About CovQ by 8W8

Vision

Empower all companies to achieve the full potential of their enterprises.

Mission

Enable companies to thrive, leverage compounding benefits, and evolve through access to the CovQ Value Creation OS.

8W8 Global Business Builders creates aligned interest with our clients and acts as the empowering partner throughout the journey of building the business: Go-to-Market, Strategic Positioning, Exit or initiating the Next Phase. 8W8 Global Business Builders provides the CovQ Value Creation OS encompassing a method, a framework, know-how, specialists and experts, all designed to create compound value and momentum. It consists of four core modules with practices and tactics: DEEP – Experience and Know-how module, IMPACT – a Team of Practices and Tactics, together with CREATES – for initiating strategies and VALUE – for monitoring the progress and compound value creation, and BUILDING – to utilize experts and specialists. All this together enables our clients to be awesomely successful and deliver the full potential of their enterprise.

Our services cater to founders and business owners of ambitious Direct-to-Consumer, B-B-C, B-B, marketplace, SaaS and PaaS companies that aim to get to the next levels or over the finish line.

A Value Creation OS Encompassing a Method, a Framework, Know-how, Experts and Specialists to Create Compound Value.

It exists out of five modules:

DEEP

Experience and Know-How

IMPACT

Operational Practices and Data

CREATES

Strategy Management

VALUE

Communication and Alignment

BUILDING

Human Factor

The Benefits

Single source of truth

Data-driven decision-making

Build trust with investors and employees

Strategy planning, execution, and progress reporting

and more

SaaS infrastructure for systematic value creation

Single source of truth

Strategy planning, execution, and progress reporting

Constant improvement of the organization's effectiveness and outcomes

Data-driven decision-making

Defined priorities and orchestrated focus

Enforce discipline

Transparent, informed, and institutionalized

Build trust with investors and employees

Top-down and bottom-up at the same time

Leverage best practices and benchmarks

Constant delivery of improved outcomes

Reduce risk and maximize success

Remove emotions from decision making

Ability to communicate clearly with employees and stakeholders on an ongoing basis

Support throughout the full lifecycle path - continuous monitoring and optimization for lifetime

A pragmatic approach

Leverage modules, practices and tactics as needed

Learn to understand hype cycles

Unleash new potentials

Understand scaling from phase to phase

Applying 8W8 builds trust with investors

Orchestrated focus

More fun

Know what not to do

Enjoy compounded value and momentum

Maximizing top and bottom line

Agile and flexible

Transparent, informed and institutionalized

Reduce risk and stress

Highly focused and specific

Clear, structured and disciplined

Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Ralf Hirt Chief Executive Officer & Founder - CovQ by 8W8

Our Chief Executive Officer and founder, Ralf Hirt, launched CovQ by 8W8 with a vision to empower business owners, management teams, partners, and investors to achieve their full potential and create compound value. Ralf brings extensive experience from diverse roles across volatile phases in the tech, marketing, and commerce industries, holding operational executive positions worldwide, including Hong Kong/China, Sydney/Australia, London/UK, Munich/Germany, and New York City since 2005.

Throughout his career, Ralf has driven growth for tech companies such as Harri, TUNE (acquired by Branch & Constellation Software), MODE, DoubleClick (acquired by Google), fit CRM (acquired by Omnicom), in addition to advising Prion Group from inception to successful sale to Accenture.

A ‘fun fact’: Ralf’s global experiences inspired the creation of 8W8, the ‘New World Modelling Engine,’ introduced in his fiction work “8W8 – Global Space Tribes” in 2007 and expanded in summer 2020.

With a background spanning companies of various sizes and mentoring dozens of tech businesses, Ralf consolidated his learnings into CovQ by 8W8 leading to the development of the CovQ Value Creation OS and the briefing paper ‘Mastering Value Creation by Centering Strategy and Execution’ produced by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services in association with CovQ by 8W8.