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Shape the direction
Make the strategic choices that define where to play, how to win and where capital and attention should go.
Explore capability ↗Management advisory
We turn ambition into impact.
@Venture Advisory helps executive teams make and execute high-stakes strategic choices. We combine strategy, operating model, technology and AI — with small senior teams built around the outcome.
StrategyTransformationTechnologyArtificial IntelligencePerformance
What we do
We work where strategy meets reality.
Four capability areas connect strategic choices to operating models, technology and measurable performance.
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Transform the business
Turn strategic ambition into operating models, workflows and a transformation system that delivers.
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Unlock technology & AI
Translate technology, data and AI into business capability — rather than another technology agenda.
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Drive performance
Make value visible, sharpen decisions and turn transparency into measurable business outcomes.
Explore capability ↗Where we know the terrain
Experience where complexity is structural.
We work best where strategic choices have to survive complex products, markets, operations and enterprise technology.
Automotive & Mobility
OEMs, suppliers and sales organizations. R&D strategy, product compliance, sales and retail models, and the operating changes that follow them across multi-market landscapes.
Industrials & Manufacturing
Industrial technology and equipment manufacturers. Factory and footprint strategy, operations, supply chain, inventory and working capital.
Enterprise Technology
Platform and architecture decisions in grown landscapes: consolidation, security and resilience, data and AI readiness, and the business case that has to carry them.
Complex B2B
Multi-market, multi-entity businesses where the bottleneck is not effort but decision rights, interfaces and the speed at which the organization can commit.
Why @Venture Advisory
Built differently for consequential change.
The model is simple: bring the right senior people around the problem, connect strategy with execution and measure success in business outcomes.
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Business outcomes first.
We start with the value to create, the decision to make or the performance problem to solve — then design the transformation around it.
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Strategy + technology. One conversation.
Business strategy, operating model and technology choices are increasingly inseparable. We treat them that way from the start.
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Senior-led — from decision to delivery.
The people in the room stay close to the analysis, the decisions and the implementation — not just the steering committee.
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Curated expertise. No permanent fixed layers.
We add industry, technology and specialist expertise only where it materially improves the outcome.
Selected work
Critical challenges. Concrete outcomes.
Examples of the problems we take on with executive teams — and how we translate ambition into measurable change.
Strategy & transformation
Resetting global inventory and working capital.
Redesigned global warehouse and inventory steering around demand, resilience and capital efficiency.
40 → 4 warehouses · inventory value –60%
Read selected work ↗Technology & AI
Rewiring enterprise technology for the AI era.
Connected business case, target architecture, security, operating model and AI readiness in one transformation.
One economic and architectural logic — from platform decision to enterprise adoption.
Read selected work ↗Performance & operating model
Reimagining global automotive retail with AI.
Started with one dealership and one use case, then designed workflows, steering and architecture for broader scale.
Local proof → scalable performance system
Read selected work ↗Insights
Perspectives from our work.
Observations on strategy, transformation, technology and performance — grounded in the questions we work on with leadership teams.
People
Experienced people. Personally involved.
The people you meet are the people who stay close to the work. Including our founders:
Managing Partner
Olaf Kleindienst
Executive advisor at the intersection of strategy, frontier technology / hyperscalers and transformation, with 500+ successful transformations over 30+ years — always in complex enterprise environments.
Partner
Joram Lauterbach
Strategy, transformation and performance advisor with 15+ years across top-tier consulting and executive operating roles. Former Strategy& Director and COO/CFO, with a focus on automotive, industrials and technology-enabled transformation.
Start a conversation
Have a challenge worth solving?
Tell us what needs to change. We will gather the right senior expertise to solve your challenge.
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