Dr. Manuel Bauer

Responsible for the implementation of ADH’s tools that digitize the health insurance value chain. Furthermore, responsible for the development and roll-out of the digital transformation program “Allianz Customer Model” (ACM) for Allianz’s global health business

Responsible for scaling Ledvance's global Smart Home business (including the brands Ledvance Smart+, Osram Smart+ and Sylvania Smart+) while building new business models around "smart" lighting. Excellent contacts to decision makers at the smart home platforms of Google, Amazon and Apple as well as at chip suppliers for IoT applications.

Top management consulting dedicated to innovation and organic growth based on the innovation principles of Clayton Christensen (Disruptive Innovation, Jobs-to-be-done), Rita G. McGrath (Discovery-driven planning) and Alex Osterwalder (Business Model Canvas)

Supervision of large, strategically important innovation projects in two of Clariant´s largest Business Units (Pigments and Masterbatch) and in Process Development; Project-related activities: Coaching of senior innovation project leaders; development of lead customer relations, Unmet Needs surfacing, Customer Ideation Workshops, market roll-out of innovations; Deployment of concepts like Design Thinking, the Lean Start-Up methodology, Critical Assumptions-based project management, Innovation Portfolio Management; Conceptual innovation work: Development of portfolio management and performance management approaches, implementation of innovation KPIs, capability-based innovation & technology strategy development; Trained Lean SixSigma Black Belt (DMAIC); Innovation Master Balck Belt (DFSS); Several trainings in change management and leadership without authority

Innovation management consultancy, specifically Innovation Performance analysis, innovation process design, innovation strategy; Post merger integration; Strategic due diligence consultancy; Analytic market modelling; all in the chemical and pharmaceutical (partially other) industries

Sales proposal development; Customer service for inorganic catalysts for customers throughout the Middle East; focus on methanol and water gas shift reaction catalysts; Support during catalyst loading, handling and plant start up after catalyst exchange; New business development in the area of exhaust gas clean-up

Thesis topic: Managing a portfolio of innovation capabilities - a systems approach in and for the chemical industry Content: Analysis and quantification of strategic innovation portfolio management´s impact on innovation performance (effectiveness in terms of new product sales as well as efficiency in terms of cost savings impact) along three dimensions: - External knowledge sourcing vs. internal R&D - Exploratory vs. exploitative innovation - Product vs. process innovation

Research on nano diagnostic methodologies using optical spectroscopy methods (IR, Raman, SERS); synthesis of functionalized nano-particles and characterization in in-vitro applications.