps pace but stays ahead.
What Matters
Most
We help answer critical questions: What can you let go of without hesitation, and what remains indispensable to your culture, strategy, product portfolio, or brand? Gaining this clarity streamlines decision-making, allowing you to focus on what truly drives success.
Building the Foundation
We craft a tailored strengths profile, mindset, skillset, and process design that aligns seamlessly with your organization’s unique needs. By amplifying your core strengths, we empower your team to act with precision, agility, and confidence.
Transforming the Culture
Cultural transformation is the cornerstone of Accelerativity. We design and support the shift toward a mindset of agility, collaboration, and proactive innovation, ensuring your organization thrives in the face of constant change.
Staying Ahead of the Curve
With Accelerativity, your organization gains the ability to not just survive but excel in dynamic and challenging markets. This ensures you remain at the forefront of development, even as the speed of change continues to accelerate.
Trust into a common future
Deep Trust
The Foundation of Future-Organizations
Deep trust in organizations is the trust in a shared future. It is the strongest form of trust, forming the foundation for a functional learning culture and a resilient basis for long-term partnerships. Organizations that cultivate deep trust create environments where collaboration, innovation, and long-term growth can thrive.
Urvertrauen: The Non-Negotiable Foundation
The German concept of Urvertrauen describes deep, fundamental trust—an unshakable confidence that enables bold action in uncertainty. In times of disruption, strategies alone are not enough. Without trust in leadership, values, and direction, hesitation and resistance emerge.
Strong Urvertrauen allows teams to embrace change, act decisively, and stay committed—even in volatile environments. It turns agility from a process into a mindset, anchored in transparency, consistency, and stability.
Find the courage for actual trust
Identifying Trust Pillars
We uncover the key trust anchors within an organization—elements that employees and stakeholders rely on for stability and orientation. These may include leadership behaviors, cultural norms, or historical commitments that have built credibility over time.
Activating Shared Values
Trust thrives when an organization’s values are not just stated but actively lived – show, do'nt tell. We help organizations align their actions, communication, and leadership approaches with their core values, their Singularité, strengthening the emotional and ethical foundation of trust.
Strengthening Structural Trust
While emotional trust is crucial, formal mechanisms are equally important. We support organizations in designing transparent processes, clear governance structures, and consistent decision-making frameworks that reinforce trust and ensure long-term reliability.
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