Success as a benchmark

Confidence arises from the quality of the results as well as the overall impression and integrity of principal actors. The tasks set in interim and project management settings are just as diverse as the contracting companies and situational conditions. taskforce managers bring competence and experience with them from many years in management positions and from over 200 successfully completed projects.

Below, you may want to check out selected reference projects of taskforce managers in interim and project management. (currently only in German language)

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  • Product launch

    Customer:
    International cosmetics enterprise
    Branch:
    Fast Moving Consumer Good, Cosmetic

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    • Project Management
    • Ressource
    • Internationalisation
    • Sales & Marketing
    • Strategy / BD

    Situation

    • Umsatzeinbruch bei einer Hautpflegecreme

    Tasks

    • Entwicklung einer neuen Creme
    • Vermeidung einer Kannibalisierung

    Result

    • Nr. 2 im Hautpflegemarkt innerhalb von 12 Monaten
    • Kaum Kannibalisierung
    • Ähnliche Resultate in 11 Ländern innerhalb der folgenden zwei Jahre
     

  • Strategical repositioning

    Customer:
    Worldwide of operating gear engines manufacturer
    Branch:
    Mechanical engineering
    Position:
    Mkg Dir.

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    • Build
    • Know How
    • Project Management
    • Turnaround
    • Consulation
    • Cost Cutting
    • Revenue Increase
    • Focusing
    • Interim Mgmt.
    • Internationalisation
    • Process Optimisation
    • Sales & Marketing
    • Strategy / BD

    Situation

    • Lack of overall strategic and operational concept
    • Necessary to market a development of the most important product

    Tasks

    • Launch a new product
    • Strategic realignment

    Result

    • Strategic repositioning of the company
    • And planning, management of the organization launches a new product line (10 countries)
    • Design / implementation of Produktkatalogues (600 pages, English / D)
    • Development / Setting up a new website
     

  • Introduction of a marketing draught

    Customer:
    Leading manufacturer for security software
    Branch:
    IT
    Position:
    Mkg Dir.

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    • IT / Organisation
    • Know How
    • Revenue Increase
    • Focusing
    • Interim Mgmt.
    • Process Optimisation
    • Sales & Marketing
    • Strategy / BD
    • Vacancy

    Situation

    • Lack of marketing strategy
    • Inefficient organization of the marketing department
    • Need to introduce a new product

    Tasks

    • Reorientation of the marketing department
    • Development of technology partnerships (Sales Partner)

    Result

    • Restructuring the marketing department
    • Implementation of a Marketing framework
    • Development and implementation of a Partner Program (IBM, Microsoft, Intel)
    • Product Launch Organization
     

  • Marketing strategy

    Customer:
    Start-up in the area of IP/telecommunications
    Branch:
    Telecommunication
    Position:
    Coach

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    • Know How
    • Project Management
    • Ressource
    • Consulation
    • Revenue Increase
    • Process Optimisation
    • Sales & Marketing
    • Strategy / BD

    Situation

    • Lack of market entry expertise for an innovative product (IP peer to peer Internet telephony)
    • Lack of focus
    • Marketing plan for investors needed

    Tasks

    • Creating a marketing strategy and marketing roadmap

    Result

    • Successful marketing and introduction strategy plan
    • Extraction of the first major reference customers
     

  • Marketing and sales development

    Customer:
    US Mechanical engineering group
    Branch:
    Engineering
    Position:
    Mkg Dir.

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    • Turnaround
    • Revenue Increase
    • Focusing
    • Interim Mgmt.
    • Process Optimisation
    • Sales & Marketing
    • Strategy / BD
    • Vacancy

    Situation

    • These fields are focusing in marketing and strategy
    • Unprofitable product lines or to low margins
    • Lack of focus distribution

    Tasks

    • Management of the strategy development process for all five business units
    • Development and introduction of the European marketing strategy
    • Establishment of the marketing organization

    Result

    • Thorough introduction of the European Marketing Strategy
    • Successful Turnaround
    • Value Proposition for each Unit
     

  • Strategy development

    Customer:
    German mechanical engineering manufacturer, impulse technology
    Branch:
    Engineering
    Position:
    BDM

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    • Project Management
    • Focusing
    • Interim Mgmt.
    • Process Optimisation
    • Strategy / BD
    • Vacancy

