What are cus­tomers real­ly will­ing to pay for a new elec­tric car? What ser­vices help to dis­pel reser­va­tions and smooth the way to the mobil­i­ty of the future? Porsche Con­sult­ing investigated.

11/2024

Oliv­er Blume and Eber­hard Weiblen: an interview.

06/2024

Lithi­um, cobalt, and nick­el are three sub­stances that make elec­tro­mo­bil­i­ty pos­si­ble — and that also cre­ate depen­den­cies. Porsche Con­sult­ing Mag­a­zine asked Thomas Schmall, the mem­ber of the Group Board of Man­age­ment respon­si­ble for Tech­nol­o­gy, how Volk­swa­gen seeks to ensure sup­ply and sus­tain­abil­i­ty over the long term.

 05/2024

Have fleet oper­a­tors mis­cal­cu­lat­ed their elec­tric vehi­cle num­bers? A drop in demand and a slump in used-car prices are putting pres­sure on the car-leas­ing, rental, and shar­ing sec­tor. Added value, experts say, could enable the sec­tor to recharge its busi­ness and encour­age cus­tomers to join the ener­gy transition.

05/2024

At home Hauke Stars writes pro­grams with her chil­dren. For the fun of it. As a mem­ber of Volk­swa­gen AG’s Man­age­ment Board, she is advanc­ing the Group’s dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion. “In agile cycles,” she says. 

04/2024

Dr. Hagen Rad­ows­ki, Senior Part­ner at the man­age­ment con­sul­tan­cy Porsche Con­sult­ing, explains why soft­ware must come first in the elec­tric car of the future. He is con­vinced that clos­er col­lab­o­ra­tion between car­mak­ers and the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try promis­es bet­ter end products.

12/2023

When short­ages arise in the sup­ply chain, a domi­no chain of delays is trig­gered that can bring the entire indus­try to a halt. The auto­mo­tive indus­try has there­fore been devel­op­ing the Catena‑X data ecosys­tem to bet­ter pre­pare itself for crises of this type. Catena‑X is also expect­ed to lower costs, improve qual­i­ty, ensure greater sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and lead to new busi­ness mod­els. Here, in Porsche Con­sult­ing Mag­a­zine, three experts explain what Catena‑X does and how the ecosys­tem will soon also be ben­e­fit­ing many small­er com­pa­nies and other sectors.

12/2023

Instill­ing enthu­si­asm in cus­tomers and employ­ees alike is Richard Enning’s recipe for suc­cess. Always attuned to the times, this head of a medi­um-sized Ger­man busi­ness reacts prompt­ly and fos­ters inno­va­tion with a sharp eye for detail.

10/2023

The Ger­man air­port oper­a­tor Fra­port and the Lufthansa Group are devel­op­ing a shared vision for the future at Frank­furt Airport’s Ter­mi­nal 1. Porsche Consulting’s sup­port for the strate­gic trans­for­ma­tion includes ideas and exam­ples from other industries.

 07/2023

Solid-state bat­ter­ies could reshuf­fle the deck on the mar­ket for elec­tric vehi­cles. Whether this new gen­er­a­tion of bat­ter­ies can become a real game chang­er, how­ev­er, depends on the suc­cess of its researchers and devel­op­ers. Porsche Con­sult­ing ana­lyzed the oppor­tu­ni­ties offered by the new technology.

07/2023

As the world gets back on track, many peo­ple in Ger­many and other coun­tries take the train, espe­cial­ly on the com­mute to work and in met­ro­pol­i­tan areas. One of the advan­tages is resource-sav­ing, envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly mobil­i­ty. The propul­sion sys­tems have an impor­tant part to play in this.

 04/2023

Inter­view with Dr. Arno Antlitz, Finance and Oper­a­tions, Volk­swa­gen AG Board of Management

02/2023

The auto­mo­tive indus­try is rein­vent­ing itself. As it must. And not only in terms of the drive. Cus­tomers want inde­pen­dence, more flex­i­bil­i­ty, and less cap­i­tal com­mit­ment. Sup­pli­ers are responding.

