! There is a strong trend for all kind of companies to move their IT infrastructure to the cloud, and re-architecture their IT landscape, to take full advantage of the various cloud services.

Typical questions that need to be addressed are:

1. Is my company ready to move to the cloud (people, landscape, governance, budget) ?

2. Is my organization ready in terms of structure, skills and willingness to move to the cloud?

3. What is my application portfolio and its migration approach and phases?

4. What needs to be done to make my cloud safe and compliant?

5. What are the budget impacts of a cloud migration and operations?

6. What is the blue sky vision for my IT utilizing my cloud?

 = > Grossert Consulting will utilize the Cloud Service Providers’ existing and publicly available frameworks to guide and support the customer and its cloud migration project.

 = > Marcel is certified by AWS and GCP as a Solution Architect, and by this trained to perform cloud architecture tasks, and has performed those tasks in his previous business life.

 ! Companies are under pressure to offer better user and customer experience. Trendsetter achieve this by offering a better digital coverage of the corporate operating model. “Digital Transformation” is the approach to review the corporate operating model and its underlying components in terms of organization structure, events, processes, data and applications, and make it work together.

  Typical questions that need to be addressed are:

1. Do we have a clear strategy where we want to be in the next few years ?

2. Do we have a complete picture on our operating model?

3. Do we have an up-to-date, integrated Business Model in our architecture repository?

4. Do we have a solid roadmap for the digital transformation?

5. Do we have the willingness, budget, and resources to run the digital transformation ?

6. Do we have agreed way to measure the progress and success of the transformation?

= > Grossert Consulting builds on its experience gained from earlier initiative ran by big, international companies, where Marcel worked as lead architect.

= > Marcel is experienced in creating Business Capability Maps, Business Canvas Models, Business Operating Models, Business Events / Data / Process / Application Repositories, and connecting all those models into a integrated Business Architecture, due to his many years of experience  as a Global Enterprise Architect in international globally operating organizations, and has certification in TOGAF, BPMN, ITIL and has performed those tasks in his previous business life.

! Companies recognize that they could do much more with the data they have collected over years, and still do day by day. To become a data-driven company, is part of many companies' strategy. Those companies need to accept that data is key for their success. Typically they need to close gaps and build capabilities to manage data as a corporate asset. This includes topics like Event Driven Design, Data Governance, Data Hubs, Systems Integration, Ontologies, and Data Quality Management.

Grossert Consulting can help in this journey and support organizations to take the best decisions towards data driving the company’s operation and evolution.

  Typical questions that need to be addressed are:

1. Do we have a clear understanding how data is driving our business ?

2. Do we have a complete picture on our operating model?

3. Do we know how and where data is captured and used?

4. Do we have an up-to-date, integrated Business Model in our architecture repository?

5. Do we have a clear view on how and which data is driving our decisions?

6. Do we have the willingness, budget, and resources to run the data-driven journey ?

7. Do we have an agreed way to measure the progress and success of the transformation?

= >  Grossert Consulting builds on its experience gained from earlier initiatives ran by big, international companies, where Marcel worked as lead architect.

= > Marcel has worked in Data Governance teams as architect, and had helped to build Master Data Management solution, Ontologies and Knowledge Graph technologies.

Curtis Newkirk

• • "Marcel is one of the most outstanding architects I have had the pleasure of working with, and there have been many. His skills and capabilities as an enterprise architect stretch beyond what is typically expected in this role into how he coaches, mentors, and brings others along in the journey of execution. Marcel is also deeply committed to continuing his own learning and keeping his skills up to date with what is needed now and in the future. During both assignments I worked with him for Go to Market (GTM) and Decision Intelligence, has was able to deliver simplified, explainable architecture on extremely complex environments and topics, turn detractors into collaborators, and be a positive influencer and mentor on the team. His ability to execute in difficult environments while maintaining focus and levelheadedness will be why Marcel is the first call I make when needing an architect in future endeavors."

Jean-Yves Riette

• “Marcel and I worked together in different contexts. Years ago, he was managing the Integration services in the Application Enabling Services group ( DB, Integration, Archiving, Citrix, Directories, ...). Since 3 years, Marcel is member of the Global Pharma Enterprise Architecture Group, focusing on methodoly and tooling and supporting different business domains and regions. He initiated the Business Capability oriented approach enabling us to weel interact with Business as well as with Application stakeholders. He deployed the iServer repository that becames the Novartis wide official EA repository. Marcel is passioned by "doing the right things right", always proposing to our customers the right pragmatic and adding value approach. He has high quality standards for his deliverables and the ones of the Enterprise Architecture group. Above all his numerous skills, technical and social, I would say that Marcel is a trustable person.”

