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Isn’t It Easier to Grow with Momentum in Fast Markets?
Momentum [məˈmen.təm]
Momentum comes from Latin “movimentum” — meaning movement, motion, or impulse.
Momentum in a Business Context
It refers to the forward-driving energy that builds when people, teams, or organizations move in a clear direction with increasing speed, alignment, and confidence.
In a disruptive, fast-changing environment (#AI, #Circularity, Digital First, DTC…), momentum becomes more than progress — it’s a sign of resilience. It signals that an organization has:
• Clarity despite uncertainty,
• Alignment despite complexity, and
• Capacity to adapt without losing pace
Momentum Is Designed, Not Declared
All firms aspire to Grow!
New business models and players from outside disrupt even the best. At the same time the world is becoming more complex, faster with AI and circular. Understanding the next frontiers and becoming a successful player is no longer possible with pushing harder, trying to do more, faster, but how?
If You Knew Exactly Where You Were Going, Wouldn’t You Move Faster?
It takes people – tech – process to sync and be guided by bold future backwards purpose and ambition and a simple, clear decision making, innovation and strategy framework that provides more clarity, consistency and empowerment while being adaptable in line with market evolution, but how?
Do You Want to Stop Feeling Spread Too Thin and Start Moving Forward?
Inspired by the best like AirBnB, Shopify and Tesla we belief that great small teams can identify, understand and operationalize how to win at the frontiers and multiply that approach frontier by frontier guided towards a jointly created, committed and owned Destination empowered by principles.
This cuts out time, ensures alignment and ownership for impact, but how?
You cannot pull people with your financial planning you call “strategy”.
Don´t we all hope it works this time? When technology accelerates everything and external shocks are frequent, momentum is what helps companies not just respond, but stay ahead — by turning strategy into movement, and movement into measurable impact, but how?
We design your momentum on a single page
Our Output for Enterprises
As a leadership team, you will transform your entire business with a single page that’s straightforward to understand, own, and communicate. We shift seamlessly from co-creating to implementing without delay. Your strategy lives and breathes within your organization—not confined to a glossy brochure or an annual planning document. We address Purpose and Ambition, Performance Principles, Operating Model, and Key Behaviours—the essential components to align your business model, operating model, and technology, establishing you as a "Frontier Firm."
Our Output for Start Ups
As founders, you’re juggling a lot—leading your team, building your product, boosting sales, and chasing the next funding round. We get it. You’ve got a big vision to pitch to investors, dreaming of unicorn status, but that high-level story doesn’t always click with users. They need to know exactly what you sell and why it matters to them. We help you sharpen your homepage with clear positioning and messaging, zeroing in on your ideal customer, the core interaction, and the real value you deliver—making sure your small team and users are on the same page.
A single page that has meaning for your teams and partners will drive hope and engagement. Your customers experience what you promise – this drives business!
Future-Backwards Strategy AND Brand-Led Transformation
ANDfutureproof™ Empowering next-gen Frontier Firms.
Your next Frontiers
Navigating the Frontier Race
The shift from today’s to the next frontier is happening faster and faster, driven by exponential tech like AI, business model innovation like platforms, and particularly the resources of hyperscalers. They pursue the frontier race with #SPEED and #SCALE. Nevertheless, different sectors are at different points and shifts happen at different moments, but always faster.
Frontier shifts are increasingly impacted by platform ecosystems. Hence, being able to play in a platform economy is table stakes already today.
Generally we see a motion from tangibles (factories, product) to intangibles (data, business models, brand) that define the frontier and value creation.
We see multiple frontiers being pushed out and taken by fronitier firms. A single industry might be facing multiple shifts in parallel.
Three distinct next-gen frontiers gaining significant traction to illustrate the frontier concept
- From Projects to Products (Solutions)
- From Linear to Circular products and business models
- From non-networked to networked and layered platform business models
- From People-Driven to AI-Augmented
Our Productized Solutions Overview
Future Backwards Brand-led Transformation
Average companies make people work for someone, great companies towards something.
Leaders excel at running business efficiently—optimizing in a more predictable environment with attention to continuous incremental improvement. But predictibility is on the decline and disruption happen from outside the sector which is not on the radar. True growth and ability to invest into the future demands adaptability in uncertainty. Managing both at speed is the challenge.
While yesterday the time horizon was years, today it is months – see the AI acceleration.
An organization therefore needs guide rails that are simple, clear, easy to remember and communicate. The success of hyperscalers is not only linked to powerful business models and resources but also how clearly they provide direction and decision-making empowerment: a relevant purpose, a derived bold ambition. With our future backwards brand-led transformation we also utilize performance principles, key behaviours creating a simple, short decision making frame across people-tech-process.
