Malte Koslowski-Strategic Business Development & Product Design

Medium-sized acoustics manufacturer expanding its B2B production expertise into the consumer market with a D2C venture for room acoustics.

• Translated manufacturing expertise into two product lines with 1,500+ configurations and built an online business within 6 months with a seamless customer experience and standardized fulfillment processes.
• Led a seven-person team made up of internal staff and external specialists for industrialization, e-commerce, and marketing.

Sector Manufacturing, Automotive

• Analysis of existing processes and the associated data and system landscape in the quality department
• Creation of journey maps to identify digitalization potential at the shop floor level
• Alignment of product development with strategic action areas to optimize operational processes and data analyses for order management
• Consolidation of the fragmented system landscape (paper, Excel, siloed solutions) into an integrated IT system
• Real-time profitability forecasts and detailed data analyses to improve risk control and order management
• Involvement of stakeholders at on-site plants to validate and coordinate technical and process-related measures

Sector Energy

• Testable mockups and clickable prototypes for validating concepts with users
• Optimization of the user experience for the station finder and the charging process for electric cars
• Implementation and expansion of the existing design system using high-fidelity design components
• Monitoring tool for visualizing energy data from private users with systems for decentralized energy generation and e-mobility
• Detailed documentation of user flows and screen designs for planned feature enhancements
• Strategic consulting for product management with market analyses, product benchmarks, and user feedback
• Evaluation of usability testing and implementation of research findings

• Coaching of four cohorts of international master student teams in MSc Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship
• Support for real strategic company projects, from structuring complex business questions through analysis and strategy development to concrete recommendations for action
• Support for internationally composed teams in combining different perspectives and working through real business challenges in a structured and practical way

• Supported the planning committee in designing and preparing the first Changemaker City Event in Kigali with around 120 participants from different social groups.
• Developed a structured stakeholder dialogue to involve different perspectives and support exchange during the event.
• Consolidated, prepared, and designed the results in an event report to document insights and impact and make them usable beyond the event.

• Developed and published the Eco Design Tool as a practical method for the early and structured integration of environmental requirements into product development processes.
• Planned and facilitated pro-bono workshops for students, designers, and other actors from the innovation space.
• Translated complex sustainability topics into concrete criteria, questions, and product ideas.
• Enabled the participants to apply the method independently to real development tasks.

Venture alongside my studies for experimental industrial design with direct online sales.

• Led the pendant lamp Pirouet from the product idea to licensing and market launch: awarded the Red Dot Award in 2015.
• Managed construction, prototyping, and industrialization with manufacturing and industry partners.
• Carried out trade fair appearances and international marketing, including up to Asia.