Keynotes, workshops, panels, and podcast appearances for executives, operators, and consultants in manufacturing and adjacent industries. Practical, pattern-based, free of vendor talking points.
Each topic can be shaped into a 20-minute keynote, a 45-minute deep dive, a half-day workshop, or a panel contribution. Tell me your audience and I will tune the substance.
The official story is technical: data quality, integrations, customizations. The real story is organizational: change resistance, knowledge gaps, and decisions made for the wrong reasons. A practical look at what goes wrong and what to do instead.
Most AI projects in manufacturing do not survive contact with production. A field-tested view on where AI actually pays back today: knowledge retention, order intake, quality, and assistive layers on top of ERP, versus the use cases that look great in a slide deck.
Your most experienced ERP and operations people are leaving the workforce, and the knowledge goes with them. How manufacturers are tackling this through process design, knowledge systems, and AI-assisted capture before the cliff arrives.
A 12-week playbook drawn from real client work. How to digitize a paper-driven plant without ripping out what works, the sequence that makes adoption stick, and the metrics that tell you whether the change is real.
Building a consulting business that delivers in both DACH and North America. What is the same, what is different, where the seams tear, and how to staff for both worlds without going broke or losing the culture.
Cloud migration, customization debt, integration mesh, or AI overlay: most manufacturers are forced to choose one or two at a time. A framework for sequencing modernization decisions so the business does not stall while the IT department wins its argument.
Four formats, same source material. Pick the one that fits your event.
20 to 45 minutes. Single talk, one clear argument, designed for industry conferences and user group events. Slides, examples, no padding.
Half day or full day. Working session with an executive team or consulting group. Frameworks, exercises, and an action plan the team can use the next week.
Moderated or contributor. Most useful when the audience benefits from contrast between operator, vendor, and consultant perspectives.
Long-form conversation on ERP, AI, manufacturing, and building consulting practices. Available in English and German.
Keynote at the Infor LN European User Group practical day, with Richard Weiher. A working operator view on where AI lands inside an Infor LN landscape and where it does not.
Tell me about your audience, format, and the rough topic you have in mind. I read every inquiry myself and reply within a couple of working days.
Or email directly: l.hector@h2w-consulting.com
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