12/2022

Volkswagen’s petrol cars remain very pop­u­lar on the world’s largest auto­mo­tive mar­ket. But the high­est-gross­ing car­mak­er glob­al­ly wants to rev up its sales of elec­tric vehi­cles in China. Its third joint ven­ture in the metrop­o­lis of Hefei is expect­ed to play a key role in achiev­ing this goal.

09/2022

The cri­sis in the semi­con­duc­tor sec­tor threw a wrench into the auto­mo­tive industry’s plans for pro­duc­tion and sales. How could this hap­pen? And how can sup­plies be secured in the future?

08/2022

Prod­uct engi­neer­ing process­es are under­go­ing pro­found change. Com­pa­nies are hav­ing to man­age ever greater lev­els of com­plex­i­ty and strate­gi­cal­ly rethink estab­lished devel­op­ment prin­ci­ples. A focus on sys­temic process­es has already been applied to cars, enabling them to be devel­oped and pro­duced more effi­cient­ly and brought onto mar­kets more rapid­ly. The basic prin­ci­ple is uni­ver­sal, however—and there­fore applic­a­ble to other indus­tries as well.

06/2022

Volk­swa­gen is redefin­ing the car, count­ing on elec­tric drive sys­tems. Thomas Schmall, mem­ber of the Volk­swa­gen AG Board of Man­age­ment respon­si­ble for Tech­nol­o­gy and CEO of Volk­swa­gen Group Com­po­nents, is lead­ing the bat­tery, charg­ing infra­struc­ture, and vehi­cle com­po­nent activ­i­ties and there­by mas­ter­ing major parts of this chal­lenge of the century—the strate­gic trans­for­ma­tion of the world’s largest car manufacturer.

04/2022

Start-ups seek­ing to launch aer­i­al taxis have been attract­ing investors, and some are already on the stock mar­ket. Now the entire sec­tor has to fol­low through—what is need­ed for these busi­ness mod­els to fly?

03/2022

Small­er air­ports offer­ing short flights and sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty for busi­ness trav­el­ers could soon be the win­ners in the avi­a­tion sec­tor. As could small short-haul aircraft.

11/2021

Com­pa­nies from dif­fer­ent sec­tors are rush­ing to send satel­lites into space. Dis­rup­tion and dynamism are the order of the day. “Space data as a ser­vice” is a key mar­ket trend that dri­ves ver­ti­cal­iza­tion in the industry.

10/2021

Inter­view: How Volk­swa­gen Board Member Klaus Zellmer expects to ful­fill dri­vers’ wish­es in the future. 

06/2021

Elec­tric cars are only as good as their batteries—one of the most essen­tial and expen­sive com­po­nents. The pro­duc­ers of these bat­ter­ies need to mas­ter the tech­nolo­gies and offer com­pet­i­tive prices if they are to suc­ceed. The bat­tery experts at Porsche Con­sult­ing know the means by which large num­bers of the cov­et­ed ener­gy stor­age devices can be produced—at half the price.

06/2021

The last pas­sen­gers have hard­ly dis­em­barked before night­ly main­te­nance work on the fleet of ICE trains begins. A pre­cise timetable is impor­tant here too, as shown by a visit to Deutsche Bahn’s newest main­te­nance depot.

09/2020

Audi has com­plete­ly reor­ga­nized its pro­duc­tion work. One of the largest restruc­tur­ing projects in Germany’s auto­mo­tive indus­try was com­plet­ed with­in a sin­gle year—and is already pay­ing off.

09/2020

Empty air­ports and train sta­tions and the sus­pen­sion of car production—the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic brought mobil­i­ty to a halt in many parts of the world. The CEOs of lead­ing mobil­i­ty com­pa­nies look to the future.

09/2020

Expec­ta­tions are high and the tech­nolo­gies are proven – is the hydro­gen econ­o­my about to take off? The play­ers still need to net­work and to estab­lish their busi­ness models.

