How Modularization improves Financial Performance
- 15/10/2025 15:00 - 16:00 '
- Public
- Free of cost
- Language: English
- Platform: Teams
How Modularization improves Financial Performance
The Controller’s Guide to managing Cost of Complexity: How Modularization improves Financial Performance
We are living in very complex and volatile times with huge challenges for the businesses in Europe. Therefore it is extremely important to be able to manage this “perfect storm” and adapt the business to the new environment.
Complexity is one of the hidden cost drivers in today’s businesses. For controllers and finance professionals, managing complexity is key to securing profitability and competitiveness.
Modular product and process concepts offer a powerful lever: they reduce product cost, reduce complexity significantly, speed up time-to-market – while maintaining or even increasing product variety.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- How modularization strengthens financial performance,
- How to identify and measure the cost of complexity,
- How controllers can actively support strategic decisions with data-driven insights.
The session builds on insights from the North European Modularization Network (NEM), developed together with leading European companies.
Speakers
Dr. Peter Greiner has worked as an international business consultant since 2023, based in Stockholm, Sweden, and currently serves as Operations Officer Germany for the North European Modularization Network.
He has over 30 years of experience in international controlling in various roles at local, regional, and global levels, gained through his work with the multinational home appliance manufacturer Electrolux AB. He shares this expertise in his work as a consultant now. He is particularly passionate about exploring the connection between financial metrics and business activities.
Dr. Greiner has been a member of the ICV (International Association of Controllers) for more than 20 years and supports the organization through his involvement in working groups and as ICV webinar moderator. He is also listed as a Senior Expert in the consulting division of the Controller Akademie.
Dr. Peter Greiner studied physics at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, where he earned his doctorate in experimental physics. He received his controlling education at the Controller Akademie. He lives in both Stockholm and Hamburg.
Since 2021 Christian Esildsen is CEO of the North European Modularization Network (NEM) which he has founded in 2015, based in Middelfart, Denmark.
He has over 30 years of experience in international management which he collected in various companies, such as Danfoss, the Technological Institute in Odense, CP and at Electrolux where he successfully managed the strategic modularization program for more than 10 years. He is an enthusiastic supporter of modular strategies and loves to network and share experience in this field.
Christian Eskildsen studied mechanical engineering at the University of Southern Denmark. He lives in Middelfart in Denmark.