Ingo Arnold

• “I worked with Marcel for several years in global Novartis programs. Marcel has always been a really smart professional, highly self-organized, dedicated, and committed. Marcel fundamentally understands systems as socio-technical in nature and thus architecture accordingly as a social function. During the time Marcel and I worked together, I got to know him as an architect who saw his contribution as a balance between professional holism, socio-political compatibility, and economic sustainability. Marcel is without frills, extremely reliable, and very efficient at bringing people together and focusing them on a goal. I would happily partner with Marcel again on large programs at any time. ”

Finn B. Larsen

• “I’m working with Marcel on a large Drug Development Process and IT transformation initiative, where Marcel is the lead IT architect. Marcel has the rare capability of combining strong business and IT knowledge, E2E thinking while being creative and open minded. With that Marcel has become a key resource for the initiative and highly esteemed by colleagues and key stakeholders.”

Ross Hocking

• Marcel was managing an architecture program I was working on at Novartis and did a fantastic job of guiding and coaching the program throughout the lifecycle from concept presentation through to solution delivery. His ability to understand the technical challenges of the program and designing pragmatic solutions, was beyond anything I have encountered in other similar engagements. Marcel's ability to communicate complex concepts, with a diverse group of stakeholders with clarity, simplicity and positivity was undoubtedly one of the keys to our success. As a thought leader in the architecture community, I have been lucky enough to benefit from Marcel's mentorship on occasion, which has been immensely valueable for my personal career aspirations.

Marcin Kapel-Majdecki

• “I had the pleasure of working with Marcel in the same group. Marcel supported a portfolio of products as an Enterprise Architect specializing in cloud solutions. Marcel managed to impress me with his professionalism and expertise, at the same being humble, courteous and respectful. Marcel is open for ideas, collaborates eagerly and elegantly pushes for meaningful solutions, taking everyone on board with his ideas. I would like to recommend his professional services to anyone who wants to get things done in the world of Data.”

Timothy J. O' Sullivan

• “I had the pleasure to work with Marcel for a number of years on a large scale Business & IT transformation program called STRIDE. Marcel was the lead architect on this program which sought to revolutionize drug development processes within Novartis. Marcel has a unique blend of architectural vision, coupled with strong pragmatism, and excellent communication skills which were key factors in the overall program success. I had the good fortune to work alongside and learn from Marcel who brings many years of experience as an adept enterprise architect with a broad, and deep, range of technical and business facing skills. In the STRIDE program, Marcel drove architectural alignment among a large range of technical experts and solution architects and guided team members in architectural best practice. Marcel brings a highly collaborative relationship style which enables him to build strong and trusting stakeholder relationships across the enterprise. I very much enjoyed working with Marcel and I would highly recommend him to any prospective employer.”

Vilius Z.

• “Professionalism, integrity, customer orientation and trust – these words come to my mind when I think of my collaboration with Marcel over the last years. Marcel played a central role in introducing 2 key elements of current EA practice at Novartis: Business Capability model and EA repository. I have greatly enjoyed working with on Manufacturing and Supply chain part of the BC model. Marcel introduced me and numerous other colleagues to the concept as well as to practical application of this approach. Today our company is ahead of many peers in this discipline thanks to the foundational work done under Marcel’s guidance and leadership. The model would be useless without the electronic EA repository that was introduced and carefully managed by Marcel and his team. Beyond help and support that I have received for all types of modeling work, Marcel’s attention to the user community and well managed relation with vendor made the repository into indispensable asset of the current enterprise architecture practice. Marcel is one of the very few individuals whom I consider to be my mentors of EA discipline. Finally, he is also a colleague on whom one can depend for a good advice when navigating complex corporate IT and business environment. ”

Andy Baillie

• “Working with Marcel is a pleasure. As a focal point for technical, business, legal and executive stakeholders he quietly and effectively managed a complex global project from concept to execution. His stewardship of a very complex legal evaluation was a masterclass in 'getting the job done'. ”

LinkedIn User

• “Marcel added a lot of value to Enterprise Architecture development and governance during a very busy change programme at Roche. He brings a great understanding of what is valuable in an Enterprise Architecture team. He also started and delivered strong EA foundations that will be built on in the years to come.”