About Summary
Nicolai Andler is a:
- management consultant (since 1999)
- business analyst and IT consultant with over (since 2001)
- published author and guest writer in magazines (since 2006)
- trainer and workshop facilitator (since 2008)
- lecturer at universities in Germany, Switzerland and Vietnam (since 2008)
- business and career coach with a coaching practice in Cape Town (since 2006)
- founder of the Ignite Group Pty Ltd (www.nicolaiandler.com/about/ignite-group) in South Africa (in 2003)
- partner in the company MC2 Institute in Switzerland (in 2010)
Nicolai Andler’s qualifications:
- Masters Science (Msc.) in chemical engineer and Commerce (TU Berlin, Germany)
- Masters in Management – MBA equivalent (French Graduate of Business Toulouse, France) (www.esc-toulouse.fr)
- Certificates in system development, UML, etc
- Coaching certificate from the SA College for Applied Psychology
- Coaching certificate from the Foundation
- Coaching certificate from Consciousness Coaching Academy
- 3 different coaching education and certificates
Links
Associates
Management Consulting Institute
Network Partners
FH Nordwest Schweiz
Other sites of mine
Life Coaching Centre in Cape Town
Solverion, the Customisable Management Frameworks, Tools and Templates system
Nicolai Andler’s specialities
- Design of business strategies
- Small-mid size business transformation projects
- Business process improvement across the company
- Change management support for projects
- Supply chain analysis
- Feasibility study – market and PEST analysis for product development
IT consulting/business analysis
- Business analysis (As-Is and To-Be analysis)
- Business case development to support and justify project investments
- Business requirements definition as input for system developments
- Functional and non-functional specifications as input for web and other IT system projects
- Project scoping, project planning & management to ensure governance and delivery – by in-house or external service providers
- Product strategy / product pricing / product costing
Personal/ Organisational development
- Hands-on training and workshop facilitation - for strategy workshops, requirements and process modelling workshops, organisational design session, etc
- Academic guest lecturing on project management, consulting process, and change management – tailor made curriculum and course design on request
- Authoring of textbooks and eBooks – as reference and personal learning and training material
- Business and executive coaching – to support change and transformation on a personal and professional level
- Leadership development training and EQ development – classroom training of tailor made training content
- Life Coaching – for individuals in private practice
After working for a leading international management consultancies and then an IT consultancy in South Africa, Nicolai founded his company the ‘Ignite Group’, a business and IT consultancy with clients in the UK, Germany and South Africa in 2003.
Over the years, he has gained experience working with clients in a broad range of industries including: the financial services sector (incl. retail banking, life insurance, employee benefit), public services (tertiary education, revenue and customs government agencies), NGOs, multi-level marketing, FMCG, manufacturing and the chemicals/petro-chemicals and health care industry.
Nicolai Andler’s competencies profile
