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Dr. Julia Schreier

Leveraging experience across different fields – from Industrial Engineering and Management to People, Julia‘s passion is enhancing knowledge and creating value by exploring and sharing innovative concepts and management insights. A key facet of her expertise involves effectively bridging the gap between academic insights and practical applications, particularly in addressing management topics and organizational challenges. This multifaceted background uniquely positions her to contribute valuable impetus to initiatives aimed at fostering comprehension, continuous growth, and progress.

Enhancing IT-Business Collaboration- Insights from CIOs Industry Experience and Academic Research

IT leaders are looking for guidance on where they are and where they should be to best fit and work with their business. As benchmarking and comparison, they use (role) models. However, every IT leader faces some unique challenges, different circumstances and complexities of IT-business collaboration. (Role) models, by their nature, do not fully capture all unique aspects, leading to challenges in feasibility and thus effectiveness. Our approach to address these gaps was conducting a focus group with five experienced leaders in IT management. The group derived hypotheses proposing practical approaches. This report shows the results to the interested CIOs, CEOs, CTOs etc. With this extended view IT and all leaders can better derive suitable actions for themselves.

13. January 2025

Effective Resource and Financial Management via Rolling Planning

Every organization juggles resources, budgets and timelines to achieve its strategic, tactical and operational goals. The question is how to manage these seemingly conflicting edges, and how to get an overarching, up-to-date view that allows decision makers to take proactive action without a lot of effort. This question is an old one, yet we still see the struggles and their many impactful implications. The reason is that besides all AI and prognostic calculations, we are still humans and oftentimes can neither see the full picture for now nor for the future. Combined with overconfidence, this leads to ending up in handling more topics than can be managed. This article thus provides guidance for CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and decision makers on the still relevant topic of how to efficiently and accurately plan resources and finances to achieve their business goals.

2. December 2024

Driving Dimensions to Succeed Digital Transformation

Today’s business leaders are confronted with numerous existential challenges, of which Digital Transformation is among the most pressing to leverage on the chances and stay competitive. This paper is designed to support CEOs, COOs, CIOs and decision makers with best practices and implement Digital Transformation.

18. December 2023