Unprofitable Revenue Growth
... was so 2020! Umsatz ist noch lange kein Profit
... diese Lektion war teuer genug!
Even with a focus on cost-cutting, customer growth, and performance boosting, profitability can still evade you. Selbst mit dem Fokus auf Kostensenkungen, Kundenwachstum und Leistungssteigerungen kann Profitabilität weiterhin unerreichbar sein.
The barrier to growing your margins isn't cost, efficiency, or growth. It's untapped leverage - the hidden multipliers in your profit equation that won't show up on your yearly financial statements. Die Barriere für wachsende Margen sind nicht Kosten, Effizienz oder Wachstum. Es ist ein ungenutzter Hebel - die versteckten Multiplikatoren in Ihrer Gewinngleichung, die nicht in Ihren Jahresabschlüssen erscheinen.
Every quarter without a focus on improving leverage is a quarter of profit multiplication left on the table. This is why we always kick off our clients with a diagnostic dashboard that brings the hidden drivers to the forefront, and distills the wealth of metrics down to specific challenges. Jedes Quartal ohne Fokus auf die Verbesserung des Hebels ist ein Quartal verpasster Gewinnmultiplikation. Deshalb beginnen wir mit unseren Kunden immer mit einem Diagnose-Dashboard, das die versteckten Treiber in den Vordergrund bringt und die Fülle von Metriken auf spezifische Herausforderungen destilliert.
Your Dashboard
Turns metrics into insights
You deserve more than a boring consultant report Ihr Dashboard
verwandelt Kennzahlen in Erkenntnisse
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Contact us for your own insights Kontaktieren Sie uns für Ihre eigenen Erkenntnisse
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Your dashboard,
our starting point Ihr Dashboard,
unser Ausgangspunkt
1 week to identify your highest-leverage opportunities 1 Woche zur Identifikation Ihrer höchsten Hebel-Chancen
See exactly where profit opportunities hide in your business: Sehen Sie genau, wo sich Gewinnchancen in Ihrem Unternehmen verbergen:
- Shift complex invisible drivers into sharp focus Komplexe unsichtbare Treiber scharf in den Fokus rücken
- See how strategy has behaved over the last 4 years Sehen Sie, wie sich Strategie über die letzten 4 Jahre verhalten hat
- Stop looking for quarterly band-aids, build competitive moats Schluss mit vierteljährlichen Pflastern, bauen Sie Wettbewerbsgräben
- Insights that leadership can easily digest and action Erkenntnisse, die die Führung einfach verstehen und umsetzen kann
We always start consultations with a proper diagnostic dashboard Wir beginnen Beratungen immer mit einem ordentlichen Diagnose-Dashboard
Start Your Analysis Analyse startenHow We Work Wie wir arbeiten
Profitability Diagnostic Dashboard Profitabilitäts-Diagnose-Dashboard
Identify your highest-leverage profit opportunities Identifizieren Sie Ihre höchsten Hebel-Gewinnchancen
Data Requirements Datenanforderungen
- Stakeholder interviews (5-8 key people, 1 hour each) Stakeholder-Interviews (5-8 Schlüsselpersonen à 1 Stunde)
- Standard business metrics (fewer than 20 rows from existing reports) Standard-Geschäftskennzahlen (weniger als 20 Zeilen aus bestehenden Berichten)
- Easy-to-find finance, HR, and sales data Leicht auffindbare Finanz-, HR- und Verkaufsdaten
Strategic Deliverables Strategische Lieferungen
- Interactive web dashboard with insights Interaktives Web-Dashboard mit Einblicken
- Scenario guides for common challenges Szenario-Leitfäden für häufige Herausforderungen
- PDF export option for internal sharing PDF-Export-Option für interne Weitergabe
Engagement Terms Engagement-Bedingungen
Results Commitment: We're confident in our methodology. If you don't see clear paths to significant profit improvement, we'll refund your investment. Ergebnis-Verpflichtung: Wir sind von unserer Methodik überzeugt. Wenn Sie keine klaren Wege zu erheblichen Gewinnverbesserungen sehen, erstatten wir Ihre Investition zurück.
Based on the diagnostic findings, we can begin to efficiently deploy targeted business-unit and team-level services. Basierend auf den Diagnoseergebnissen können wir beginnen, gezielte Geschäftseinheit- und Team-Level-Dienstleistungen effizient einzusetzen.
Every organization faces unique challenges. Jede Organisation steht vor einzigartigen Herausforderungen. If your specific need isn't covered above, let's discuss how we can help. Wenn Ihr spezifischer Bedarf oben nicht abgedeckt ist, sprechen wir darüber, wie wir helfen können.
Who's behind Building Better Teams? Wer steht hinter Building Better Teams?
Meet Brian Graham Lernen Sie Brian Graham kennen
Brian has been immersed in technology his entire life. He started programming at the age of seven and has spent more than a decade professionally in roles from programmer to architect, manager, and manager-of-managers. Often regarded as the product manager in the room. He is known for frequently bringing business concepts (such as Theory of Constraints) and applying those principles to our product-engineering context. Brian ist sein ganzes Leben lang in die Technologie eingetaucht. Er begann im Alter von sieben Jahren mit dem Programmieren und hat mehr als ein Jahrzehnt professionelle Erfahrung in Positionen vom Programmierer bis zum Architekten, Manager und Manager von Managern gesammelt. Oft wird er als der Product Manager im Raum wahrgenommen. Er ist dafür bekannt, häufig Geschäftskonzepte (wie die Theory of Constraints) einzubringen und diese Prinzipien auf unseren Produkt-Engineering-Kontext anzuwenden.
