Moderator
Dr. Boris Kneisel
Owner, Enterprise Business Coach (Agile Change & Turn-Around Mgmt), Projekt-Sanierung & Turn-arounds, Produkt & Service Entwicklung, Digitalisierung
Region Rhein-Main-Neckar, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Boris Kneisel
Current , since May 2018
Sr. Coach Business Agility (BEX /OPEX)
herontix GmbH
Ich erziele Verbesserung in Business Excellence (BEX / OPEX) Initiativen, für die ich Transformation Set-up und Change Program Mgmt übernehme. Hoher Solution-Fit der BEX-initiativen und gute Verträglichkeit zur jew. Unternehmens-Kultur. Hybride Baustein-Kombination mit Agilem Kern (Kanban, Scrum incl. Scaling) & Lean Sigma zzgl. etwas Design Thinking zur Erreichung signifikanter Innovations-Quanten-Sprünge erzeugt regelmässig Kurzfrist COST-BENEFIT-ratio bis 1:10 und Langzeit-RoI bis zu Faktor 3X.
Current , since Apr 2012
Dozent für Innovation & Technology Mgmt
KIT
Teaching next-generation M.Sc. / post-graduate students on innovation, technology management, and IP-generation focussing "Design Thinking" and well-resonating methodologies for NPDI.
Current , since May 2008
Enterprise Business Coach (Agile Change & Turn-Around Mgmt)
Projekt-Sanierung & Turn-arounds, Produkt & Service Entwicklung, Digitalisierung
P.U.R.E. Services: productivity improvement & product discovery | usability engineering & UX innovation strategy | requirements engineering, risk mgmt, RoI optimization | evaluations on effectiveness, efficiency & evolution of emotional design (hedonics)
3 years and 11 months, Jun 2014 - Apr 2018
Director Innovation Excellence - Transition Lead Agile Scaling
SAP SE
Sr. Coach Agile Scaling & User Interaction eXperience (UX / IX) Agile Design Thinking (ADT) Team of Products & Innovation
2 years and 2 months, Apr 2012 - May 2014
Sr. Manager Agile UX Scaling & CIP
SAP AG
XXL-scale (>8.000 people) business transition on "Lean & Agile" using Scrum / KanBan, Design Thinking & hybrids of Lean Construction, Lean Product Development & Theory-of-Constraints (CCPM). Scaling run by Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), LargeScaleScrum (LeSS), and Path-to-Agility (P2A).
2 years and 9 months, Jul 2009 - Mar 2012
Sr. Manager R&D Operations
SAP AG
Large- & small-scale business transition on "Lean & Agile" leveraging method-range from Scrum, ScrumBan & Kanban striving for LEAN operations & administration.
1 year and 6 months, Oct 2008 - Mar 2010
Program Manager CIP / LEANsigma
SAP AG
Led Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) for Business Process Mgmt (BPM) at Managed Services (SaaS) operations for a global service supply-chain (combined off-shoring & out-sourcing scenarios).
2 years and 4 months, Mar 2007 - Jun 2009
Director Service Strategy & Portfolio Mgmt
SAP AG
Installed extended research network with external institutions, leveraged momentum through early-stage prototypes for disruptive new productized business concepts on "Service Innovation".
2 years and 11 months, Apr 2004 - Feb 2007
Product Manager / Solution Architect
SAP AG
User-requirements engineering & mgmt for SaaS-based SME-SW-suite. Evaluated state-of-the-market, ran white-spot detection, designed scalable, gap-closing state-of-the-art business analytics KPI-framework.
1 year and 9 months, Jul 2002 - Mar 2004
Business Development & Partner Manager
SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG
Defined value-engineering sales strategy program (VBM), case-study lead for customer software-invest justification (RoI / NPV-studies).
1 year, Jan 2002 - Dec 2002
Global Key-Account Manager
SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG
Global key-account manager professional services for brand-manufacturer (FM-CPG, Fortune Global 500).
4 years, Jan 1998 - Dec 2001
Project Manager
SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG
Consultancy on integrated supply-chain solutions. Project lead process red-design & IT-implementations (SCM, global process-harmonization).
Educational background for Boris Kneisel
1 year, Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
Usability Engineering (UE)
artop (Inst. @ Humboldt University Berlin)
(User-eXperience (UX) innovation, usability & design strategy)
2004 - 2006
General Management
Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgmt | HfB
(Portfolio Strategy, Investment Mgmt, Capital Budgeting & Business Finance)
2004 - 2006
General Mgmt
Henley Business School (aka Henley Mgmt College)
(innovation management, competitive intelligence, international business culture, marketing dynamics & branding, change advisory & business transformation)
1995 - 1997
Natural Sciences
University of Karlsruhe (TH)
cluster-formation, catalyst-poisoning, nano-structures. key-lock-principle
1993 - 1993
Natural Sciences
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
"bait & trap"-models, (III-V) donor-acceptor-relations
1990 - 1995
Natural Sciences
Georg-August-University Goettingen,
Chemistry (organic, inorganic, bio-sciences), Crystallography (material sciences)
Languages
German
First language
English
Fluent
Spanish
Basic
French
Basic