About me
My route to systematic administrative modernisation.
For over 20 years I have supported public authorities through their modernisation – as a consultant, author and developer of methods. Experience from more than 140 projects has taught me one thing: lasting administrative modernisation requires a systematic approach, not isolated measures.
Two methods of my own have grown out of that practice, and I pass them on in projects, books and talks. Both combine analytical clarity with what is actually workable in day-to-day administrative work, and both take the particular conditions of the public sector seriously as a framework to design within rather than as an obstacle.
My standard has not changed: analyses that end in decisions, not in reports.
My books:
Guidance for practitioners.
My methods
VESPRA
Administrative Structure, Potential and Resource Analysis. For authorities facing major change that first need a robust picture of their own organisation. Structure, capabilities and resources are examined in context, not one by one. What stands at the end is not an expert report but a target operating model the organisation supports – and a plan for how to get there.
VEA
Administrative Efficiency Analysis. For authorities that optimise a great deal and still feel little relief. It establishes the order in which tasks, processes and technology need to be tackled, so that individual measures build on each other instead of cancelling each other out. Efficiency becomes a leadership decision, not a question of technology.
My focus areas
Administrative modernisation
Organisational development
Strategic HR management
Process optimisation
Pragmatic digitalisation
My publications
Personalmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
Verwaltungsmodernisierung mit Methode
Effiziente Verwaltung
Personalmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
Haufe Verlag, 2025
Verwaltungsmodernisierung mit Methode
Springer Verlag, late 2025
Effiziente Verwaltung
Haufe Verlag, 2026
Latest perspectives
Why overload has become the normal state in public administration
Senior managers in public administration have been reporting growing pressure for years. More tasks, more requirements, more expectations from politicians and the public, with resources that remain the same or even
Assessing staffing requirements: six methods compared
Anyone setting out to assess the staffing requirements of an administrative unit faces a choice that is rarely made deliberately. In practice many local authorities reach for the method that has grown up in their own
Why the public sector skills shortage becomes a problem of trust
An overstretched state shows itself in the planning application that has been sitting for months, or the citizens’ office reachable only by appointment weeks away.