    Situation

    • Lack of corporate strategy and market positioning

    Tasks

    • Run of the three-year planning and strategy process

    Result

    • Successful development of a three-year strategy
    • Entry into the promising wind market
    • Extraction of the first major customer
     

  • Business Development Consulting

    Customer:
    US Mechanical engineering group
    Branch:
    Engineering
    Position:
    Coach

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    • Build
    • Know How
    • Consulation
    • Revenue Increase
    • Strategy / BD

    Situation

    • Markets do not fully
    • Lack of knowledge of the market (competitors, customers)

    Tasks

    • Enlargement of the sales through identification of additional market potential
    • Reliable basis for strategic planning

    Result

    • Identification of new markets with a potential two-digit million € sales potential
    • Preparation of business cases
    • Development of a market entry strategy
     

  • Marcom strategy and image improvement

    Customer:
    US Mechanical engineering group
    Branch:
    Engineering
    Position:
    Mkg Dir.

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    • Focusing
    • Interim Mgmt.
    • Internationalisation
    • Process Optimisation
    • Sales & Marketing
    • Strategy / BD
    • Vacancy

    Situation

    • Lack of unity of image in marketing and strategy
    • Old image
    • Failure to Launch

    Tasks

    • Improvement of the external corporate communication
    • Control of the trade fair activities
    • Product Launch

    Result

    • Development of a uniform corporate design
    • Concept and organization of the exhibition at numerous trade shows
    • Concept and implementation of the first common European website
    • Concept and organization of the exhibition at numerous trade shows
     

  • Commercial Due Diligence for submission to the financing banks

    Customer:
    Mid-cap Private Equity company with focus on growth assets
    Branch:
    Healthcare
    Position:
    Berater

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    • Personal
    • IT / Organisation
    • Know How
    • Buying / Logistics
    • Out-/Insourcing
    • Project Management
    • Rebuild
    • Ressource
    • Supply Chain Mgmt.
    • Technic / Production
    • Turnaround
    • Consulation
    • Cost Cutting
    • Revenue Increase
    • Finance
    • Focusing
    • Interim Mgmt.
    • Internationalisation
    • PMI
    • Process Optimisation
    • Sales & Marketing
    • Strategy / BD
    • Vacancy

    Situation

    • Geplante Investition in einen innovativen Apothekenservice im Bereich Onkologie
    • Unsicherheiten in Rahmenbedingungen
    • Unklare operative Strukturen

    Tasks

    • Commercial Due Diligence zur Vorlage bei Banken
    • Zukünftige Marktstrategie
    • Kritische Bewertung der – auch zukünftigen - gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen
    • Überarbeitung der operativen Strukturen

    Result

    • Geglückte Übernahme der Mehrheitsanteile
    • Seither erfolgreiche Wachstumsstrategie
     

  • International country markets strategies

    Customer:
    Leading European generics company
    Branch:
    Pharma
    Position:
    Interim Projektleiter

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    • Personal
    • IT / Organisation
    • Know How
    • Buying / Logistics
    • Out-/Insourcing
    • Project Management
    • Rebuild
    • Ressource
    • Supply Chain Mgmt.
    • Technic / Production
    • Turnaround
    • Consulation
    • Cost Cutting
    • Revenue Increase
    • Finance
    • Focusing
    • Interim Mgmt.
    • Internationalisation
    • PMI
    • Process Optimisation
    • Sales & Marketing
    • Strategy / BD
    • Vacancy

    Situation

    • Gute Wachstumschancen im Ausland werden nicht systematisch genutzt
    • Too dependent from the domestic business which became weaker by that time

    Tasks

    • Strategien für 12 Europäische Märkte
    • Budgets und Umsetzungspläne
    • Ausrichtung der Landesorganisationen auf die zukünftigen Rahmenbedingungen
    • Markenführung mit Schwerpunkt Synergien OTC – Rx-Generika
    • Projektmanagement innerhalb der Organisation des Auftraggebers

    Result

    • Ausbaupläne zur Vorlage beim Beirat der Eigner
    • In der Folgezeit stützt das starke Wachstum des internationalen Geschäftes des Auftraggebers den schwierigen Geschäftsverlauf im Inland