09/2020

The bat­tery mar­ket for elec­tric vehi­cles is going from strength to strength. But it is still char­ac­ter­ized by a high level of uncer­tain­ty with sig­nif­i­cant swings in demand. LG Chem is man­ag­ing this volatil­i­ty at its giant plant in Poland.

09/2020

Few indus­tries have been hit as hard by the corona­virus as avi­a­tion. Now is the time to devel­op ideas that will facil­i­tate a rapid return when the cri­sis is over. Dig­i­tal­iza­tion and sus­tain­abil­i­ty will play an impor­tant role.

09/2020

Inter­view: Dr. Tanja Beck­er, an entre­pre­neur and air­line pilot, applies avi­a­tion meth­ods to business—to enhance safe­ty and decision-making.

09/2020

Inter­view: Porsche CEO Oliv­er Blume on social respon­si­bil­i­ty, focus­ing on essen­tials, and optimism.

09/2020

Indus­try, ser­vices, and trade have been see­ing a con­tin­u­ous rise in the use of robots for years now. The trend shows no sign of abat­ing, for the sim­ple rea­son that robot­ics mak­ers like ABB keep find­ing new jobs for their products.

11/2022

Jenop­tik, a Ger­man pho­ton­ics spe­cial­ist, is chart­ing a new course with an astute strat­e­gy of trans­for­ma­tion. CEO Dr. Ste­fan Traeger fos­ters all inno­va­tion in close con­nec­tion with cus­tomer needs. As a lead­ing glob­al spe­cial­ist in high-tech optics, Jenop­tik is using strong world­wide demand in its indus­try to boost its earn­ing power. And to invest in a suc­cess­ful future.

02/2022

Afford­able hous­ing is in short sup­ply, and we also need more schools and preschools. These are typ­i­cal jobs for project devel­op­ers in col­lab­o­ra­tion with con­struc­tion trades. But con­tracts in the sec­tor have abrupt­ly fall­en off. The econ­o­my is weak, and bank­rupt­cies loom. “To sur­vive in the con­struc­tion indus­try, you’ll now have to restruc­ture — regard­less of what role you play,” says our author Roland Sitzberg­er. He is a civil engi­neer, an expe­ri­enced indus­try expert, and Part­ner at Porsche Con­sult­ing.

04/2024

A con­struc­tion com­pa­ny suc­cess­ful through­out Europe unites the val­ues it lives by and its tra­di­tion with innovation.

05/2023

The con­struc­tion indus­try has seen lit­tle change in recent decades. It still main­ly uses the tra­di­tion­al approach of man­u­al on-site labor with mul­ti­ple trade rep­re­sen­ta­tives, with large­ly unpre­dictable risks. That could soon change. In the future, hos­pi­tal­i­ty, health­care, and res­i­den­tial build­ings will be man­u­fac­tured like cars in fac­to­ries. One of the pio­neers in this form of indus­tri­al­iza­tion is a com­pa­ny from Finland.

03/2022

The BAUER Group pro­duces the sophis­ti­cat­ed machin­ery for its own ground- and ground­wa­ter-relat­ed work. And for its direct com­peti­tors. The com­pa­ny has embarked upon a trans­for­ma­tion designed to con­tin­ue its extra­or­di­nary tra­di­tion of world cham­pi­onship per­for­mance in this high­ly spe­cial­ized field.

10/2021

Gold­beck GmbH, a fam­i­ly-run con­struc­tion and real estate com­pa­ny based in Biele­feld, offers every­thing from a sin­gle source. It designs, builds, and oper­ates com­mer­cial prop­er­ties such as hall build­ings, office com­plex­es, and multi-level car parks. It also man­u­fac­tures the com­po­nent parts of these struc­tures. With the courage to pur­sue an indi­vid­ual course yet also to think in sys­tems, it has become one of Ger­many’s most suc­cess­ful medi­um-sized enterprises.

