Keep your business ahead with the right digital strategy

In a world that won't slow down, we turn change into your next innovation opportunity by helping you adapt across people, processes, and platforms.

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Trusted by leading organisations across industries

Why the right digital strategy matters now more than ever

of digital initiatives fail to fully meet their business goals

Gartner

higher margins and 62% higher revenue growth experienced by digital leaders vs. laggards

MIT CISR

of companies report feeling underprepared for current and future disruptions

World Economic Forum

Today, organisations operate in a turbulent business environment shaped by frequent, high-impact change. From rapid technology advances to economic, geopolitical, and societal disruption, there is no shortage of pressure testing every assumption your strategy was built on.

In an environment that won't hold still, the organisations that thrive aren't the ones with the best-laid plans, they're the ones that can adapt continuously, across people, products, processes, and platforms, as conditions shift.

Our innovation experts help you build that capability, so innovation becomes part of how your organisation operates. We bring an outside perspective and decades of cross-industry experience to challenge assumptions, validate your options, and chart the right path forward. And with our engineering excellence, our support doesn't stop at strategy: We go all the way with you to execute it, from ideation through development to running your digital solutions.

Digital strategy projects we've delivered

Hexagon: new product, new market, new revenue streams

Entering an untouched market with a new product is a high-stakes bet. We helped Hexagon validate the opportunity, prioritise the roadmap, and bring their vision of a new product line to life.

Swissgrid: A culture of innovation in just six months

How do you cultivate a culture of innovative thinking? With our support, it took Swissgrid only six months to embed innovation within the company helping to extract creative, valuable and efficiency-boosting ideas from employees.

Zurich Airport: from 2030 vision to data-driven operations

Becoming Europe's most integrative airport takes more than ambition. We helped Zurich Airport build the data platform and AOP web app to make it real, strengthening the airport’s operational efficiency.

MS Direct: from logistics company to tech-driven leader

Becoming a tech-driven logistics leader takes more than adding developers. We helped MS Direct ship an award-winning returns module in three months and turn engineering into a strategic advantage.

Linde Healthcare: from product supplier to digital service provider

Digital strategy earns its keep when it changes what you sell. We helped Linde Healthcare turn cylinder tracking from a manual process into a data-driven service running across multiple hospitals.

Need a trusted digital transformation partner?

Talk to our digital strategy consultants about your vision, roadmap, and the next move that will compound. We'll plan it with you, then help you deliver.

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How we help you keeping your business ahead

Whether your strategic ambition is business optimisation, market expansion, or transformation, we ensure your programme delivers commercial and customer value.

Clarify and align

Clarify your digital aspiration, strategic outcomes, and measurement framework.
Align, define, and communicate strategic priorities based on the outcomes your organisation is looking to deliver for customers.
Uncover and navigate risks, capability gaps, and opportunities to accelerate growth and innovation.
Develop a business case to secure the alignment and buy-in you need to succeed in your digitalisation programme.

Validate and prioritise

Validate the business case, technical feasibility, and customer appetite for new business opportunities and innovations
Clarify when, where, and how to focus and measure your efforts.
Identify the right tools and digital operating model to forecast and anticipate investment.
Build a capability for understanding problems to be solved and testing hypotheses in a fast, safe, and cost effective way.

Transform and scale

Shape pragmatic strategies for organisational change to increase your resilience, agility, and competitive advantage in a volatile business environment.
Improve the scalability of your infrastructure, products, and solutions to drive efficiencies, reduce costs, and unlock innovation opportunities using modern and scalable technologies.
Automate processes, adapt your operating model, and develop the delivery methods, structures, and organisational culture you need to drive innovation and transform time to value.

“Expertise in business and technology consulting along with agile development make Zühlke the perfect partner and pave the way for long-term cooperation.”
Susanne Böhm
Managing Director CM1 GmbH

An end-to-end approach to strategic innovation

Innovation in volatile markets isn't a one-off project. It's a capability you build across people, products, processes, and platforms. Four principles shape how we partner with you to turn that into something real.

Customer first

Aligning around customer outcomes is key to developing a capability for continuous innovation. We ensure every decision and team is connected to and solving real customer and business needs.

Value-centred

Our consultants position you to discover and deliver value to the business and to your customers, early and often. Every recommendation is validated, scalable, and ready to implement.

Digital first

There's no isolated digital strategy, just strategy in a digital world. That's why we unify business strategy, data-led insight, scalable tech, and modern delivery methods to drive impact and growth.

Innovation-led

Experiment and innovate safely and at speed. We help your organisation establish strategic innovation so you can adapt to changes in your environment and ensure ongoing value, for you and your customers.

Alliances that scale with you

The technology and consulting alliances we bring to your programme when strategy meets scale.

Want to explore further?

Whatever your goals and digital maturity stage, we help you understand your options and plot the right path forward.

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Meet our digital strategy leads

Cédric Riester
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Stefan Malcherek
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Melanie Marchant
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Shape strategy in a digital world

Want to help organisations turn ambition into delivery? Join Zühlke's digital strategy consultants and work on the questions that decide how clients grow, scale, and innovate. Alongside engineers, designers, and data experts, you’ll turn strategies into something real.

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