Business Administration for Engineers and IT professionals

  • type: Seminar (S)
  • chair: KIT-Fakultäten - KIT-Fakultät für Maschinenbau - Institut für Informationsmanagement im Ingenieurwesen
    KIT-Fakultäten - KIT-Fakultät für Bauingenieur-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
    KIT-Fakultäten - KIT-Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • semester: WS 24/25
  • time: Mon 2024-10-21
    09:45 - 13:00


    Mon 2024-11-04
    09:45 - 13:00

    Mon 2024-11-18
    09:45 - 13:00

    Mon 2024-12-02
    09:45 - 13:00

    Mon 2024-12-16
    09:45 - 13:00

    Mon 2025-01-13
    09:45 - 13:00

    Mon 2025-01-27
    09:45 - 13:00

    Mon 2025-02-10
    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. Zeit und Ort siehe ILIAS / Number of participants is limited. Time and place see ILIAS.