Why Claus?

As a senior executive with a strong product focus and 20+ years experience leading large scale transformation efforts, Claus has seen the best and worst of how organizations approach change. He believes that product focus, design thinking and time to value are key ingredients of a modern customer obsessed organization.

The very nature of Enterprise continues to change rapidly, and business and IT leaders are shifting attention to holistic business ecosystem and platform design, with technology as a differentiating amplifier rather than a cost center. Digital, APIs, Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence...terms with a technical origin but leading to a fundamental change in possibilities and expectations for the end user experience. Consequently, the role of IT is at a major inflection point and thought leading enterprises integrate elements from the traditional roles of Chief Digital Officer, CIO, CTO, Chief Architect, Chief Data Officer and Chief Innovation Officer under a new breed of technical leader.

Claus's track record demonstrates how he combines people, business and technology skills to drive technology enabled business transformation. His specialties include: synthesizing organizational needs and tackling the most challenging transformational problems, turning vision into action, applying structural thinking to complex problem sets, leading the creation of breakthrough, integrated digital experiences and ecosystems, transforming business operating platforms and processes, pushing the boundary of the possible through emerging technologies and deep analytics, achieving targeted business outcomes at significantly reduced integration cost, and creating an outcome oriented culture that motivates and develops high powered talent.