transentis is specialised in business transformation. We help companies to explore the potential of their current business, to design new business models, and to realize them in practice.

Dr. Oliver Grasl has been managing partner of transentis management consulting since 1997.

After reading mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University (MA) and the University of Innsbruck (Mag. rer. nat), and a brief foray into software development, Oliver later specialised in business engineering at the University of St. Gallen (Executive MBA, Dr. oec.).

His current personal focus is on innovative business models and how they affect a companies processes, structures and IT-systems. Oliver regularly speaks at conferences and publishes papers in academic and trade journals. He is coauthor of the book “Prozessorientiertes Projektmanagement” (Grasl et al., 2004).

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Our business transformation approach bridges the gap between corporate strategy and operational implementation: It leads us from business model design and validation, through transformation planning, to the alignment of business processes, organisational structures, and IT systems.

Our business transformation approach follows these major steps:

• Explore. Financial and operational data, statistical and quantitative analyses, explanatory and predictive models and simulations inform decisions and drive actions.
• Design. Our design skills and knowledge of modern organisational structure result in efficient and effective plans that align business models, organisational structures and technology landscapes.
• Realize. We orchestrate the hard and soft aspects of change that new designs are successfully realized.

We help manage the complexity of the transformation process using business prototyping techniques. These allow clients to explore their business in depth and test design and realization options before putting them into practice.