Your benefits:
- Proven with top companies – extremely high success rate
- Proprietary approach for alignment, commitment, ownership through co-creation
- Fast to develop – 1 page to steer your business
- Easy to remember and communicate as it is not built on management jargon
- Low investment of time of cross-functional team
- Makes your companies decision-making framework future-elastic
- Purpose & Ambition
- Strategy
- Ecosystem Mindset
- J-Curve
- Positioning
- Organization
- Co-Creation
- Commitment
- Brand
- Performance Principles
2 Day-Strategy Discovery
- Discovery
- Business Model Innovation
- Business Upsides
Helping you understand the challenges and opportunities from frontier disruptions and follow through a recommended focused roadmap.
Daily business is already complex and demanding. You do not have the time to dig into what the next frontiers could mean to your business. Opportunities, but also threats are coming at you at increasing speed. Blind spots hinder progress and profits.
Our two-day discovery workshop respects availability and capacity. We help you jump-start the journey. We deliver simple and clear outputs in a recommendation report. AND we do not let you alone with a customized process that is built on the aligned action steps:
Your benefits:
- Road proven highly robust process.
- Invest into projects with high probability of success only.
- Save time – few hours only of your small cross-functional team.
- Big ticket items for your strategy that were not on your radar screen.
- Fair investment: starting € 15-20 K ( for 2 advisors)
Circular Logistics & Platforms Masterclass
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Innovation
- Reverse Logistics Ecosystems
- Circular Tech
The 101 on Circularity = Business €€€.
You have focused on ESG initiatives so far. Compliance is important for the reputation and values of your business. However, you see increasingly new players pop up that monetize and scale circular business models successfully.
The way you are running ESG is more a corporate communications function. ReCommerce and ReManufacturing puts circularity at the heart of the business.
You can select internal only or masterclasses with a mixed audience from multiple companies. Minimum 8 participants!
Rich Bulger, a bestselling author of the seminal book “Going Circular: The evolution of Reverse Logistics as a Competitive Weapon”
Peter C. Evans, one of the thought leaders in the space and experience executive education expert.
Alex Pesjak, an expert in answering brand questions for platform ecosystem leadership upfront and transforming incumbent organizations to be able to run first-life and multi-life ecosystems in parallel.
Your benefits:
- Learn why circularity goes beyond ESG.
- Discover why your first-life ecosystem isn’t built for the circular economy.
- Unlock reverse logistics for resilient, profitable supply chains.
- Gain a full view of circular tech for partnerships and investments.
- Explore green unicorns’ best practices and expand your brand safety approach.
- Benefit from our authors and the biggest global data-base of circular platform and tech.
- Frontier insights at €2,500/participant (min. 8, with 3 advisors).
Circular Platform & Ecosystem Readiness Camp - FULLY CUSTOMIZED!
“Everywhere there can be a platform, there will be one!” But company alone can thrive alone today and tomorrow.
It takes ecosystem mindset and ecosystem collaborations. Nevertheless, platforms also offer a unique opportunity to become an orchestrator and operator of a platform ecosystem and benefit from increased customer satisfaction, innovation, margin expansion and growth.
It takes the whole leadership, business unit or venture team to all be on the same page first. Understanding platform business models, to lead and to create the preconditions for success is not easy.
This Readiness Camp truly is your camp. Fully customized with 10-12 leaders, cross-functional are investing 2 days to really be ready: Interview with all participants, reviewing your materials, customized examplas, immersion as preparation, 1,5 day off site, intention setting and action planning.
You will leave as a team that understands the sense of urgency, the upside and challenges across business model strategy, operating model and tech.
From talking about platforms to action!
- Business Model Innovation
- Dual Operating Model
- Ecosystem Mindset
- J-Curve
- Platform Metrics
- Executive Education
Circular Innovation Challenge
Safe supply chains, secured access to input materials and equipment are paramount
Access to raw materials is mission-critical as traditional supplier agreements are no longer enough. We think the world has moved beyond bilateral agreements. Frontier Firms leverage a scalable approach: circular platforms and tech.
Circular Innovation Challenge
Powered by the world’s largest circular database and our cutting-edge Frontier Ops™ concept to overcome blind spots. Today’s innovation teams often overlook this space, focusing on low-risk, short-term product variants. We help break that cycle, benchmark supplier-led strategies against platform-led opportunities, and unlock the potential.
We help you set up and create speed and impact with a circular innovation challenge in the space. Our output is a benchmark of your linear supplier-based approach vs. a future proof platform business model. Benefit from our deep domain expertise and sparring to reimagine supply chain resilience and scale. Let’s shape a sustainable future—together.
World´s only Circular Platform and Tech Database
Covering the globe in multiple sectors supporting a broad range of business imperatives and opportunity spaces:
Your benefits:
- Start seeing around corners
- Move from measuring in ESG is to making money
- GTM prioritizations on sectors, geographies etc.
