Stefan Atanassov

🌟 I am honoured to announce that I have been invited to speak at the INDUSTRY.forward, organised by publish-industry Verlag GmbH. In these times of rising uncertainty and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, it is more crucial than ever to place people at the heart of our business strategies, especially when it comes to innovation. 🚀 In the Industrial Tech sector, our focus often lies heavily on the task at hand, machinery, and technology. However, we must not overlook the wellbeing of our people and their interaction with technology. By prioritising our teams and fostering a human-centric approach, we can drive meaningful and sustainable operations & innovation. 💡 I am excited to share the PFAFF Werkzeug- und Formenbau approach to this challenge and explore how we can collectively grow, adapt, and innovate. Together, we can transform challenges into opportunities and set new standards for the future. 🌍 A heartfelt thank you to Sabrina Koch and Sylvia König for this incredible opportunity! ✨ Join us at the Industry Forward Summit to dive into these themes and more. Let's shape the future of manufacturing together, embracing a mindset of continuous growth and inspiring each other to reach new heights! #IndustryForward #Innovation #Manufacturing #ArtificialIntelligence #PeopleFirst #GrowthMindset #FutureFocused

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🗣 Announcing our Cashwalk Premium Partner: SevenAccelerator SevenAccelerator is an early stage Venture Capital unit of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE whose aim is to identify strong founders and startups at an early stage and help them to become category leaders in their segment through their media volume, as a sparring partner and through operational support. In their own words..... SevenAccelerator: START. SCALE. SUCCEED. We are one of the leading accelerator programs in Germany and Austria with more than 30 early-stage consumer-driven companies in our portfolio. We provide you with media convertibles, tailored media deals and our full expertise to boost your brand awareness and accelerate your growth. We invest premium TV and digital media into ambitious, scalable B2C startups with mass market-ready products and services which want to take the next big leap on their growth journey. 3 reasons why SevenAccelerator is the right investor for your startup:  1️⃣ SevenAccelerator offers startups access to the full premium, 360° media reach of ProSiebenSat.1 Group. Our integrated network of premium TV channels, streaming, digital video and podcasts as well as influencers allows you to reach every target group with scale. 2️⃣ Early stage startups benefit from our holistic services and expertise including campaign creation/planning/optimization, consulting and mentoring on all media and creative matters: from spot testing to introductions to experienced production agencies. 3️⃣ Companies can accelerate their growth through our unique investment approach and profit from our cash-free and flexible media convertible deal construct. This allows you to boost your company valuation and minimize the equity that needs to be issued in the future. 3 things that grab our attention in a startup:  1️⃣ Passionate founders who truly believe in their product/service and focus on delivering added value to consumers. 2️⃣ Heterogeneous teams with diverse professional experience and industry expertise who are open to questioning their own decisions. 3️⃣ And foremost attractive, highly digital and scalable B2C business models in GAS (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) which address a mass market and benefit from long-term TV brand building effects. ........ Wow ! Increase your funding chances and build lasting connections, no matter the event.    Connect with SevenAccelerator today !! ....... #Cashwalk #SevenAccelerator #invest #entrepreneur #funding #vc #pitchevent #premiumpartner #investment #startup #scale

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50% people #BUY #THE #SAME 🚘 👁️ It is amazing to see that even the least loyal car customers buy the same #brand on average at least 50% of times. Branding is thus super #powerful in #automotive. 🔋 Also interesting to see is that most of the #German, hi-quality producers are among the least loyal customer base brands. EV cars have a bit of unfair advantage, because if you switch to electric cars mentally, there is less competing brands for EV-repurchase. But still impressive customer #retention figures from those.

🔥 Get exclusive access to the Product Discovery Cheat Sheet 🔥 with 26 Product Discovery Methods that will enable you to "build the RIGHT THING" and not just "build the THING RIGHT" for your users. At konversionsKRAFT AG, we collected the most relevant methods that we have used in order to help our clients build and grow their digital products - you can use this board to evaluate your status quo and select the matching methods based on where you stand. To get access, follow these simple steps: 1️⃣ Connect with me and Anastasia Shvedova 2️⃣ Like this post ❤️  3️⃣ Comment on this post ("Brilliant, I want access!") 🚨 Disclaimer: this is the first version of the Product Discovery Cheat Sheet and we are looking forward to your questions and feedback while you are using it. Please feel free to approach us any time with your thoughts! #productdiscovery #discoverycheatsheet #productexperimentation #cromethods #testing #experimentation #growthmarketingsummit #growthmindedsuperheros #productmanagement

