References
OUR PROJECTS AND
CUSTOMER REFERENCES
Open Platform Initiative
Role: Program Manager
"Mrs. Foerster has professionally supported and accompanied Allianz as an Operational Program Manager in building the Open Platform Initiative, establishing new business models and founding a " NewCo ". When setting up the program, planning, negotiating and drafting contracts with internal and external partners, founding a company and controlling programs, we benefited from her methodically rigorous approach and her wealth of experience in large-scale project management. Through their leadership and empathy, we achieved very good results in a thematically and politically extremely challenging subject area. I will gladly turn to Mrs. Foerster for difficult and complex tasks and program projects."
Holger Gorissen
Director Open Platform
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Strategy and Re-Organization P&C
Role: Senior Management Consultant
"A project with a large number of stakeholders, different interests, as well as many urgent concerns. - Structuring and planning is the most important prerequisite for this. This is precisely where Mrs. Foerster starts, and she is very quick to identify the essential points and create trans-parency. With an absolute thoroughness and high project management competency, Mrs. Foerster prepares the necessary decisions with the project teams and also calls on them at all levels. Thus, Mrs. Foerster contributes substantially to the project with a clear goal and the correct positioning and thus the basis for the project success "
Sebastian Pongratz
Project Manager IT ABS Private Line
Program Q13 (Quality Standards)
Role: Program Manager
"In our quality Standards program Q13, Mrs. Foerster supported the implementation of interdisciplinary, binding guidelines in the application development process. It is thanks to her that these standards can be implemented with high quality and with the necessary acceptance in a timely manner. Mrs. Foerster convinced by her high commitment, her stringent management style and personal persuasive power. Especially in this program with a strong change management share their strengths were particularly used. "
Dr. Andreas Nolte
Member of the Board
Chief Information Officer
"In 2013, Allianz AG reorganized and standardized the methods and procedures for application development. Mrs. Foerster personally made a significant contribution to the fact that we were able to carry out this difficult change program with great success. Particularly impressive was the consistency of the approach and the ability to take the organization positively in the process of change. I will always like to think of Mrs. Foerster and her special abilities when it comes to difficult tasks. "
Dr. Ralph Seitz
Member of the Board,
Chief Operational Officer
Safeguarding process of operational stability e-mobility
Role: Senior Management Consultant
EG (complete vehicle)/ EA (drive)/EK (body)/ EL (strategy)
"If you are looking for a person in a challenging project that accompanies you without great friction, but nevertheless provides directional inputs in the right places and in the end, manages to structure the most complex topics and get them to the point, you are exactly right with Mrs. Foerster correct."
Dr. Alois Hiebl
Head of Operational Stability Drives
Data quality in the design-technology convergence process
Role: Senior Management Consultant
ED (design)EK (body)
"Mrs. Foerster supported us in the important project "Optimization of our core processes". I've got to know her professional, methodically perfect and committed way of working. I would like to express my appreciation and thank her for trusting and successful cooperation."
Matthias Mannsdörfer
Head of Surface Construction and Visualization
Development process Aggregate Storage & Strategy 2016
Role: Senior Management Consultant
EG (complete vehicle) / EA (drive) /EF (driving dynamics)
"Mrs. Foerster supported me in the design and implementation of a cross-cutting process project and the structural reorientation of my department. In both projects, I was able to benefit greatly from her structured and stringent approach. It had the full confidence of all parties, which proved to be a success for both projects."
Dr. Julius Schluppkotten
Head of Suspension and Damping
Partner projects for BMW Group
Role: Senior Management Consultant
"Mrs. Sylke Foerster combines human behaviour, professional and methodical competence paired with a professional appearance. She always ensures that agreed objectives are adhered to. These are the fundamentals of the success of her work in projects. It is pleasant to work with her and to learn from her."
Heiko Morgenweck
Morgenweck & Company GmbH, Founder & CEO
External ReviewGlobal SAP/R3 Program
Rolle: Delivery Assurance Manager
Rainer Birkenbach
Member oft the Board
Christoph Mair
Manage PMO
Partner project for BrainLAB
Rolle: Delivery Assurance Manager
"We met Mrs. Foerster as an extremely committed and reliable manager. She unites tenacity with pleasure in the work and her very pleasant personal style. A rare mixture."
Dr. Michael Streng
Owner & CEO parameta Projektberatung GmbH & Co. KG
Global SAP ConsolidationValidation Management
Validation Manager / Senior Management Consultant
Günther Baumgarten
Head of IT
Global SAP ProgramManagement Consulting
Role: Senior Managagement Consultant / Change Manager
"Thank you for your commitment to our global SAP program."
