Dr. Engin Beken

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Partner

Engin has top-notch global expertise in a wide range of digitalization and operations performance improvement areas, especially asset-heavy industries.

Areas of Focus

Energy, Utilities & Resources

Operations management

Education

Vienna TU

PhD Mechanical Engineering

Vienna TU & Munich TU

MSc Industrial Engineering

Past Experience

Verbund AG

Project Manager

Engin is a globally acknowledged expert for digital operations and operational excellence focused transformations programs. His key focus clients are renewable energy utilities, railway operators & infrastructure managers and manufacturing & engineering companies.

Engin Beken is a Partner based in both Frankfurt and Vienna offices. He i part of the global leadership team our Operations Strategy & Transformation Practice. In this function, he is supporting especially CTOs and COOs at our clients globally.

After working for more than four years as a project manager in the Hydro Power division of VERBUND AG, he switched his career towards management consulting and Arthur D. Little. His key expertise are large scale transformation programs focusing on long term digitalization and performance improvement targets. He has over 10 years of top-notch international project experience in the manufacturing/operations and supply-chain/procurement functions.

Engin studied industrial engineering at the Technical Universities in Vienna and Munich and holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering.

The Industrial Metaverse

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Energy, Utilities & Resources, 電力とエネルギー・グリッド

Winning the productivity race in hydropower

Dr. Engin Beken, Rodolfo Guzman, Michael Kruse

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Actions for post-crisis supply chain recovery

Bernd Schreiber, Dr. Engin Beken, Dr. Kai-Oliver Zander

Every day more countries alarm the world with new COVID-19 cases. As a result, many countries are closing their borders and imposing social-distancing measures on their people. Naturally, global and local companies are affected as their workforces and supply chains are cut off. The first weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak showed organizations’ ability to pull out well-prepared contingency plans to respond and adapt to the new reality quickly.

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Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)

Digital infrastructure as a driver of competitiveness

Dr. Karim Taga, Dr. Engin Beken

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Digital Lean Management

Bernd Schreiber, Dr. Engin Beken

Unternehmen mit Spitzenleistungen stellten lange Zeit Lean Management in den Fokus ihrer Unternehmenstransformation. Viele Unternehmen haben das Potenzial der Digitalisierung erkannt und mit ihrer „Digital Journey“ begonnen. Wir beobachten zwei Arten von Effekten durch Digital Lean: Unternehmen, die eine radikale Leistungssteigerung von bis zu 50% realisieren und Unternehmen, deren digitale Initiativen in Silos verpuffen.

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Operations Management Periodical

Dr. Engin Beken, Bernd Schreiber

Mit dem Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) der Berner Gruppe haben wir ein Interview zur Zukunft der Logistik geführt. Die Berner Gruppe handelt B2B mit Verbrauchsmaterialien, Werkzeugen und Werkstattausstattung und bietet entsprechende Beratung und Serviceleistungen an. Die Gruppe ist europaweit in mehr als 25 Ländern aktiv. Eine der wesentlichen Erkenntnisse ist, dass die Digitalisierung die Logistik in den nächsten Jahren radikal verändern wird - nicht nur in den eigenen Abläufen, sondern auch in der einhergehenden Veränderung des Geschäftsmodells.

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