Results & references
Interim management is measured by impact, not presence. Here are the numbers, the cases and the clients’ voices.
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Reference cases
Four selected mandates in detail — as PDF in German and English.
Carve-out & IT separation
A PE-owned pharma group had to carve out 8 of 32 production sites across Europe — IT had been badly neglected in the carve-out contract, a second carve-out was running in parallel, and a data centre had to be replaced. As interim PMO, I assessed 180 IT services, steered 91 actions up to the closure date, negotiated 41 key assumptions after escalation and adapted 54 TSA documents. Result: a 350m EUR carve-out was put back on track, major disputes were mitigated, and a stand-alone target operating model was launched.
Post-merger integration
The industry’s No. 2 in pharma logistics had acquired the No. 3 (both PE-owned) — two IT worlds that had fought each other for decades now had to cooperate. IT system failures threatened liquidity, with customer losses and contractual penalties looming. As interim CIO (operations), I worked through 210 action fields and established an IT operating model for 17 storage sites, an IT target operating model and a new leadership model. Result: major incidents down from 18 to 1 per quarter (€720k/quarter), critical-infrastructure outages to 0 — and the loss of key personnel stopped.
IT turnaround
A PE-owned mechanical-engineering group had aligned its IT for years to excessive IT security rather than market and cost needs; a shadow IT had emerged, and after a change on the board the IT split into camps and key staff left. As fractional interim CIO, I brought IT leadership and the board back together, repositioned the role of IT, made existing collaboration tools mandatory and created the contractual basis for cloud services. Result: the loss of key personnel was stopped, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central was prepared for day 1, and the stalled O365/M365 project was brought onto the home straight.
Digital transformation
A group specialising in occupational medicine and safety was losing tenders because digital processes, IT security and interfaces were not met; high technical debt, outdated systems and unprofessional IT management made things worse. As CIO, I built customer platforms for key accounts, digitalised internal and external collaboration, moved business processes to the cloud in a legally compliant way and restructured IT to be service-oriented. Result: the business kept running through the pandemic, at least €3.5m was saved on low-return projects (ROI raised to ≥ 200% in year one) and €150k/year of operating costs was cut.
Clients’ voices
Solche Werkzeuge hatten wir noch nie…
I think this was really good job done very quickly, very rapidly and very intensely
I'll be very happy to work with you again on other projects
Thank you for the great work, Frank. It was a pleasure working with you.
Your passion to drive things forward was admirable.
… als einen hochkompetenten und engagierten Profi empfehlen, der nicht nur über tiefgreifende technische Kenntnisse verfügt, sondern auch die Fähigkeit besitzt, Transformationen auf allen Ebenen erfolgreich anzugehen …
Was absolut super funktioniert ist die Abteilung. Spitzen Leute mit absoluter top Leistung.
… hat in bemerkenswert kurzer Zeit signifikante Ergebnisse (Outcome) vorweisen können … erheblichen Beitrag zur Entwicklung unseres Unternehmens …
… ein außerordentlich breites fachübergreifendes Spektrum an Fachkenntnissen und Erfahrungswerten … als kommunikationsstarke, in allen organisatorischen Bereichen des Krankenhauses effektiv einsetzbare und sehr strukturierte Persönlichkeiten kennengelernt …
At the end of the IT turnaround (TeamViewer) the staff gave a farewell gift with quotes from every IT team member — perhaps the most honest reference of all.
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