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titel: "Three starting situations, one method · SACOSI News"
url: https://sacosi.ch/en/news/three-starting-situations-one-method
seite: /en/news/three-starting-situations-one-method
stand: 2026-09-27
beschreibung: "Situational Awareness starts from one of three starting situations: investor goals, a handover or groundwork for synergies. One process applies to all three."
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> Knowledge version of the news post https://sacosi.ch/en/news/three-starting-situations-one-method. Publisher: SACOSI, Situational Awareness Consulting by Ivo Schönberner, Zürich.

# Three starting situations, one method

**Short answer:** Situational Awareness starts from one of three starting situations: investor goals, a handover or groundwork for synergies. One process applies to all three.

News of 2026-09-27 · Author: Ivo Schönberner · Tags: Situational Awareness, Investors, Handover

The Situational Awareness page has been restructured. It now opens with the question of which situation a company is in. The method starts from one of three starting situations, and the starting situation determines the product and the entry tool. The role profiles are assigned to the starting situations.

## The three starting situations

- **A · Goals of investors and stakeholders:** The goals are set. Can IT carry them? Entry with an IT due diligence before the investment or a situation picture of the holding afterwards.
- **B · Handover:** The company changes hands. What goes with it? Entry with NextEra Copilot, a digitalisation audit.
- **C · Groundwork for synergies:** The synergies are there. Is the foundation missing? Entry with an assessment on the five stages of AI implementation.

Starting situations can be combined: a company with investors that is preparing its sale is in A and B. Obligations from standards and laws are not a fourth starting situation, but the guardrail for all three.

## One process for all three

The four steps are the same in every engagement: capture the situation, understand the situation, think the situation ahead, lead and hand over. Before that comes a first conversation of 30 minutes, without a presentation. Each step ends with a result you keep, from the situation picture through the decision log and roadmap to the handover with playbooks. Depending on the starting situation, the only thing that shifts is which dimensions of the situation and which step carry the most weight.

**The key point:** It is not the title on the business card that decides the entry, but the situation of the company. The [Situational Awareness](https://sacosi.ch/en/situational-awareness) page shows which one it is.

## What it is about

- https://sacosi.ch/en/situational-awareness
- https://sacosi.ch/en/contact