Software & IT

Developing a Digital and Complementing Human Strategy for a Financial Service Provider
Over the course of several months, a team and I contributed to the digital strategy of a leading German financial services provider. The company’s successful current business model is heavily based on professional face-to-face consulting for private customers. In the

Developing a Digital and Complementing Human Strategy for a Financial Service Provider
Over the course of several months, a team and I contributed to the digital strategy of a leading German financial services provider. The company’s successful current business model is heavily based on professional face-to-face consulting for private customers. In the

Designing Digital B2B Buying Experiences
I coached an innovation team at a global industrial goods manufacturer throughout their initial project phase. The team was tasked with developing a digital buying infrastructure for their industry clients that converges the many current digital interfaces. In this project

Designing Digital B2B Buying Experiences
I coached an innovation team at a global industrial goods manufacturer throughout their initial project phase. The team was tasked with developing a digital buying infrastructure for their industry clients that converges the many current digital interfaces. In this project

Brand Positioning Design for a Business Software Company
I facilitated the brand positioning process for a small German software company in the archiving & ECM space. The owner-led business gone through an impressive transformation into an agile and customer-centric company and wanted to reevaluate its positioning. During a

Brand Positioning Design for a Business Software Company
I facilitated the brand positioning process for a small German software company in the archiving & ECM space. The owner-led business gone through an impressive transformation into an agile and customer-centric company and wanted to reevaluate its positioning. During a

Training Creativity Trainers
I designed and piloted a boot camp for creativity trainers for a large tech company. The project was divided into: 1. Empathy work with employees and future creativity trainers in different locations 2. A workshop with a core team in

Training Creativity Trainers
I designed and piloted a boot camp for creativity trainers for a large tech company. The project was divided into: 1. Empathy work with employees and future creativity trainers in different locations 2. A workshop with a core team in
Redesigning Idea Management
Over several months, a coaching team and I facilitated the process of redesigning the idea management for a very large German company. The project was about rethinking the complete approach to contributing, evaluating and pursuing ideas in a corporation. As in other projects,
Redesigning Idea Management
Over several months, a coaching team and I facilitated the process of redesigning the idea management for a very large German company. The project was about rethinking the complete approach to contributing, evaluating and pursuing ideas in a corporation. As in other projects,

The Future of Fuel Retail with SAP Oil & Gas and Engen South Africa
Designed and moderated a strategic meeting between SAP and one of its customers in the Oil & Gas division on how smart vehicles and big data may impact fuel retail. Here’s a summary of the workshop from SAP’s perspective. According to that,

The Future of Fuel Retail with SAP Oil & Gas and Engen South Africa
Designed and moderated a strategic meeting between SAP and one of its customers in the Oil & Gas division on how smart vehicles and big data may impact fuel retail. Here’s a summary of the workshop from SAP’s perspective. According to that,

SAP Design Thinking Initiative
I was part of the coaching team in SAP’s second wave of Design Thinking projects and co-moderated the initial coach camp, the kick off events and consulted four product innovation teams. This is a neat video about SAP’s Design Thinking

SAP Design Thinking Initiative
I was part of the coaching team in SAP’s second wave of Design Thinking projects and co-moderated the initial coach camp, the kick off events and consulted four product innovation teams. This is a neat video about SAP’s Design Thinking

Five Day Camp for Asia Pacific Marketing Team
Designed and moderated a five day camp for a team from Asia Pacific and Japan that included experiencing Design Thinking, applying it to internal strategy topics and learning skills to lead sessions as a coach. (HPI Academy)

Five Day Camp for Asia Pacific Marketing Team
Designed and moderated a five day camp for a team from Asia Pacific and Japan that included experiencing Design Thinking, applying it to internal strategy topics and learning skills to lead sessions as a coach. (HPI Academy)

Leading Design Thinking
Designed and moderated a two day class on “Leading Design Thinking” for board members of a large German software company. This class had its focus on how to enable and manage teams to do Design Thinking work by assembling the

Leading Design Thinking
Designed and moderated a two day class on “Leading Design Thinking” for board members of a large German software company. This class had its focus on how to enable and manage teams to do Design Thinking work by assembling the
Article on Design Thinking & Agile in Software Development
Together with my friend and SAP colleague Tobias Hildenbrand I wrote an article about a project that combined Design Thinking with Lean&Agile tools and worked on software for athletic sailors. The article can be bought here, more about the sailing solution
Article on Design Thinking & Agile in Software Development
Together with my friend and SAP colleague Tobias Hildenbrand I wrote an article about a project that combined Design Thinking with Lean&Agile tools and worked on software for athletic sailors. The article can be bought here, more about the sailing solution

Big Data Business Models for Banks
Designed and moderated an innovation experience on the future of Big Data for a team from Postfinance, the Swiss post. An idea which was drafted in the course of the project and later rolled out by the team is https://www.profitapp.ch/de. (HPI Academy)

Big Data Business Models for Banks
Designed and moderated an innovation experience on the future of Big Data for a team from Postfinance, the Swiss post. An idea which was drafted in the course of the project and later rolled out by the team is https://www.profitapp.ch/de. (HPI Academy)

Ten Day Sprint for a Mobile Banking App
Guided a team of software developers through the five day concept phase of a banking innovation project in which they went from a design challenge to a running mobile app in only ten days. (HPI Academy)

Ten Day Sprint for a Mobile Banking App
Guided a team of software developers through the five day concept phase of a banking innovation project in which they went from a design challenge to a running mobile app in only ten days. (HPI Academy)

Software for Athletic Sailors
Coached a team of developers in the initial concept phase to create a software that helps athletic sailors in race planning. There is a video about the result here:

Software for Athletic Sailors
Coached a team of developers in the initial concept phase to create a software that helps athletic sailors in race planning. There is a video about the result here:

Strategic Design Consulting at SAP Walldorf
For about 1 1/2 years, I worked at SAP’s headquarters in Walldorf in a team specializing on creating cross-topic innovations leveraging SAP’s latest technology (HANA, mobile, cloud). In mixed teams of developers, software architects, UX designers, researchers and business experts I worked on innovations for retail, finance, controlling, and

Strategic Design Consulting at SAP Walldorf
For about 1 1/2 years, I worked at SAP’s headquarters in Walldorf in a team specializing on creating cross-topic innovations leveraging SAP’s latest technology (HANA, mobile, cloud). In mixed teams of developers, software architects, UX designers, researchers and business experts I worked on innovations for retail, finance, controlling, and