We guide companies through business transformation:
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The future evolves faster, more complex and more radical than ever.
Accelerating change in the world of information and knowledge, driven by smart technologies, is everywhere. We can now know anything, anytime, anywhere.
- Therefore the necessity and speed to adapt and transform has tremendously increased if one wants to keep (or gain) a leading position.
- Innovation cycles have become shorter and shorter. New competitors with disruptive business models break into established domains
- Accelerating acceleration of the world’s information and knowledge triggered by smart technologies is everywhere. We can know anything, anytime, anywhere…
We guide companies to innovate, perform and grow their business
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IPG's deep experience in Global Footprint & Operating Model re-design was very valuable. Another key success factor was the close integration of concept development with our organization, coupled with a very pragmatic, results-oriented approach. Within a few months, a concise road map was formulated and full buy-in was secured by our management team.
Reinhard Mayer
Former CFO GETINGE GroupOn the way to our new strategy, we asked ourselves the following questions: What are the trends in our markets? How fast are these trends developing? With which market approach do we want to address which of these trends? Under which "guiding idea" do we want to position our new offering? Pragmatic, comprehensible answers emerged in an interplay between "thought ahead" and "developed in a circle of many. The IPG approach paired with very senior consultants has made a decisive contribution to our development.
Dr. Martin Schefter
CEO / BARTEC Safe.t TechnologyWe appreciate IPG's guidance in the transformation towards DIGITAL FITNESS. In a broad-based initiative, we were able to uncover significant efficiency reserves in our organization and define future solutions for company-wide JOST process management.
Joachim Dürr
CEO/ JOST Werke SEIPG's deep experience in Strategy & Business Model Innovation was very valuable. Another key success factor was the close integration of concept development with our organization, coupled with a very pragmatic, results-oriented approach. Within a few months, a concise road map was formulated and full buy-in was secured by our management team.
Dr. Jörg Dalhöfer
CEO Bea GroupIPG is a reliable partner in strategy development and implementation. They take the time to involve all stakeholders in the process. Also they have excellent research capabilities that are highly flexible, allowing us to pursue an agile and fast strategy development process. Beyond formulating the strategy, IPG works with stakeholders across the organization to aid implementation, too.
Dr. Torben Schüttfort
Managing Director Becton Dickinson Rowa TechnologiesIn just a few weeks we identified the existing improvement potential with the help of the IPG benchmarking approach, derived a coherent road map and achieved full buy-in by our Global Supply Chain Management team. Particularly valuable was the trend analysis conducted by IPG, which drew our attention to some key trends and drivers that will change our supply chain in the medium term and which we were able to take into account appropriately in our strategy.
Kai Könecke
Chief Supply Chain Officer EmmiDIGITAL FITNESS along our entire JOST value creation process is a key success factor for us. Together with IPG, we were able to uncover important efficiency potential in purchasing, supply chain and production and define valuable focal points for future digital solutions in company-wide JOST process management
Dirk Hanenberg
COO JOST Werke SEWe are driving forward the strategic expansion of our purchasing and supply chain function with high priority. With IPG’s guidance, we have been able to create important prerequisites for further increasing our unit's value contribution to the company's success in the future and initiating the transformation toward digitalization and sustainability.
Markus Schenker
Supply Chain Management Uster TechnologiesAs recognized Thought Leader and Co-Creator for innovation with an impressive track record in the digital transformation of leading companies, IPG's expertise within the Swiss national INDUSTRIE 2025 initiative, especially with regards to the development of unique digital business models, is highly appreciated!
Philip Hauri
Platform Manager NEXT INDUSTIESIPG has helped a lot to focus on creating something really new instead of letting the same thing become more intense. Together with IPG, we have managed to design a fully connected & harmonized operating model and cross-regional shared functions to leverage both our size as well as our expertise. As key result we thereby substantially increased our sales efficiency and productivity.
Heinz Jacqui
Senior Vice President Gunnebo GroupThanks to IPG's open innovation approach, we have received interesting solution ideas for our open questions. This gave us fresh ideas and interesting actual opportunities for the future.
Jussi Takaneva
Head of Industrial, Multimedia and Distribution JAE EuropeAs an internationally recognized think tank and consultancy for technology and innovation management, we see IPG as a valuable strategic partner for the expansion of our Science-technology Park. In addition, we benefit from IPG's relevant supply chain expertise in developing and locating highly qualified suppliers for our customers.
Marion Milanović
Business Development & Shared Services MIND - Milanović Industries GroupThe strategic expansion of our commodity group management is a top priority for SBB. With the support of Carsten Vollrath and his team, we were able to realize important steps in expanding our methodological expertise and in deriving commodity group-specific optimization levers and sustainable procurement strategies.
Dietmar Gessner
Head of Competence Center Commodity Management Swiss federal railways (SBB) AGscelerisque netus auctor suscipit vehicula one pellentesque elementum vehicula adipiscing natoque tortor fermentum fermentum to pellentesque per interdum este mauris.
Adrian Jungo
President / Head of Business Development / procure.ch / cablexDigital procurement is a central field of training for us, in which the BME already plays a leading role. We are proud to have won IPG as a strategic partner for the further expansion of our training program. With IPG's relevant innovation and digitization competence, we offer German procurement organizations a first-class range of services to systematically develop and expand their digital competencies.
Wilhelm Keienburg
Managing Director BME AcademyIPG is one of the leading think tanks and management consultancies for the holistic transformation of purchasing. Above all, with its relevant innovation competence, IPG is a strategic training partner for us for the systematic development of purchasing 4.0 competencies and the initiation of purchasing 4.0 pilot projects in Swiss companies. logo-procure Andreas Kyburz For over 55 years, the Trade Association for Purchasing and Supply Management “procure.ch” has been accompanying procurement employees at industrial, trading and service companies throughout their professional careers. The association links around 1,000 companies from different sectors and of different sizes, along with 500 private individuals.
