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Dr. Boris Kneisel

Inhaber, Enterprise Business Coach (Agile Change & Turn-Around Mgmt), Projekt-Sanierung & Turn-arounds, Produkt & Service Entwicklung, Digitalisierung
Region Rhein-Main-Neckar, Germany

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Professional experience for Boris Kneisel

  • Current 6 years and 9 months, 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 12 years and 10 months, 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 16 years and 9 months, 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

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