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Dr. Christoph Weiss has many years of experience in industry, including at Daimler and Festool. He has advised on many international projects – in the chemical, automotive and electrical engineering sectors – and authored the bestseller: “Doomed to Excellence”. Dr. Weiss is the CEO of Fein, which was founded 150 years ago and has an excellent reputation worldwide in the manufacturing of power tools. In the following interview, he talks about the courage to focus clearly and how this has a positive effect on the costs, complexity and success of a company.

A dual-class digital society has established itself in industry: according to the current study “Future Industry 2023,” 49% of the companies surveyed are proceeding actively with digitalization. The rest are currently still stuck in individual projects or have yet to find true access to this topic. For the study, the consulting company Staufen surveyed more than 400 industrial companies from German-speaking Europe.

Rarely is a company’s global footprint optimally aligned with its strategy and focus. It is usually the result of historical, short-term opportunities. However, the dynamics of competitors, customers, suppliers, the market, and politics put value networks under enormous pressure and require long-term alignment and continuous adaptation. A comprehensive view of the network structure and framework conditions is required to ensure that strategic decisions can be made quickly and with direction. 

How the industry is positioning itself for the future! Our new study on the topics of digitalization, efficiency, sustainability and resilience.

Never stop making your supply chains more resilient! That was the urgent appeal on March 22 at the Staufen AG Management Dialog.

In our training programs, we focus our full attention on sustainable empowerment of your managers and employees.

Over the years, management at T+H were able to turn a blind eye to processes that were not really efficient or to weaknesses in a business unit. CEO Tobias Truckenmüller explains in an interview how the pandemic ruthlessly exposed all of the deficits. With executive training and a strategy process, the company is now taking successful countermeasures. 

Internationally positioned companies need to get a grip on the risks in their value network. This is the only way they will remain competitive in the future. Used correctly, modern risk management can become the new success factor.