Chrisitian Friedemann

Strategy and Organisation

Christian FRIEDEMANN teaches Strategy Implementation at EMLYON to both graduate students and executives. Previously he held business development and leadership positions in SME´s, large corporations and startups. He is a transformation consultant and business amplifier. Christian is passionate about positive deviance and its applications in business and education.

EDUCATION

Certified business coach – European Business School

Ph.D in Management Sciences – University of Hamburg (dept. of Industrial Management)

MSc Marketing and Computer Sciences - University of Saarbrücken

EMLYON (ESC 1992)

EXPERIENCE

Transformation Consultant (10 years) Automotive Industry, Automotive Suppliers, Aviation Industry, Industrial Automation, Transportation Systems, Telecommunications /Europe & USA

CEO, Bullith Batteries AG (high-tech start-up) /Germany & Switzerland

CFO, Avaya Tenovis Comergo GmbH – Stuttgart & Frankfurt /Germany

Senior VP Finance & Business Administration Sales, Siemens Mobile Networks – Munich/Germany, Pretoria/RSA & Newbury/UK

EXPERTISE

Strategy implementation

Business Transformation

Business Creation

Entrepreneurship

Intrapreneurship

Change Management

Value Creation Networks

Positive Deviance

ASSOCIATIONS

French-German business association (WKRA), Lyons/France – Member of the Advisory Board

COURSES TAUGHT

BBA - Business simulations, History of Organisations and Corporations, Entrepreneurship

MSc in Management - Strategic Change Management, Corporate Entrepreneurship

IDEA - Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Change Management

MS Entrepreneurship - Corporate Entrepreneurship

GEP - Business Modeling

Incubator - Business Modeling, Coaching of Entrepreneurs

IMBA - Strategic Change Management

EMBA - Business Modeling, Strategic Change Management

Executive Education - tailor-made programs for French and European Corporations

Other/External: mini BBA avec la CCI, Lyon StartUp, CampusCréation, JEA, D2E/Beelys

RESEARCH INTEREST

Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship

Value Creation Networks

Positive Deviance in Business

PUBLICATIONS

PRESS ARTICLES (2)

‑ Friedemann, Christian. 2017. Les hackathons d’entreprise, une façon simple d´amplifier votre agilité.Les Echos Business,

‑ Nunes, Pancho, Friedemann, Christian. 2010. La posture du dirigeant est au coeur de la réussite.L'Expansion Entrepreneuriat,