Hi,can somebody tell me any insights on management constultancy practice at IDS Scheer in Germany? (Performance Mgmt.)cheersrico

They compete with the strat houses for operational strategy but not corporate strategy work. Most of the works seems to be situation in Bavaria, strong agricultural base which is thier major skillset. Fees tend to be low but salaries very high comapred to market, which means bonus' are quite low (25% ish). Interview process seems very convoluted: 4 face-to-face interviews and 3 case studies. A lot of people regard them quite highly, however I think there business model has major structural flaws and I see retrenchment into core competencies rather than expansive growth.Zbigniew Brzezinski

Hi Zbigniew,thanks for your comment.Where did you get these information? Why do you think, that they won´t grow up a substantial management consulting practice beside their core competencies along business process optimization and ARIS and such stuff?Can someone tell me sth about their projects in management consulting?Merely IT-implementation or often conceptual work and afterwards implementation by technical consultants?What could I expect to do?cheersrico

Hi, me again.When I browsed through their HP, I found out, that maybe a small group within IDS takes on strategy work.Why could it be no future core competency when they compete successfully with strat houses today?Services within Management Consulting:Business StrategyStrategy development Market and competitor analysis Balanced Scorecard BPMBPM strategy and governance Process lifecycle management Process performance management Process target costing Business ReengineeringReorganization and restructuring M&A and post-merger integration (PMI) Cost management Change management IT ManagementIT strategy IT organization IT governance IT service management IT portfolio management IT value & cost management Another inside/opinion would be great.rico

Rico, I wouldn't bother listening to ZB, none of the rest of us do! After all , he still hasn't mastered basic grammar :"however I think there business model"

Hi Matt,do you have any hints regarding my question then, too?

There is no whatsoever strategy group in IDS. I work in Germany for one of the main strat houses and I never competed with them or came in contact with any IDS-project that was strategy related. The majority of projects seem to be somehow ARIS-based (I have seen some of those)

Maybe they are a small group, some kind of advance party...This sounds not unrealistic at all to me...

Some more insights are really welcome!Hope reading from you :-)rico

very very unlikely - why should anybody capable of doing strategy work join ids (if he/she can do more interesting projects and earn more money elsewhere). Why should anyone give a strategy project to ids if the accentures of this world are already struggling to get any strategy assignments? Why have I never seen/heard anything about an ids strategy project in many years of consulting work in Germany.

Hi I work for IDS Scheer in the UK.If you would like any specific information you can email me on myownhminbox@msn.com.

thanks anon,any fact-based insights are welcome!rico

@same anon:because consulting is all about people business.

Does anyone have information regarding recent activities in department mangement consulting?

Mainly consulting. May help to be more specific in your question.

good one - would like to know the following:- project size (manpower)- main focus of consulting projects for business unit: - industry sector - specific subjects e.g. processes - customer profiles - geographic focus - much international/regional travel? - forecast (revenue,customers etc.)- other interesting thingsThank you!

Hi there,any insights on the recent changes in the board? What do you think regarding the reorganization efforts?

IDS is doing very good on operational level, but only because they go very much into process details. This is their main advantage.Do not forget that the main reason they are keeping services such 'strategy' and process consulting is to sell their ARIS licenses and to win SAP implementation projects. This is from where the revenue comes. But even in SAP implementation market they are mainly targeting SMEs. Performance management services sounds good, but keep in mind that is a quite IT oriented stuff.