Alexander Fink

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Alexander Fink (* 1967 in Bremen ) is a German author , speaker, futurologist and strategy consultant and board member of ScMI Scenario Management International AG.

Life

Fink was born in Bremen in 1967, attended the Cato Bontjes van Beek grammar school in Achim (Abitur 1986) and studied industrial engineering at the University of Paderborn . Fink developed the scenario management approach. He did his doctorate at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn with a thesis on the scenario-based management of industrial companies. In 1998 he founded Scenario Management International AG (ScMI AG) together with Andreas Siebe and Oliver Schlake , of which he has been a board member since then.

Fink has led over 200 projects in the areas of scenario technology and strategic management . The published scenario studies include scenarios and design options for sustainable financial markets ( European Academy of Sciences and Arts , 2003), The future of health care in Germany (Innovation Center Lower Saxony, 2011), The future of our food ( Anuga and the Federal Association of the German Grocery Trade, 2011), Future scenarios for the communication of retail in 2025 ( EHI Retail Institute , 2013), Integrated scenarios as part of the national sustainability strategy ( Federal Environment Agency , 2014), Scenarios for the Future of European Border Management ( Frontex , 2016), The future of retail logistics (EHI Retail Institute, 2016), The Future of the Food Industry ( Nutrition Cluster at the Competence Center for Nutrition, 2017), Germany 2030 - A map for the future (D2030, 2019) Scenario report: AI-based working environments 2030 ( Fraunhofer IAO , 2019). Alexander Fink lives with his family in Paderborn . He is married and has three sons.

Publications (selection)

  • with Jürgen Gausemeier and Oliver Schlake: Scenario Management - Planning and Leading with Scenarios , 2nd edited edition, Carl Hanser , Munich, 1996, ISBN 3-446187219
  • with Jürgen Gausemeier and Oliver Schlake: Scenario-Management - An Approach to develop future potentials ; in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 59, Number 2, October 1998
  • with Jürgen Gausemeier : Leadership in Change - A Holistic Approach to Future- Oriented Corporate Design , Carl Hanser, Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-446210792
  • with Oliver Schlake and Andreas Siebe: Success through scenario management - principle and tools of strategic foresight , Campus , Frankfurt / New York 2001, ISBN 978-3-5933-6714-9
  • with Andreas Siebe: Handbook of Future Management - Tools for Strategic Planning and Early Detection , 2nd updated and expanded edition, Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3593395500
  • with Andreas Siebe: Scenario Management - From strategic thinking ahead to future-robust decisions , Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2016, ISBN 978-3593506036
  • with Klaus Burmeister , Beate Schulz-Montag and Karlheinz Steinmüller : Rethinking Germany - Eight scenarios for our future , Oekom, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3962380182
  • with Jürgen Stember, Matthias Vogelgesang and Philip Pongratz (eds.): Handbook Innovative Economic Promotion - Modern Concepts of Communal Structural and Development Policy , SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 978-3658214036

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Awards

  • Ulrike Schöneberg Award - Audience Award for the best lecture at the 54th Congress of German Market Research (2019)
  • German Market Research Award (2013)
  • Prize for Outstanding Paper in "Technological Forecasting and Social Change" (1998)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scenario Management is a registered trademark of Scenario Management International AG, Paderborn
  2. ^ Fink, Alexander: Scenario-based management of industrial production companies , HNI publishing series, Volume 50, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-931466493
  3. ^ Brunnhuber, Stefan; Klimenta, Harald: How we will do business - scenarios and design options for sustainable financial markets ; Ueberreuther, Frankfurt / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-832310223
  4. ↑ Innovation Center Lower Saxony; ScMI AG: The future of healthcare in Germany 2020 - scenarios and perspectives ; Hanover / Paderborn, 2011
  5. ↑ Anuga ; Federal Association of the German Grocery Trade; ScMI AG: The future of our food ; Cologne / Paderborn, 2011
  6. ↑ Lohmann, Marlene: Future scenarios for the communication of retail in 2025 ; EHI Retail Institute , Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3872574152
  7. ↑ Fink, Alexander; Rammig, Hanna: Integrated scenarios as part of the national sustainability strategy - possible environment developments by 2040 as well as sustainable design options for leisure, living and eating ; Federal Environment Agency, Dessau, 2014
  8. ↑ Frontex European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union: Risk Analysis for 2016 ; Warsaw, 2016, ISBN 978-92-95205-47-5
  9. ↑ Fink, Alexander; Kruse, Andreas; Atzberger, Marco: The future of retail logistics 2025 ; EHI Retail Institute , Cologne, 2016
  10. ↑ Fink, Alexander; Michl, Christian: The future of the food industry - How do we eat in 2030? ; Nutrition cluster at the Competence Center for Nutrition; Kulmbach, 2017
  11. ↑ D2030 initiative. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Burmeister, Klaus; Fink, Alexander; Mayer, Christina; Schiel, Andreas; Schulz-Montag, Beate: Scenario Report - AI-Based Working Worlds 2030 ; Fraunhofer IAO ; Stuttgart, 2019; ISSN 2698-2218
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German futurologist and strategy consultant
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen