Transformation and Digitization of Businesses
'Take your strategy to execution otherwise it was not worth spending the time writing it', Dieter Weisshaar
Dieter Weisshaar
Advisor & Board Member High Tech Industry
I'm Dieter Weisshaar, an Executive in the High Tech Industry for 30 years. My key competences are leadership, digitization and transformation. I have worked for large Blue Chip Companies and transformed businesses for investors and shareholders in the past years. Transformations
could focus on turnaround, growth, internationalization
or digitization. Value drivers of such transformation advisory are leadership team building, coaching, digital marketing & growth strategies and strategy execution.
My belief is that the combination of experience
and expertise
can create real value fast.
You can visit my social footprint with a click on the buttons right here. I hope you enjoy my blog. I am always happy to start a good dialogue on leadership and transformation topics.
Most important from my point of view is that we take strategy to execution
to create real value
and having fun
in doing what we do.
Opinions are mine. This website is for private purposes only.
Inside the Boardroom

On our famous online book store you find far over 60.000 books on strategy but only a good 4.000 on strategy execution or implementation. There are far more universities that offer marketing and only a few on sales as a major. Creating the ambition, the project goals, the strategy is a cool thing and requires great thinkers. Taking the things to daily execution requires an additional skill which is rare, may be perceived as boring but is the key success factor for every company.

You receive a new project and on the first view it looks complex and you need to get your arms around it. How can you structure a complex situation to discover various perspectives and approaches. At C-Level you may not even have all the information or expertise to resolve it on your own. Some ideas that worked for me.

You may have seen the rise of tech companies at the end of 90th of last century. Web Content, eCommerce and startups were the exciting topics, til the point when the dotcom bubble burst. It was the time when salaries went crazy in this sector, the company evaluations and stock markets were on all time high and venture capital market was overheated.

Marketing budgets are always a discussion topic. What can a CEO expect if a percentage of revenue is spent for corporate marketing? Have the goals been defined and expectations aligned. Marketing can not meet expectations if the ecosystem is not supportive. Let's have a deeper look in the B2B sector and the dependencies.

Every single day, when you open Social Media, you got told that there is a New Work and new leadership skills. It is indisputable that leadership has changed from decades ago and that is rightly so. In the light of the new resignation and war for talent, great leadership skills are fundamental for every company. But we should not miss out Expertise as a skill.