Services
Three building blocks, each standing on its own. Together they form one path from target picture to line responsibility. I have walked that path before: advise first, then build the structures, then lead. Which block fits depends on where you stand.
Target Picture Corridor
Advisory to the executive team · 4 to 12 weeks
Your situation: You know AI is changing your value creation, and you have more ideas than decisions. What is missing is a robust answer to the question of which business model will hold in three years, and which part of it starts now.
What I do: AI exposure analysis of your value creation and business areas. Evaluate and prioritize business model options. Pricing logic and migration path from today's model. Execution program with work packages and owners.
What you have at the end: A corridor of viable target pictures instead of a single vision, plus approach and roadmap as a decision-ready proposal for the executive team. Not a collection of ideas.
Proof: IT systems integrator (Germany): seven business model options evaluated, target picture corridor, approach and roadmap adopted by the executive team
Leading the Transformation Program
Interim · 6 to 12 months
Your situation: The target picture is in place, perhaps for months. Or the program is running but not delivering. There is a presentation, a budget and many stakeholders. What there is not: someone who carries the program from the executive team into the teams and forces decisions week after week.
What I do: AI Operating Model with governance and roles. Portfolio steering: which initiative gets budget, which gets stopped. Build the Center of Excellence. Lead execution teams, reset the program where needed.
What you have at the end: A program that runs without you pushing it every day, and an organization that can prioritize AI initiatives on its own.
Proof: AI Target Operating Model with governance, role model, portfolio steering and Center of Excellence concept developed for a global consumer goods company, consolidation of three Azure tenants into one target picture prepared. Global smart metering leader: open initiatives reduced by 80 percent
Interim Line Role
Interim · 9 to 18 months
Your situation: The position is vacant, the organization is idling, and the transformation cannot wait. You need someone who leads tomorrow and hands over an organization in twelve months that is better than the one he took on.
What I do: As CPO, Director Software & Services or Operations Director I take on leadership, portfolio and results. Scale the product and service organization, lead team leads and product managers, set up the execution model.
What you have at the end: Measurable results in the line and a clean handover to your successor.
Proof: Interim Director Software, Connectivity & Services at a global smart metering leader: service revenue +200%. Interim Operations Director, public sector software: operations organization built in three months, utilization +50%
Entry Point
Decision Workshop
One day on AI and business model with the executive team or division leadership, based on your existing options and documents. We condense the decisions due this quarter, evaluate them by business value, feasibility and AI exposure, and formulate a decision proposal.
At the end there is a proposal, not a list of ideas.
„I enjoyed the one-day workshop under his guidance very much and recommend everyone to get inspired by Hartmut.“Dominik Lindner, MM1 / Valantic