Dr. Christian Laukien

Responsible for corporate strategy, transformation and cross-functional initiatives in an international group environment, with a focus on portfolio governance, product performance and business modelling. - Lead international and cross-functional project teams of up to 13 people. - Manage stakeholders across corporate functions, countries and senior management. - Develop decision-making materials and recommendations for management decisions. - Implement commercial, operational and digital transformations.

Advised senior management in international engagements on corporate strategy, business models, organizational transformation and digitalization. - Led teams of up to 10 people. - Responsible for business development, sales and management of consulting engagements: opportunity identification, proposal development valued at up to €5 million; managed project budgets of up to €3.2 million. - Served as People Lead with direct people responsibility for performance reviews, career development and recruiting.

- Led workstreams of up to four team members in complex, cross-functional client environments. - Developed project deliverables, business cases and recommendations for senior stakeholders. - Translated strategic concepts into implementation plans for transformation and operational improvement.

Responsible for research and teaching, third-party funding acquisition, and supervision of bachelor’s and master’s theses. - Led two student research assistants and coordinated research delivery. - Assessed the development of STAWAG’s long-term corporate strategy. - Developed and published a strategic framework for corporate strategy formulation.

Conducted doctoral research and collaborated with faculty at Newcastle University Business School.

Responsible for purchasing, material planning and shop-floor Kanban for approximately 6,500 standard parts, balancing availability, cost, inventory and supplier quality.

Completed a dual vocational apprenticeship in industrial management, with rotations including sales, pricing, service and logistics, while contributing to strategic and operational improvement initiatives.

English Title (Translated): Object-based Path Dependence - Research on the Stability of Business Strategies with an Example from the Utilities Industry German Title (Publication Title): Objektbasierte Pfadabhängigkeit - Ein Beitrag zur Stabilität von Unternehmensstrategien mit einem Beispiel aus der Energiewirtschaft Research Area: EME - Energy, Mobility, Environment

Accounting, Value Creation in Networks, Innovation Management, Corporate Development

Accounting, Corporate Finance, Organisation, Information and Communication Systems