David (Michael) H.
Consultant for AI Strategy and Digitization
Experience
Jul 2024 - Present
1 year 4 monthsConsultant for AI Strategy and Digitization
ai-strategy.io
- I offer a suite of services to empower organizations in harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence in driving efficiency and generating business value.
- Building on the experience from over 30 projects supporting organizations in business model innovation, digitization, and transformation.
- Drive digital efficiency initiatives and provide guidance needed to navigate the AI revolution: educating leadership on the transformative power of AI, preparing the workforce for generative AI applications, designing an AI vision and strategy, and managing its integration.
- AI vision development: match external best practices with analysis of processes, interfaces, stakeholders, data flows, and output KPI, creating a long-term target picture of process automation and AI augmentation.
- Curated employee training framework for public service foundation: basics of AI, generative AI applications, evaluation of human judgement and machine control in socially critical applications.
- Implemented advanced upskilling courses specialized for product managers: using AI in innovation, portfolio management, process automation, and marketing to promote novel products and services.
- Multiple keynote speaker on AI-driven organizational transformation powered by cultural transformation and forward-looking leadership practices.
- Ongoing exchange of expertise and experiences with personal network of leading AI strategists at multinational corporations to collect business best practices.
- Cooperation with expert leadership networks such as TEC Leadership Institute and PM1 to strengthen impact through increased reach across organizations and industries.
Jan 2020 - Present
5 years 10 monthsLecturer & Researcher (Post-Doctoral / Doctoral)
Technical University of Munich
- Investigating the effective integration and use of AI in organizations, including changes in structures, decision-making, innovation, and leadership, based on the Behavioral Theory of the Firm.
- Extensive work with DAX organizations on the history, use, and implementation of AI through observations, interviews, and workshops with C-level and technology experts over four years.
- Qualitative analysis of organizational strategies, structural changes, and successes.
- Development of long-term AI strategy for local SMEs from various industries, implementation and success tracking of initial AI use cases as scientific advisor for the project KI Transfer Plus in cooperation with the Bavarian Ministry for Digital Affairs and AppliedAI.
- Published article on the effects of AI on strategic leadership, analyzing challenges and tasks for strategic leaders in the age of AI, focusing on key decisions of AI use as process tool or business model redesign.
- Conceptual contribution to innovation theory through analysis of the effects of AI on the process of innovation, distinguishing between incremental and breakthrough innovation to describe future roles for humans and algorithms in creating new ideas, products, and services.
Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
2 years 3 monthsSenior Consultant / Acting Project Manager
goetzpartners Management Consultants
- Advised clients in strategic and operational challenges including operations improvements, business model digitization, operating model design, IT transformation and cyber security infrastructure, and agile work.
- Acted as project manager and C-level contact for projects with EBIT impact up to EUR 9 million, leading and developing junior consultant teams.
- Led a large-scale operational efficiency program across organizational divisions, including creation of a new digital service business model and associated IT infrastructure set-up.
- Contributed to consulting teams in Digital Business and Industrials, and authored whitepapers on business model platformization and digitization, new consulting strategies towards the Industrial Internet of Things and platform-driven businesses.
Jan 2015 - May 2017
2 years 5 monthsConsultant / Senior Consultant
Siemens Management Consulting
- Executed C-level strategic projects including post-merger integration, service sales, and restructuring management in industries such as digital services, mobility, and energy.
- Developed ecosystem and go-to-market strategy for the leading Industrial Internet of Things platform, including cross-divisional strategic plans and C-level alignment.
Summary
I support organizations and leaders in generating value from Artificial Intelligence and Digitization initiatives, building on extensive insights and know-how from practice and academia. With project management experience from strategy consulting, managing projects around digital transformation and business model innovation in complex stakeholder environments. Combining this experience with a doctorate summa cum laude on organizational AI management from the Technical University of Munich, I enable organizations in effective transformation with AI: Tailored and targeted AI strategy development, operational implementation of AI use cases for efficiency gains and value creation, and change management towards an AI-driven future with a focus on the value of human ingenuity.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
NativeFrench
ElementaryEducation
Oct 2013 - Sep 2014
Imperial College Business School
MSc Management, Management Science and Operations · Management · London, United Kingdom
Sep 2009 - Apr 2013
University of Bayreuth
BA Philosophy & Economics · Philosophy & Economics · Bayreuth, Germany
Technical University of Munich
Doctor of Economic and Social Sciences · Munich, Germany
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