Peter Schick Management consulting in performance leaps

Jun 27 2017

Innovation projects: Nail the pudding to the wall

A successful innovation project begins with an idea and ends in a resilient oligopoly. In between are uncertainties, inventions, complexity dynamics, financing dynamics, competitive dynamics and transition to the operative business. The innovation is similar to a pudding, which the innovation manager should nail to the wall. This is achieved if the four success factors for the constant innovation success are implemented in the innovation project. more ….

By Peter Schick • Innovation •

May 24 2017

Innovation risk management versus wishful thinking

Competitive innovations must solve the dilemma of innovation risk and offer price. The risk of innovation is often uncertain or not calculated with probabilities. The offer price is more based on wishful thinking than on probabilities to win the competition. Both together cause the later overrun of the innovation budget. An innovation risk management solves the dilemma. more….

By Peter Schick • Innovation •

Apr 18 2017

Psst! Constant consulting success?

What do the market for management consulting and the black market have in common? Both are intransparent, their performances often doubtful, and their prices high. However now the current disruption in the consulting market leads to constant consulting success and fair prices. more….

By Peter Schick • Innovation, Quality strategy •

Mar 16 2017

Have fun, finance innovation

Innovations are sources of eternal enthusiasm, sometimes tarnished by a little disappointment. If you have a lot of money and want to participate, then finance innovations! more….

By Peter Schick • Innovation •

Feb 3 2017

Operative excellence for maintenance

Companies optimize their customer orientation, quality, and productivity through programs for operational excellence. Fully? Maintenance is often excluded because of its special features. Or have you ever heard anything substantial about maintenance excellence? more….

By Peter Schick • Maintenance, Maintenance excellence •

Jan 4 2017

Innovation success by attractive markets

Innovators rely on attractive markets. This is always risky. That is why innovators are in conflict with both the experienced old hands and the strategists. The experienced old hands resist risks. They focus on their own resources. They align with them growth and investment strategically – until it is too late. more….

By Peter Schick • Innovation •

Nov 16 2016

Constant innovation success

Constant innovation success ensures the long-term success of the company, excellent routine the short-term success. Innovation is organic, routine mechanistic. Their differences cause the innovation-routine conflict. Usually the routine eats the innovations, excellent routine devours them. Here, companies can switch over and achieve constant innovation success through four success factors. more….

By Peter Schick • Innovation •

Oct 13 2016

Maintenance productivity – benchmark for production plants

High maintenance productivity is the hallmark of established, in-house maintenance. Operators need to optimize this to remain competitive. more in Servicereport (German)….

By Peter Schick • Maintenance, Maintenance excellence, Maintenance productivity, Maintenance quality •

Sep 13 2016

Innovation success by innovation quality

Innovation success by innovation quality – this is in short the answer to the question: what leads to the rare success, what to the predominant failure of complex innovations? To find the answer, we compared a group of successful innovations with a group of failed innovations in an exploratory meta-analysis. more….

By Peter Schick • Innovation •

Jul 20 2016

Outsourcing maintenance

Industrial change requires from maintenance greater flexibility at higher productivity, the use of new technologies, and the implementation of industry 4.0. Outsourcing maintenance can be a solution. more….

By Peter Schick • Contracted services, Maintenance, Technical services •