Klaus Grimm
Vice President IT Coordination
Digital RoadmapDigital Platforms & Subscription
Rolle: Programm Manager
"Mrs. Förster supported us in a challenging and complex digital transformation program. Her great competence, experience and quick comprehension made a major contribution to structuring the project contents and setting the right priorities. Mrs. Förster understood it with great dedication to always create a constructive and goal-oriented working atmosphere due to her open nature and her professional approach. I would like to thank you very much for the good cooperation."
Frank Kropp
Senior Vice President Research & Development
"From the start of her task, Mrs. Foerster has given the project teams orientation by structuring the overarching tasks for the upcoming digital transformation through resolute and confident behavior. This has made it possible to present the complex issues in a transparent way across divisions and functions, to set the priorities correctly and to make the necessary decisions com-prehensibly. For me personally, it has helped to realize how helpful consistent and methodical procedures can be in a complex environment. The collaboration was very rewarding. "
Bernhard Wagensommer
Head of Software - Research & Development
"Mrs. Foerster played a decisive role in establishing a digital roadmap including IT requirements for new business models for Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. She was extremely helpful in structuring the activities to examine various aspects of completeness and to set the right accents. In order to manage complex IT projects with very different activities in a company, Mrs. Foerster is a very good choice. That's why I highly recommend them for these activities. "
Heribert Will
Head of Operations, Chairman of the Board
"I thank you personally for your commitment and your great support. After a few years "only" in management I was again able to enjoy program management air within the framework of the Digital Roadmap and thanks to your support we were about to say goodbye to a very professional program. Again I learned a lot from you and had a lot of fun. Thank you very much for that".
Hartmut Ball
Head of Digital Platforms,Vice President PLM & Engineering IT
IT Portfolio Management/SAP Consolidation Plan
Role: Program Manager
"In a very challenging situation, Mrs. Foerster took over the structuring, organization and management of the most important projects in our portfolio, whose success she so decisively secured. She convinced our management team as well as the project staff, with professionalism, security in management and methods, leadership in the project environment coupled with high social competence and commitment. I found the highly effective interplay of these complementary strengths exceptional."
Uwe Herold
CIO
Program Management IT-Baseline
Role: Senior Management Consultant
"Over the past few months, I have experienced you, dear Mrs. Foerster, in our projects, with an outstanding use, very fast perception, structured, solution-oriented and strong. In addition to this professionalism, you will also be able to appreciate the charming, natural way of life, as well as your sense of empathy. Thank you very much for the very pleasant and successful cooperation."
Thomas Wind
Head of Basis Services & EAI ,
Program Manager SAP upgrade Roadmap
"Mrs. Foerster has supported us energetically and enthusiastically in the planning and preparation of a Data Center relocation project. In particular the advisory services in the context of the "tactical approach" and "design of cooperation with external companies" up to the area of "contract design" were extremely valuable to us. In addition, it has integrated itself quickly and efficiently into the internal IT organization in such a way as to enable smooth and effective collaboration."
Wolfgang Ruland
Head of Infrastructure
Management Coaching PLM-Program
Role: Senior Management
"Mrs. Foerster has supported us in an important project for the realignment of our process and SAP landscape. It has entered the critical phase of the project and has taken over the leadership after a short time and guided us to the project end in a targeted manner. An important success factor was their strict and dialog-oriented approach."
Hartmut Ball
Head of Engineering IT
Structural Optimization & Project Management Training
Role: Senior Management Consultant
"We have engaged Mrs. Foerster to support us with growth-related structural optimizations and to involve the project managers closer to crucial business processes and to sensitize them. She has very quickly managed to absorb the specificity of our company and take the employees with her and motivate them. Mrs. Foerster's work is sustainable and the processes it stimulates are effective and are lived. I would like to thank Mrs. Foerster for her commitment and the goal-oriented but also flexible way of working. "
Frank Herrmann
Founder & CEO
SAP ConsolidationPlan & Business Case
Role: Senior Management Consultant
"Thank you very much for your help with the planning and calculation."
Dr. Klaus Langer
Head of Information Management (IT), Kulmbacher Brauerei AG
Global Program NEXT Sales & Service Platform
Role: Interim Program Manager
"In 2014, Mrs. Foerster supported us in the reorientation of our program for the implementation of a standardized process-based IT platform for our worldwide sales organization. The quality audit carried out by her showed the necessary activities for a successful implementation of the program, which were subsequently harmonized in the program organization and detailed planning of the projects. Mrs. Foerster was able to bring stakeholders very quickly into the boat and bring the program to success. I would always like to have these skills back."
Olaf Bartsch, Managing Director
Finance and Headquarters
“The time we have worked together has been quite short, but very intensive. I have rarely seen and experienced so many improvements and results of someone entering in an existing project organization. Your dynamism, inspiration and moving force, has given the Miele/NEXT program a completely different dimension and quality.”
