Borut Potocnik

Background

About Borut Potocnik

Past remarkable achievements:| 39% productivity raise in a hi-tec service company | over 40% annual growth of a client | lean cellular principle implemented in public administration 80% lead time reduction | startup: 10 days from product idea to 52 client meetings of which 10 successful | € annual savings at a client | 150 to 65 days order execution time reduction at an industrial client | In advantage of western-European competitors - succeeded to bring clients to unique World competitiveness from far less developed environment | Covid-19 ventilators development - 3 weeks to 3 prototypes - strategic leadership and tactical level lean organizational setup - Known methodologies alone are not enabling competitive advantage. Searching for unique advantages for clients beyond known methodologies- In general: Business Engineering, Business Design, Business Modelling. Coach, Mentor, Consultant, Interim Manager. Helping clients to grow - the product, the market, operations. Identification of clients Value Proposition, Competitive Advantages followed by adequate Product and correspondent Operations, Process Change and Tuning. Dynamic strategies. Strategic development and Growth loop setup based on Deming principle; Analytics setup for efficient strategic and tactical steering purposes. Experienced in partial or total reorganisation of internal Operations Structure and its Management. Efficiency Enhancement of Product Development and Market Development. Working alone, within teams of different specialists, joining Big 5 teams, leading a team or temporary managing the clients company. Wide experience from Industrial and Business sector to Public, Government, Health and Infrastructure sector. Over 200 projects in total. Experienced in though economic environment of both more and less developed countries, generating business success and competitiveness for companies from less developed regions to win on developed markets. Unique experience of triple simultaneous changeover in the country (reorientation to western markets, EU accession period and of course transition) dedicated half of the time to the change of processes within governmental institutions while the other half was dedicated to pure internal reshaping of private companies and positioning them to western markets. In-house Business model design through coaching or partnering.