Kurt Baes

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Managing Partner

Head of Arthur D. Little in Belgium and Luxembourg

Kurt advises energy, utility, aerospace, automotive and manufacturing companies on performance improvement, growth strategy, and large organizational transformation.

Areas of Focus

Operations management

Education

Cornell University (NY, USA)

Master of Business Administration

K.U.Leuven (Belgium)

Master of Science in Applied Economics

Past Experience

Volvo

Various intern positions

Kurt is Managing Partner, leading Arthur D. Little in Belgium and Luxembourg and based in Brussels, with over 20 years of strategy consulting experience. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia and North America. He is the local leader of various industry (Oil & Gas, Utilities & Alternative Energy, Automotive, Industrial Goods & Services) and functional (Performance) practices. He also heads our Global Competence Center Leader for Energy Transmission.

Kurt serves a broad range of Energy & Utility players and their suppliers in international assignments, such as:

Strategy and business planning
Global organization redesign
Operational excellence/performance boosting
Large capital projects & programs
Engineering management
Risk and portfolio management
Asset management

Kurt advises large and mid-size global clients in the automotive and manufacturing industries (aerospace, construction, electronics) on assignments such as:

Strategy and business planning
Market analysis and entry strategy, including transaction support
Industrial reorganization and operations turnaround
Performance improvement

In addition, he advises in the area of Operations Management in international context cross-industry, covering Sourcing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, and overall Performance Improvement.

Energy, Utilities & Resources

Accelerating building energy efficiency

Current approaches and mechanisms are not sufficient to deliver on the European “Renovation Wave” ambitions. There needs to be a paradigm change to deliver value and leverage innovative private funding on top of sector subsidies. This Viewpoint puts the stakes and challenges in perspective and provides concrete recommendations to improve training, ecosystem development, sales approaches, innovation funding, and monitoring the results of individual homeowner choices, some of which can also be applicable to industrial and commercial segments.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

The buzz about energy data & where to find it

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How data sharing is essential to deliver industry-wide transformation

Michael Majster

Industries from energy to healthcare are facing up to transformational change. This is driven by several factors: a need for greater sustainability, reinforced by regulation; changes in consumer needs and behaviors requiring greater flexibility and customer-centricity; and technological development, especially digital and automation. Current geopolitical and economic trends affecting energy prices, supply chains and inflation are acting as a further driver.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Powering India’s energy vision 2030

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Energy, Utilities & Resources, Waste, Water & Circularity

Disruption is now

Michael Kruse, Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes, Irene Macchiarelli, Daniel Monzon, Trung Ghi, Rodolfo Guzman, Carlo Stella, Chiara Loreti, Martijn Eikelenboom, Sally Menassa, Eddy Ghanem, Alexander Krug, Dr. Philipp Seidel, Dr. Michael Opitz

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Appetite for disruption – Making the most of the future of food

Phil Webster , Kurt Baes, Maki Kurosawa, Serkan Somer, Rick Eagar

Being the leader of a global food and beverage business has been anything but easy over recent years. Going back a decade, the industry had a reputation for being fairly stable and conservative, dominated by a limited number of global brands that delivered steady growth and margins. Since then, the industry has been shaken by a succession of disruptions, including sluggish demand for traditional core products, rapidly changing consumer patterns and preferences, accelerating technological developments, and evolving attitudes towards the environmental and social impacts of food production.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Green energy – How to outsmart disruption and future-proof business models

Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes, Martijn Eikelenboom

With more robust global political climate ambitions, green growth is an increasing driver of greater value for energy and utility companies, as well as for corporates across all sectors. With 2020 a green watershed, the authors outline key opportunities that leaders need to seize to futureproof their businesses and increase shareholder value.

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Sustainability in the supply chain: The risks and the rewards

Tom Teixeira, Kurt Baes, Martijn Eikelenboom

Supply chain sustainability risk management

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Industrial energy management

Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes

With sustainability commitments on the horizon, how can industrial companies reach their targets cost-effectively?

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Kurt serves a broad range of Energy & Utility players and their suppliers in international assignments, such as:

Strategy and business planning
Global organization redesign
Operational excellence/performance boosting
Large capital projects & programs
Engineering management
Risk and portfolio management
Asset management

Kurt advises large and mid-size global clients in the automotive and manufacturing industries (aerospace, construction, electronics) on assignments such as:

Strategy and business planning
Market analysis and entry strategy, including transaction support
Industrial reorganization and operations turnaround
Performance improvement

In addition, he advises in the area of Operations Management in international context cross-industry, covering Sourcing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, and overall Performance Improvement.