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Turnaround manager / SAP Guru

Work Experience

Max, Ph.D. Recipient of the Strategic & Leadership Excellence Award; Issued at the World Strategy Summit ceremony by INSEAD ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’ Prof. R. Mauborgne and Brand Strategist Martin Lindstrom.

Senior Partner – Program/Project, Change Manager ‘Turn-around’ Specialist
Employment history / key clients

Institute for Strategy and Complexity Management

Institute for Strategy and
Complexity Management

Absa / Barclays Bank

ING Bank – Car Leasing

DaimlerChrysler Financial Services

Standard Bank

Arthur Andersen Business Consulting

VolksWagen

ASAP Institute

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Introduction
Max is an expert in advising companies on how they can turnaround underperforming system projects. Max is a systems and change management specialist who has worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and KPMG on numerous occasions and they are extremely pleased to be able to engage his services in their Information Risk and IT Advisory division.

Role on the engagement
Max has a wealth of global experience in Application Systems and is an expert in "Turn -around" solutions for complex change management projects. Max performs often the change management role and program management lead role for complex project engagements. Max will apply his vast experience to plan, review and analyse planning schedules and program solutions, as well as the change environment considering potential impact that can lead to deviation and provides alternatives.

Max has significant experience of the concerns of Executive Management and will apply this experience to the benefit of any client.

Relevant experience
Max has over 20 years of experience with IS/IT, gained from corporate and big-5 consultancy experience with KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Arthur Andersen/Accenture. In addition to performing key roles on approximately 60 system projects for many leading (and global) organisations, Max has found time to contribute several chapters of seven (7) books about SAP (including the best seller "Using SAP R/3") and he is the co-author of what is today the Standard ASAP Methodology.

Starting out as a counselor, Max grew into consultancy and team leadership and furthered himself into project manager roles. Max was the practice leader for consultancy firms Coopers & Lybrand and Arthur Andersen Business Consulting (in South Africa and the United States).

Max's knowledge was applied in the development of implementation methodologies such as ASAP, SEM and System Dynamics Modeling and continues to be applied to - help organisations achieve great success with their projects.

Turn-around Manager expertise
Max is regarded as a specialist "Turn-around manager", utilising his change management skills for organisations to realise business objectives. Max has performed the role of Turn-around manager for complex Application System implementation projects for organizations. Critical success factors in his approach are project planning and people management skills.
For his clients , project solutions were put in place through:


Volkswagen
Absa/Barclays Bank
ING Bank
Standard Bank
DaimlerChrysler -Financial Services


• Assisting in the conceptualising and implementation strategy of new product functionality, service streams, channels and strategic partnering projects.

• Ensuring that the project activities and resulting deliverables provide value and support to the Company's integrated business needs and Strategic direction.

• Ensuring a coordinated well structured Program approach that facilitates timely feedback and reporting.

• Ensuring workable, practical, measurable work plans defining activities and deliverables are developed and communicated via Standard, well-structured work authorizations which define scope, resources, milestones, quality, risk, deliverables and acceptance criteria.
• Ensuring appropriate resources are obtained, budgets and projects are effectively controlled, and that management and the Project Office are regularly briefed on the Status of the program and threats to its success.

• Communicating the program goals, operational and organisational philosophies, policies, progress and other issues to the Project Office, the program team, business stakeholders and appropriate external stakeholders.
• Meeting with Project Managers and Project Sponsors regularly.
• Escalating unresolved issues and risks to the head of the division.
• Monitoring project plans and progress with respect to program issues and risks.
• Resolving inter-project issues with respect to resourcing and dependencies.
• Consolidated benefits management and tracking.

Career in profile
2006 – today
The Netherlands Institute for Strategy and
Complexity Management
Coach / Interim Manager/ Counselor
Critical/Complex Project Mngt
(Crisis Manager.)

2005 –
Membership – Singapore based international practice
Institute for Strategy and
Complexity Management Implementation Coach of Scenario Planning exercises;
Strategy process facilitator

Implementation Specialist for Planning SAP projects
2002 – 2005
South Africa ABSA Bank Implementation Specialist – electronic channels
Call Centre implementation (link to SAP)

2004 – 2005
Germany ING Bank – Car Leasing Implementation Specialist
Finance Leasing Processes

1999 – 2000
South Africa DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Implementation Specialist: in charge of IT/IS Program Management

1997 – 1998
South Africa Standard Bank Implementation Specialist – in charge of SAP HR – FI/CO Program Management

1996 – 1997
South Africa and United States
Arthur Andersen
Business Consulting SAP Practice Leader/ Partner
In charge of internal capacity building
Guiding risk related implementations
1995 – 1996
South Africa VolksWagen IT/IS: head of country wide ICT systems and SAP implementation

1995 –
Member- United Kingdom ASAP Institute Co-developer of ASAP and SEM methodology. Co-author of seven SAP books, whereof two are world best-sellers
All Core – modules

1985 – 1995
United States and South Africa PriceWaterhouseCoopers IT Strategy / SAP Practice Leader;
Principle Consultant
Implementation Specialist

Education

Universiteit

Skills

Skills: - has a wealth of global experience in Application Systems and is an expert in "Turn around" solutions for complex change management projects.
- Absolute top of international SAP consulting
- Strategy Simulation and Implementation

Experience: - has significant experience of the concerns of Executive Management and will apply this experience to the benefit of any client.
- Strategic Scenario Planning
Availability: Immediately - 3 days per week
Salary: € 1,800 per day (depends on project and location)

Languages

Engels - moedertaal
Nederlands - perfect
Duits - perfect

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