About us

Competency& is an independent Polish company specializing in supporting tech startups and family businesses, strategy consulting and digital transformation of enterprises. We are not, however, an ordinary consulting company. The furthest your old consultant could go is merely the beginning for us, and our value continues far beyond that.

Our business combines the practical knowledge of our managers – gained from completing diverse projects – with best practices in strategy consulting, as well as personal experiences of managing and operating Polish companies and international corporations.

Our expertise arises from more than 140 completed projects, our experience in managing international corporations and our knowledge of interim management.

Grzegorz Kozłowski

Startups
and tech companies

We help emerging digital economy businesses during their early stages of development in commercializing their product, and prepare them for meeting investors to raise capital for further development.

By combining personal management experience in the industry with our advisory and transactional competencies, we provide a practical approach to mergers and acquisitions in the startups and tech market. We offer our expertise in market knowledge to startups and provide them with substantial support, help them obtain funding for each development phase, as well as developing a strategy or finding an investor.

Family businesses
with no succession
plan

In Poland there are multiple small and medium enterprises. Many of them are respected and profitable companies. There comes, however, a moment someday when their owners start thinking about retirement.

We specialize in introducing investors to SME owners who have yet to make succession plans. We help them prepare information materials, choose a type of investor – a professional investor, a financial investor or a leveraged buy-out – selecting the one that will help seal the deal rapidly. This can dramatically increase the acquiring company’s capabilities and ensure a fast development path for the acquired company, honouring the owner’s many years of work.

Strategy consulting

We implement strategies and take responsibility for their effectiveness

We are competent in strategic management, building and implementing strategies, restructuring, building company value, crisis management, as well as change management and integration.

  • We implement strategic development plans, operational and financial restructuring, provide change management and crisis management, as well as assist with mergers and acquisitions of enterprises and help with integration after a merge.

  • Acting as the operational arm of our clients, we take responsibility for the effective implementation of their strategic ideas and operational plans

  • We support business value enhancement processes with our experience.

Data-driven digital transformation

The majority of nowadays businesses depends on their ability to create digitally-enhanced products, services, and experiences

What is changing? Data-driven digital transformation will reshape the entire global economy: the transition of enterprises from being “digital immigrants” to becoming “digital natives”; the scaling up of innovation accelerators, and the eventual emergence of “the 4th platform”. Digital-first is becoming the cornerstone of any successful strategy. We assist you in developing your digital-first strategy, with data driven insights to significantly increase your company competitiveness and contribute to its value. Here at Competency& we have the experience and capacity to ensure an effective digital transformation.

  • Strategic use of data and digital technologies

    Every digital transformation should be based on data. The goal is to create new possibilities for the company and to address those needs previously considered unrealistic, as well as those no one knew existed.

  • Changing business model, automating work

    Adopting a data-driven culture before investing in new technologies can help avoid costly mistakes. Implementing a new technology before a cultural shift happens carries the significant risk of not being able to utilize the potential of recently purchased systems.

  • Creating new possibilities, brand positioning

    With the use of social media and data-driven marketing, we can establish the brand and create new business opportunities, via better data aggregation, data analysis and increased customer engagement led by data-driven insights.

  • Deep Tech enablement

    We design and implement changes to optimise a company’s market performance, opening cooperation within startup ecosystems, embracing new technologies and innovative business models.

Career

Behind any success within an organization are people. Joining our team means working with professionals who are passionate, knowledgeable and visionary. We support our employees, co-workers and business partners in their continuous growth, so that together we can achieve common goals and shape a better future.

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Our experience

  • 0 15 years of experience
  • 0 over 140 completed projects

Over the last fifteen years, the people behind Competency& (aka Executive Networks Polska) have participated in over 140 consulting projects, including: