About the International Institute of Enterprise – Heidelberg (IIOE)
- Heidelberg, Germany (Neckar river and castle)
The International Institute of Enterprise – Heidelberg (IIOE), based in Heidelberg, Germany, is an independent European think tank and training & advisory organisation dedicated to develop and promote concepts and practices for enterprise management & leadership that facilitate entrepreneurial value creation and sustainable enterprise development.
Our mission:
The International Institute of Enterprise – Heidelberg’s (IIOE) mission is to support entrepreneurs and organisations and their professionals, managers, executives and board members in developing, promoting and applying innovative concepts and practices for entrepreneurial value creation and sustainable enterprise development.
Our dedication: entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial value creation of and in organisations – source of competitive advantage and foundation of sustainable enterprise development
In contrast to the industrial age, from were most of our management concepts, which we still apply today, originated, today’s environment requires very different capabilities from enterprises to succeed and to survive:
not only efficiency, cost leadership through economies of scale, and thus streamlined processes (sole requirement in slow changing industrial sellers’ markets), but dynamic effectiveness from a customer and stakeholder perspective (required in addition in fast changing global buyers’ markets) that motivates customers and other stakeholders to be and to stay committed to the enterprise.
We are convinced that the foundation for this is entrepreneurship on all levels.
Entrepreneurship is characterized by a mix of capabilities of both organisations and of the individuals acting for the organisation such as:
- optimism (i.e. constantly looking for new opportunities without ignoring risk),
- initiative (i.e. acting and not just reacting)
- the ability to sense new customer needs and needs of employees and other important stakeholders, which have to be met to keep them committed to the enterprise
- adaptability, flexibility, and high reaction speed
- innovation and the ability to prevail with new solutions and concepts (products / business models) on the market,
but also:
- thriftiness and efficiency,
- the ability to learn by trial-and-error (continuous improvement),
- staying-power to overcome challenges and to stay to one’s mission and to pursue it step-by-step over longer periods
- the ability for ‘creative destruction’: to detect in time and to abandon products and businesses, which time has come to be replaced by something new
- the motivation to act for the long-term survival of the enterprise.
The traditional enterprise management approach (often labelled as ‘tayloristic’), developed for the industrial enterprise and which still forms the basis of our management systems today, does not support true entrepreneurship. In contrast, it often acts as barrier to it.
To support entrepreneurship both of and in organisations, we have to find new answers to questions such as:
- What leadership concepts are needed to support entrepreneurship?
- How to find the right organisation structure that best supports entrepreneurship in a specific context and how to adapt it to changes of the context?
- How to organise for constant innovation?
- How to conceive and use control systems that support entrepreneurship?
- How to manage people to support entrepreneurship?
- How to set up and use information systems to support entrepreneurship?
We are dedicated to support organisations, professionals, managers and entrepreneurs to find their answers to these questions.
Our activities:
- Research focused on the development and application of entrepreneurial and sustainable enterprise management concepts
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research & projects) - Publication of research results
(press & publications) - Organisation of seminars, workshops and conferences for professionals, managers, entrepreneurs
(conferences & seminars)
About Juergen H. Daum - President and Founder, IIOE:
- Juergen H. Daum
Juergen H. Daum is management and executive adviser and is regarded as a thought leader in enterprise management & leadership. He is a regular event speaker, chairman and panelist, and is holding conferences, seminars and workshops across Europe with entrepreneurs, corporate executives, managers and professionals. His mission is to support organisations and individuals in managing for sustainable enterprise development and success. He regularly publishes articles in professional journals and is the author of several business books. He is based in Heidelberg/Germany and has a second home in France.
Juergen has gained more than 16 years of experience in local (German), regional (European) and global management roles in sales, presales and management consulting as well as in product management and product development at SAP, the world's leading business software vendor. This includes work with senior executives, such as executive board members, managers, as well as with professionals of multinationals on the development and implementation of new concepts for strategic enterprise management, business management, performance management, finance and IT. Before joining SAP he worked 8 years in several leadership positions in smaller and midsize companies in Germany, last as Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer and member of the executive management board. This included responsibility for the development of a new enterprise strategy, re-engineering operations management and finance&control, and the introduction of an integrated ERP-system.
He is founder and president of the International Institute of Enterprise – Heidelberg
He also is the Chief Solution Architect of the Business Solution Architects Group (BSAG) of SAP, Walldorf, Germany, and the conceptional father and co-founder of the SAP Best Practice Network, a network for senior finance and HR executives and professionals of European enterprises (see 
presentation slides). In this role he acts for the Chief Financial Officers and finance professionals of European multnationals as a generator of ideas and stimuli for the redesign and transformation of the finance organization and of the enterprise performance management processes (for a summary of his work here see presentation slides).
In his research, trainer, and advisor practice his mission is to help to develop, promote, and successfully apply integrated/holistic and practicable approaches for enterprise management and leadership, which stimulate entrepreneurship and agility in and of organisations. His aim is to help enterprises to leverage their full potential and to make sustainable enterprise development happen by strengthening strategic and operative innovation, value creation, and adaptation capabilities, i.e. capabilities that enable enterprises to make a difference in stakeholder markets and to maintain competitive advantage. This includes support for the development/adaptation of the enterprise/business strategy and business model, of the organisational & leadership model, and of the enterprise and business management control concept.
More information about Juergen H. Daum:
- Detailed personal profile and curriculum vitae:
CV of Juergen H. Daum (PDF) - Website: http://www.juergendaum.com/
- See also: Interview with Juergen H. Daum: "Sustainability as Objecive for Enterprise Management and Control"
