Patrick serves consumer-packaged-goods, apparel, and fashion companies around the world. He is particularly experienced in facilitating organizational transformations and enabling companies to create competitive advantages through an effective operating model in line with strategy, market requirements, and success factors.
Examples of Patrick’s recent client projects include the following:
- designing and delivering an end-to-end organizational-transformation program spanning all functions—including marketing, sales, and operations—for a global packaged-goods company, to increase the alignment between a new strategic direction and the underlying operating model
- developing a new operating model to reduce time to market by 30 percent for an apparel and fashion company by creating a leaner, nimbler, and digitally enabled organization
- enabling an organization to grow globally by migrating from a regional operating model toward a global one, with several billion dollars in sales uplift since implementation
- creating a digital operating model—including a digitally enhanced value chain, an adjusted channel mix with a much higher share of online sales and 20 percent private-label e-commerce sales, and digital capability building—for an established packaged-goods company
- designing a leaner, more cost-efficient operating model, with a five-percentage-point impact on the bottom line, by refocusing an organization and its resources on its core mission
Published Work
“Digital (R)evolution - A Question of Organization,” McKinsey & Company, October 2018
“Measuring the fashion world,” McKinsey & Company, October 2018
“Faster fashion: How to shorten the apparel calendar,” McKinsey & Company, May 2018
“Reif für ein Upgrade,” Akzente 3’18, S. 38–43 McKinsey & Company, March 2018
“Mode nach M@ß,” Akzente 3’17, McKinsey & Company, December 2017
“Sprinting toward a new business model,” McKinsey & Company, December 2017
“Auf die Plätze, fertig… Fashion!,” Akzente 2’17, S. 24–29, McKinsey & Company, February 2017
“Global agieren, lokal aktivieren,” Akzente 1’15, S. 28–33, McKinsey & Company, January 2015
Education
Harvard Business School
MBA, general management
University of Kassel
PhD, management science
University of Karlsruhe
MSc, economics, business engineering
University of Massachusetts
MSc, operations research