Jan-Niclas Bockard

Jan is responsible for strategy consulting at transformis®. With a clear analytical eye, he identifies current and future strategic challenges, recognises patterns, structures and the relationships that matter, and enables organisations to renew themselves with foresight. Whether start-up, SME, corporate group or NGO, this solution-oriented strategy expert, who began his consulting career in Silicon Valley, stands today for the forward-looking development of business models and business logic, strategic market positioning, and the design and implementation of future-ready organisational models and leadership structures.

Strategy Strategy development Market positioning Organisation Organisational development

“By combining innovative and proven methods and approaches, together we create more value for your customers, realise growth potential, make your organisation more efficient and prepare it for the uncertainties of the future.”

Project experience

More than 8 years’ experience leading and implementing strategy and transformation processes at national and international corporate groups, mid-sized family businesses, start-ups and NGOs, for example:

• Designed and implemented a holistic transformation (strategy, organisation, processes, people) for a municipal utilities group, turning a pure utility into a multi-service solutions provider with centralised sales (electricity, water, gas, energy services, metering, IT/telecoms, e-mobility, etc.)
• Designed and ran a strategy review and organisational development process in the digital division of Europe’s largest purchasing group in technical B2B wholesale (PVH)
• Designed and implemented a holistic transformation to realign the strategy and organisation of a municipal IT/telecoms services company with national reach for the future
• Developed and implemented customer analysis and segmentation for a medical technology company, with segment-specific value propositions and tools for applying and refining the segmentation in international sales
• Designed and ran a strategy development process, followed by organisational development, for an international archive – an international institution funded from public and private sources, led by an internationally rotating directorate and overseen by government representatives of the eleven member states as the International Commission
• Designed and ran a strategic and organisational review for a provider of political education for young people and adults

Focus areas and expertise

• Designing and implementing holistic, far-reaching transformation and organisational change programmes
• Planning and running strategy development, strategy review and strategy implementation processes
• Developing and implementing organisational designs and modern leadership structures, with tailored communication and decision-making routines
• Developing and delivering consulting and training concepts within strategy consulting projects and organisational transformation
• Designing and introducing “agile” structures in fast-growing companies and start-ups

Qualifications

• Workshop: Being Digital in a systemic context, Dr. Nina Haas, osb
• Organisational design workshop – Mit innovativen Strukturen zum agilen Unternehmen, Dr. Marco Olavarria, in cooperation with Handelsblatt Fachmedien
• Internal training as a systemic organisational consultant, transformis®
• “Presentation and rhetoric”, seminar with Heinz J. Nötges, Nötges & Partner, Paderborn

• Head of Corporate Strategy competence team, transformis®
• Senior Project Manager, transformis®
• Senior Consultant, transformis®
• Junior Consultant, transformis®
• Junior Consultant for innovation and product development
• Project Manager and Head of Operations (Goleta, California)
• Business Development Manager (Santa Clara, California)

• Technology management (MBA)
• International production management (M. Sc.)
• General engineering (B. Sc.) specialising in theoretical mechanical engineering

• Master of Business Administration in Technology Management
• Master of Science in International Production Management
• Bachelor of Science in General Engineering