Business Owner of the Central Funding Platform

Ralf Borchardt, Dipl.-Ing.oec., MBA, DBA, PhD Year of birth: 1959 In business since 1978 Ralf Borchardt has filled various business- and IT-related positions since 1988 in

• International Project and Program Management
• Leadership, Coaching and Cultural Change in Digitization and Transition & Transformation Projects; Design Thinking
• Liaison Management, Cross-cultural Management, Multi-cultural Management
• Change Management and Transition/Transformation Management
• Transformation from Functional Design to Process and Solution Orientation
• Team Forming, Re-Alignment of Leadership Principles and Coaching
• Crisis Management
• Project Management Offices (PMO): Set-up and operational Management
• Development of Sourcing Strategies
• Offshoring/Outsourcing/Nearshoring: RfP Management (full life-cycle); Bid Management
• Outsourcing: SAP Hosting, Managed Client Services
• Supplier/Integrator Management
• Negotiation and Contract Management
• Requirements and technical Change Management
• Interim Management
• Business Analysis Techniques and Information Engineering Methodology: BPR – Business Process Reengineering, BPM – Business Process Management, Entity Relationship Diagramming / Data Analysis
• Workshops and Lecturing
• Start-up Support

His core competence is located wherever business and IT integrate – or not. Ralf is familiar with both worlds: management and technology. Customers and colleagues describe him as follows

• Flexible in regard to roles and challenges
• Dedicated to project success only; absolutely free of profile neuroses
• Pragmatic: simply does what needs to be done, from strategy and concepts to operational tasks, from individual to team jobs
• Goal-driven (“fire and forget”) and self-motivated
• “The soft facts are the hard facts”
• Rather integrating than separating
• Vast international travelling is not a constraint.