About us
Our approach
Optimising human capital by learning from the best performing companies
We improve the financial performance of our clients by optimising the way they manage their people. It is our mission to identify the most value creating Must-Win-Battles – everything based on research and hard facts – and transfer this knowledge to our clients – elevating HR functions and HR professionals to the next level.
Our core competence is researching financially successful organizations every year – extracting the significant practice which moves the needle most for HR – and packaging this significant practice in different solutions.
We are supporting the change of classic HR functions to work number-driven and value focused. Many years HR struggled to express the value they create in money. Therefore the focus was on constantly changing people processes without changing the actual results. The HR function of the future has a different connotation – highly number-driven based on strong dashboards, close to the business and a true partner, rather than only administrating the yearly HR wheel. It is about time leveraging the systems and data available, creating the right transparency to tackle the areas promising most value to the company and line management.
Compare with top performing companies from all major industries
Our mission “Learning from the Best” is incorporated into the F-Top Best Practice Platform as a premier global solution to compare the people management processes with companies worldwide from all major industries including Financial Services, Communications, Business Services, FMCG, Retail, High-Tech, Construction, Transportation/ Logistics, Mining and Pharma.
F-Top Institute management and project leaders are seasoned practitioners with 20+ years of experience in the field of process excellence, research & analytics, personnel and organisational development. Our streamlined solutions give you fast results within just a few weeks elevating the results of HR to the next level.
Beyond consulting, purely fact based
F-Top Institute has developed a unique way of learning from the Best Performing Companies – going beyond classic benchmarking or best practice studies.
Since 1999, we have been researching every year more than 1000 organisations regarding people management practice. We have extracted a group called the Financial Top Performers consisting of best performing companies. These companies outperform their peers in key financial terms over a minimum of 5 years.
The F-Top companies achieve 25% more value out of their operating costs regarding people. Our work has clearly revealed that these F-Top companies run their critical people management processes in a way that is significantly different to other organisations. On average, we find a savings potential of 7 million. euros per 1,000 employees. To attain a competitive advantage companies need to look outside their industry – the F-Top concept provides this perspective.
Solutions providing the significant practice in 4 areas
Beside the Best Practice Platform as a premier global solution, allowing our clients to compare their people management processes with leading companies internationally from all major industries, we focus on packaging and providing the significant practice in mainly 4 areas:
- Shaping the HR function of the future, going beyond the Dave Ulrich model
- Best Practice Learning Nuggets: Transferring the most significant practice in order to review processes, create new ones or just educate HR professionals in the latest top notch practice
- From old-world reporting to high value metrics – leveraging current systems with insights beyond the classic reporting focus. Creating the right target ranges and linking results to money via our Business Case Calculator
- Up-skilling HR professionals working number-driven – not only providing the toolbox to do so but also developing the self confidence via case based trainings/coachings