Consultant profile

KFU Dr. Dirk Knips

Dr. Dirk
Knips

Born in:

Position:

Qualifications:

1956

Consultant and seminar instructor, KFU AG chairman

Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering

Curriculum vitae:

3 years

Industrial projects at Clausthal Technical University

4 years

Production manager in a large innovative company in the steel processing industry

4 Jahre

Chief Technical Officer of a company for special machine construction, member of the executive board

since 1993

freelance consultant

Consulting experience:

About 100 (mostly entire) improvement projects in small businesses and big industries (world-wide in german and english)

Consulting specialities:

	Company strategic orientation and development
	Designing entire improvement processes in organisations/companies incl. monitoring and implementation
	Initiating changes in company culture ensuring smooth transition in top management posts
	Company executive succession
	Restructuring and recultivating after rationalisation, with strategic new orientating
	Business process optimisation
	Designing new salary-systems
	Coaching of managers
	Developing customer selection tools incl. tailor made customer support service
	Seminars and (group) coachings for developing management and value added selling skills