25 + Years of
CIO EXPERIENCE

My role as a coach is NOT to tell you what to do. I am her for you to help with your challenges, problems, and open questions. A trustful opinion from somebody who knows exactly what you are talking about.

I failed in my career in many things, which often hurt me, but it helped to learn and improve. This experience is available to you and in my role I advice you with experience and decision I took and results these experiences created. You decide how to use it for your  advantage.

I am happy to prove to you what I mean by these  statements. Reach out via email of book a free consultation.

As a CIO, you enable business processes and support operations with stable and reliable IT solutions. We both know this alone is a hell of a job, but by far not engough!
You need create business value, and create or support new business opportunities or new innovative business models. Reduce costs in operational areas. Let’s look together in some low hanging fruits like call center optimizations with RPA and AI Tech or Sale support with API connected sales solutions.

Information Technology is too often seen as an order taker, a needed investment, or a controlling cost factor. The yearly budget drills are a classic example of that.

As a CIO, you need to [prove that IT is not an order taker but a value creation to everybody in your company. To become a business partner, you need to strongly support customer satisfaction and enable doing business as efficiently as possible. Be a loved and valued partner for the employees while supporting processes in a modern and reliable way. For business peers, create process efficiency and improve new innovative business models.

I understand that it may seem difficult to achieve, but I have experience in investing in numerous startups and developing new business models as a global CIO. These efforts have resulted in generating hundreds of millions in revenue and shifting organizations from being perceived as mere order takers to becoming valued contributors at the center of business operations. One of my most notable accomplishments was transforming a global organization from a state of low employee satisfaction both internally and externally to becoming the second highest-scoring organization, with employees from other departments expressing a desire to join.

I did it both, and I learned a lot.
Digital transformation has to be a chapter in every CIO strategy, the same as Organizational transformation.
Both are very interlinked as you can only transform your organization into a more digital solution-focused future with the skills and the capability that influence your organizational transformation. Refrain from falling into the trap of believing your service partner and outsourcing all this, as you should not outsource the most valuable areas where your organization creates the highest value. Proper sourcing is another important part of every CIO strategy. You need trustful service partners able to deliver stable and high-quality services, but to know how good they are, you need to be able to measure and benchmark them regularly.

The most impressive transformation in my career was to transform a global organization from a low employee satisfaction internally and outside the IT into the second highest-scored organization where people from other departments wanted to join IT