In 2022, driven by a desire to make a broader impact, he started consulting as Building Better Teams. His main focus is to enhance Engineering and Product organizations at scale. 2022 begann er, angetrieben von dem Wunsch, eine breitere Wirkung zu erzielen, als Building Better Teams zu beraten. Sein Hauptfokus liegt darauf, Engineering- und Produktorganisationen im größeren Maßstab zu verbessern.
Selected Engagements Ausgewählte Projekte
Europe's leading digital freight platform Europas führende digitale Frachtplattform
Profitability leverage analysis · Internal product strategy · Rapid MVPs Profitabilitäts-Hebel-Analyse · Interne Produktstrategie · Schnelle MVPs
Patient engagement platform for the NHS Patientenkommunikationsplattform für den NHS
Technical strategy · Senior engineering leadership · Product-engineering alignment Technische Strategie · Senior Engineering-Führung · Produkt-Engineering-Alignment
AI customer service platform KI-Kundenservice-Plattform
Architecture training Architektur-Training
Technical Leadership Development Technische Führungskräfteentwicklung
Long-term development partnerships with senior engineers and technical leaders at: Langfristige Entwicklungspartnerschaften mit Senior Engineers und technischen Führungskräften bei:
... and others across Europe's tech ecosystem ... und weitere im europäischen Tech-Ökosystem
What Working with Brian is Like Wie die Zusammenarbeit mit Brian ist
CM Christopher Marchfelder Director of Engineering "I've had the pleasure of working with Brian Graham and continue to be inspired by his approach. He combines deep curiosity with real tenacity: digging beneath the surface to uncover what’s..."
I've had the pleasure of working with Brian Graham and continue to be inspired by his approach. He combines deep curiosity with real tenacity: digging beneath the surface to uncover what’s really holding teams back, and then helping continuously make things move forward.
Brian truly cares about people. He’s passionate about unlocking potential and creating environments where teams can do their best work. With Build Better Teams, he’s bringing that same energy, insight, and integrity to organizations ready to grow and evolve to the next level!
TT Tomasz Tomczyk Head of Engineering "Working with Brian has been an exceptional experience. From the moment we started collaborating, it was clear that he truly cared about our organization's success..."
Working with Brian has been an exceptional experience. From the moment we started collaborating, it was clear that he truly cared about our organization's success. His empathetic approach enabled him to fully understand our unique challenges, and he consistently went above and beyond to provide us with tailored guidance. Brian's dedication has extended beyond our initial collaboration, as he continues to check in and offer support months later. I find myself frequently referring back to his advice and am incredibly grateful for his invaluable assistance. I'm looking forward to working with him again in the future.
PK Pavel Krayzel Staff Engineer "Working with Brian is great experience. He is able to absorb & understand the context and ask the right questions that help me realise what my actual problems and challenges are..."
Working with Brian is great experience. He is able to absorb & understand the context and ask the right questions that help me realise what my actual problems and challenges are. He always provides details from his own experiences, tips on next steps, plus additional related sources I can continue to learn from (articles, presentations, models and frameworks, etc). Over just a few months Brian's experience and perspective has supported me with becoming a principal-level engineer, communicating effectively in the room with Cx/VP level people, how to create a framework for delegating complicated work based on my own, and more. During a merger & acquisition he guided me through finding the skills and tools needed to transform the multi-company-wide technical portfolio into one portfolio.
MB Masashi Beheim VP Engineering "Brian's guidance fostered collaboration and alignment within and across teams and enabled us to design better architectures. I can highly recommend his C4 workshop."
Brian's guidance fostered collaboration and alignment within and across teams and enabled us to design better architectures. I can highly recommend his C4 workshop.
FH Fabian Hold Co-Founder "I am immensely grateful for the guidance and mentorship I received from Brian. His expertise in product management and software development has been instrumental in shaping my skills..."
I am immensely grateful for the guidance and mentorship I received from Brian. His expertise in product management and software development has been instrumental in shaping my skills and career trajectory. He helped me define my personal North Star by fostering an environment of continuous learning and personal growth. Facing multiple crossroads of uncertainty, he guided me to navigate my personal development and supported me to overcome obstacles, that would have been overwhelming for anyone to face alone. I owe my deepest and most sincere gratitude to Brian, he made me realise my potential.
KR Ken Ross Lead Developer "The Diagram your Architecture workshop with Brian helped to breakdown the thought process of practically applying the C4 Architecture model..."
The Diagram your Architecture workshop with Brian helped to breakdown the thought process of practically applying the C4 Architecture model. I have gone from drawing cluttered and confused diagrams which didn't aid conversations to now being able to produce clear and consistent diagrams which I continually refer back to in conversations with both technical and non-technical people.
SD Serhii Dolia Tech Lead "We started with a simply described, pretty regular problem that one can get in a big tech project, and during the two weeks of workshops we ended up so far away from how I would usually solve it..."
We started with a simply described, pretty regular problem that one can get in a big tech project, and during the two weeks of workshops we ended up so far away from how I would usually solve it. Brian gradually introduced us to a tool belt of approaches and ways to think about, analyse and solve a problem. Change management theory, issue trees were for me personally the discoveries that I will use not only in my professional life, but also in my private life. Overall Brian gave me a healthy mix of practical recommendations and theoretical basis of how to be a good engineering manager. There's much to discover for me on my way to become a great manager, but this workshop is a great foundation.