Your partner in driving your company roadmap
from business strategy to IT/Digital implementation
Your partner in driving your company roadmap
from business strategy to IT/Digital implementation
About ITstra
Who is ITstra ?
Over 30 years of experience in Business and IT management.
After having spent roughly half of my career on the business side managing different aspect of the business from R&D to Marketing & Sales to Business Unit Management,
I moved over to IT with focus on translating evolving business directions in appropriate IT solutions
and running IT as CIO.
This formed me into an atypical IT-profile not coming from an IT-technical background, but being business-driven.
Available to help you bridge the gap between business demand and IT solution.
Broad experience
ERP/CRM/HCM implementations based on SAP, Infor, Microsoft, SF.com, ...
and rolling them out on a worldwide basis.
Change Management leveraging the application to achieve new business processes or business organization.
Several experiences with acquisitions and divestments, and how to integrate IT-wise in the new entity.
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Experience in standardizing and implementing solutions across worldwide organizations.
Experience in selecting solutions (HW, SW and Services) from RFI to RFP till selection and implementation of the solution and this in full budget alignment.
Providing practical IT management consulting
Digital transformation
translating business strategy into
a digital, cloud-based IT strategy.
IT assessments in view of mergers & acquisitions.
IT compliance with regulations (SOX, Trade Compliance, ISO, NIS/NIST, GDPR, …).
Setting up IT governance or IT Operating Model.
IT PMO to deliver projects OTOBOS
(On-Time On-Budget On-Scope).
Improving customer interaction through CRM.
IT consolidation & budget optimization.
Recent Projects
Define and install processes for IT Service Delivery Management for a company expanding globally due to a major acquisition.
And practical implementation through :
Selection and installation of a 24/7 Level-1 helpdesk partner,
Aligning service level objectives & procedures with internal and external Level-2 supporting groups covering the expanding IT landscape,
Tool selection and implementation.
Agile Development Project
Managing project in Agile way.
From Business Alignment to Sprint-Scope definition
To planning the ToDo's
And delivering customer value via regular sprints.
Achieve Compliance with common Security Regulations.
Defining the appropriate maturity level to reach in line with customer & industry requirements. Defining the Gaps between the actual situation and the targeted compliance end-state. Building and executing a step-by-step plan to gradually bridge the gap by adapting processes for both IT and Business.
Transformation Program Management towards Acquisitions or Divestments of the IT landscape.
Either to integrate the acquired IT Infrastructure, IT Applications and IT Services in the IT landscape of the mother company . Or to separate the required IT services in case of divestments.
IT Partner selection to deliver both Project services to support the transition as well as Running services thereafter