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Project Management Office
Multi-project management poses particular challenges for companies, whether it's reorganization or performance optimization. Operationally involved managers often lack a cross-departmental view, and resources for a structured processing of project steps are limited. Affected areas lack the necessary distance, status and progress to monitor objectively. We offer support in the planning, implementation and monitoring of cross-cutting programs. From a PMO role, we describe the scope and goal of the program in the PID (Project Initiation Document), establish workstreams and governance structure, develop and track project plans, and ensure the necessary transparency of progress through tailor-made reporting. Our approach is based on the PRINCE-II standard.
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Database Programming
As part of our many years of activity, various tools for simplifying and structuring corporate management have emerged. Examples include relational databases for innovation management, specification of your materials, processes and products, and macro-based financial management tools. In addition to these existing tools, we are also happy to develop customer-specific solutions for exactly your problem.
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Innovation and Technology Consulting
Innovations have always been the driver of future sales. Innovation cycles are getting shorter and shorter, and simply waiting for a new idea is not the way to help your company create a full innovation pipeline of new products and services. We help you to analyze your future opportunities, give you an assessment of new markets and coach your R&D team in the development of new products.
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Printed Electronics - EMI Shielding for 5G mobile phone components
Career Coaching
The ever-changing world of work is perceived by many people as a threat. Long-term career planning is hardly possible any more, the subjective sense of security of the managers is dwindling. We help you to prepare for foreseeable and unforeseeable changes in the professional environment, to understand them as an opportunity and ultimately to master them. Whether self-initiated or externally controlled change, within a company or into a new environment – we help you to create an optimal match between your own goals and potentials and your professional role.
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Founder and Startup Consulting
For many graduates, researchers and managers, the decision to turn their idea into their own company is one that is made only once in their professional life. Accordingly, it should be well thought out. Especially if additional capital is required for the development and market launch of your idea, we help you as experienced startup specialists to make the process as efficient and effective as possible to create the next "Unicorn". We have worked for many years in various startups up to the C-level in our own professional activities - benefit from our experience.
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Re-structuring
Organizational reshuffles are usually painful for companies, because they often do not succed without a reduction in human resources and the accompanying increase in the workload of individual areas. We support you in performance-oriented capacity planning, develop an output-optimizing blueprint with you and prepare the implementation of individual personnel measures. Our offer is accompanied by communicative measures that accompany the change and take the workforce into the new "One-Company".
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Industrial Services: Transition & Transformation
A company in the field of industrial technical services had taken over a new account and offered services that were not previously part of the company's core competence. As part of an enterprise-wide performance optimization program, 12 workstreams (operational units and central functions) have made service delivery transparent and successively optimized using pragmatically structured project plans. Customer satisfaction was significantly increased.
Printed Electronics: EMI Shielding for 5G mobile phone components
In 2017, a well-known German material group with a focus on precious metal processing was looking for an application for a silver-containing ink. Our task included analyzing the performance of this ink and finding a suitable application based on the size of the business case, the possible timing to market entry, and the cost-effectiveness for large-scale introduction and production, depending on the analysis results. The electromagnetic shielding of components of future 5th generation (5G) mobile devices has been identified as a suitable business case. Due to the higher data transmission frequencies, significantly higher data rates and shorter latency times (transmission time from the control system to the controlled system, e.B. in the context of a remote/teleoperation in which the movements of a surgeon are transmitted to a spatially remote surgical robot) can be achieved, which however leads to electromagnetic overlays and interference between the individual chips of a mobile phone. The metal/sheet boxes used so far are no longer usable due to the increasing miniaturization of the components and must be replaced by a shielding technique that shields each component conformally.
The new precious metal ink does exactly this with the lowest possible use of precious metals (minimum consumption cost minimization) and can be applied by a new inkjet application method introduced into this market segment precisely where a shielding of the component is really necessary. Also new for the material group was the bundling of production hardware (inkjet printer) and consumable (precious metal ink) into a product and service bundle in which the customer is offered a complete offer as part of a "one-stop shop" strategy. Precisely this point is extremely valuable for achieving a short time-to-market and has not yet been successfully implemented on a large scale in the history of Printed Electronics.
Support of startup in security services
The task in this project included an analysis of the existing hardware and software platform of a startup whose vision is better and AI-based monitoring of objects with mobile and stationary sensors. The result of the joint discussions was a radical change in the hardware development strategy: Instead of an in-house development of the mobile sensor carriers, which would have cost several million euros, after an analysis of the existing components on the market, a strategy was put forward that enables the various interested security companies to quickly present a resilient and modular proof-of-concept. This allows for much faster market access and revenue generation to finance next generation hardware development.
Innovation Management Database
The non-process- or software-supported development of innovations is no longer the norm, especially in larger companies. Structured stage-gate processes are often introduced, but their documentation is usually inconvenient, bureaucratic and impractical in practice. There are hardly any suitable software tools to document such processes. Here we help you with a solution tailored to your needs. It consists of a relational database based on MS Access, network- and multi-user-enabled, and can be customized to meet your needs. The task within this project in the field of pharmaceutical ingredients included the creation of a flexible database solution, which enables a team of about 10 developers and adjacent business functions to document product development based on the development process already defined by the customer and link it to comprehensive other data sources.
Re-structuring of a service company
A service company was preparing a transfer of business. The new employees were accustomed to a conservative corporate culture, but the company relied on agility and digitalization. In parallel with the merging of cultures, a re-organisation to adapt capacity was an additional challenge. A change program with different communication measures, which was strongly geared to the needs of the employees, facilitated the arrival in the new culture. A fact-based plausibility of capacity planning supported the agreement with the employer representatives in the context of the reorganization.