See beyond with
The Taplow Group

An organization can have a COO who improves operational efficiency. As strategy becomes more complex, though, the tougher question becomes: is the COO also enabling the organisation to execute what it needs next?

Every board can produce a succession chart in minutes. Few can defend it under real questioning. In the last 2 decades, we have noticed that the nominating committee’s “ready now" successor is not always ready to be tested against the strategy the company will run in three years.

So you own an industrial and technology leadership executive search firm in Germany, but what happens when your long-standing client, a family-owned manufacturer, acquires a business in Poland and asks for a managing director to run it, a sales head for India, and a finance lead for its US subsidiary?