The handy self-optimization tool for family businesses

What sets the excellently successful off from the solid family businesses? Where in the DNA is the key that makes the difference? With DDW’s new Family Business Model Tool, the strengths and weaknesses of family business can now be analyzed quickly and easily digitally.

Questioning and analyzing oneself is an important part of growing. Whether as a person or as a company: the better you know yourself, the stronger you are. Often, a really good analysis is not purely intrinsically possible, but from time to time, it requires an external angle to capture a challenge or situation as a whole.

Essence of hundreds of examples

The Family Business Model is an external tool that can be used to analyze internal processes and strategies. The results are benchmarked against the success factors of the most successful family businesses.

The head behind the model is family entrepreneur expert Markus Weishaupt. According to an empirical study with hundreds of interviews he conducted with successful family entrepreneurs, he summarized his findings in the book „Radikal anders. Die DNA erfolgreicher Familienunternehmen“. The crucial questions and factors have been digitized for the new tool and are now available to entrepreneurs for their own benchmarking.

Quick and easy analysis of your own business model

The digital instrument is specifically designed for entrepreneurs, managers, boards of directors, members of family businesses and entrepreneurial families. By completing 100 questions related to the ten DNA strands of success factors (including longevity, independence, innovation, internationalization, corporate culture, etc.), it´s now possible to analyze one´s own family business model.

With the Family Business Model Tool, users can quickly and easily analyze their own business model. This gives you an overview of the strengths and the fields of action for improvements. Because answering the questions generates a comprehensive report and an index for each of the ten DNA strands, as well as the weighted „Family Business Model Score“, an indicator that describes the deviation from the ideally lived business model.

Step into the successful future of your own company

In addition to the individual report, a weighted average report is generated. This allows users to professionally and constructively collect strategic, organizational and cultural strengths and weaknesses as well as family and corporate governance issues, and then work through them in prioritized work packages. A tool that allows family businesses to safely and reflect the next step in the successful future of their own business.

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