1. Formal CV (sanitized)
(Documentation/CVs)

... and launch consulting agency, focused on high-tech, vanguard products under confidentiality agreements due to competitive technology environment. Whirlpool Corporation Director, Advanced Concepts ...

2. Forthcoming Book Contribution
(In Public/In the Press)

... risk information can improve decision-making. The chapter describes a business framework and an interface in which organizations might collaborate by trading risk-based products and information using an ...

3. Find a Viable Business
(Achievements/Turnaround Management)

... well, with launch dates being pushed almost weekly. We were in trouble. Then my supervisor, Mike Kauffman, asked me to come up with a second way of doing the business, by distributing out products through ...

4. Digitize Logistics Department
(Achievements/Turnaround Management)

In the middle of the 1990s, I was asked to rethink the paper-based processes of Germany’s largest kitchen manufacturer. Some of the products of my work are still in operation 10 years later. Objective: ...

5. Managing Innovation - by measure
(In Public/My Articles)

... a platform for multiple products. Service How you provide value to customers and consumers beyond and around your products Delivery Channel How you get your offerings to market Brand ...

6. How to predict gadget success
(Thoughts/on Innovation)

... rather than solid improvements. Products will have to be better at providing lasting value. Loyalty has to pay directly in more than monetary benefits (e.g. “points”). These formats seem to tire all over ...

7. Dead Cat Bounce
(Thoughts/on Strategy)

... Germany, where there is a focus on cars and investment-grade products like trains, power systems, etc., the UK economy will not benefit from government “New Deals” that invest in infrastructure (like transportation, ...

8. Half baked: 45 percent of Google projects in beta
(Thoughts/on Strategy)

... remain highly suspicious of a company that has so many beta products out there. It simply means that they are a One-Trick-Pony without the guts to take the step into the multi-product world (aka the real ...

9. Core Processes
(Thoughts/on Strategy)

...  Ideas then get matured into products (a view including markets). Focus: Conversion Speed and Reliability Such products need to then get marketed and sold by converting them into orders. Focus: Cost2Sell ...

10. 3 Question Quiz: Is Your Company Ready to Innovate?
(Thoughts/on Innovation)

... Innovate" question Do you frequently lead the industry in the introduction of new products or service offerings, as opposed to always having to play catch-up? The "What Could You Learn" question Nice ...

11. High-Tech Crybabies Head for the Crib | BNET
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

... team "work"(!), resourcefulness, a feel for the market and the need of the consumer, and an iron will to launch new products in this world. I cannot stand people that try to do this using shortcuts. They ...

12. Being a Leader of Research and Development
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

...  Pipeline Density: how many concepts per employee make it through the front end? Pricing Power: how much pricing differential do new products demand in the market? Expansion: how many ideas create new ...

13. The Value of Repetition
(Thoughts/on Execution)

... and does not return": Anonymous Mass Product Market Research JIT Manufacturing Critical Resource: Product Developer Repeat "Customer buys unique products repeatedly": Product Pipeline Business ...

14. The Work of Leaders
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

... are providing a service to somebody else, and that somebody might like more, or different services from you. So learn how to manage your ability to churn out new products. Be efficient in the way you ...

15. Innovation = Cost Reduction?
(Thoughts/on Innovation)

... that the need was latent, unanswered, or suppressed? Let’s take a look at a few need-creating products and see how they fare: Email and all later social-network "miracles": An ungodly amount of money is ...

16. Innovation
(You/Your Challenges)

... and deployed a digital portfolio of products and services in a company with distinctly non-digital products developed and tested ideas in a network of partners, rather than all in-house, and developed ...

17. Product Development (Innovation)
(The Person/Skills)

After roughly 20 years of digging, I have finally managed to find the core skill I posess: I find and develop products really well. Most of my experience is, in fact, in that area, either overtly or more ...

18. 2008 - On the use of Simulation
(In Public/Public Speaking)

I was invited to speak about one of the digital products SarJay provides right now: Simulation of Manufacturing Systems. This specific talk I have given at the Fachhochschule Melle, a local university ...

19. 2004-07-13 WHR Portal on DHL Conference
(In Public/In the Press)

... helped to disprove the many misconceptions about how difficult these complex products are to use. Public opinion can and will be changed." Panasonic, Philips, Cisco, and Microsoft also held similar presentations. ...

20. 2004-07 Home Technology Products
(In Public/In the Press)

... how technology, backed with the power of the Internet, can have a positive impact on the way they work, play and live. Only then will consumers truly realize that these products can provide them with the ...