Rolf Hichert, Prof. Dr.-Ing.

After studying mechanical engineering in Stuttgart, Rolf Hichert worked for the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation (IPA) and received his doctorate under Prof. Warnecke. He was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Inc. in Düsseldorf, and afterwards professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Constance.
His next stations: Founder and Director of the Transfer Center Technology and Management of the Steinbeis Foundation in Stuttgart, Co-founder and Managing Director of MIK GmbH in Constance, Professor for Controlling at the Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences, Managing Director of MIS Switzerland AG in Zurich. In 2004 he founded HICHERT+PARTNER, which has been operating as a stock corporation since 2007.

The partners of HICHERT+PARTNER are:

Holger Gerths

Roman Griesfelder

Anne Hichert

Jörg Knuth

Johannes von Mulert

Ulrich Seidl

Markus Wolff

Professional articles by Rolf Hichert 

E-mail from Rolf Hichert 

Lecture topics by Rolf Hichert, held at the following conferences:

A  From statistics to reports and on to presentations - or:

Why are many presentations avoidable?

 

B  Why many managers don’t (or can’t) understand their own reports - or:

What are the quality criteria that make up a good report?

 

C  On the costs of the PowerPoint culture - or:

Why can we do without many presentations?

 

D  On the costs of unread and not understood reports - or:

What makes reports important and interesting?
 

E  On the senseless use of PowerPoint in teaching and in business - or:

Do you have PowerPoints or do you actually have something to say?
 

F  Why we don’t understand many reports and presentations - or:

Have we simply gotten used to not understanding reports and presentations?
 

G  Criteria for successful business presentations - or: 

How do clear rules lead to success?
 

H  Why many management reports go unread - or:

Why many reports don’t report anything?
 

I  A set of rules for the professional design of reports - or:

How are the seven SUCCESS Rules put to practical use?
 

J  Misinterpretation of corporate design is the reason behind bad presentations - or:

Why does the package often get more attention than the content?
 

K  On non-information in business reports - or:

What prevents fast and simple comprehension of business reports?
 

L  Many business presentations are explanations of incomprehensible reports - or:

What is the real difference between presentations and reports?

N  Professional layout of management reports with MS Excel - or:

How can any type of visualization be realized without additional programming?

O  Layout of dashboard solutions with the help of MS Excel - or:
Why do speedometers belong in cars and not in reports?

P  No presentation and no report without a clear message - or:
How can we go from mere statements to comprehensive explanations and on to meaningful recommendations?