Europe is more than an idea. Europe is more than a huge market.
Europe is our future!
Our ICV international work group is existing for more than 10 years! Our motto:
come together, work together, learn together, develop together
European companies have a great advantage: they act inside the biggest market of
the western world. This market consists of more than 500 million people, therefore companies need to know the different cultures of Europe, cultures of different customers,
as well as different cultures of management. Finally we, as controllers, have to learn to live with these different cultures as well. It is part of our business.
Within the European ICV organisation we have built an international, English speaking ICV-work group that is open to experienced controllers and consultants from all European countries.
Head of the ICV international work group are
– Axel Ehberger, Consultant in Barcelona (ES);
mail: axel.e@elexa-controlling.com and
– Mariusz Rzeźnikiewicz, Consultant in Frankfurt/Oder (D);
mail: mr@mr-con.com
Target members: ICV members (exclusively) with at least 5 years of professional experience as controllers and consultants, as both groups are seen as (internal) advisers in our clienst, the target companies. Controllers should increasingly work as internal consultants in the company. This is to be professionalised in the int. work group.
Area of focus: Every year one company (target company) will be analysed in order to provide the target company with ideas, suggestions and proposals (but not end-to-end management consultancy) for modern management in all areas of the company.
Here you can download our actual booklet, containing all actual members of the ICV international workgroup:
Advantages for the “target company”:
Target company
Companies from all countries in Europe may apply to be considered for this ICV support and will enjoy normally very expensive advantages.
– opening the sight for new solutions
– learning from the experience of an international team, consisting of experienced experts
in controlling / consulting
Besides hotel, meeting rooms and meals, the company will not incur costs. If several applications are submitted, ICV corporate members will have priority.
The work group’s leadership team will make the final decision about the target company.
A brief summary of the work group’s results – in agreement with the target company – will be published on the ICV’s home page.
The members of the international work group can help You to find solutions or at least information to answer for instance the following questions:
Country knowledge
– What should we do to start production in a new country XYZ ?
– What is the best way to open a (sales) company in XYZ ?
– What kind of taxes we have to pay in XYZ ?
– With which kind of products we should start in XYZ ?
Reporting / Controlling
– Which are the most important figures for our company ?
– How should we organise controlling without spending too much ?
– We need a smart reporting system – how to manage it ?
– Employees engagement improvement with soft controlling responsibility
Reporting philosophy
– Controlling processes optimisation by professional controlling concept
(better quality of management information reporting, analysis, communication)
– How to get efficiently an up to date Management Reporting?
– Do You have proposals for the improvement of our sales-force
Strategy
– What are your recommendations to initiate a strategy-process
– What is the best way to start a Balanced Scorecard ?
– Set of KPI for achieving strategic goals
– Modern profitability analysis for strategic decisions (products, projects, customers, regions etc.)
– How could we pay more attention for innovation ?
– How to implement new product ideas? – R&D-Controlling
Processes
– Could You give help to save costs in our processes ?
– How to install an easy system for liquidity ?
– Are our Processes reliable and effective, or can we improve by reviewing our core processes?
IT-support
– Can you assist and recommend implementing a new ERP System to automise processes and workflow?
– Are there any IT projects that we need to implement to improve efficiancy, transparence and to be prepare for future advantages
Human ressources
– What changes in our organisation are needed to providing a work area that enables us to sucessfully face future opportunities
– How can we use public media for our business
Financial ressources
– Working Capital Management
– How to get more liquidity for my company?
Here you can download a presentation about our work in the last 10 years:
our results:
According to our experience in the previous projects:
1. 2015 Nomaxtrading from Piekary Śląskie in Upper Silesia, Poland
2. 2016 LUG Light factory in Zielena Góra in Lower Silesia, Poland
3. 2017 MDM in Ljubljana, Slovenia
4. 2018 AutoDOC in Berlin, Germany
5. 2019 TUSGsal in Badalona near Barcelona, Spain
6. 2023 York in Poznan, Poland
7. 2024 Schwarzmann in Ljubljana, Slovenia and
8. 2025 Zbych-Pol&Mobet, Mogilno, Poland
more than 50% of our ideas / solutions are implemented.
Our workload for each of these is about 10 days, plus flight and travel costs. Not a small amount though:
It’s great to learn with and from each other. We are a great team, have become real friends, meet privately on trips through Europe and thus live up to our motto:
we come together,
we work together,
we learn from each other,
we develop together.
Working together is a lot of fun; if you want to join us next year, please contact our work group leader:
Axel Ehberger, mail: axel.e@elexa-controlling.com or
Mariusz Rzeźnikiewicz, mail: mr@mr-con.com