Noel Smets
Regional Managing Director North-West Europe
"In a very critical phase of our program for the realignment of the IT platform for our sales companies, Mrs. Foerster analyzed our complex situation in a very short time, showed up and introduced necessary corrective activities. With her methodical competence, extraordinary commitment and the direct, infectious way, she quickly took our stakeholders on board and decisively shaped the reorientation of the program. Her commitment helped us a lot and I would like to thank her for the exciting and formative time together."
Martin Hoffmann
Project Manager Application Development /
e-Commerce
"In my opinion, you have been an extraordinary asset to the programme and have made a significant contribution to the realignment achieved so far. It was only thanks to your personal, intensive and always encouraging commitment and your professional guidance that it was possible to achieve what had been achieved in such a short time!"
Sascha Wallbaum
IT application & processes
"In a challenging project situation, Mrs. Foerster helped us to set the right course and to take all necessary steps to return to success. Thanks to her outstanding commitment and commitment. She succeeded in a short time in making the necessary "jerk" in our organization. In my previous professional career, I have not yet been able to experience a manager who, in one person, combines such a brilliant methodological competence with a comprehensive subject-based foundation. The fact that the work with Mrs. Foerster was also a lot of fun thanks to her open and binding nature was for me personally the "icing on the cake"."
Ralph Ellerbrock
Project Manager Sales & Marketing
"In the program Mrs. Foerster convinced from the outset, she was able to see complex and indented structures in the shortest possible time. With exceptional commitment, consistent leadership and high method competency, she marked the path to success and orchestrated change. Faced with difficult issues, she immediately extracted the "essentials" and addressed them in an impressive way. We will benefit from her efforts for a long time."
Robert Dyer
Project Manager Finance
"In a difficult project situation, Mrs. Foerster has set the right course with her experience and personality. In many talks, she worked with all relevant program staff to strengthen the strengths and weaknesses of our program organization and to introduce the necessary measures for improvements. With her leadership quality and her positive way of approaching people, she has taken us all along and reorganized the program into the right water. "
Heiner Lotz
Head of IT Applications and Processes
"Once again, many thanks for the great input and the successful course set at Miele."
Raico Laue
Business Project Lead Administration
„Sylke Foerster has proven her added value from day 1. With her experience, she managed to get things structured in a matter of months which no one in our organization has succeeded to do for years. Her experience, good ideas, hard work and structured approach have been the necessary input for our organization to make the next step forward. But maybe most important is the motivation and enthusiasm she evokes in people. This is what distinguishes very good from great. With coaching sessions, she assisted people on a personal basis to grow in their roles. And making people grow, that is what matters for your organization. That is what provides a long-lasting impact!“
Pieter Tillon
Rollout Manager NEXT-BeNeLux
"I would like to thank you very much for your support and your drive the last few months, in order to direct the program in the right direction.”
Birgit Arnemann
Rollout Manager DK / FI / NO / SE
"Mrs. Foerster accompanied us and guided us through a phase of major changes within the IT, which also included the rethinking and the reorientation of traditional thinking at all hierarchical levels. She has mastered this difficult task with flying colors. This success is ultimately based on her personality, which combines her great experience with a stringent, clear and open style of leadership and a pronounced emotional and social intelligence. I would also like to thank Mrs. Foerster especially for her coaching, which has supported me enormously in my personal development. "
Marion Mende
Project Manager Logistics
Interim Manager Nutzwerk GmbH
Rolle: Interim Manager COO
Ramona Wonneberger
Founder & CEO
Global SAP PMD Rollout Program
Role: Program Manager
"I am aware of the share you have personally, Mrs. Foerster, in the project success. Without your controlling hand, it would not have worked. Thank you very much for this excellent service and the very pleasant cooperation. As you meet at least twice in your life, I am already looking forward to the continuation."
Edmund Engeldinger
Industry Automation Division SE
"Sylke Foerster quickly established an efficient program organization and communication structure for the international roll-out of a business-critical database solution. Through her leadership and "bite" together with her empathy in controversial situations, we are getting enormous progress in a thematically and politically extremely challenging subject area. The program perception of top management and all stakeholders also benefited from Mrs. Foerster’s structured and goal-oriented work, as well as I as a rollout manager personally from her extensive and practical experience."
Bernd Zankl
Business Relations I IT BR
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"In a difficult professional and very political environment, Mrs. Foerster was a good and, above all, solution-oriented manager, who would like to bring things forward. She has put solutions before policy, initiative before reaction. Clear goals and their compliance were particularly important to her. This has brought her well. In the teams, she always has a very professional image of herself, so that everyone has listened to her and felt involved.”
Thomas Taffler
Service Management / Head of SAP
"In a highly complex program with multicultural participation and very divergent interests, Mrs. Foerster managed to achieve the challenging goals in the planned time by clearly structured and results-oriented project management. Her competence and sovereignty convince management and customers and have a highly motivating effect on all program participants."
