Awards - Announcement

Lufthansa AG was awarded in Munich for “Bandwidth simulations in the passenger air traffic branch / an exemplary solution“ – solution for insecurity of period planning.

Munich, April 22, 2013 – German Lufthansa AG received the famous ControllerPreis 2013 of the International Controller Association (ICV) on the 38^th Controller Congress in Munich. The ICV awarded a project “Bandwidth simulations in the passenger air traffic branch” – an exemplary project considering increasing insecurity of the periodic planning in the volatile times.

„This year‘s winner focuses on the special and highly current aspect of the effective controlling work. In the Lufthansa AG it was possible to successfully find an orientation on the periodic planning as a key area of a controller” – explains this decision Jury Chairman Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber, Otto Beisheim School of Management, Institut for Management and Controlling (IMC), Chairman of the Board of Trustees ICV. “Thanks to this exemplary project it was possible to change the planning content: a new planning technique was realized consequently; it’s an integrated usage of little used simulation tools.”

The ControllerPreis is given to a company with a controlling solution meeting the following criteria:

• It contributes to a significant change which has been tested in practice.
• This change does not only affect the controlling department, but also contributes to the success of the whole company.
• The change has been developed by the controllers in-house and represents an innovation.

ControllerPreis winner were so far: Sick AG, Aventis Pharma, T-Online International, Kaufhof Warenhaus; Hansgrohe AG, Lufthansa City Line, Wittlinger Therapiezentrum/Dr. Vodder Akademie, Fiege, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, McDonald`s Deutschland, Otto Group.

We invite you to compete for Controlling Newcomer Award 2013 – a price for young professionals. Awarded will be innovative and practical ideas in thesis and senior thesis. Compete with your final assignment! The ICV wants to promote young controllers and popularize innovative and practical ideas in the controllers community.

Awarded will be thesis submitted after April 30, 2011 at any European university. The right of nomination have thesis promoter. The price, 4050 euro,  founded by Haufe Verlag and Haufe Akademie will be awarded for the ninth time on September 21, 2013 during the specialist conference “13^th Controlling Innovation Berlin CIB 2013”. Traditional the winners have the chance to present their thesis in plenum on the CIB conference. All applicants have the right to attend the conference  free-of-charge. The winner receives a free membership in the ICV and a subscription of Controller Magazin.

The ControllerPrize (ControllerPreis) of the International Controller Association (ICV) will be awarded on April 22-23, 2013, at the 38th Congress of Controllers. Every year the ICV awards for exemplary controlling solutions which have had a significant contribution to the achievement of the objectives of a company or an organization.

I cordially invite you to compete for the ControllerPrize 2013 by submitting your controlling solutions by January 25, 2013. Challenge your colleagues in the competition and face the decision of our competent judges!

Deadline for submission of your exemplary solution is January 25, 2013. Please, send all necessary documents to the ICV office:  Leutstettener Str. 2, D-82131 Gauting (Germany) or to c.guenther@controllerverein.de.

In order to register please fulfill the questionnaire below as pdf. or doc. file and give more detailed information about your project: situation in the company before and after the project, cause of starting the project, the goals and implementation of the project, participants and the contribution of the project to the company's success. The documents will be evaluated by a jury consisting of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber with Prof. Dr. Andreas Seufert, Hillert Onnen, Mag. Hubert Tretter and Dr. Luc Schultheiss.

The distinction of the prize winners will be a highlight of the 38th Controller Congress in Munich.

ControllerPreis 2013

Outstanding dissertations / 1st Prize: Excellent thesis about assistance in software assortment for "Modern budgeting"

Berlin / Munich, 29 October 2012 – Controlling Newcomer Award 2012 goes to Sabine Rossegger, FH Joanneum Kapfenberg with the thesis "Modern budgeting, – Adequate IT support for practical implementation, ", the 2nd Prize  goes to Robert Schulze of HS of Economics and Law, Berlin for Master's thesis "Designing principles and success factors for the conception of management performance dashboards for sales companies – A case study on Biotronik", 3rd Prize goes to Slavomira Podluckà, FH west coast of Schleswig-Holstein with the thesis "Framing in reporting". Controlling Newcomer Award of International Controller Association (ICV) was held on 27 October during the conference "Innovation Controlling Berlin - CIB 2012" it was awarded for the eighth time.