07/2021

The con­struc­tion indus­try can­not keep up with the demand for hous­ing. This is large­ly because con­struc­tion sites are not effi­cient enough. New tech­nolo­gies and busi­ness mod­els could suc­ceed in cut­ting this Gor­dian knot.

09/2020

Any­one who leads one of Europe’s largest dairy enter­pris­es will need to bal­ance a tri­fec­ta of pro­duc­er, retail­er, and con­sumer inter­ests. The com­pa­ny will require a strong struc­ture in every respect. One based on qual­i­ty. With no room for compromise.

01/2024

Plas­tic wraps, coat­ings, and sin­gle-use con­tain­ers—the syn­thet­ic con­tent in all these prod­ucts could be replaced by a bio-based gran­u­late called “Trace­less.” It is a fully com­postable nat­ur­al sub­stance with sim­i­lar prop­er­ties to plas­tic.

09/2022

Fam­i­ly-run com­pa­nies with long-stand­ing suc­cess­ful prod­ucts pre­fer to stick to their tra­di­tions. Change can be dif­fi­cult for them—unless the next gen­er­a­tion brings an unusu­al degree of courage. Like at Edding.

09/2022

Dig­i­tal solu­tions are cen­tral to Nestlé’s Covid-19 come­back. CIO Fil­ip­po Cata­lano on the con­sumer goods giant’s response to cri­sis, the impor­tance of pre­pared­ness, and where big com­pa­nies go from here.

09/2020

The corona­virus has also jolt­ed the food indus­try. Four man­agers explain how this led them to focus on essen­tials—and how they even dis­cov­ered some new oppor­tu­ni­ties.

09/2020

Zurich is one of the world’s largest insur­ance groups and has ambi­tious goals: even more cus­tomer focus, grow­ing mar­gins, and a 20 per­cent return on equi­ty. But how can this be done? The Swiss insurer’s Ger­man sub­sidiary presents a prac­ti­cal exam­ple. 

03/2023

Dra­mat­ic trans­for­ma­tion: The work­force is expect­ed to use its exper­tise to dis­man­tle its work­place and sell the result­ing mate­ri­als as reusables or dis­pose of them as waste. Niko­laus Valerius, Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer of RWE Nuclear GmbH and Mem­ber of the Exec­u­tive Board, Nuclear at RWE Power AG, is turn­ing this into a for­mu­la for success.

05/2022

The mobil­i­ty sec­tor is in flux and the DKV Mobil­i­ty Group is in the thick of things. Thanks to dig­i­tal solu­tions and a focus on elec­tric mobil­i­ty, this long-stand­ing com­pa­ny is devel­op­ing into an inno­v­a­tive ser­vice provider for ship­ping com­pa­nies and fleet oper­a­tors through­out Europe. Exper­tise from Porsche Con­sult­ing helped DKV launch its process of transformation.

07/2021

Crit­i­cal ser­vice providers like the RWE util­i­ty com­pa­ny need to be espe­cial­ly well pre­pared for emer­gen­cies. Pre­cise and detailed plan­ning ensure that they can respond rapid­ly to unex­pect­ed events.

09/2020

Which com­pa­nies will sur­vive the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, and which will not? Banks play a key role in this ques­tion. How DZ Bank is mov­ing quick­ly to the aid of its clients.

09/2020

Siemens Health­i­neers is set­ting new stan­dards in med­ical tech­nol­o­gy at a cut­ting-edge plant where a dig­i­tal twin pro­vides very high trans­paren­cy for the great­est efficiency.

09/2024

A new age has dawned in the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sec­tor. A large num­ber of bio­log­i­cal med­ical prod­ucts are being devel­oped to mar­ket readi­ness. They have the poten­tial to treat near­ly every ill­ness, and offer hope to patients who have con­di­tions pre­vi­ous­ly con­sid­ered non-treat­able or ones that are very rare. For these inno­va­tions to ben­e­fit every­one, their devel­op­ment process­es need to be improved and their remu­ner­a­tion mod­els reassessed. That is the con­clu­sion of our author, Dr. Roman Hipp, a Senior Part­ner at Porsche Con­sult­ing.

