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

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

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

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