Vision
Empower all companies to achieve the full potential of their enterprises.
About CovQ by 8W8
We built the system that turns strategy and execution into compounding enterprise value
An intelligence-powered value creation management platform unifying principles, augmented metrics, alignment, execution, and reporting in one system of record.
Vision and Mission
Mission
Enable companies to thrive, leverage compounding benefits, and evolve through access to the CovQ Value Creation OS.
The Why, The What, The How
The empowering partner for compounding enterprise value
CovQ empowers operators, capital allocators, and their partners throughout the end-to-end value creation journey to advance their missions, execute their plans, and compound enterprise value.
Through CovQ, we combine intelligence, principles, augmented metrics, and execution discipline in one value creation management platform. It aligns strategy and execution, reveals what drives enterprise value, and accelerates progress.
Deep Impact Creates Value Building: focused intelligence, strategic alignment, coordinated action, measurable outcomes, and momentum that compounds.
For leaders, investors, and business builders pursuing the next level
CovQ is designed for operators, capital allocators, and their partners focused on excellence and ambitious value creation across industries, business models, and stages of ownership.
It aligns everyone around what drives enterprise value, translating potential into measurable progress and outcomes that compound.
CovQ Platform
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
Strategic Maturity
IMPACT
Strategic Leverage
CREATES
Execution Engine
VALUE
Progress Performance
BUILDING
Growth Enablers
The Benefits
Know and Improve Every Aspect of Your Business at the Pace You Choose
SaaS infrastructure for systematic value creation
Constant improvement of the organization’s effectiveness and outcomes
Defined priorities and orchestrated focus
Transparent, informed, and institutionalized
Top-down and bottom-up at the same time
Leverage best practices and benchmarks
Single source of truth
Strategy planning, execution, and progress reporting
Data-driven decision-making
Enforce discipline
Build trust with investors and employees
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
Reduce risk and stress
Highly focused and specific
Clear, structured and disciplined
Single source of truth
Strategy planning, execution, and progress reporting
Data-driven decision-making
Enforce discipline
Build trust with investors and employees
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
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
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.
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.
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.