07/2024

The Boehringer Ingel­heim research phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny shows how a glob­al cor­po­ra­tion can be strong­ly com­mit­ted to anchor­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty in a vibrant cor­po­rate culture—in all of its depart­ments and for all of its 53,000 employees.

06/2023

The metaverse—a dig­i­tal space that links the vir­tu­al and phys­i­cal worlds—is com­ing. It enables peo­ple to gath­er and inter­act vir­tu­al­ly with the sense that they are all in the same place. Many health­care providers have already dis­cov­ered its poten­tial, and are gen­er­at­ing con­sid­er­able sales in it. Porsche Con­sult­ing The Mag­a­zine spoke with three experts about the oppor­tu­ni­ties and risks in the new health­care metaverse.

03/2023

Health­care is about to enter a new par­a­digm. Under the head­ing “per­son­al­ized med­i­cine,” experts in dis­eases, genet­ics, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, and IT are focus­ing on indi­vid­u­al­ized treat­ments and med­ica­tions in tar­get­ed ways. Insid­ers expect the new tech­nolo­gies to trig­ger enor­mous changes that will affect all stake­hold­ers in the sec­tor. Porsche Con­sult­ing The Mag­a­zine asked lead­ing experts for their thoughts on these developments.

10/2022

Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies play an impor­tant role in world health, and bear an enor­mous amount of respon­si­bil­i­ty. Qual­i­ty is of the high­est priority—all the more so for ground­break­ing innovations—as shown by the exam­ple of Boehringer Ingelheim.

02/2022

Com­pa­nies and orga­ni­za­tions should be devel­op­ing their own approach­es to ongo­ing edu­ca­tion. Teams can devel­op the joy of learn­ing — and good exam­ples point the way.

08/2024

Per­son­nel ques­tions are high on the agen­das of many exec­u­tive board meet­ings. And top man­agers are con­sid­er­ing how HR depart­ments can be even more effec­tive in shap­ing the future of their companies.

03/2024

Not every­one by a long shot has the chance to work large­ly from home. How­ev­er, those who do get that chance — on a tem­po­rary basis — are then reluc­tant to give it up. This is a con­tro­ver­sial topic. “Nonethe­less, there are good ways of pre­vent­ing con­flicts between employ­ers and employ­ees from aris­ing in the first place,” says Dr. Wolf­gang Freibich­ler, the author of this arti­cle and a part­ner at the Porsche Con­sult­ing man­age­ment consultancy.

02/2024

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty is fueled by high lev­els of trust­wor­thi­ness and solid imple­men­ta­tion. This overview shows the very dif­fer­ent ways in which com­pa­nies from dif­fer­ent indus­tries need to pri­or­i­tize their short-term projects and approaches.

11/2023

Com­pa­nies need to mea­sure them­selves by stan­dards above and beyond per­for­mance indi­ca­tors, now per­haps more than ever. They need to facil­i­tate this by employ­ees, appli­cants, busi­ness part­ners, and soci­ety as a whole. By estab­lish­ing val­ues, and above all by adopt­ing them as a way of life, com­pa­nies can pro­mote their own pos­i­tive cultures.

11/2023

Chat­G­PT is com­ing to work­places. But who com­mands suf­fi­cient knowl­edge of this lan­guage model’s func­tions, abil­i­ties, appli­ca­tions, and risks to make good deci­sions on whether and how to use it in pro­fes­sion­al settings?

09/2023

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence: How man­agers can clear the path faster for innovations.

 05/2023

Whether their data are stored in a cloud or lake, most com­pa­nies have a respectable vol­ume of dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion at their dis­pos­al. At first glance, that is. For all too often, their stock­piles turn out to be min­i­mal­ly struc­tured and large­ly unprocessed mass­es of raw mate­r­i­al, says AI expert Kevin Lin in the interview.