- Strengthen your brand and brand safety
- See competitive moves
- Identify high value partners and investment opportunities
- Business case simulations have foundations
- Talent and expert access
- IT decisions – make, buy, partner become more futureproof
- M&A, investment and venture clienting potential
- Product and tech roadmap intelligence
- Global Database
- Strategy Development
- M&A
- Competitive Intelligence
- Circular Tech
- Circular Platforms
- DPP
- RMS
- Repair
- RaaS
- LaaS
- DaaS
Platform Ecosystem Grand Strategy
A portfolio of platform choices – but where to double down on?!
Navigating the complexities of platform ecosystems requires focus, clarity, and a strategy built to maximize success from the start. Our Platform Ecosystem Grand Strategy helps you identify the highest-impact opportunities, providing a clear roadmap for where to invest first and how to drive excellence in execution.
With multiple business units operating across diverse sectors, comparing opportunities can be challenging. This offering is equipping you with a tailored portfolio strategy that accounts for varying degrees of maturity, impact and effort, enabling your business to prioritize investments and unlock the full potential of your platform ecosystem.
Your benefits:
- Proven with Fortune 100 companies.
- Proprietary tools and process including the Platform Viability Index.
- Sized opportunity spaces.
- Clear recommendation facilitates internal decision making and external validation.
- Deep dive into 3 top opportunities vs. market players and high-level assessment.
- Your project team is immersed into platform know-how.
- Investment upon request.
- ReCommerce Platforms
- Business Model Innovation
- ReManufacturing Platforms
- Distribution System Marketplaces
- Range Extension Marketplaces
- Procurement Marketplaces
- Consortium Platforms
What customers value
Our clients value that we bring road-proven frameworks, deep cross-sector experience, and thought leadership—so they don’t pay for our learning curve, only for results.
Successful Clients & Employers
Your Advisory Network
Why small team?
The Frontier requires more disciplines and expertise to move fast. We maximize your flexibility as we can join your company or just guide you through a well-defined project.
- Creating change from the inside can be quicker than from the outside. So, we join your team as interim player.
- Driving change also from the outside–in structurally provides the acceleration and credibility for teams.
- We are self-employed experts with low overhead, while ensuring your project and journey are well-protected through a legal entity.
Your Experts
Meet our dedicated professionals driving your frontier mission forward.
Alex Pesjak, MS
“The companies and teams I worked with thrive because they know where they are going and why.”
Brand | Innovation | Change | Circularity |Platform | Ecosystem | Strategy & Implementation | #EcosystemEspresso | #PlatformDisco | ex-Coca-Cola|ex-Mondelez
Peter C.Evans, PhD
“Seeing patterns and frontiers unfolding is enabling true multi-year strategies and not just annual financial planning.”
Circular strategy | Platform, Marketplace and Ecosystem Strategy & Design | Co-Chair MIT Platform Strategy Summit | Council on Foreign Relations | Forbes Business Council | ex-GE | ex-KPMG
Rich Bulger
“My impact at Verizon with the company’s store trade-in program in 2009, generating $1.6 billion annually.”
Partner at Capital Growth Partners | Reverse Logistics Master’s Degree | Author of “Going Circular: The Evolution of Reverse Logistics into a Competitive Weapon” | ex-CISCO | ex-Verizon
Deborah Dull
“We connect over the woes and joys of inventory, operations, risk management, contingency plans, suppliers, contracts, rates, shortages – this is our shared language.”
Circular Supply Chains | Keynote Speaker | Founder Circular Supply Chain Network | ex-Genpact | ex-GE |ex-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | ex-Microsoft |Book Author “Circular Supply Chain”, “
Insights
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Ecosystem
Espresso
“The companies and teams I worked with thrive because they know where they are going and why.”
Brand | Innovation | Change | Circularity |Platform | Ecosystem | Strategy & Implementation | #EcosystemEspresso | #PlatformDisco | ex-Coca-Cola|ex-Mondelez
The Platform Professional
“Seeing patterns and frontiers unfolding is enabling true multi-year strategies and not just annual financial planning.”
Circular strategy | Platform, Marketplace and Ecosystem Strategy & Design | Co-Chair MIT Platform Strategy Summit | Council on Foreign Relations | Forbes Business Council | ex-GE | ex-KPMG
Going
Circular
“My impact at Verizon with the company’s store trade-in program in 2009, generating $1.6 billion annually.”
Partner at Capital Growth Partners | Reverse Logistics Master’s Degree | Author of “Going Circular: The Evolution of Reverse Logistics into a Competitive Weapon” | ex-CISCO | ex-Verizon
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Sustainable
Supply Chain
“We connect over the woes and joys of inventory, operations, risk management, contingency plans, suppliers, contracts, rates, shortages – this is our shared language.”
Circular Supply Chains | Keynote Speaker | Founder Circular Supply Chain Network | ex-Genpact | ex-GE |ex-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | ex-Microsoft |Book Author “Circular Supply Chain”, “