- Business development and market entry strategy
- Market and competition analyses
- Market scenarios and stress-test scenarios
- Benchmarking and Best Practice analyses
- SWOT analyses: Assessment of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
- Evaluation of implications, opportunities and risks assessment
- Strategy development, strategy check-up, competitive positioning
- Business models, success factors, pricing
- Business plan design, estimating cost and revenue development, investment, human resources and marketing budget needs, and amortization times
- M&A, due diligence, cooperation and post-merger management, change management
- Policy Analysis, Policy Design and Policy Development, Regulatory strategy
- Optimization of operational and organizational structure
- Organization development and reorganization
- Process optimization and efficiency improvement
- Financial structure analyses
- Strategic planning
- Performance controlling
- Risk management
- Due diligence
- Project and program management
- Project monitoring, project controlling and project evaluation
- Interactive implementation management
- Problem structuring
- Project communication
- Project evaluation
Selected Project Examples
Strategy
Strategic business planning for a major national telecommunications provider
- Led the company’s internal planning team
- Analyzed market development, competitors’ positioning and strategies as well as technology, society and political trends
- Modeled the expected development of market shares, revenues, prices and gross earnings for all business divisions and product categories
- Consolidated the business units’ individual plans and coordinated a three-year plan for multiple business divisions
- Formulated strategic implications and prepared an executive board workshop
Organization
Reorganizing the exhibition management department of a large museum
- Analyzed the current organizational setup, core processes and interdepartmental interactions
- Conducted interview program to identify gaps in understanding of roles
- Developed alternative setup, redistribution of responsibilities and required skill profiles
- Crafted implementaton plan and accompanied implementation, including presenting resource requirements to governing authorities
Finance & Controlling
Due diligence on several internet businesses as an expert advisor to buyer’s or seller’s teams
- Analyzed market trends and revenue potential in national and international markets
- Assessed strategic positioning relative to competitors
- Analyzed balance sheet and P/L statement
- Modeled expected earnings and scenarios
- Evaluated human resources and organization risks