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Reflections from Forum UnternehmerTUM: Navigating Innovation and Leadership with #resilience 🌟 Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending the transformative #ForumUnternehmerTUM event, which brilliantly highlighted the pivotal role of resilience in leadership. 🚀 Key Takeaways: 1)Self-Knowledge as the Bedrock of Resilience: Embracing challenges is second nature to us as leaders, yet true growth stems from profound self-awareness. Understanding our limitations not only guides us in seeking help but also ensures we sustain our resilience through robust network and team support. 💪 2) Stepping Beyond Comfort Zones: To genuinely harness the power of uncertainty, we must venture beyond familiar territories. This requires challenging not only our technical skills and leadership styles but also our beliefs, emotions, and cultural assumptions. 🌍 3) Innovation as Transformational Energy: In a world shifting from change to chaos, innovation emerges as our beacon, transforming potential future anxieties into positive, actionable energy. ⚡ 4) Redefining Innovation Across Sectors: Innovation transcends the startup ecosystem. It is a dynamic, though young discipline that enhances established businesses by integrating existing knowledge with innovative management and leadership practices, balancing internal strengths with external capabilities. 🔄 5) Humanizing Technology through AI: Artificial Intelligence should not only streamline processes but also embrace risks, with our teams playing the role of mentors and innovators. This approach allows AI to balance optimizing processes with spearheading innovation. 🤖 6) Flexible Financial Strategies for Innovation: Whether it's family-owned firms innovating based on intuition without strict financial frameworks, or publicly traded companies constrained by quarterly reporting, the essential strategy is to humanize financial approaches. In SMEs, we use financial metrics to clarify our methods of value creation, while in larger firms, it's crucial to communicate to investors how short-term sacrifices can yield long-term benefits. 💼 7) Leadership for Future Generations: Now more than ever, responsible leadership is crucial. We must arm our teams with the tools necessary for resilience and adaptability, ensuring our innovations make a positive societal impact and pave the way for long-term success. 🌱 Thank you to the organisers at UnternehmerTUM for a truly enlightening experience! 🙏 Join me in reflecting on how we can all contribute to a more resilient and innovative future. #Leadership #Innovation #Resilience

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Now online: State-of-Innovation #8 with Katharina A. F. Lowinski, founder of ryvr.me and former innovation manager with Volkswagen AG:  "How to innovate in a non-core business area – lessons from an innovator in the automotive industry" 🚗   In this episode Katharina shares her experience with building up a digital platform 👩‍💻 out of the core business of a leading automotive company. Short spoiler: when you burn for an idea 💡, make sure to make the management excited about it, as you need them to sponsor your idea. Pick one person that likes your product and can help you raise your voice. It's also important that such a promotor can make sure you have access to resources and experts in the organization. Support is needed if you want to create something new.    What to expect from that Episode 🎙:  - What is the rational to innovate in a non-core business?  - Why it is important for a car manufacturer to think about mobility as a whole!  - How to keep the fire burning even in bad weather!    A very important question that we are discussing is "what exactly is the core business?", as that is the ultimate question to gain understanding on what a "non-core business" would be. Is a navigation service core or non-core for a car manufacturer? What about helping people arriving on time at a meeting in urban areas? What about helping people to organize a weekend trip with friends? There are many "jobs-to-be-done" where a car may play an important role. In all of these examples people cannot get the whole job done just by using a car. It takes planning, preparation, knowing how to execute a travel, monitoring, and knowing how to modify a travel or the mode of transportation. And not to forget about "the last mile" when finishing a travel (at the point of destination). A car manufacturer may decide if any of these jobs or job steps are considered "core business" or if that term only covers an existing product that currently generates revenues (e.g. car sales). Depending on how a company defines its core business (e.g. the existing line of products, or the core job that is being supported with different solutions) may change how innovation is being managed, focused and budgeted. In a nutshell: Innovating in a non-core business is first of all a question of how you define it, and then a question of how to create a mindset towards helping customers get their jobs done better;)    What do you think? Looking forward your comments 😀   Find the full episode here:  https://lnkd.in/dSGuPF6D   #stateofinnovation #mobility #automotive #opportunitydiscovery #customercentricity #outcomedriveninnovation 

