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Private equity

PE Exit Assessment — IT as a Risk Factor

At PE exit, IT becomes a price driver or a risk factor. What investors really examine in the assessment — and how to make IT exit-proof.

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IT leadership

Political Intelligence — When Excellence Is Not Enough

Professional excellence alone wins no mandate. Why political intelligence in the boardroom decides impact.

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Panel discussion — shared services center
Keynote — HILDERTS Interim Management
IT governance

Debugging the Boardroom — How CIOs Rewrite the Code

Faulty decision patterns in the boardroom can be debugged like software — if the CIO speaks the right language.

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IT leadership

Why can some bosses lead any employee, but no leaders?

Some leaders lead any team successfully — others fail even the best. On the patterns behind it.

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IT leadership

What is the lesser evil: bad leadership or none at all?

No leadership or bad leadership — which does more damage? An uncomfortable trade-off from practice.

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On site during a mandate
Change management

Power understood, leadership not

On managers who master the mechanics of power but never learned leadership — and what that costs organisations.

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Change management

On the last bastion of middle management

Why transformations so often bounce off middle management — and how to open the bastion instead of razing it.

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IT leadership

The German Meeting

The German meeting as a cultural phenomenon: thorough, long, decision-poor — and how to turn it into a leadership instrument.

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Change management

Structures against Culture — Complacency

When complacency becomes culture, appeals do not help — structures that force change do.

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