Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller

Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller, Chairwoman of the Management Board of the mechanical engineering company Trumpf GmbH + Co. KGspoke in her presentation "Systematically improving processes - Synchro office at TRUMPF" about the challenges and successes of Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG in the organization of the company units spread across 26 countries worldwide.

Dr. Leibinger-Kammüller has been with Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG. in the areas of PR, marketing and corporate communications. She has been a partner since 1994 and has been responsible for strategic corporate development, corporate communications and the facilities and buildings division as Chairwoman of the Management Board since 2005. She was educated in Freiburg (Germany), Vermont (USA) and Zurich (Switzerland). She is a member of the Supervisory Board of Claas KgaA, Lufthansa AG and Siemens AG. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and BW-Bank.

In addition to her entrepreneurial functions, Dr. Leibinger-Kammüller performs a number of tasks in the political and cultural sphere. She has been a member of the German government's Council for Innovation and Growth since April 2006. She has been a member of the Scientific Commission of the German Council of Science and Humanities since February 2008. Among other things, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the association "Die Familienunternehmer ASU" and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Family Entrepreneurs Foundation. In June 2008, she was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In her contribution to the 16th Munich Management Colloquium, Dr. Leibinger-Kammüller will discuss how the Trumpf Group has transferred concepts of lean production to office services as part of the Office Synchro project. In particular, she will address aspects of centralization and decentralization and the question of which specifications and preparatory work were managed centrally and how a rollout and the transfer of responsibility to the distributed company units took place.

Status: Beginning of 2009