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“I am happy when I see that someone understands something. What really makes me happy is when folks call me years after an event to tell me that they are still applying what they learned back then. "
Markus Reitzig
"Professor Reitzig is a master communicator who brings a blend of contemporary theory, deep practical experience and strong data analytics to business problems. While I took Markus's class in 2011, I still use many of the concepts and tools today."
Robin Colgan , Class of 2012, Executive MBA, London Business School
Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Jaguar Land Rover Ltd.
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Over the past twenty years, Professor Reitzig has taught close to 100 courses in the areas of strategy, organization and innovation to Executive MBAs, MBAs, and Master of Science students at Copenhagen Business School, London Business School, INSEAD, LMU Munich, and the University of Vienna. In addition, he has held several dozen advanced training seminars for managers (in open and in-house programs) in Bangalore, Bologna, Delhi, Dubai, Gothenburg, Cairo, Calcutta, Copenhagen, Lagos, London, Milan, Munich, Oslo, Rome, and Zurich. He currently coordinates one of the most popular management specializations at the University of Vienna, called "Strategic Management", which he created in 2012. At the University of Vienna he also teaches a variety of (method) courses to PhD students in the field of management.
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What can I say about Markus? Being the Group Managing Director of a diversified conglomerate I thought I had seen it all. Having attended his course, this put a completely different spin on things."
Mahesh Vaswani , Class of 2011, Executive MBA, London Business School
Managing Director, Stallion Group, Dubai
Topics and courses
Topic: Business strategy
Contents: what is strategy? How do I position myself among the competition? How do I know what I am good at? How do I change?
Past and current course venues: London Business School, INSEAD Business School, University of Vienna, corporate programs
Level: Senior executive seminars, Executive MBA, Full time MBA, Master of Science
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Topic: Business model innovation
Contents: What is strategic innovation? Where does it come from and how can I create it? How do I react to disruptors?
Past and current course venues: London Business School, University of Vienna, corporate programs
Level: Senior executive seminars, Executive MBA, Full time MBA, Master of Science
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Topic: Organizing for the future - flat, remote, resilient
Contents: What are new forms of organizing? Why do they work? How do I motivate employees with a flat structure? How do I reduce managers' workload through decentralization? What are the limits of going flat? What do all the buzzwords like agility, holacracy, skunk, scrum etc mean?
Past and current course venues: University of Vienna, company programs
Level: Senior executive seminars, Master of Science
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Topic: Innovation management
Contents: What forms of innovation are there? How to create ideas? How do you select ideas? How to commercialize ideas?
Past and current course venues: Copenhagen Business School, LMU Munich, corporate programs
Level: Senior executive seminars, CEMS Master, Diploma in Business Administration
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Subject: Management of intellectual property
Contents: How does IP fit into in the corporate strategy? How do I evaluate intellectual property?
Past and current course venues: Copenhagen Business School, corporate programs
Level: Senior executive seminars, Master of Science
Presentation style
Professor Reitzig's teaching style is highly interactive. Markus purposefully first pushes both students and senior decision-makers to the limits of what they believe they can explain and coordinate, before he delivers new conent.
​His focus is on training his students to expand on their existing knowledge as little as possible and as much as necessary, instead of viewing “new management fads” as an end in themselves. In doing so, Markus not only sets himself apart from many educational programs worldide; he also ensures that much of the knowledge gained during his class is still applicable years later, even if the external circumstances may have changed.
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Professor Reitzig's courses and lectures have been among the most popular ones with students of all programs and at all universities where he has taught. His seminars and workshops are among the great moments of many advanced training programs for senior decision-makers . His course “Organizing for the future - flat, remote, resilient” condenses a decade of research by Professor Reitzig and his co-authors into a 25-hour course that is unique in this form worldwide.