Complex tasks need one thing: Experience
Michael Nicht is a renowned expert in the planning and implementation of projects – from temporary and international trade fair stands and major events, through to permanent ones, such as permanent installations, exhibitions or logistics services.
He advises on preparation, all procurement processes and project execution.
Michael Nicht knows the business, the pitfalls and the feasibility at all levels. Use his experience for your projects – no matter whether they are international, national or regional.
Project Control
The project control of events and trade fairs has a very special dynamic due to the lack of possibility to postpone deadlines or subsequent processing.
However, decisive mistakes that can lead to failure are usually made in the run-up to the event, either in the planning of the material, the available time and procedures, or through the unprofessional, inadequate implementation of what has been planned. This cannot be compensated on the day of the event.
In order to recognise such deficits in time, the only thing that helps is to go through many all-nighters, to find solutions for the seemingly impossible, to have a feeling for the right handling of sometimes only one person involved in the execution, who can “turn” everything around.
The instinct whether an implementation will succeed well, the “gut feeling” that something is not going as desired, recognising the interdependence of the trades involved – all this can only be acquired through many years of working on complex event projects.
Procurement
Every project starts with the procurement of service providers and suppliers for planning and execution. Find the best — reduce the budget.
Anyone who wants to effectively compare services and prices must be familiar with the respective industry. It is only possible to assess whether an offer really reflects the state of what is currently feasible and whether the conditions are good if you are familiar with the subject and the market. If the client lacks this knowledge, risks and costs will inevitably increase.
Michael Nicht is a proven expert in tendering and procurement procedures. His expertise helps DAX companies achieve massive savings, year after year, even on projects with multi-million-euro budgets.
He plans a suitable procurement strategy, creates comparability through professional specifications, develops performance-related fee models, evaluates the resulting offers.
In this way, he finds the most suitable service providers and suppliers for your project
Define a procurement strategy
Framework agreement, individual tender or pitch?
Clarify supplier situation
Analysis and screening of the suppliers eligible for the project
Creating professional specifications
For example for:
General planners
General contractors
Exhibition architects
Communications agencies
Technical planners
Structural engineers
Health and Safety Coordinators (HSE Coordinators)
Project controllers
Exhibition store operators
Carrying out driving and safety trainings
Directors and technical staff for press conferences
Choose fee model
Billing by daily rate, by quantity, by existing fee schedule, or as a percentage?
General tender rules
Implementation of the tender, examination of the offered services, professional and mathematical evaluation
Further Services
Organisation structures
Analysis and evaluation of decision-making competencies
Controlling
Acceptance of requested services, inspection of proof of performance and invoices
Mediation
Mediation in the event of disagreements within projects using sound knowledge of the sector
Interim Management
Gap management, substitution, project based addition
Expertise
From company celebrations to major international events such as IAA or AUDI A8 presentation in Miami Beach, from a sole trader to COO of an SME.
And everything in between. In various functions and with all types of people.
all beginning …
Organisation and execution of tours with well-known artists in Germany and Italy and of corporate parties for companies.
until 1992
Managing partner of Video Beam Service, Michaelsen + Nicht GmbH: Rental of professional event technology for marketing events and trade shows.
until 1995
Member of the executive board of the DEKOM Group, Hamburg as the CEO of DEKOM Mietzentrale GmbH.
until 2014
Managing partner of TFN GmbH + Co KG. Office for the design and planning of audiovisual media equipment.
until 2017
COO of VER GmbH in Braunschweig and Offenbach. Formed by the fusion of VER Germany GmbH and Media In Res GmbH (previously Rock-Service Deutschland GmbH), www.ver.com
Zurück
Weiter
Clients
Volkswagen
Trade fairs, events, specialist staff, agencies, service providers
Deutsche Bank
General contractor for shareholders’ meetings, Messe Frankfurt
SEAT
General planner for trade fairs
Further projects:
Audi
Planning and procurement of audiovisual media technology for international trade shows (IAA, Tokyo, China, USA, Geneva), various marketing and press events around the world between 1998 and 2014, as well as AUDI museum mobile (on behalf of TFN GmbH & Co).
Škoda
Procurement of any equipment and logistical implementation for projects in the Czech Republic and Italy (on behalf of Success Partners).
Thyssen Krupp
Planning an procurement of the technical equipment for the Ideenpark in Gelsenkirchen (on behalf of Ambrosius Messebau/TFN GmbH & Co KG).
Deutsche Telekom
T‑Mobile Campus, Bonn: Consultancy for the awarding of an outline contract for the deployment of staff for the supervision and operation of audio-visual technology. Preliminary evaluation, interviews with current employees, creation of a service specification, selection of bidders, evaluation of offers, consultancy for the awarding of contracts (on behalf of TFN GmbH & Co KG).
Volkswagen
Planning and procurement of any type of equipment as well as the execution of all construction work for the Group’s top management conferences, each with up to nine different locations in Munich, Vancouver, Wolfsburg and Brussels (on behalf of Success Partners).
Deutsche Bank
Planning and procurement of the media technology for Deutsche Bank Q 110, the Deutsche Bank of the future, in Berlin honored with the Sinus Award, business category (on behalf of TFN GmbH & Co)
Advertising correctly! – My five-point programme
Performance-based pay for planning partners at trade fairs and events
Achieve goals using soft skills
Press
The trade magazines Event Partner, Events Magazine, M+A Report, PMA Production Management, Production Partner, Professional System and Stage Report have published the following article written by him:
Making savings when purchasing audiovisual media technology
Carrying out a qualified tendering process
LED walls as far as the eye can see
Presenting large-scale video footage in an extremely bright museum environment
Vorsprung durch Technik
AUDI presentation at IAA Frankfurt
That’s Multimedia
The launch of the Škoda Octavia
Speaker presentations
Presented using which audiovisual medium?
Holosion – into the third dimension without glasses
A new era or technological bells and whistles?
Sound systems for marketing events
How much outlay for just one speaker’s microphone?
Large-screen video projectors
Which piece of equipment is suitable for your applications?