Christoph Hein — Historian of Enterprise Decision-Making
Christoph Hein speaks about the history of enterprise planning and what it can teach finance leaders about technology and transformation today. His talks connect TM1, OLAP, planning systems, business intelligence, data culture, and artificial intelligence with the recurring organizational questions behind them: how people establish trust in numbers, coordinate action, adopt new systems, and turn information into decisions.
Speaking Themes
- Planning transformation: how adoption, governance, data foundations, incentives, and operating models shape the value of a new planning platform.
- Evaluating technology: how finance leaders can examine assumptions, dependencies, organizational readiness, and evidence alongside technical capability.
- AI in finance and planning: what agents, assistants, forecasting tools, and decision intelligence change—and how they continue earlier ambitions for automation and better managerial judgment.
- TM1, OLAP, and enterprise planning: what four decades of TM1 reveal about the evolution of planning technology and the language of better decision-making.
What Audiences Take Away
Audiences leave with a clearer view of the decision problem behind the technology, practical questions for evaluating readiness and adoption, historical examples that place current claims in context, and concrete ways to distinguish technical capability from organizational change. Formats include conference talks, finance-leadership sessions, panels, podcasts, university sessions, and moderated conversations.
Featured English Appearances
- 2026: Super Data Brothers, YouTube Live recording. An English-language conversation with Ryan Dolley about enterprise AI, hybrid and on-premise deployment, governed planning data, and why faster dashboard production does not automatically mean faster decisions.
- 2023: Ask QueBIT About Analytics, “Episode 62: Taking Technology Fandom to the Next Level”. An English-language conversation about Christoph’s path from studying history to becoming the TM1 Fanboy, with examples from Deutsche Bahn and reflections on TM1’s unusual community of committed users.
- 2023: Super Data Show, YouTube Live appearance. An English-language conversation about the history of TM1, the place of OLAP in modern data practice, and why multidimensional databases still matter.
- 2021: BI or DIE, “TM1 in the Environment of Deutsche Bahn”; YouTube stream. An English conversation about TM1 and IBM Planning Analytics in a large enterprise context.
Short Biography
Christoph Hein is a historian of enterprise decision-making, public speaker, and author of TM1 Fanboy. He connects the history of enterprise planning with the technology and transformation decisions organizations face today. He is also Country Manager for Intito in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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