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    Leadership competence. From our best sides.

    Discover our standard works with practical added value on business model redesign, restructuring and turnaround management, digitized services and much more.
  • Publications

    Facts, studies, expertise and tips.

    Concrete, practical, subject-specific and valuable.
  • SMP LeaderTalks

    Structure Management Partner in expert dialog.

    Interviews, podcasts and much more. Watch or listen now.
  • Transformation Conference
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We are the good guys. Even for bad times.

  • Turnaround expertise
  • IBR and Planning Plausibility Check

    Complex planning - we can do it easily.

    Planning means "trial and error". This is why "forward planning" and "backward planning" are part of any promising planning process.
  • Restructuring Report IDW S6 / BGH

    Crisis? Overcomeable! Turnaround? Financeable! Future? Realizable!

    Find out more about IDW S6. With our guide and our restructuring consultants.
  • Preventive Restructuring (STARUG)

    Crisis recognized, crisis averted.

    Early crisis detection and a new preventive restructuring framework. What does it need, what are its benefits and how can it be used cleverly?
  • Stakeholder Management

    Radical realism and extraordinary acceptance.

    Take the entrepreneur self-test for professional financial communication and benefit from the experience of our experts in corporate finance and sophisticated stakeholder management.
  • Evaluation according to IDW S11

    The standard that makes the difference.

    The Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer (Institute of Public Auditors in Germany) has drawn up IDW S11 for the assessment of insolvency maturity.
  • Securing Financing

    Time is money, trust is more money.

    Critical financing situations are not mastered somehow. But with liquidity planning, financial restructuring experts and the SMP financing network.
  • Corporate Finance Management

    Trust is your capital.

    And we are experts in confidence-building measures.
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Stronger than ever. And right now.

  • Resilience expertise
  • Business Model Redesign

    There is a better tomorrow in every today.

    Identify and improve your company's value generators and eliminate your value destroyers. With the help of our "Value Loop®".
  • Up to here and always further.
    Take the performance check and discover our performance programs for successful value enhancement.
  • Resilience for Family Businesses

    Attack instead of becoming vulnerable.

    Take the family stress test and discover the benefits of the E3 resilience formula for family businesses.
  • Value Benchmarker

    Having potential is good.

    Being able to validate it is better. Start your best performance diagnosis now. In just five days, we will determine your achievable benchmark targets and the indicative measures to achieve them.
  • Value-adding Sustainability

    It is time for a sustainable alignment of business models.

    And time to set up your own corporate performance and resilience for the future with a targeted sustainability strategy.
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Digitalisierung, die sich rechnet.

Whenever it is serious or meant seriously.

Your company. Our focus.

  • Industries

    No hot air, but solid advice:

    Our industry experts come from the field themselves and therefore not only know what they are talking about, but also what you are talking about.
  • Private Equity

    Countable return on partnership.

    We help you to analyze potential in the shortest possible time, bring the right people together and ensure that investments pay off in the short and long term.
  • Family Business & Networking

    When several generations are sitting at the same table, we are at their side.

    With management systems and consulting solutions, especially for family businesses.
  • Zurück

Countably successful. Decidedly better.

  • Mindset

    We are not doing anything out of the ordinary.

    Only the right thing. But exceptionally well. And you can read how we do that here.
  • People

    Our first business rule:

    Taking everything personally. That's why we look forward to meeting you in person.
  • Reputation

    You can quickly make a name for yourself.

    Making a name for yourself, on the other hand, requires more. Especially if you like to recommend it as much as we do.
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Guest Episodes

“The Expert’s Journey – The journey from expert to entrepreneur”

LeaderTalks Guest

24. September 2023

Georgiy Michailov as guest with Kevin Meyer in the podcast

50 Min

“You are in control of your life.” An eye-opening realization. And: A personal motto from our managing partner Georgiy Michailov. Guidelines and principles like this can make all the difference. He tells Kevin Meyer what else shaped him in the podcast “The Expert’s Journey – The journey from expert to entrepreneur”. The two speak, among other things: also about what influence they had on his career and what the right structures have to do with a recommendation rate of 98%.
You can find out what’s behind it in this podcast episode.

*Vide available in German only

“You are in control of your life”

Georgiy Michailov

The two also talk about vulnerability and authenticity in leaders. About the painful truth about changes and transformation processes. About the change in values over the course of life and the fact that health cannot be taken for granted. About how to recognize your self-efficacy in a world that can no longer be saved. And about Goldschmidt's audio book "Shake your Life", which is a culmination of the art of living.

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11. April 2025

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About Turnaround-Management - Georgiy Michailov as a guest in the Podcast "Wir müssen reden!"

Managing Partner Georgiy Michailov talks to David Symhoven about what makes consulting at SMP so special.

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13. June 2024

Guest Episodes

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Restructuring and leadership - Georgiy Michailov as a guest in the Podcast "CLOSE THE DEAL"

Restructuring, even after a successful M&A deal or in the course of succession in family businesses, is not always an entirely voluntary way to position oneself more successfully.

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9. May 2024

Guest Episodes

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About equanimity, corporate nanny claims and impulse control - Georgiy Michailov as a guest in the Podcast "No Leadershit - Real Talk on leadership and communication"

How can managers learn impulse control?

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