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Icv bulletin december 2011
1. International
Controller Association
In this issue:
• 10 core elements
• Green Controlling Prize
• An interview with Bojan
Šćepanović from Serbia
ICV Bulletin | No. 1 | December 2011 • Board’s Christmas letter
Dear Readers! Speaking the same language all over the
I’m happy to pass to you the first issue world
of our ICV Bulletin. At the last ICV Man-
agement Conference in Frankfurt we A strategy is as good as its realization. Closing the year
realized that what we lack is a broader 2011 the ICV Board confirmed the previous strategy as
platform for communicating our ICV successful and set goals for the coming years. Our main
activities on an international level. We goal as an active international network is enhancing the
intend to publish the Bulletin quarterly function of practically applied controlling and the role of
and cover in it themes concerning con- controller in sharing the responsibility for successful
trolling in general and important ICV company management.
events. There is indeed much to be
reported as the ICV is always active
and gathers no moss.
Preparing the first issue of the Bulletin is a great opportunity
to go back to the roots of the ICV and its philosophy. So we
decided to include a discussion paper by Prof. Dr. Heimo
Losbichler. He analyzes in it 10 key elements of sustainable
controlling which lie at the foundation of the ICV. The ICV is
proud of its strong engagement in Green Controlling so
we’re also going to report on “green” developments in this
and coming issues.
Making sure that the International Controller Association
earns the first part of its name is my field of responsibility
and I’m especially glad about our achievements in that mat-
ter. For example, this year we have gained brand new mem- ICV Mission Statement
The ICV being a non-commercially oriented association is the biggest
bers: Croatia and Serbia. On two pages of the Bulletin you
controller organization in Europe
will get information from these and other ICV member coun-
tries. We have also taken steps to translate materials from
German into English for our non-German speaking mem- ICV Key Objectives
bers - they have been published on the ICV Internet plat- The ICV as an active international network enhances the function of
form www.controllerverein.com. practically applied controlling
and the role of the controller in sharing the responsibility
Last but not least, I have come up at the last ICV Manage-
ment Conference with an idea of creating a list of specialists
from our “better-established” members who could share To better realize the ICV strategy the Board have clear
their experience with our new members. I imagine it as a fields of responsibilities. And thus Dr. Walter Schmidt
team of volunteers who could be invited and hosted by will- focuses on setting new trends, Dr. Adrianna Lewandowska
ing to participate countries with the purpose of organizing on internationalization, Dr. Bernd Schwarze on public
trainings in English. The list of experts is already long and relations, Siegfried Gänßlen on key account management,
we will provide more information on the project in the next Conrad Günther on the organizational basis of the ICV net-
issue. work, Marcus Haegi on orientation on new trends and Prof.
Dr. Heimo Losbichler on SWOT analysis & strategy.
I wish all of you a Merry Christmas
and a happy and successful New Year, Yours That’s why we hope that becoming more and more
engaged in the ICV you will have the feeling that you
Dr. Adrianna Lewandowska, ICV Board Member belong to the biggest controller organization in Europe.
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7. ICV Bulletin | No. 1 | December 2011
ICV Board’s Christmas Letter
Gauting, December 2011 We are glad about our new work groups, but we are also
pleased and proud to celebrate special WG anniversaries.
Dear Members of the International Controller Associa- The WG West II met in Cologne on October 14 for the 50th
tion, time and celebrated on the occasion its thirtieth anniversary.
We cordially congratulate on this occasion one more time
the year 2011 is drawing to its close. For the International our long-standing work group leader Ralf Lehnert and send
Controller Association it was a year full of events and many thanks for his tireless engagement. In the 50th meet-
changes. ing Ralf Lehnert passed the leadership of the West II region
into Thomas Ruhs' hands and his deputy Bernd Voss. We
The Association has further developed and we controllers wish both gentlemen a good start and much success in fur-
have learned that: "Navigating by sight" became in the fi- ther leading this rich in tradition work group. (…)
nancial crisis and is still becoming navigating in volatile
times. We will also put emphasis on this aspect in our 2012 So the year 2011 was again a successful year for us, for the
work. association. We deal with the right topics, we have built a
good network in economy and science. Our web activities
If we can take the number of participants in our events as an are exemplary, our press presence is better than ever.
indicator for controlling demand, then we can state that: Our
controlling is in demand! With over 2000 participants at the In 2012 we invite you to make an intensive use of our asso-
congress and in regional events we have reached a good ciation’s offer, which we want to considerably extend also
14% more interested persons than in the previous year. this year. We would like to invite you to take part in our
member meeting on May 6, 2012 and will be happy to meet
Preparations for the congress 2012 have already reached you at our 37th Controller Congress on May 7 and 8, 2012.
an advanced state, the program is essentially nailed down.
