Strategy Consultant — AI & Data — Automotive

Jonas
Dunemann

I help large industrial organizations turn AI and data ambitions into scalable business impact. By connecting strategy, technology, operating models, and people, I translate complex opportunities into clear priorities, build the structures required for implementation, and enable teams to move from isolated pilots to solutions that are adopted, governed, and scaled across the organization.

Portrait of Jonas Dunemann
0+client projects across automotive, tech, retail and IT services
0+people AI enabled through training programs
0+AI workshops, trainings and community sessions led
01 Profile

Strategy that survives contact with the organization.

I have worked as a strategy consultant at diconium strategy, part of the Volkswagen Group, since the beginning of 2024. My work sits at the intersection of AI, data, and large scale organizational transformation. This ranges from scaling a group wide data platform and rolling out AI tools to more than 1,500 developers to identifying which AI use cases can create real value and actually be sustained within an organization.

What fascinates me most is not AI as a technology, but what it does to the way we work. Consulting has traditionally been built around processes like research, analysis, synthesis, problem solving, and creating recommendations. Generative AI is starting to change each of these building blocks, raising a much more interesting question than simply how to use AI more efficiently: How should consulting itself be redesigned when AI becomes part of the workflow? I am particularly interested in how AI changes established processes, roles, and ways of working, and how consultants can shift their time from repetitive knowledge work toward higher value problem solving, judgment, and client interaction.

This interest has been a consistent theme throughout my work. Before consulting, I studied Innovation Management and wrote my master's thesis at Bosch Management Consulting on the impact of generative AI on management consulting, exploring how AI could transform consulting processes, task structures, and ultimately the way consultants create value. What started as a research question has since become a central part of my day to day work.

My consulting profile, extended through AI & Data

My foundation remains strategy consulting: business design, stakeholder alignment, change management, and deep automotive experience. AI and data capabilities complement this foundation by enabling me to bridge strategy, enablement, and technology implementation.

STRATEGY &BUSINESS DESIGN STAKEHOLDER &CHANGE MGMT. INDUSTRY DEPTH(AUTOMOTIVE) AI & DATAFLUENCY TECHNICAL BUILDCAPABILITY ENABLEMENT &TRAINING DELIVERY
Consulting fundamentals AI & data layer
Current
Strategy Consultant, diconium strategy
Service line
Organisation & Transformation
Based in
Stuttgart & Lisbon
Expertise
AI Strategy & Enablement
Approach
AI-first, always with a critical eye
Languages
German, English, Portuguese (learning)
02 Selected work

Three years, twelve client projects.

Consulting rarely happens one project at a time. This is what the last three years actually looked like.

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All projects are anonymized and contain no client names or confidential detail.

03 Recognition — July 2026

Innovation & AI Experience: Santander & IE University, Madrid

90
people selected from 105,000 applications

A fully funded, two week program at IE University in Madrid, hosted by IE Foundation and Banco Santander, bringing together a diverse group of talented participants from around the world to explore AI, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Forty sessions combined keynotes, workshops, hands on experimentation, and practical work with tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude Code.

The real highlight was the people and the challenge. Over two weeks, teams brought together perspectives and expertise from different countries and backgrounds to turn an AI use case from an initial problem statement into a real venture. My team worked through customer validation, prototype development, and business model refinement before pitching our solution on Demo Day, supported by an inspiring network of founders, mentors, and industry leaders.

It was an intense two weeks of learning, building, and exchanging ideas with ambitious people from around the world, with a strong focus on turning AI concepts into tangible solutions.

The 90 selected participants at IE University Madrid
The full cohort, IE University Madrid
Jonas Dunemann receiving his certificate on stage
Certificate ceremony, Demo Day
04 Beyond client work

Internal initiatives.

05 Showroom

Something I built myself.

Pilotic — a web application that evaluates a single AI use case and turns the result into a sequenced implementation plan.

Pilotic takes one use case at a time. Two fit gates first ask whether generative AI belongs in it at all. What passes is scored on business impact, technical feasibility, and user desirability — and then sequenced into a plan.

The model follows the Microsoft and AWS Cloud Adoption Frameworks for AI, so every score traces back to the answers behind it. I built it to make the assessment conversation repeatable — and to stay close to the tooling I advise on.

RoleConcept, design, build
Built withLovable
DataStays in the browser
010203 0405 ASSESSENVISIONALIGN LAUNCHSCALE Score the use case Shape the target flow Secure sponsor and owner Pilot with real users Standardise and expand BUSINESS · PEOPLE · GOVERNANCE PLATFORM · SECURITY · OPERATIONS
From score to plan: every stage has an exit condition and is checked against six organisational perspectives, not technology alone.
06 Experience

Where I have worked.

Education
07 Tools & certifications

What I work with.

Certifications

Alongside numerous further trainings and certifications across data, AI, methods, and soft skills.

08 Off the clock

Endurance, iron, and a departure board.

Jonas Dunemann running a company race

Training is the fixed point in my week. Long runs and intervals through the year, strength work in the gym, and the road bike out whenever the weather allows.

The other constant is travel. I spend part of the year in Lisbon and am learning Brazilian Portuguese in conversation rather than in an app. New places, new languages, and the people you meet along the way shape how I think as much as any project does.

Beyond that, I enjoy following the stock market, and I like staying close to whatever technology is emerging next — AI, the metaverse, blockchain. Not because every wave turns into something, but because it is genuinely interesting to watch which ones do.

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