Companies:

Trio Danışmanlık, Founder
360 MCG, Senior Partner

Orhan Erkut’s career is defined by over 20 years in management consulting, leading strategic management, business process optimisation, corporate governance, and organisational restructuring. His expertise has consistently advanced management effectiveness and produced measurable improvements in business outcomes.

As an independent board member in various companies, Orhan Erkut combines the board’s strategic perspective with operational realities. He leads growth, transformation, and innovation initiatives, specialising in redesigning and optimising management systems to accelerate companies’ achievement of strategic objectives.

Orhan Erkut’s management consulting approach is built on three core principles: strategic, trustworthy, and transformative.

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Strategic

Every project is approached as an integrated whole, aligned with the company’s long-term direction and ownership structure.

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Trustworthy

Throughout the entire process, he serves as a transparent and consistent business partner for both senior management and shareholders.

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Transformative

Consulting is not limited to producing reports; it aims to build lasting systems and a new management habit that will continue to live on even after the engagement is completed.

Approach to Management Consulting

Rather than being a consultant who only writes reports at a desk, Orhan Erkut is a hands-on partner who goes into the field and works alongside the management team. On the one hand, he looks at the big picture and ownership structure from the board’s perspective; on the other, he keeps a close pulse on daily operations to see how well decisions align with the realities of the business. This dual perspective yields consistent, practical solutions on both the strategy and execution sides.

Drawing from a multidisciplinary background and broad interests, Orhan Erkut brings a unique perspective to projects across sectors, functions, and family businesses. Having worked with various organisations, he offers a wide-angle, strategic, and benchmark-driven approach that leverages diverse cultural and ownership experiences to add depth to his projects.

This accumulated experience translates into three concrete impacts in projects:

Rapid diagnosis

Drawing on his experience with similar situations, he quickly identifies the problem’s root cause. Top of Form

Rapid project design

By considering the strategy, governance, and process dimensions together, he creates a practical, actionable roadmap.

Solutions are co-created with the team in the field.

He designs the change together with the management team and key employees, and stays alongside them during the implementation phase.

Orhan Erkut activates an extensive network of consultants and executives, built through his experience in executive search, whenever needed for management consulting projects. Inviting diverse professionals as mentors, sponsors, or independent observers, this approach provides additional strategic depth and accelerates solution quality by adding an external layer to the client’s resources.

He develops and customises strategy tools—such as the Cascade of Strategic Choices approach—into practical models tailored to each company’s unique culture, ownership structure, and size. Rather than applying theoretical tools as prescribed, he adapts them based on specific organisational needs, ensuring his methods are both strategic and realistic.

Orhan Erkut’s strong technology and software literacy are another dimension that makes his management consulting especially critical for many organisations today. He can foresee not only how a process should look in theory, but also which technological infrastructure, which integrations, and which teams it can be implemented in the company. His ability to speak the same language as software teams and technical departments removes a barrier that slows down project flow in many companies: “the business side cannot fully explain what it wants, and IT does not fully understand what needs to be done.”

This approach provides advantages in three critical areas in particular:

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Accurately defining the needs of the business side and translating them for the technical teams.

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Ability to design processes in a way that aligns with the current and planned software infrastructure.

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Ability to create a shared roadmap for both management and technical teams in digital transformation projects.

In this way, management consulting is not limited to merely redrawing the organisation chart and processes; it transforms into a truly functioning, digitalised, and measurable management model.

Management Consulting Topics

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Strategic Management and Planning
He supports companies in defining and implementing their long-term vision and goals. Taking into account market dynamics, competitive conditions, and ownership structure, he contributes to the development of strategic plans. By using data analytics and business intelligence tools, he ensures that strategic decisions are backed by measurable data. In strategic planning processes, he focuses not only on setting goals but also on clarifying how to achieve them and strengthening the organisation’s management capabilities. In this way, strategy stops being a document that sits on a shelf and becomes part of the management team’s everyday language and calendar.
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Corporate Governance
He focuses on building a management culture that is fair, transparent, responsible, and accountable. As a member of the Corporate Governance Association of Turkey, he centres his advisory work on corporate governance principles. He contributes to clarifying the roles and responsibilities among the board, the executive team, and the family/shareholder structure, ensuring that decision-making mechanisms function effectively, and strengthening the reporting chain. By using modern governance technologies and digital reporting systems, he reinforces transparency and accountability mechanisms. This approach creates a reliable governance framework that strengthens the trust relationship the company builds both internally with its teams and externally with its stakeholders.
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Process Improvement and Optimisation
He conducts a detailed analysis of existing business processes to identify barriers to efficiency. Through process optimisation, digital transformation, and, when needed, business model redesign, he increases operational efficiency. By using automation technologies, AI-powered process analytics, and cloud-based workflow systems, he drives the modernisation and digitalisation of processes. The goal of this work is not only to reduce costs, but also to enable a transformative way of working in which teams can dedicate their time to truly strategic activities.
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Reorganisation and Structuring
He helps companies build an organisational structure that aligns with their strategic objectives and business model. Organisation charts, role definitions, and communication channels are redesigned so that the right talent is in the right role and an effective organisational structure emerges. Management layers, decision-making levels, and cross-team collaboration mechanisms are structured in line with the company’s size and strategic direction. Thanks to digital tools and collaboration platforms, the restructuring process is tracked and implemented transparently. As a result, employees experience the change process not as an uncertain “restructuring,” but as a planned and manageable evolution.

Outcomes of His Working Style

With extensive experience across more than 25 sectors, Orhan Erkut develops solutions that are tailored to each company’s needs, flexible, and sensitive to sector dynamics. His consulting approach is built on the principle that “one size does not fit all.” For every organisation, he designs a customised roadmap based on its culture, size, ownership structure, and stage of development. By using digital tools, project management platforms, and performance tracking systems, he increases the effectiveness and transparency of consulting processes.

To ensure that success is sustainable, he focuses on helping companies build self-sufficient systems and capabilities. Project outputs are shared and embedded with management teams through knowledge management systems, in-house training platforms, and “working manuals.” He also reflects the lessons and insights he gains in the field in his blog articles and professional contributions—both keeping his own thinking up to date and enabling organisations to benefit from this accumulated knowledge.

As a result, Orhan Erkut’s management consulting service offers a holistic experience that:

  • Sees the big picture with a strategic perspective,
  • Sits at the same table as management and ownership structures as a trustworthy business partner,
  • Builds lasting systems and new ways of working with a transformative approach.

When combined with his work in management consulting, executive search, change management, and family businesses, this creates a rare opportunity for companies: to solve today’s critical problems while also building a solid foundation for tomorrow.