12/2022

Latin Amer­i­ca’s econ­o­my is suf­fer­ing. Yet it also has some bright lights. Porsche Con­sult­ing’s office in São Paulo sup­port­ed two Brazil­ian cor­po­ra­tions that post­ed record sales in 2020—despite the pan­dem­ic. Or pre­cise­ly on account of it.

01/2022

Every­day oper­a­tions at many com­pa­nies are deter­mined by a con­stant pres­sure to change. Yes­ter­day’s guide­lines no longer apply to today’s world. The mere appeal to ratio­nal thought alone is not enough to bring every­one on board. Intu­ition plays a key role in suc­cess­ful change man­age­ment. And it all begins in the minds of top managers.

01/2022

Hydro­ge­nious LOHC Tech­nolo­gies GmbH has devel­oped a tech­nol­o­gy that binds high­ly volatile hydro­gen gas with oil. This achieve­ment led to the com­pa­ny being nom­i­nat­ed for a 2021 Ger­man Entre­pre­neur­ial Award (Deutsch­er Grün­der­preis). Porsche Con­sult­ing will be sup­port­ing Hydro­ge­nious’s efforts to fur­ther scale up its activities.

09/2021

When—seem­ing­ly overnight—a pan­dem­ic changed the way the world worked, Porsche’s con­sul­tants had to come up with clever ways to com­plete projects with­out let­ting clients down.

09/2020

The Covid-19 cri­sis has not affect­ed all parts of the econ­o­my equal­ly. For some indus­tries it has even brought more oppor­tu­ni­ties than chal­lenges. We present cru­cial con­sid­er­a­tions for top man­agers in fields from mechan­ical engi­neer­ing to finan­cial ser­vices.

09/2020

The Covid-19 pan­dem­ic sent shock waves through busi­ness­es and the econ­o­my. In con­se­quence, sus­tain­abil­i­ty could fade into the background—or become an even more impor­tant fac­tor for success.

09/2020

Early warn­ing sys­tems buy time and pro­vide a basis for prompt action. They use data to gain insights into poten­tial future sce­nar­ios. But they run up against lim­its, espe­cial­ly in con­nec­tion with pandemics.

09/2020

Act­ing swift­ly and authen­ti­cal­ly, ensur­ing trans­paren­cy, build­ing trust—the demands placed on com­mu­ni­cat­ing with stake­hold­ers are espe­cial­ly high in a cri­sis. In such sit­u­a­tions social media are both a bless­ing and a curse.

09/2020

Crises tend to hit peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions unpre­pared. Strong per­son­al­i­ties are then need­ed, who can see the big pic­ture and act calm­ly. What exact­ly are the qual­i­ties of out­stand­ing cri­sis managers?

09/2020

The corona­virus has accel­er­at­ed dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion in many sec­tors. It has revealed deficits, but also released new ener­gy. We look at five indus­tries and their dig­i­tal futures.

09/2020

Inter­view: Lock­downs have deeply shak­en glob­al sup­ply chains. Expert Edwin Keh from Hong Kong advis­es com­pa­nies to gain deep­er insights and make secu­ri­ty a pri­or­i­ty in their strate­gic con­sid­er­a­tions. 

09/2020

In this time of cri­sis, many com­pa­nies are switch­ing to man­u­fac­tur­ing essen­tial prod­ucts, launch­ing ini­tia­tives, and send­ing their employ­ees to places they are need­ed. A look at their reasons.

09/2020

Dig­i­tal inno­va­tions not only sim­pli­fy the lives of doc­tors and patients but can pro­tect them too. With that aim, GE Health­care—a man­u­fac­tur­er of med­ical sys­tems—wants to do away with wait­ing rooms.

09/2020

Inter­view: Swiss emer­gency med­ical direc­tor Aris­tome­nis Exadak­ty­los urges bet­ter prepa­ra­tions for epidemics.

09/2020

Bat­tling the corona­virus is part of every­day oper­a­tions at Munich’s Rechts der Isar Hos­pi­tal. Com­mer­cial direc­tor Dr. Elke Frank sees oppor­tu­ni­ties now to catch up on digitalization.

09/2020