Business Administration for Engineers and IT professionals

  • type: Seminar (S)
  • : Master
  • chair: KIT-Fakultäten - KIT-Fakultät für Maschinenbau - Institut für Informationsmanagement im Ingenieurwesen
    KIT-Fakultäten - KIT-Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • semester: SS 2022
  • time: Tu 2022-04-19
    09:45 - 13:00


    Tu 2022-05-03
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tu 2022-05-17
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tu 2022-05-31
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tu 2022-06-14
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tu 2022-06-28
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tu 2022-07-12
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tu 2022-07-26
    09:45 - 13:00


  • start: 03.11.2020
  • lecturer: Heinz-Peter Sebregondi
  • sws: 2
  • ects: 4
  • lv-no.: 2122303
  • information: On-Site
Content

Learning content

  • Competitive strategies, customer value, corporate cultures, lifecycles (technology, business, product), market leadership dynamics.
  • Continuum commoditization/differentiation.
  • Value chain, core and support functions.
  • A company’s business portfolio.
  • Profit margin sensitivity.
  • Profitable and non-profitable products, customers and businesses.
  • Drivers of a company’s value (McKinsey model), return on invested capital (ROIC), ROIC value driver tree.
  • Strategic planning
  • Capital investments, discounted cash flow analysis, quantifying of and dealing with risks, cost-estimating methodologies per planning stage.
  • Sales, procurement/purchasing, negotiation strategies

Learning objectives

  • better understand a company’s business, financials and their executives/decision makers
  • use the language and metrics of senior executives and hold effective conversations with them
  • more effectively sell a solution’s or project’s operational and financial value to executives and decision makers
Language of instructionGerman/English
Bibliography

Understanding a company's business and financials made easy; Heinz-Peter Sebregondi (Amazon 2017)

Erfolgsfaktoren für die nachhaltige Business-Karriere: Die menschliche und die Business-Perspektive; Heinz-Peter Sebregondi (Amazon 2018)

Organisational issues

Teilnehmerzahl ist begrenzt. / Number of participants is limited.

Current

Contact person:

Thomas Maier

Organisational

Lecture language German. Number of participants is limited to 12 persons.

Workload: Attendance time 24 h, self-study 96 h.

Learning content

  • Competitive strategies, customer value, corporate cultures, lifecycles (technology, business, product), market leadership dynamics.
  • Continuum commoditization/differentiation.
  • Value chain, core and support functions.
  • A company’s business portfolio.
  • Profit margin sensitivity.
  • Profitable and non-profitable products, customers and businesses.
  • Drivers of a company’s value (McKinsey model), return on invested capital (ROIC), ROIC value driver tree.
  • Strategic planning
  • Capital investments, discounted cash flow analysis, quantifying of and dealing with risks, cost-estimating methodologies per planning stage.
  • Sales, procurement/purchasing, negotiation strategies

Learning objectives

  • better understand a company’s business, financials and their executives/decision makers
  • use the language and metrics of senior executives and hold effective conversations with them
  • more effectively sell a solution’s or project’s operational and financial value to executives and decision makers