Andreas Kyburz
Managing Director procure.chIPG’s deep experience motivated us to investigate our current business model. Carsten Vollrath’s and his team members full commitment moved us further in building new complement digital business model. Our company's holistic vision has changed, first milestone of the project is done. IPG moved us in the process of digital brewing of our new business model, like the process of making the beer. Thanks to IPG we did START. Now we follow-UP.
Vojin Vukadinović
Executive Director IT & Marketing Metalac GroupIn addition to intensive analyses on the market and customer side with IPG, the impulses from many external experts and potential development partners that IPG involved in our innovation work were trend-setting on our way from a classical machine manufacturer to a solution provider and strategic business partner for our customers.
Alex Waser
Former CEO Bystronic Member of Conzzeta Executive CommitteeThe IPG Open Innovation approach has brought us new ideas and concrete solutions much faster, significantly increased our development productivity and integrated potential development suppliers into the process early on. The expectations we had placed in the project were exceeded.
Antonios Vonofakos
Former Vice President & GM Becton Dicikinson Rowa TechnologiesWe like to work with IPG because they not only have the skills of strategy consulting and facilitation, but also understand our medical and technical challenges due to their in-depth experience in healthcare.
Dr. Stefan Klose
Former Director R&D Acute Care Therapies Maquet CardiopulmonaryIPG's deep experience in business model development and especially with regard to open innovation was very valuable. Through networked thinking, we were encouraged to embark on something truly new and to open up widely to explore concrete new offerings, business models and set cornerstones to our organization for a new growth area.
Nader Halmuschi
Former Vice President / Managing Director BARTEC Safe.t TechnologyWith his relevant experience in various industries, Carsten Vollrath and IPG are an important source of inspiration and sparring partner for us on the topic of "Transformation of the SBB Supply Chain in the Direction of Digitalization and Sustainability”.
Jan-Patrick Willmes
Former Head of Procurement Competence Center Swiss federal railways (SBB) AGWhen it comes to topics related to innovation and digitalization (AI, IoT, automation, etc), Carsten Vollrath and his team are a top address.
Walter Huber
Former CEO M-Industrie Migros-GruppeI greatly appreciate IPG’s guidance on the MNRS strategizing process in exploring a reimagination of our brand and our charity's business model. In this regards, IPG has given us such a powerful approach to scale and innovate how we deliver services to families in need.
Joanne Gouaux
Acting Board Chair My New Red Shoes (MNRS)IPG has helped us a lot in sharpening a common understanding of the topic of strategic procurement management across all purchasing units and raising the entire purchasing department to a new level of professionalism. The structural & cultural challenges in the organization associated with the necessary transformation were recognized early on and actively addressed.
Axel Butterweck
Former CPO Swiss PostIPG is one of the first addresses for supply chain transformation. For us, IPG is an ideal strategic partner not only as an initiator and pioneer, but also as a strategic implementation partner for innovative supply chain solutions and associated digital business models.
Dirk Reich
Co-Founder / Board Member Log-hub Imperial LogisticsAs recognized Thought Leader and Co-Creator for innovation with a long track record in the digital transformation of leading companies, IPG's expertise within the Swiss dialogue about digitalization and technology management (i.e. in the national INDUSTRIE 2025 initiative) especially with regards to the development of unique digital business models is highly appreciated!
Rene Brugger
President Swiss Technology NetworkOn the way to our new order fulfillment organization, we harmonized the roles, tasks and competencies between the functions involved and established a common end-2-end process understanding. In the interplay between "thought ahead" and "agreed within the circle of stakeholders", the IPG approach has contributed decisively to our new setup and our collaborative approach.
Harry Baumann
Manager Supply Chain and Operations Uster Technologies AGIPG has made a strong contribution to our brand relaunch. Thanks to the collection and evaluation of hand-picked customer voices (voice of the customer), we were able to sharpen our positioning and strengthen our brand.
Axel Kühn
Managing Director Fellows & SparksThe acknowledged expertise of IPG has helped us a lot in setting up an integrated global Supply Chain & Procurement function which fully supports the new Getinge Operating Model in the best possible way. This included a new organizational setup and corresponding roles and responsibilities as well as a new governance structures for coordination between all SC functions in the group. As one key success factor IPG managed to integrate all relevant functional areas systematically into the redesign process from the very beginning, thereby achieving a high buy-in.
Markus Medart
Former President Supply Chain Getinge GroupWe have had very good experiences with IPG and their Open Innovation approach. In a remarkably short time they have found and mobilized the right external experts. The results of the Open Innovation Workshops opened up new perspectives for us in the development of innovations and were therefore very valuable to us.
Christoph Hellenbrand
Director R&D Becton Dickinson Rowa TechnologiesOn behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, I`m using the opportunity to express satisfaction for the joint fruitful collaboration in the matter of industrialization and digitalization of Serbian economy. As an international think tank and top management consultancy with an impressive track record in the digital transformation of leading companies, IPG's expertise is highly appreciated within the public-private dialogue within the framework of the elaboration of the new industrial policy strategy, as well as the initiative of digital transformation in industry the Republic of Serbia! chamber-of-commerce-serbia Vidosava Dzagić The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia is an independent, modern and responsible non-budget institution, a national association of all Serbian businessmen who puts their traditions, experience, knowledge and expertise to the best interests of their members and the Serbian economy.
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