Take the less obvious path to get ahead

What is your challenge?

  • Transition from owner-led to owner-controlled
  • Generation shift
  • Change of strategic direction
  • Need for next-level efficiency and profitability
  • Need for new or updated products
  • The unknown?

In a force field, the quickest path forward is not a straight line, it's a segment of a cycloid.

What we offer

We take a holistic approach to the commercial enterprise and offer a full range of advisory services, from the board room to the shop floor. We help owners and senior management take on challenge and achieve excellence by driving change and improving the key building blocks of their organizations.

People

  • The founder/CEO relationship - transition from owner-led to owner-controlled.
  • New targets - change of strategic direction.
  • The Management team - culture, effectiveness, efficiency.
  • Letting go - handing over to the next generation.

Processes

  • New management - new ways.
  • New strategy - new processes.
  • New Management team demands - new metrics.
  • Continuous improvements - quality, efficiency, profitability.

Products

  • Product management - the roadmap.
  • Developing the right product - in the right time, at the right cost.
  • New concepts - new variants.

Cultivating the ability to deliver excellent results, in the time and with the resources otherwise required for “good enough”, is one key to lasting success. This ability is built by effective teams working in optimized processes providing best-in-class products.

Why go with Cycloid Advisory?

Let's grow your business together.

We understand the motivations and challenges of running, developing and growing a company, particularly SMEs.
We are independent, not affiliated with any product or software vendor, and will give you unbiased advice on what we think is the best way forward.

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Get access to network of senior professionals.

Cycloid Advisory brings together an extensive network of senior professionals, both generalists and specialists, in critical competence areas needed for a successful transformation. Our team is tailored for each assignment and will scale up or down during the process.

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Draw on decades of hands-on experience.

All members of the network have at least 20 years of operational and management work in various branches of industry under their belts. Benefit from our experience, the hard-earned lessons, the triumphs and the failures.

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Full-service advisory, from board room to shop floor.

Our expertise is vertically integrated, we feel as comfortable in the board room as on the workshop floor. This ensures that any solution we propose will work, from top to bottom and up again.

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What clients say

On our board, Carl brings a solid understanding of both the product owner’s and the distributor’s drivers and challenges. With his broad experience he is also a great help in discussions on everything from our strategic direction to specific business deals, as we continue to grow our company.

Mette

Mette Ståhlgren

Co-founder, Head of Marketing & Sales Opiva Nordic

Carl has a genuine understanding of the special dynamics involved and the strategies needed to succeed as CEO of a company where the owner/founder is still active in day-to-day operations. During my first year as CEO, he provided excellent support and accelerated my introduction considerably.

Malin Hlawatsch

CEO SnigelDesign

As CEO Carl has been crucial in transforming SnigelDesign from an owner-led small operation to a highly successful international business. I could not have done this on my own, and probably with very few people other than Carl. It’s an emotional and psychological journey as much as anything else, and Carl has the personality and competence to inspire and gave me the confidence to make that journey.

PH Magnusson

Founder, owner, Chief Design Officer SnigelDesign

When working together implementing the multi-band wireless coverage as part of the Malmö City Tunnel project, Carl’s project management skills and ability to swiftly change focus from the big picture to the smallest detail, combined with deep technical understanding, really impressed me. We also had a lot of fun doing it!

Henrik

Henrik Alexander

Systems Project Manager Axell Wireless

Carl is a highly motivated, commercially oriented leader that creates value both on a visionary level as well as by making sure that the details are kept after. As a person, he is extremely likeable and always brings energy to the team with his can-do attitude in the most supportive way.

Daniel

Daniel Daagarsson

Head of BA Service Depots Jernhusen