Jens Jahn has been with Boston Consulting Group since 2005. He is a core member of BCG’s People & Organization and Operations practices, and specializes in transformation, change management, HR, and people change implementation. He is an expert on, and leader in, the people side of transformations, post-merger integrations, carve-outs, reorganizations, and restructurings. The current focus of his work is supporting the people change aspect of large-scale transformations, in automotive and consumer industries.

Since joining BCG, Jens has worked with industrial goods, financial institutions, and energy clients (among others), from global conglomerates to smaller companies (‘Mittelstand’).

Jens believes in leveraging agile ways of working and digital technologies for delivering people change and HR operations processes for his clients, while following a pragmatic, data-driven, and business-focused change management and HR approach.

He also serves as a director of the Institute for International Strategic Management & Innovations at SRH University Berlin

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • Master’s degree, physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Undergraduate degree, physics, University of Exeter
  • Undergraduate degree, physics, University of Bayreuth

Publications and Videos

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What Works—and What Doesn’t—in Transformation

Change is harder to implement than ever, but a new analysis highlights why some companies still manage to outperform the competition.
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Learn from the Best in Organizational Transformation

The pandemic is forcing companies to be more sure-footed in their change efforts. Here are insights from those that have succeeded.
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CEO Leitfaden für Personalveränderungen in Transformationen

Für viele Unternehmen in Deutschland hat die Corona-Krise den Veränderungsdruck erhöht. Damit umfangreiche Personalanpassungen in Transformationen erfolgreich und nachhaltig umgesetzt werden können, sind fünf Schritte wesentlich.
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Building the Bionic Supply Chain

Where digital efforts have fallen short—and how to use human-machine collaboration to take performance to the next level.
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How Chief People Officers Flip the Odds in Transformation

Retaining talent, preserving company culture, and breaking down organizational silos are among the essential moves. Here’s our complete list.
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Are You Ready to Transform?

Change is hard, but readiness is all. Companies prepared to manage the leader, people, and program journeys can double their chances of success.
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Simplify First—Then Digitize

Digital transformation is vital to companies’ survival, yet it is threatened by complicatedness. A four-step process helps organizations combat complicatedness—and set the stage for success.
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Unlocking Change Management with People Analytics

It’s time for companies to have a smart and simple way to track and improve the performance of their most valuable assets, their people.
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Choosing the Right Shared Services Location

Companies tend to overlook the importance of HR in location selection. An HR Effectiveness Index allows them to compare top contenders—and select wisely.
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Getting to Day 1: HR’s Crucial Role in the E.ON Carve-Out

Those overseeing NHS mergers can learn useful lessons from other industries
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Better Bank Recruiting Through Social Media

To take advantage of social media recruiting, banks need to view the channel not simply as a brand-building vehicle but as a recruitment vehicle.
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The Transformation Trap: The Smart and Simple Way to Avert HR Risk

Global corporations are launching transformations left and right. But many of them don’t succeed. Why? Personnel problems, usually. Here’s how to avoid five common HR pitfalls.
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