€10B
in sales
Digital Performance Control System Boosts Efficiency 40% in Chemicals
Our client, the Food Specialties branch of a major chemical group, aimed at increasing the output of its enzyme business, which was constrained by the supply. Confronted with a lack of performance culture and of execution discipline, the management had the ambition to have full transparency, to provide an integrated view on performance and to leverage on digital and advanced analytics.
Industry: Chemicals
Industry: Food & Beverage
Service: Digital & Ai
Service: Operational Excellence
Service: People and Organization
Our Client
The client is a global science-driven company operating at the intersection of nutrition, health, and sustainable living. With sales of around €10 billion, its food specialties division is part of a broader chemical and life-science group recognized for developing high-impact solutions that advance well-being and environmental performance.
The Challenge
The company needed to significantly increase output—by 40% in just 12 months—without major capital investments. However, several barriers blocked progress:
- Lack of performance culture preventing consistent problem-solving and execution discipline
- Limited transparency and no integrated view of performance, hindering rapid decision-making
- Need to leverage digital and advanced analytics to improve routines, insights, and actions
- Outdated meeting structures, with unclear priorities, long durations, too many participants, and limited data integration
Real Results Achieved Together
Within six weeks, EFESO and the client co-built a digital performance control system that reshaped the daily management of the site, strengthened behaviours, and enabled fast, data-driven interventions.
+40%
Meeting efficiency improvement
Transformation Impact
- Enabled a fully integrated performance view across the site
- Reinforced disciplined behaviours: preparation, facilitation, action follow-up
- Improved problem-solving depth and speed
- Introduced structured, participative meeting content
- Established digital data integration to feed real-time discussions
Our Approach
EFESO deployed a structured step-by-step and bottom-up methodology over six weeks:
- Started with daily site-level routines, then cascaded to sector-level routines
- Introduced systematic problem-solving practices
- Strengthened behavioural enablers: preparation, facilitation, disciplined action closing
- Improved meeting content collaboratively with teams
- Integrated digital data sources to support real-time, automated performance reviews
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