Template-based Management: A Guide for an Efficient and Impactful Professional Practice

The Template-based management (TBM) approach has been used since 2003 across the world in diverse contexts. It has evolved hand-in-hand with the evolution of business: Agile, Blueprints, Canvas, Design Thinking, or Kanban are only few of the many current concepts based on the approach. This book expands and upgrades the author's 2003 book 'Template-driven Consulting' (Springer) by tracing this evolution and offering the current state-of-the-art to practitioners.

TBM combines structure and method: pre-structuring diverse processes, it helps to present complex activities and procedures in a simple, clear, and transparent manner and then implement them. The use of TBM ranges from conception or creative work in agencies to designing organizations and strategies, planning and monitoring initiatives and projects, to innovation management and optimizing cost structures, processes, or entire departments and divisions. The book also demonstrates how successful organizations use TBM to methodically and structurally apply the internal know-how in a cost and time-optimal way for attaining sustainable business success. Readers will learn to apply and use TBM, identify its importance, and benefit from a variety of case studies that illustrate the application and use for the entire business and management practice.

Uwe Seebacher, Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration, is running the global marketing, communication, strategy, and predictive intelligence department for a global division of an Austrian based industry group. His professional experience spans over 20 years across several industry sectors like automotive, consulting, energy, and finance, among others. He is also a lecturer at many recognized business schools and universities, and has authored articles and books in many leading management publishing houses, for example, “B2B Marketing Guidebook” (Springer), “Strategic Workforce Management” (Harvard Business Manager), “Handbook Management Development“ (USP International), and “Management Development” (Linde Campus).