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msg founds msg industry advisors
Strengthening business consulting for the process and discrete production industry
Munich, October 14, 2015. msg systems ag further expands its business consulting portfolio: On October 1st the group reorganized its Life Science & Healthcare division, with its cross-industry services, into the newly founded company “msg industry advisors ag”. By doing so, the group will be able to further expand its consulting expertise for companies in the process and discrete production industry. msg industry advisors is an unlisted company that will focus on advising leading mid-sized companies and international corporations.
CEO of the new company is Thomas Praska. Praska served as the Life Science & Healthcare Division Manager under msg systems ag. He will be joined by Dr. Jürgen Zehetmaier, who will be serving as CFO on the board of directors, in addition to his standing responsibilities at msg. msg manager Christoph Piller, previously the Life Science & Healthcare Department Manager, Stephan E. Willigens, previously the Supply Chain Department Manager, and Andreas Röttgermann and Harald Stricker, responsible for the IT management and digitalization, will also be among the management team at msg industry advisors.
msg industry advisors will focus on the operationalization of company strategy, as well as the design and implementation of functional strategies for the critical interface between organization, processes and IT systems. One of the core areas on which the new company will focus its efforts is the development and implementation of industry-specific approaches, particularly for the process and discrete production industry. The approach will be a cross-industry approach for the producing industry and the new company will focus on the core areas of process industry, such as pharmaceuticals, life science & healthcare and the chemical industry on the one hand, and the discrete production industry, such as consumer goods, mechanical engineering and electronics, on the other.
Over the next few years, msg industry advisors intends to continuously expand both its team and its service portfolio and systematically invest in the expansion of cross-industry and industry-specific solutions. To support these efforts, the new company will work closely with the other companies of the msg group, linking their own consulting services with the group’s recognized know-how in the field of complex corporate systems.
“With msg industry advisors, we are expanding the field of business consulting at msg,” states Hans Zehetmaier, chairman of the board of directors at msg systems ag. “The expertise we already enjoy in the field of process and supply chain consulting will allow msg industry advisors to support companies in producing industries as well, by providing holistic business consulting services.”
“We at msg industry advisors want to ensure our customers are as fast and agile as their markets, if not more so, and we want to make sure they have the best possible tools for managing the challenges they will face in the next few years and to do so with confidence - whether faced with the digitalization of their business models, the growing complexity of compliance requirements or changing supply networks”, adds Thomas Praska.
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msg is an independent, international group of companies with more than 5,000 employees around the world. The group of companies offers a holistic service spectrum of creative, strategic consulting and intelligent, sustainable and value-added IT solutions for the following industries: automotive, financial services, food, insurance, life science & healthcare, public sector, telecommunications & media, travel & logistics, as well as utilities, and has acquired an excellent reputation as an industry specialist during its more than 30 years in business.
Within the group, independent companies cover the wide variety of industry and issue-based competence: msg systems ag forms the core of the company group and works in close cooperation with the subsidiaries, both on a business and organizational level. This allows the competence, experience and know-how of all the members to be bundled into a holistic solution portfolio with measurable added value for its customers.
msg holds sixth place in the ranking of IT consulting and system integration companies in Germany.
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