Hermann Simon (business manager) explained

Hermann Simon
Birth Date:10 February 1947
Birth Place:Hasborn, Germany
Alma Mater:University of Cologne
University of Bonn
Occupation:Author

Hermann Simon (born 10 February 1947) is a German author and businessperson. He is chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners, a strategy and marketing consultancy. He is a strategy, marketing and pricing consultant. An ongoing online German-language survey voted him the second-most influential management thinker. Simon has authored numerous books and writes articles for international newspapers and business magazines.

Short biography

Career

Simon's career spans three professions in his work as a management consultant, business professor, and author. His books have been translated into 25 languages and are widely read among managers. An ongoing online survey votes him a most-influential management thinker, second only to Peter Drucker.[1] [2] Simon was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2019.[3]

Management consultant

He was CEO of Simon-Kucher & Partners strategy and marketing consultants from 1995 until 2009. His consulting firm focuses on strategy, marketing, pricing and sales. Bloomberg BusinessWeek described Simon-Kucher & Partners as a "world leader in giving advice to companies on how to price their products",[4] and The Economist wrote that "Simon-Kucher is the world's leading pricing consultancy".

Author

Simon's books are widely read among managers and have been translated into 25 languages. In March 2011, Simon and co-author Martin Fassnacht were awarded the 2010 Georg-Bergler-Prize for Preismanagement. Carrying with it a €20000 prize, this is the most highly endowed award for European marketing textbooks.[5]

In 2006, Simon published Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share, which takes a critical look at the widespread focus on volume and market share and calls for a conscious shift of focus towards profit.

Simon's most well-known publications include Think (2004), Power Pricing (1997), Hidden Champions (1996), Hidden Champions of the 21st Century (2009) and Preismanagement (3rd edition 2009). Additional publications include Das große Handbuch der Strategieinstrumente (2002), Das große Handbuch der Strategiekonzepte (2000) and Simon for Managers (2000).

Simon has coined a number of phrases which are commonly used in management theory and practice, including "price management", "hidden champions", "Servicewüste" and "investor marketing".[6]

Since 1988, Simon has regularly authored a column for the German monthly Manager Magazin.

He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous business journals, including the International Journal of Research in Marketing, Management Science, Recherche et Applications en Marketing, Décisions Marketing, European Management Journal and several German journals.

Works

Books

Selected articles

Other

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Managementdenker 2005-2009 Ergebnisse der Online-Umfrage . December 31, 2009.
  2. Web site: The most influential management thinkers in German-speaking countries 2010-2011. 14 August 2015 .
  3. Web site: THINKERS50 HALL OF FAME HERMANN SIMON. thinkers50.com. 13 November 2017 .
  4. Web site: Hidden Champions: The little-known European companies that are conquering the world . https://web.archive.org/web/20040120074410/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_04/b3867601.htm . dead . January 20, 2004 . January 26, 2004.
  5. Web site: Textbook Price Management . WHU Faculty Marketing and Sales Group . WHU . 8 February 2020.
  6. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-04-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724021641/http://www.hicbusiness.org/BIZ2003Proceedings/Markus%20B.%20Hofer.pdf . 2011-07-24 .

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Hermann Simon (business manager)".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.