The topics of ESG and sustainability are now at the top of the list for many companies. Often they treat it really seriously, sometimes unfortunately it is just “greenwashing”. Companies like Apple really seem to take the issue seriously, if you believe the content of their recent promotional video. However, […]
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Many people will be very familiar with the following question from the product team: “Why is sales always nagging about needing a product roadmap?” In some companies, this may not even be an issue. Those who take product roadmaps in sales for granted may stop her and not read further.
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In my very first blog article in December 2019, I already wrote about the strategic inflection point. Since then, I have worked with many mostly smaller to mid-sized IT companies and several of them have been exactly at this strategic inflection point. Some for the first time, some for the
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Since the beginning of 2020, one serious crisis has followed another. In many areas, we had to and still have to separate from old habits. As things look like in September 2022, there are still some more serious changes ahead of us. These will affect everyone: the whole country, companies
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A lot of companies decide at some point to cross borders and enter other geographical markets. In most cases this is driven by the goal to further grow sales. But sometimes the decision to get the company established in other countries can also be based on lower personnel cost, shortage
Internationalization planned successfully Read More »
When I decided to work as a consultant and interim manager, I first asked myself which core competencies I have that I can really use to support my clients. These certainly include first and foremost building international B2B sales, entering new markets, building and leading successful international teams as well
My personal keywords Read More »
Recently the news hit home that Pat Gelsinger, former CEO of VMware, will become CEO of Intel, the company he worked for already between 1979 and 2009. He himself even called it “coming home to Intel”. This reminded me that I left Intel nearly exactly 15 years ago after having
15 years later – a retrospective on Intel Read More »
I am sure, nearly everybody heard this question already in a job interview, in an annual review discussion or just in a private chat with a friend: “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”. At least during the last twenty years, I always had a bit of a problem
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As you can see from my CV, between 2006 and 2016 I left the corporate world, so to speak. Not that I would like to say, that I deliberately stayed away from all new developments, but when you no longer work every day in the environment of a larger company,
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