The jury, headed by Prof. Dr. Ute Vanini, Associate Dean and Professor of controlling Fachhochschule Kiel,  with Dr. Hendrik father (DHL), Ulrich Wilke (controller retired) and Gerhard Radinger (Controller Academy CA), made ​​their decision under twelve submissions from universities in three countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

The key criteria were: academic foundation, practical relevance of the problem, direct applicability of developed recommendations in action and innovation degree of the work.

Winners 2012 Kapfenberg, Berlin and Heide (Schleswig-Holstein)

The 1st Price gets the thesis of Sabine Rossegger, FH Joanneum Kapfenberg mountain (Austria). The theme was supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Tschandl, "Modern budgeting– Adequate IT support for practical implementation." Prof. Vanini, jury chairman, reports  "very clearly the winner": “ Rarely have I seen such utterly jury's decision, which speaks for the excellent quality of the work." Jury chairman's says that: "The work deals with complex and highly relevant topic in practice, as planning and budgeting processes which require a lot of time – consuming business resources".

“Modern budgeting’' based on the concept of International Controller Association with high-quality, but also efficient budgeting can be only achieved with an appropriate IT support and developing a process model, including evaluation approach to software selection”, justifies Sabine Rossegger. There is a "Splits between the scientific derivation and graphic presentation of the model in an outstanding way". To conclude, the approach revealed in the winner’s work "can serve as a basic model for the IT support of business and can be adapted to its specific needs.

The 2nd Place was given to Robert Schulze of the University of Economics and Law from Berlin. In his Master's thesis "Designing principles and success factors for the conception of management performance dashboards for sales companies – A case study on Biotronik". According to the jury, the author has "worked out a significant thesis which was well understood and clearly presented." He had developed a specific company-related solution to performance management dashboard, where the procedure and basic design of the dashboard can be easily transferred to other companies.

The 3rd Place was given to Slavomira Podluckà of the west coast college from Schleswig Holstein with the thesis "Framing in reporting". It is the first time that a bachelor thesis was chosen by the jury to award-worthy group. "Framing" is about the content, structural and linguistic presentation of reports and the resultant changes, intended and unintended, effects on perception and decision of the report readers. "Ms. Podlucká analyzed with her thesis a very important topic. Although the topic has being paid less attention in the controlling practice. It was written with numerous clearly examples and conducts some policy recommendations " says ICV jury.

Controlling Newcomer Award for the 8th time awarded

Controlling Newcomer Award of the International Controller Association was on the ICV conference "12 Controlling Innovation Berlin - CIB 2012" on 27th October awarded for the eighth time.

In this year the winners thesis has been also presented to all CIB participants.  Every year, the "Controlling Newcomer Award" is awarded for outstanding master or bachelor theses. Controlling Newcomer Award (with 4,000 EUR)  is sponsored by Haufe Verlag and Academy and it is handed during the symposium "Controlling Innovation Berlin - CIB" . ICV with Controlling Newcomer Award promotes young controllers as well as promotes innovative and practical ideas broading controlling more reachable.

ICV has in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and 12 other countries in Central and Eastern Europe around 6,500 in practical Controlling active members. The key objective of ICV controlling philosophy is reaching permanent economic success. With its honorary chairman Dr. Albrecht Deyhle the association, founded in 1975 has shaped the Controlling in German speaking countries placed and influenced. The ICV merges controllers, CFOs, managers and scientists and  it is strictly oriented its members’  benefit.

Experience, communication and being focused  on future-oriented trends are foundations of ICV.

