The membership in regional as well as supra-regional networks offers us the opportunity to exchange ideas in many ways and to benefit from mutual experiences. The proximity to Aachen’s universities and associated institutions and student initiatives is very important to us. We are also in close contact with other student consultancies in Germany and network with start-ups and medium-sized companies from the Aachen region.
Our advisory board consists of qualified aixsolution alumni who are now working for renowned consultancies.
Regular meetings are held to exchange information about project work and the structure of the association.
Raphael Rettig
Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
Richard von Goetze
Junior Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Hendrik Julius
Senior Associate, Strategy&
Executive board member – Corporate Contacts
Philippe Gien
p.gien@aixsolution.com
+49 177 2380227
Roland Berger, founded in 1967, is the only one of the world’s leading management consultancies with German origins and European roots. With around 2,400 employees in 34 countries, the company is successfully active in all globally important markets. Roland Berger’s 50 offices are located in central business locations around the world. We advise leading international industrial and service companies and public institutions. Our consulting services cover the entire spectrum – from strategy consulting to successful implementation. This includes new management and business models, innovative processes and services, mergers & acquisitions, private equity and restructuring projects, and support in the management of major infrastructure projects.
We combine in-depth analysis with creative strategies to create real, sustainable added value for our clients. We develop and bundle our know-how in global competence centers, which are specialized in different industries and functional areas. For each consulting project, we individually put together an interdisciplinary team of experts with industry-specific and functional know-how to develop the best solutions for our clients.
As the largest consulting firm in the world, Deloitte distinguishes itself through its special ability to support our clients in solving complex problems from strategy to implementation. In this way we support our clients in the markets in which they are already active today or which they will enter in the future. We offer our broad portfolio of competencies in the areas of Human Capital, Strategy & Operations and Technology from a single source and align it with the individual needs of our clients and their respective industries, business areas and organizational structures. In this way we create targeted added value. Making an impact that matters. Our claim is to do what really counts every day. With our broad range of services – from auditing, risk advisory and tax advice to financial advisory and consulting – we support clients in a unique way. We set new standards, deliver innovative approaches and enable sustainable growth. We encourage our highly qualified employees with their diverse talents so that they can achieve more with us.
Ebner Stolz Management Consultants is a top management consultancy with a broad range of topics and a focus on medium-sized companies and corporations. With around 100 colleagues we advise our clients on a wide range of business issues and support them from strategy development to implementation. Our business areas include restructuring, strategy, process optimization and cost reduction, controlling as well as M&A and digitalization.
We stand for tangible performance improvement and sustainable restructuring. In addition, we ensure digital performance in business processes and control systems. Our german middle class clients invest in teams acting on an equal footing that bring about tangible changes.
Simon-Kucher & Partners is a global management consultancy focusing on strategy, marketing, pricing and sales. Our consulting work is entirely focused on TopLine Power®. We use fact-based, practical strategies to help our clients achieve growth and profit increases on the sales side. We offer our employees a collegial working atmosphere, a high degree of independence and responsibility, as well as targeted advancement. Founded in 1985, we have over 30 years of experience and are considered the world’s leading pricing consultancy.
Kearney is a leading international management consultancy with offices in more than 40 countries. As a global partnership, our employees make us who we are. As individuals, we bring different passions and strengths to the table. What unites us is that we all enjoy our work as much as those we work with. And just as we promise our clients advancement, so do all who are part of the global Kearney team.
TARGUS is a leading international management consultancy for operations. With unique concepts and the right people we achieve effective results. We support worldwide renowned companies from industry and trade in all questions concerning the optimization of the entire operational value chain. Our customized approach enables us to optimize your processes along the value chain in a short time.
DH&K is an experienced commercial law firm from Aachen, which is also at home in international law. The law firm was founded in 2000 and helps us with its legal and tax advice in legal matters.
Founded in 2005, Bürgerstiftung Lebensraum Aachen is an ideologically and politically independent platform for civic engagement.
Our community foundation currently consists of 127 donors. Another 250 people are currently active in over 30 projects as temporary donors.
As an integral and well-connected part of the Aachen region, we support people and diverse projects in local, social, educational, cultural and sustainable areas.
By shaping our living space together, we grow personal responsibility, cohesion and the joy of “taking part” in an energetic community.
Together, we stimulate a culture of appreciation that strengthens our local community and the and the people in it, while at the same time seeing our local actions in a global context. That is why we are also committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals within the broad foundation goals of the community foundation.
Situation:
The private equity fund wants to review the participation in a company specialized in building automation.
For the concrete risk assessment of an investment, however, there was a lack of a deep understanding of the market and the competitors.
The customer now wanted to know exactly how the company is positioned in relation to its (market, customer, competitor) environment.
of the relevant market and the competitors on the basis of a comprehensive Internet research for the concretization of action alternatives.
for early recognition of trends and disclosure of potential.
a clear recommendation for action based on the knowledge gained.
Situation:
Lists of contact information and enumerations of study programs were available at the client’s site.
Event placement and planning was based on research and direct inquiries.
There was a desire to be able to bring students and companies together in a more efficient way.
of precise competence profiles for over 70 degree programs.
a matching tool in Excel, with which study programs and companies can be matched according to competence profiles.
of a professional survey to create a comprehensive data basis in the form of company data and competence profiles.
Situation:
Expansion strategy of the customer: New branch offices planned in various German cities.
Lease of commercial real estate should take place in areas that are highly frequented by specific customer segment.
The client needs support to identify these centers and suitable properties.
survey of specific customer segment to identify movement patterns and population centers.
preparation for visualization of the urban centers on the respective city maps.
of a catalog of requirements for the preliminary and fine selection of commercial properties.
Situation:
Lack of expertise about the industry leader to be evaluated – especially in the following aspects:
– Strategic orientation
– APAC as an additional sales market for the client
– Trends in the industry
Need for this information to conduct an internal strategy workshop.
with PhD students from relevant institutes to gain insights into future market movements and identify key factors.
of various scenarios and evaluation of these by means of a robust assessment including visualization in the form of a comparison matrix.
Workshop for the evaluation of the CV strategy.
Situation:
“Green” is becoming more and more important.
Not only competitors communicate the need for sustainability – more than half of potential customers consider sustainability to be increasingly relevant.
Zalando’s positioning as a sustainable e-commerce provider still offers a lot of potential – in the sustainability ranking, Zalando is only 66th out of 103 competitors.
of a strategy paper on how Zalando can meaningfully serve the desire for sustainability.
means effort – this is justified by the added value created in the measures proposed by the consulting team.
of sustainability is oriented to the interests of the customer group.
Situation:
Young Aachen Tech Start Up in the field of parking sensors & infrastructure.
Extensive customer acquisitions planned, but always associated with enormous effort.
No consolidation of previous acquisition materials as well as the lack of a standardized blueprint leads to high manual effort and frictional losses.
Lack of expertise in efficiently preparing pitch decks.
of the existing pitch deck by standardized acquisition slides for the presentation of the customer’s actual situation as well as possible connecting points of the startup.
of an Excel tool for the calculation of relevant KPIs of the customer and implementation of an interface between this and said acquisition slides.
calculation and complete creation of an acquisition for a customer.
Situation:
Progressive electrification of the powertrain in the passenger car sector.
Innovative drive technologies reach the agricultural and construction machinery market.
Lack of clarity about influencing factors that will determine the future of powertrain technology.
Expert knowledge concentrated at research institutes and manufacturers, and inaccessible to customers.
and expert interviews for the extraction of influencing factors for different machine types in international markets.
to describe future development of key factors and derive implications for drive technology.
of a comprehensive project catalog to support the client’s strategic direction.