Chrisitian Friedemann
PROFESSOR at EMLYON Business School
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- EMLYON Business School
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Biography
EMLYON Business School
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,
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