ICV combines practical experience with the latest research results and prepares its knowledge for practical implementation. The ICV is makes personal contribution to the success of its members and to the sustainable performance of companies. Siegfried Gänßlen is the chairman of ICV, CEO of Hansgrohe SE, Schiltach, Vice-Chairman of ICV is Prof. Dr. Heimo Losbichler, FH Steyr.

For more information:

• H.-P. Sander, Presse ICV, EASTWESTCOM, Lachen-Birkenallee 16, D-86911 Diessen am Ammersee, Tel. +49-(0)8807-94 90 94, presse@controllerverein.de

• Internationaler Controller Verein [International Controller Association], branch, Leutstettener Str. 2, D-82131 Gauting

• www.controllerverein.com

Péter Horváth-Stiftung in cooperation with the International Controller Association offers 10.000 EUR as a reward for the best “green” controlling solution. Péter Horváth-Stiftung  and the ICV, as last year, promotes the most innovative and most effective ideas with an aim to create ecologic strategies, programs, projects and tools.  The price will be awarded at the conference "Controlling Competence Stuttgart (CCS 2012)" on November 29, 2012. You can submit your solutions by August 31.

The final decision will be made by our jury of nine prominent judges: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Péter Horváth (Horváth AG, IPRI gGmbH), Dr. Uwe Michel (Horváth AG), Siegfried Gänßlen (Hansgrohe AG), Prof. Dr. Heimo Losbichler (FH Oberösterreich), Manfred Blachfellner (Change the Game Initiative), Dr. Lars Grünert (Trumpf GmbH + Co KG), Manfred Remmel (manfredremmel strategieconsulting), Karl-Heinz Steinke (Deutsche Lufthansa AG), Andreas Aschenbrücker (IPRI gGmbH).

To compete you will have to present your „green“ controlling solution from 2011:

- What was the problem to solve?
- What was the idea of the green controlling solution?
- What was innovative in the project?
- How was the green controlling solution implemented?
- What was the role of controllers?
- What was the economic and ecologic result (the effect)?

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!” This management knowledge is also valid in the company with ecologic goals. Green controlling is a great possibility to achieve “green” goals. Environment protection is nowadays no more only a cost factor but also an ecologic approach that opens new chances on the market.

Carbon Accounting & Controlling-Team of  Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) was the winner in 2011 for ist controlling solution in its programme „GoGreen“.

Submission oft he solutions: Péter Horváth-Stiftung, c/o IPRI gGmbH, Königstraße 5, 70173 Stuttgart, phorvath@ipri-institute.com

Only by the July 23, 2012 you can compete for the Controlling-NachwuchsPreis 2012 - a price for young professionals for innovative and practical ideas.

The ICV wants to promote young controllers and popularize innovative and practical ideas in the controllers community. Awarded will be thesis submitted after May 31, 2010 at any European university. The right of nomination have thesis promoter. The price, founded by Haufe Verlag and Haufe Akademie will be awarded for the eighth time on October 27, 2012 during the specialist conference “12^th Controlling Innovation Berlin CIB 2012”. Traditional the winners have the chance to present their thesis in plenum on the CIB conference. All applicants have the right to attend the conference free-of-charge.

More below.

Dear Sir or Madam,

The ControllerPrize (ControllerPreis) of the International Controller Association (ICV) will be awarded on April 22-23, 2013, at the 38th Congress of Controllers. Every year the ICV awards for exemplary controlling solutions which have had a significant contribution to the achievement of the objectives of a company or an organization.

I cordially invite you to compete for the ControllerPrize 2013 by submitting your controlling solutions by January 25, 2013. Challenge your colleagues in the competition and face the decision of our competent judges!

The final decision will be made by our jury of six prominent judges: Prof. Dr. Andreas Seufert, Hillert Onnen (both from Germany), Mag. Hubert Tretter (Austria), and Dr. Luc Schultheiss (Switzerland) headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber. Thanks to the ControllerPrize the reputation of the ICV controlling-competence message has been made stronger and sustained. The reward of 5,000 € aroused a wide interest this year so the jury is curious about how many entries will be submitted for the ControllerPrize 2013.

