Context

Over the last few years, a historical actor of the French communication industry is facing deep changes within its sector. To face a deteriorating economic situation, a plan to bring costs down has been carried out accross all entities for several years.

In this context, the Group HR Director is questioning the performance of the HR function and its capacity to support a potential reorganisation of the Group.

Karistem was mandated to realise a performance diagnosis and to issue recommandations.

Mission

To realise the objectives, Karistem choose an approach in six steps :

• Analyse the current organisation and the resource allocation (dimensioning and perimeter covered)
• Carry out a benchmark of HR functions in order to identify good practices on the market and to analyse several organisation modes
• Analyse the current organisation and the resource allocation (dimensioning and perimeter covered)
• Co-construct a target model independently of the one in place, following the ZBO method (Zero Based Organization)
• Adjust the target model according to the one in place and to the benchmark results
• Define the main objectives of each position and the missing skills
• Build a 3-year Business Case to evaluate benefits/costs associated to this transformation

Main results :

• A HR strategy aligned with the Group strategy
• An assessment of the activities, skills and resources of the current HRD
• A realisation of the gaps between te Group HR function and the market standards (quanti/quali)
• A target organisation more agile, in the service of the Group’s transformation
• A quantified target saving

Key figures :

• 8 companies leader in HR interviewed
• 19 interviews carried out within the Group (whole Executive Committee and the HR and business directors)
• A new organisation built around 3 excellence centers
• A quantified and justified objective of costs reduction

Why Karistem ?

Four key factors explaining why Karistem was chosen :

• Small team of consultants
• Internal resources highly leveraged
• Constant focus on results
• Ability to mobilise and drive through change

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Context

This leading player in banking and insurance sector has defined its leadership model around 5 values. To support the embodiment of this model on a day-to-day basis, the group wishes to implement a company-wide management program, to be deployed globally.

Ultimately this program should replace the multitude of management trainings that exist locally. To do so, it has to be attractive and adapted to the new training consumption modes (digital, collaborative…).

Karistem was asked to assist the design of the management program, with a logic of co-construction with the actors, and to operationally translate it into one or several specifications if needed.

Mission

To realise the objectives, Karistem choose a tailor-made approach :

• Suggest and structure a global plan of the new management training offer
• Establish the list of key contents and of contents dedicated to the 3 managing levels, through questionnaires
• Define the performance monitoring methods of the new program (KPI’s)
• Provide support to generate and monitor the tender (if tender there is) to choose the external actors

This mission was done through three co-construction workshops – animated by Karistem in its laboratory – by mobilising creativity methods and associating several levels of managers.

Main results :

• A management program directly linked to the leadership model
• A customised, digital and collaborative program, adapted to each manager’s
• Easy to use KPIs measuring the success and impact of the program

Why Karistem ?

Four key factors explaining why Karistem was chosen :

• Small team of consultants
• Internal resources highly leveraged
• Constant focus on results
• Ability to mobilise and drive through change

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Context

Over the last few years, the Company had experienced two major changes:

• The Company changed its legal status from government authority to that of a state-owned company governed by private law.
• The Company acquired several companies as a part of a project aimed at regrouping French naval activities under one single banner.

These changes, on top of cuts in the French defence budget, prompted the Director of the Service Division to launch an ambitious business transformation program.

Mission

The program had two main objectives:

• Boost sales by 50% within 10 years
• Increase operating margin by 20% within 1 year

The Company soon realised that the Service Division’s traditional geographically-based organisation would not enable these objectives to be met and that business had to be reorganised.

Over 14 months, Karistem supported the Company in this wide-scale transformation.

Why Karistem ?

Four key factors explaining why Karistem was chosen :

• Small team of consultants
• Internal resources highly leveraged
• Constant focus on results
• Ability to mobilise and drive through change

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Karistem at the top of “Operations, Purchasing and Supply Chain” consulting firms

Paris, 11 October 2016. Karistem appears for the third year running at the top of strategy and transformation consulting firms, according to the Leaders League group and its rank in the “Operations, Purchasing and Supply Chain” category.

“We are very proud to be part of this ranking, which testifies the expertise and the know-how of our teams, says Olivier Seiller, managing partner of Karistem. Indeed, we support a lot of large and mid-cap companies in their transformation projects, including purchasing and supply chain issues. We are also recognised for our HR and IS expertise, which has been successfully deployed in multiple projects. We use this communication to thank all our clients who trust us, on missions which have made a deep impact both internally and externally.”

Since the beginning of the year, Karistem’s teams have lead significant projects including:

• Support and operational processes industrialization for a major private industrial group
• Fish production competitive cluster implementation in West Africa on behalf of a government entity
• Training program design about supply and stock optimisation for a leading organisation
• Strategic workforce planning project implementation for a CAC40 group
• Transport budget optimisation for a leading eco-organization
• “CIO Office” design for a CAC40 group
• Transport cost optimisation for a major environment player
• Six Sigma project deployment for the logistics division of a major private industrial group
• Training managers network design and animation for a CAC40 group

Leaders League is a media and rating agency for top executives at the international level. They connect senior business leaders to a dynamic network of business information and people sharing a common passion: excellence in leadership and management. Leaders League delivers up-to-date news, in-depth analysis and business insights through a range of formats, from “Décideurs Magazine”, market intelligence reports, top company rankings and directories to professional events and digital products.

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Karistem briefly.
Karistem is a consulting firm specializing in strategy, transformation and operational excellence. Since 2004, Karistem develops and implements major transformation projects supported by the Exectutive Managament to improve the competitiveness of the heart of business and / or support functions to align the business strategy. Karistem’s approach is results-oriented and puts people at the heart of each transformation. Karistem is committed (1) the involvement and ownership of the change by the largest number of people and (2) on fast, major and lasting results.
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Mail : sebastien.de-boisfleury@karistem.com

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