Your company
- Technology leadership – multiple areas of excellence
- Strong market position in a wide range of segments
- Extensive customer base with high degree of loyalty
- Rapidly evolving market environment and
raising customer expectations – increasingly complicated requirements
- Continuous effort needed to maintain and defend market position, e.g.
- constant renewal of structures
- ongoing organizational development
- refinement of products and processes, …
- Highly specialized experts – fragmentation and need for stronger coordination
- Necessity to stay up to date – your company masters these challenges by continued investments in
- product development
- process streamlining
- tools refreshment and replacement
- education & trainings
- change management
Your situation
- Substantial need for change from new technologies, shifting customer demands, rapidly changing market environments, …
- Many complex projects and efforts to address all these challenges
- Special situations like post-merger integrations, especially if these have not yet been completely finalized
- The strong need for coordination of multiple projects running in parallel is not always addressed adequately –
silo thinking becomes prevalent
- Loss of holistic view by some of your project managers and team members lead to suboptimal results – fragmented processes, and bumpy tool or
product launches, ivory towers, …
- Insufficient transparency on some projects to assess their progress, and to make soundly substantiated decisions
- For some projects even a loss of confidence regarding their completion in terms of time and budget
My contributions
- Systematic project and program management
- Transparency on project status and progress
- Reporting to / collaboration with CxO level:
- overview of essentials
- regular short status update
- details to requested degree only
- thorough risks judgements
- early warnings on deviations
- Holistic, entrepreneurial view from top-down perspective
- Integrating and bundling individual projects to integrated programs and implementing these into your strategy framework
- Strong team collaboration; open-minded involvement of stakeholders; amicable working spirit
Dr. H. Schülen contact: h@schuelen.de