Hubert Tauschek
Program Manager PMD Global Roll-out
Partner Program for Siemens
Role: Program Manager
"If you need a manager for a project of the highest complexity in a difficult environment, Sylke Foerster is the right woman: reliable, with a great overview, methodically mature, consistent and with tremendous commitment, she ensures that goals are achieved and results are worked out. She has the gift to make every team member a bit better every day - a claim in which leaders have failed."
Dr. Stefan Reinheimer
BIK GmbH, Founder & CEO
Portfolio Management SIP PS
Role: Interims Manager Portfolio Control
Harald Thumerer
Head of Sourcing and Service Management
Partner project for T-Systems
Role: Interims Manager Portfolio Control
"I have worked with Sylke in several critical and strategically important projects. She is very strong in terms of methodology and analytics and extremely customer-oriented. Her leadership and excellent communication skills combined with a high degree of professional competence are the key success factors for implementing challenging tasks and successful project deployments."
Winfried Gerlach
Founder & CEO, LevelFive GmbH
Digital Transformation Program "Kolumbus"
Rolle: Programm Manager
"With her outstanding commitment, long-term experience and leadership, Mrs. Foerster has decisively contributed from the outset to successfully implementing one of the largest transformation programs in Zurich Germany. She quickly achieved a clear structure, transparency and clear responsibilities and helped decisively to correct them in time. Without her commitment, we would not be where we are now."
Horst Nussbaumer
Member of the Board, COO /CCO
"From 2015 to 2017, Sylke Foerster has been a successful program manager for our transformation program Columbus, Zurich's largest IT investment projects worldwide during this period. I would particularly like to emphasize her very consistent management of the projects and the many external service providers involved, as well as the comprehensive change management program for employees affected by changes."
Dr. Klaus Endres
Member of the Board, Sales / COO
"We have launched a large-scale program for the business transformation and implementation of a new IT platform of unprecedented scale for our group, and have been able to win a first-rate program manager with Sylke Foerster. Mrs. Foerster is the right choice, if you need a manager for a project of the highest complexity. So why? Reliable, with a lot of overview, strong, but in the right places also with a long lead, methodically mature, consistent, assertive and with the greatest commitment that I can imagine, it ensures the program success After time, scope and budget, Mrs. Foerster is directly in the speech and uses her methods to do exactly the right actions. She has made me personally better during the project.”
Sven Schluenzen
Project Manager Billing PL Non Motor Release & Interfaces - PL Motor Release
"I first worked with Sylke during the Group approval and team readiness assessment of the most complicated transformation program the Zurich Group had ever undertaken; there were many understandable concerns from top management. Sylke as the Operational Program Director helped to reassure stakeholders through her professionalism and firm control of relevant topics. This contributed significantly to the "GO" decision. Following approval, Sylke was the lead contact point for regular ongoing Group assessments (Stage-gate reviews, regular monitoring). Sylke, as a consummate professional, continued to reassure all parties through a trusting, cheerful and transparent approach - this included an openness on what was not working well, in addition to the many things that were going well. It was a pleasure to work with her."
Martin Gaskell
PgMP, EPMO Head EMEA &
Commercial Regions, Zurich
“The implementation of the Guidewire Suite in Germany is one of the world's largest programs of the Zurich Insurance Group. Mrs. Foerster contributed decisively to the success of this plan by ensuring a stringent, orderly and clearly structured program management. It is characterized by solution orientation, far-sightedness, clear organization and outstanding management skills. The crises, problems and challenges on the way to the Go-Live of the first Release were all thanks to her immense commitment and the introduction of her experiences and competences all a solution. Mrs. Foerster was in every respect a guarantor of the success and I would at any time revert to your support. Thank you for the last 2.5 years."
Marcel Posorsky
Project Manager "Columbus Claims-Private Line",
Head of IT Claims Coordination
"In the Columbus program, the largest and most demanding program of all time at Zurich Group Germany, Mrs. Foerster convinced the project managers of the necessary discipline at time, scope and budget. Her rigorous program management was a key factor for the implementation success. I am really impressed with her commitment, determination and her know-how."
Markus Ritter
Project Manager "Columbus Non Motor Release",
Head of General Insurance Personnel Lines Non Motor
"Mrs. Foerster convinced from day 1 of the program through methodically secure, cleverly operationalized management. She was able to quickly analyze the complex situation of the transformation program in terms of need for action and risks, in order to initiate the necessary decisions and corrective activities on this basis. Their exceptional commitment and solution orientation were certainly key success factors. I look forward to the next joint bids."
Lars Ackermann
Project Manager "Columbus Interfaces-PL Non Motor, Managing Director IKOR GmbH