Jochen is responsible for service innovation at Krones AG with major focus on digitally-enabled business models and the related transformation process, including technological, organizational as well as cultural change. During his professional career Jochen developed a very customer-oriented business perspective, established a strong background in R&D project and portfolio management and gained extensive experience with diverse, cross-functional and globally distributed teams as well as informal internal networks and open innovation.

While technology is often an important driver and enabler for radical innovation and correspondingly frequent in the center of OEMs development activities, Jochen is convinced that a biased view of customer value propositions and lack of innovation culture typically are the crucial obstacles, which need to be consistently addressed and overcome.

 

What's the pop in your job? "The thrill to challenge the limits and unlock customer value by stepping outside the comfort zone."

The Krones Group, headquartered in Neutraubling, Germany, plans, develops, and manufactures machines and complete lines for the fields of process technology, bottling, canning and packaging, plus intralogistics. Krones’ success is based on a few crucial strategies: specialised knowledge of mechanical engineering and its customers’ sectoral needs, a technical lead in its chosen field, thanks to continuingly high expenditure on research and development, a manufacturing operation using state-of-the-art equipment to stringent standards of qualitative excellence, plus globalised 24/7 service support, all backed up by a highly qualified and enthusiastically motivated workforce. More than 5,000 patents granted and pending evidence the company’s innovatory potential.