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Sharing some of QÌ Advisory‘s thoughts about the Beijing Auto Show brought to you by Table Media GmbH and Julia Fiedler asking about the observations we had today #qiadvisory #beijing #autochina2024 #beijingautoshow #tablemedia #buildingbridges

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𝐀 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬-𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝❗ We’re thrilled to unveil #LIFT+, powered by our cutting-edge THX. panel 🎉! This groundbreaking innovation in cross-media measurement opens up a whole new era. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰? With our new tech-enabled passive panel, we can maximize your multi-channel campaign impact because we know where your consumers are most receptive and track their real-time behaviour for maximum impact – 24/7 across all channels from out-of-home to audio content recognition and geolocation data to enable complete campaign impact measurement in a cookieless world 🌐❗ So, no more guesswork, no more crossing your fingers but full control of your multichannel campaign performance to make informed decisions immediately. 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬? Then, please join our webinar this Wednesday, June 5 (Webinar will be held in English): https://lnkd.in/griqfbXK. Any questions? Please reach out to: Yulia Kalner, Steffen Kutzner, Ruben van Aardenne and myself! 𝔸 𝕓𝕚𝕘, 𝕓𝕚𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕠 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪 𝕚𝕟𝕧𝕠𝕝𝕧𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕥 Kantar&MeMo² - #WeAreKantar ♥ #Insights #Marketing #Advertising #Multichannel Insights by Kantar, Consulting by Kantar, Kantar Media, Worldpanel by Kantar, Numerator, Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group, Kantar IBOPE Media, Profiles by Kantar, Kantar Belgium

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Shaping the future of companies with joy 🚀 🤗 Many thanks to Meta and inside360, in particular Bastian Wagner, Marc Forstmann, Fabian Starkbaum, Michael Cieslak, Andreas Mose, Niklas Eggeling, Alexander Menakhin for the useful and valuable exchange at the top-class event 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘆: 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 On April 30th at META in Munich. It was very remarkable to see what is already possible today with AI in conjunction with AI. In particular, these technologies can, among other things, improve efficiency, save resources and enormously improve the qualifications of employees and their ability to act. We are pleased that we can participate and support with our companies QUANTUM berufliche Bildung and AKADEMIE 4.0. We are currently in the process of passing on our broad experience to the specialists at Lynkt. Together we are striving to make Lynkt the leading product in this segment. 🚀 🚀 🚀 We will keep you up to date on the latest developments and use cases. #Innovation #Effizienz #Qualifizierung #Bildung #Zukunftssicherheit #zukunftgestalten #neuetechnologien #künstlicheIntelligenz #augmentedreality #ai #XR

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Brain fitness at it’s best 🤹‍♂️ ... #corporateinfluencing – what a great hobby 📣 My learning out of the last two years on this plattform: the main challenge is #storytelling. If you would like to be successful as a corporate influencer it is significantly guided by your talent to tell little stories 🖋 When I started to be more active here on LinkedIn it was indeed very uncertain where this journey will go to and what kind of influence this activity will have on my #personalbranding, on my #personality, on myself 🙋‍♂️ People who knowing me personally are aware about the fact that I’m a very reliable and structured person. I don’t like surprises that much - so always a proper preparation is key for me 📑 But we all know, the dance floor on this platform is something different. Surprises are self-evident and you need to learn to deal with this 🕺 The positive thing was, that I identified that the storytelling part suits me incredibly well. I neither have an issue to identify content ideas nor I have a topic to build a #story around. And along with this finding – the fun is also coming 📚 This means, that in the meantime quite frequently I’m also dealing with storytelling in my private life. Instead of a "must" it became more like a hobby. Of course, my #personalbrand is still mainly influenced by business topics as my strategy is to be seen as an expert within my business 👨‍🔧 But also, business topics could be enriched by a little story around and on top with pure authenticity 😀 What about you? Is it still hard business for you to post on #linkedin - or is it becoming more and more a hobby for you too? #filtrationambassador #linkedinbyjuergenjenner