I am looking forward to numerous interesting projects, the competent jury's decision and the happy winners. I wish all the candidates good luck!

Siegfried Gänßlen

Chairman of the International Controller Association (ICV)

Registration Documents

The ControllerPrize 2013 will be awarded by the ICV for an exemplary controlling solution. The winner is rewarded with 5,000 €, the prize will be awarded at the 38th Controller Congress on April 22-23, 2013.

The selection of the best exemplary solution will be based on the controller's mission statement defined by the International Group of Controlling (IGC).  An exemplary controlling solution has to meet the following criteria:

• It contributes to a significant change which has been tested in practice.
• This change does not only affect the controlling department, but also contributes to the success of the whole company.
• The change has been developed by the controllers in-house and represents an innovation.

For further inquiries please contact the Institute for Controlling and Management, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber, WHU Vallendar, phone +49-261-6509 471.

Entitled to participate in that competition are controllers who implemented a project within the 12 months either in a profit or non-profit organization. The project must not have been published or submitted to any other competition.

Deadline for submission of your exemplary solution is January 25, 2013. Please, send all necessary documents to the ICV office:  Leutstettener Str. 2, D-82131 Gauting (Germany) or to c.guenther@controllerverein.de.

In order to register please fulfill the questionnaire below as pdf. or doc. file and give more detailed information about your project: situation in the company before and after the project, cause of starting the project, the goals and implementation of the project, participants and the contribution of the project to the company's success. The documents will be evaluated by a jury consisting of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber with Prof. Dr. Andreas Seufert, Hillert Onnen, Mag. Hubert Tretter and Dr. Luc Schultheiss.

The distinction of the prize winners will be a highlight of the 38th Controller Congress in Munich.

We invite you to compete for Controlling-NachwuchsPreis 2012 – a price for young professionals. Awarded will be innovative and practical ideas. Compete with your final assignment! The price will be awarded on October 27, 2012 in Berlin.

Gauting/Munich, May 31, 2012: The International Controller Association (ICV) started Controlling-NachwuchsPreis 2012 - competition for the best thesis and senior thesis. This year the price has the topic “Does controlling need changes?” as its motto, is worth 4 000 euro and will be awarded on October 27, 2012 in Berlin. You can submit your final assignment by July 23, 2012.

The ICV wants to promote young controllers and popularize innovative and practical ideas in the controllers community. Awarded will be thesis submitted after May 31, 2010 at any European university. The right of nomination have thesis promoter. The price, founded by Haufe Verlag and Haufe Akademie will be awarded for the eighth time on October 27, 2012 during the specialist conference “12^th Controlling Innovation Berlin CIB 2012”. Traditional the winners have the chance to present their thesis in plenum on the CIB conference. All applicants have the right to attend the conference  free-of-charge.

For more information:

• H.-P. Sander, ICV Press, EASTWESTCOM, Lachen-Birkenallee 16, D-86911 Diessen am Ammersee, Phone +49 8807 94 90 94, presse@controllerverein.de
• Internationaler Controller Verein, Geschäftsstelle, Leutstettener Str. 2, D-82131 Gauting
• www.controllerverein.com

Otto Group receives the famous ControllerPreis 2012

Otto Group was awarded on the 37th Controller Congress, Munich for “Establishing the Activity Based Costing in the Suppliers Service Center“

Munich, 7th May 2012– Otto Group Hamburg has received the annnual ControllerPreis 2012, founded by the International Controller Association ICV. The awarded project was “Establishing the Activity Based Costing in the Suppliers Service Center”. It was honored for a model management of internal services.

The Chairman of the Jury Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management explained that there were many reasons for awarding Otto Group. The company established a fundamental and comprehensive reorganization process, reorganized the production of services and established a professional service management as well as a new internal price model. Additionally, the consequent change management led to efficiency improvement.  As a result, this not only reduced unit-costs of the services but especially to a high satisfaction of the internal customers.

