efflow

efflow works with people who want to build purposeful products and systems through the effective flow of information.

We bring expertise and best practices that enable sustainable collaboration. Our commitment to fostering trust and transparency is what makes us unique. We are empowering people to collaborate, create and build with purpose. There is nothing quite so satisfying as building a solution for the right problem.

We support our clients to develop sustainable systems and organisational structures through effective flow of information and alignment on shared purpose. This enables them to remove barriers to communication and use the right tools, frameworks and best practices to build things with purpose.

We want people to be inspired to develop, collaborate, and innovate.

Our Team

We are a multicultural team of consultants, bringing

• analytical and conceptual thinking to break down, document and redesign complex processes in order to build effective solutions and bring improvements within organisations
• state-of-the-art modelling, analysis, and visualisation techniques in order to produce smart and sustainable solutions
• high standards of quality
• value from the start

We have worked

• in various roles as business analysts, developers, engineers, scrum masters, product owners, project managers, and coaches
• in both traditional and agile project management frameworks
• on implementing organisational change in startups as well as corporate
• in different industry domains such as biology, energy, engineering, finance, informatics, mathematics, and medical
• across different cultures

Our Areas of Expertise

Systems Engineering - “good practices for providing solutions”

• Business analysis/ requirements engineering/ “Finding out what you or your organisation need”
• Solution design
• Effective flow of information enabling information propagation and decision making
• Within the focus area of data and information processing

Transformation - “Enabling you to do what you want”

• Project setup
• Project management
• Coaching
• Reduction of bottlenecks

Our Modus Operandi

Listening and Understanding your needs - We listen to you, understand your needs and intentions, and capture your aims. We constructively challenge aims and perceptions of problems. We focus on your aims, before suggesting any solutions.

Implementing Sustainable Solutions - We don’t sell you preconceived solutions, we provide solutions to your needs, that we conceive, design, and implement together with you. No matter whether short or long-term, we focus on sustainable solutions.

Integrating them into your Organisation - The best solution is meaningless if not properly embedded into your organisation and processes. Starting from your business model, we strive to align the solution design with the organisation’s processes; adapting both, if necessary - making things as simple as possible, but no simpler. We ensure the right people are in the right places and aligned to a unifying purpose.

Collaborating and Communicating Effectively - We focus on collaborative approaches by establishing an effective flow of information and a shared purpose. Through transparency, the distribution of responsibility becomes more horizontal and less hierarchical; we enable people to have authority and make decisions at the right levels. We communicate information using the language understood by the recipient so that communication is effective. This is essential in maintaining a shared purpose and creates trust between collaborators.

Coaching by doing - We empower you to take the right decisions while embarking your team onto the journey. We do what needs to be done and while doing that educate your team to do it along. Having resources is excellent, but being resourceful is better.

Our Values

Transparency and Clarity - Transparency means that all information is communicated. Clarity means using the language understood by the recipient so that communication is effective. This is the foundation of a purposeful, trustworthy and collaborative workplace.

Pragmatism and Effectiveness - We bring a pragmatic approach ensuring that things get accomplished towards the right purpose. We are able to discern real complexity from ‘man-made’ complexity, thus making things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Integrity and Reliability - We are our word: we deliver what we say we will deliver, when we say we will do it.

Diversity - True collaboration requires diversity of perspectives and backgrounds within the team. We model this diversity in our team and bring the same principles to our clients.

Personal Growth and Development - Continuous development is one of our core values. We believe this is a necessity for a healthy work environment. This fundamentally benefits the individual and the team.