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Speaking

Christophs public work began in the TM1 and IBM Planning Analytics community, but it has widened into a broader conversation about enterprise planning, data culture, artificial intelligence, and the history of decision-making systems. The strongest framing is:

Historian of Enterprise Decision Making

That phrase matters because it keeps the focus wider than one tool or one product generation. Christoph can speak from practical experience inside enterprise planning environments, but his stronger contribution is connecting that experience to recurring historical questions: how organizations model uncertainty, trust numbers, coordinate action, and decide what to do next.

Speaker Profile

Christoph combines four perspectives that usually appear separately:

  • historical training in modern history, business administration, and political science
  • more than fifteen years of practical work in TM1, IBM Planning Analytics, business intelligence, enterprise planning, and financial performance management
  • more than ten years teaching controlling, FP&A, and IT management at university level
  • a public record of podcasts, talks, and conference appearances on planning, analytics, data culture, AI, and organizational change

Speaking Themes

Christoph is a good fit for podcasts, panels, conference talks, and moderated conversations on:

  • artificial intelligence in the office of finance
  • data culture, finance processes, and organizational behavior
  • the history of enterprise decision-making
  • TM1, OLAP, and enterprise planning
  • why planning systems often fail to change decisions
  • what new decision technologies change, and what they leave untouched
  • why old planning questions keep returning in new technical language

Featured English Appearances

For an English-language introduction to Christoph’s work, start here:

Selected German Appearances

On TM1 and Enterprise Planning

Data Culture, and AI-Era Questions

These appearances widen the frame from enterprise planning toward data foundations, organizational change and AI

Transformation and Organizational Change

These conversations connect planning and analytics to the wider setting in which technology change happens.

Speaking Inquiries

The best invitations have real substance: a historical angle, a planning or data problem worth unpacking, or a serious question about how technology changes decision-making in organizations.

Good formats include:

  • conference talks
  • podcast interviews
  • panels and moderated discussions
  • community events
  • finance and analytics forums

The fit is strongest when the conversation needs more than product commentary: practical credibility, historical depth, and a clear view of how decision technology evolves while organizational problems persist.