On the field of the accounts-payable department, the Otto Service Center processes about 450 000 accounts for 10 concerns of the Otto-Group every year. In the total costs of supplier traffic of 3,8 million EUR Michael Felix, the Head of the Suppliers Service Center of the Otto Group, sees, that “the subsidiary companies could save substantial amounts”. The important development, caused by the realized projects means “that you can see the starting points for cost saving”. The transparency changed the attitude to such reloaded processes as for example to the accounts-payable department. It was clear in that case, that you can reduce costs by yourself. We develop ourselves from the classical overheads counted for the whole enterprise to the costs of every company unit, the products’ groups and single articles”.

“The topic “Shared Service Center“ is now the main focus of interest of many enterprises, which want to reduce costs”, explains Jürgen Weber. "At the same time we have to standarize the processes and manage them consequently. By introducing the Activity Based Costing method Otto-Group uses a very efficient but still not known tool for Service Center management. Otto-Group shows how to improve the high complexity of the Activity Based Costing and how to increase the current low attention of the total costs for  the benefit of whole company”.

Only by the end of January you can compete for the ControllerPrize 2012 by submitting your controlling solutions.

The ControllerPrize of the International Controller Association (ICV) will be awarded on May 7/8, 2012, at the 37th Congress of Controllers. Every year the ICV awards for exemplary controlling solutions which have had a significant contribution to the achievement of the objectives of a company or an organization.

Challenge your colleagues in the competition and face the decision of our competent judges!

Dear Sir or Madam,

The ControllerPrize of the International Controller Association (ICV) will be awarded on May 7/8, 2012, at the 37th Congress of Controllers. Every year the ICV awards for exemplary controlling solutions which have had a significant contribution to the achievement of the objectives of a company or an organization.

I cordially invite you to compete for the ControllerPrize 2012 by submitting your controlling solutions by January 31, 2012. Challenge your colleagues in the competition and face the decision of our competent judges.

The final decision will be made by our jury of six prominent judges: Prof. Dr. Andreas Seufert, Hillert Onnen (both from Germany), Mag. Hubert Tretter (Austria), and Dr. Luc Schultheiss (Switzerland) headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber. Thanks to the ControllerPrize the reputation of the ICV controlling-competence message has been made stronger and sustained. The reward of 5,000 € aroused a wide interest this year so the jury is curious about how many entries will be submitted for the ControllerPrize 2012.

I am looking forward to numerous interesting projects, the competent jury's decision and the happy winners. I wish all the candidates good luck!

Siegfried Gänßlen

Chairman of the International Controller Association (ICV)

Registration Documents

The ControllerPrize 2012 will be awarded by the ICV for an exemplary controlling solution. The winner is rewarded with 5,000 €, the prize will be awarded at the 36th Controller Congress on May 7/8, 2012.

The selection of the best exemplary solution will be based on the controller's mission statement defined by the International Group of Controlling (IGC).  An exemplary controlling solution has to meet the following criteria:

• It contributes to a significant change which has been tested in practice.
• This change does not only affect the controlling department, but also contributes to the success of the whole company.
• The change has been developed by the controllers in-house and represents an innovation.

For further inquiries please contact the Institute for Controlling and Management, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber, WHU Vallendar, phone +49-261-6509 471.

Entitled to participate in that competition are controllers who implemented a project within the 12 months either in a profit or non-profit organization. The project must not have been published or submitted to any other competition.

Deadline for submission of your exemplary solution is January 31, 2012. Please, send all necessary documents to the ICV office:  Leutstettener Str. 2, D-82131 Gauting (Germany) or to c.guenther@controllerverein.de.

In order to register please fulfill the questionnaire below as pdf. or doc. file and give more detailed information about your project: situation in the company before and after the project, cause of starting the project, the goals and implementation of the project, participants and the contribution of the project to the company's success. The documents will be evaluated by a jury consisting of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber with Prof. Dr. Andreas Seufert, Hillert Onnen, Mag. Hubert Tretter and Dr. Luc Schultheiss.

The distinction of the prize winners will be a highlight of the 37th Controller Congress in Munich.