Business Administration for Engineers and IT professionals

  • type: Seminar (S)
  • chair: KIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • semester: SS 2025
  • time: Tue 2025-04-22
    09:45 - 13:00


    Tue 2025-05-06
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tue 2025-05-20
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tue 2025-06-03
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tue 2025-06-17
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tue 2025-07-01
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tue 2025-07-15
    09:45 - 13:00

    Tue 2025-07-29
    09:45 - 13:00


  • lecturer: Heinz-Peter Sebregondi
  • sws: 2
  • 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.