Issue 2 (December 2005)

News

The hot seat

The impact of the cost-reduction project at ZF Passau was about as massive as the company’s construction machinery axles. With the necessary support for the idea management by the company’s managers, the project proved that it was possible to maintain the presence in Germany without cutting jobs.

To your health

Value-added processes in medicine: In a joint project, Porsche Consulting and McKinsey optimized the efficiency of the heart and vascular surgery department at University Medical Center in Freiburg. An unusual experiment with pleasant side effects.

Intensive care

Dr. Georg Trummer is convinced of the importance of his new job as patient manager. To create perfect patient flow paths, this dedicated doctor takes a step back from his work at the patient’s bedside, thereby integrating years of clinical experience into the central organizational structures of the department.

A Cayman takes a run-up - going into production with a punch

What goes around, comes around: This literal approach gets a positive spin when Porsche Consulting intermeshes the development processes of a manufacturer with those of its suppliers. Therefore, the series production support of the two-seater sports car Cayman S packed the necessary punch.

Just in time

Trumpf Machine Tools shares more than just a close proximity with Porsche Consulting: with typically Swabian determination, the family company consistently implements the principles of lean production and lean management – and is today the world leader in laser technology.

Hit the road Jack

Lean processes in the operations field of high finance: the global bank UBS and Porsche Consulting are cooperating successfully together. A workshop in Leipzig heralded the launch of another ambitious project, relating to low speed, high speed and mobility.

Hospitals will have to react faster

He still regards the German health system as one of the best, and precisely for that reason he is calling on German clinics to be ready to take new paths. Professor Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Medical Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, responded in exemplary fashion and opened every door to the consultants. As a result, improvements were transformed into visions.

Grand Hotel menu

Anyone who thinks goose liver tureen with semi-sweet chocolate on fig puree, truffled radicchio and brioche are the perfect overture to a fancy dinner has come to the right place at Brenner’s Park-Hotel. The sense of pleasure of international gourmets is based on the unusually well organized cuisine of the Baden-Baden noble hotel so rich in tradition.

Payday