This is also the case of regional events, which traditionally The coming Christmas and the New Year are a good oppor-
take place in autumn. The appointments are fixed and also tunity for each of us to pause for a moment and reflect.
here there already are considered programs, speakers etc.
We firmly believe that we can keep the usual high level of all We wish you and your families a peaceful, contemplative
events in 2012 and constantly raise the number of partici- Christmas and for the year 2012 luck, health and success.
pants.
With Kind Regards,
Many warm thanks to all responsible organizers and assis-
tants of the congress and of all regional events for their Yours ICV Board
enormous work input and for their high professional engage-
ment. And we wish you and ourselves as well a lucky hand Siegfried Gänßlen Conrad Günther
for the events in 2012!
Marcus Haegi Dr. Adrianna Lewandowska
In the proper member meeting of the International Controller
Association on Mai 15, 2011 in Munich our Chairman, Siggi Prof. Dr. Heimo Losbichler Dr. Walter Schmidt
Gänßlen, granted Dr. Lukas Rieder for his controlling life-
time performance an honorary ICV membership. Board Dr. Bernd Schwarze
Member Marcus Haegi from Switzerland delivered congratu-
latory speech for Dr. Lukas Rieder.
We send congratulations also to our deputy ICV Chairman
Prof. Dr. Heimo Losbichler. He took over the presidency
over the International Group of Controlling (IGC) after Dr.
Wolfgang Berger-Vogel, who served as the IGC President
for more than ten years.
We are happy that the number of our work groups, the basis
of our association, has also in 2011 significantly increased.
In that matter the WG Serbia in Belgrade has begun its work
in October. We wish the WG leader Bojan Scepanovic much
success in organizational works in the 17th ICV country! In
Austria - but still taking into account Germany, Lichtenstein
and Switzerland - the WG Voralberg headed by Thomas
Prugger has begun its work. We wish you successful work!
In Coesfeld has begun the WG Westfalen headed by Chris-
tiane Strathaus. We are happy about the further develop-
ment of the West region and wish them much success!
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we prepared this Bulletin. For mem- The ControllerPrize of the
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be more and more successful with
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to hearing from you – if you have
any ideas or you know of any inter-
esting events, please let us know.
Yours
Anna Włodarczyk and Piotr Buza
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Croatia Lublin
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Estonia Łódź
Karolina Zielińska
karolina.zielinska@icv.pl
Lithuania
Edita Gimžauskienė
edita.gimzauskiene@ktu.lt Poznań
Romania
Dariusz Gulczyński
Bukarest
dariusz.gulczynski@icv.pl
Hungary Cristina Hodea
Budapest 1 Cristina.hodea@gmail.com
Ervin Nemesdy Szczecin
nemesdy@mce.hu Aleksander Socha
Sibiu
aleksander.socha@ramirent.pl
Nicoleta Thomka
Budapest 2 n.thomka@gmx.de
Andreas Kovacs Toruń
Kovács@mcskft.hu Andrzej Derkowski
Russia
Andrzej.Derkowski@icv.pl
Valentin Usenkov
Poland zoom@mail.ru
Warszawa
Gdańsk Karol Sikora
Serbia
Robert Panufnik karol.sikora@icv.pl
Bojan Šćepanović
R.Panufnik@vector.com.pl mcb@eunet.rs
Wrocław
Katowice Honorata Ulatowska Slovenia
Anna Jarkulisz honorata.ulatowska@icv.pl Dragica Erčulj
Anna.Jarkulisz@arcelormittal.com Dragica.erculj@crmt.com
Zielona Góra
Małgorzata Lepak Spain
Kraków
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