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The latest AllBright Report shows notable progress in gender diversity within Germany's 100 largest family companies. 🎉 In a significant shift, the representation of women in leadership roles is increasing. Although the current proportion stands at 12.6%, change is underway. Over the past two years, the proportion of women in executive positions has grown by 4 percentage points, nearly matching the growth seen in listed companies. Interestingly, nearly half of family businesses now include a woman in their management teams, a significant increase from just under a third two years ago. Yet, there's a stark difference between listed and non-listed family businesses. The proportion of women in leadership roles is almost double in listed companies (19.6%) compared to non-listed ones (10.6%). This suggests that transparency and external influence can drive gender diversity in management. Let's not overlook the fact that succession still remains male-dominated, particularly within owner families. However, as the Baby Boomer generation begins to retire, there's a golden opportunity for companies to diversify their leadership. Change is happening, and some companies are already leading the way. Let's keep this momentum going! For more detailed insights, check out the full #AllBright Report #genderdiversity #womeninleadership #changemakers

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Apple didn’t do it, xiaomi did it. Copying the Germans car makers and adding modern user experience on top, all for an incredible price. So far so good, German car manufacturers, what’s your next move ? ♟️ #xiaomi #automotiveindustry #automotivenews #automotivetechnology

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On my way to Automotive Day today! The fact that I’m running late because of a traffic jam shows how much the industry has to change. Let’s not only talk about how to build better vehicles faster, but especially about innovating and delivering value to the customer #automotive #lean #agile

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Rules to win at innovation. Rule # 1. Never trust a person with your business who cannot navigate the complexities of a sweater with only one drawstring. I see things differently. If you enjoy viewing the world through a different lens and exploring the nuance others miss, please follow me on LinkedIn. #innovationmanagement #IDoMyOwnStunts You'll have to explain this one to me, Ruta Sudmantaite.

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This morning, Dirk Voigtländer and I presented ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE’s key financial results for the first quarter of 2024 and we can clearly say: Our strong start to the year shows that we are on the right track.   In 2023, we have set a new course both operationally and strategically. In the first quarter, we are now seeing the first clear effects of our efficiency measures with Group revenues increasing by 6% and adjusted EBITDA growing by 35% year-on-year. The advertising business, which is particularly important for us, is continuing to recover – especially #Joyn is growing strongly. This shows that our strategic focus on digital reach pays off. At the same time, the Commerce & Ventures segment once again recorded significant double-digit revenue growth. Verivox GmbH and flaconi in particular are performing strongly.  Even though the market and economic environment remains challenging, we are looking to 2024 with confidence and are therefore confirming our full-year outlook. We will continue to focus clearly on the strategically relevant business areas related to our Entertainment portfolio and continue our consistent management of costs and cash flows.   You can find more about our #Q1 financial performance on our website: https://lnkd.in/dqg2HY5q

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➡️ Day Ahead Market for 26 June 2024 ➡️ Prices Austria: -65 bis 1.733 €/MWh ➡️ Prices Germany: 0 bis 2.326 €/MWh Look at the ranges. For better understanding follow Herbert Saurugg #ww520 #ww254 #technology #markets #innovation #future #strategy

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AI Plug and Play in the Cloud? I don't think so. Yesterday, at a Google Cloud event in Hamburg, I met innovative people, saw cool tech and ate fancy food. (Big thanks for the orga and great input!) But one thing stood out: the need for custom solutions. All the Out-of-the-Box Solutions I've seen so far (e.g. AWS, Google, OTC, NVIDIA etc.), required adjustments to work for our challenges. The takeaway: It's not just the newest model or well-connected framework. I think the key is people, who understand user needs and know how to implement tech to address them. 🗝️ Standard is good, tailored is better. ✅ General takeaways: 1. Understand End users because only specific needs and challenges can be solved with tailored solutions. 2. Know the latest tech, but doubt they'll solve problems easily. 3. Iterate to make mistakes early and often. At some point, less broken solutions can become the best solution. #CustomSolutions #ClientSuccess #Cloud

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ATIVATE THE BASE - what does this mean in daily practice? It is absolutely wonderful to experience the creativity, fun and passion which you bring into the workplace dear Marlene Strasser 🌎 and David Vincent Schnell #leadership #learning #femalepower #entrepreneurship

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Visuelles Storytelling — show me, don’t tell me   Business-Visualisierungen Die 20 Besten der letzten 180 Tage https://lnkd.in/dWMYF8AP Nr. 167 Change is a process Source: Corporate Rebels

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