Podcast „Alles neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum“
Episode #22: Dr. Philipp Dehn
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Podcast Episode 22
Dr. Philipp Dehn | DEHN: "Fall down, fix your crown, carry on"
Managing Partner & CEO at DEHN
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Episode Description
It's a question facing many German family businesses: What if you have a product that works and a business model that runs well - and yet it's clear that something has to change? "Even companies like ours that are accustomed to success have to change," says Dr. Philipp Dehn, head of lightning protection supplier DEHN, in the podcast "Alles neu...? aus dem Maschinenraum" - this time in a recording with an audience at the midmarket conference Maschinenraum Momentum. "We're not going to make sneakers tomorrow. But we're in the security megatrend - and that offers a lot of opportunity to grow." The basic idea is to embrace the idea of safety more broadly than just with a product like the lightning rod. Behind this is the path from product to solution provider that many companies want to take. That this is not always easy is shown by the cooperation with a startup that did not work out from Dehn's point of view - but where the entrepreneur learned a lot. "We didn't partner with others the way we should have. We thought we could do it ourselves," says Dehn, who draws a simple conclusion for himself: "Fall down, fix your crown, carry on." The family entrepreneur talks about employee shared flats, the difficult search for IT specialists and the question of whether you actually need a strategy paper - in the podcast - with Tobias Rappers, Managing Director of Maschinenraum and Capital editor Nils Kreimeier.
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Dr. Philipp Dehn
Dr. Philipp Dehn is CEO and Managing Partner at DEHN SE. With a degree in business administration, he initially worked in corporate finance at KPMG. Before joining the family business DEHN in 2011, he was Managing Director of a business unit at Leoni Fiber Optics. Since 2014, he has been steering the fortunes of the fourth generation of the family business DEHN.
DEHN SE is a leading, internationally active family-owned electrical engineering company with around 2,200 employees worldwide, offering innovative products and solutions as well as comprehensive service for surge, lightning and industrial protection. The protection of plant and building technology, of systems for traffic and telecommunications technology and the process industry, or of photovoltaic and wind power plants is the focus of DEHN's activities, along with many other areas of application. In addition to more than 100 years of experience, the company's steady growth is based above all on the highest quality standards, consistent worldwide customer and market orientation, and timely recognition of technical trends.
About The Podcast
How can the origin and future of Mittelstand companies be courageously united? What are the challenges facing family businesses and what experiences do they gather in digital transformation? These questions are answered by "Alles neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum", the interview podcast for German Mittelstand*. Once a month, Tobias Rappers, Managing Director of Maschinenraum, and Nils Kreimeier, Senior Editor of the business magazine Capital, talk to thought leaders and makers from the heart of the German economy and focus on the personalities and their motivation.
*The podcast is in German.
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