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Bavaria, Germany

Innovation was about BUSINESS INNOVATION- new products, new services, new customers - creating new business in markets not traditionally served. Times change. Rather than pushing for growth in new areas the focus now is on improving performance in the core business as it is defined. Thus innovation is rolled into a new structure of FUTURE CAPABILITIES.

Blagnac Cedex, FR

Innovation at Airbus Defence & Space is about identifying, creating and validating new business opportunities. Core business must continue to evolve but, in parallel, successful companies need to simultaneously nurture opportunities for their future business. These may be extensions of core or indeed completely new areas where core competencies can be.

Future Applications is a business incubator with the mission to bring capabilities anywhere in the Division to new markets not traditionally served. A highly expert team and an agile customer and product centric process brings candidate business ideas rapidly into business reality. Via a proof of Business sprint the decision is made - stop or invest to.

CIS strategy, business development in Cyber Security, aero-connectivity and other profitable growth areas in the field. Business restructuring, M&A.

DE

Driving significant business growth in SatCom, Geo information and Large Scale System Integration in intelligence and communications business via: Strategy, M&A, New Business Development, Marketing and Sales strategy, Partnership strategy, Deal Management and Business intelligence.

Brussels, BE

Strategy, new business development, diversification and transformation to over-compensate mature life products, services and business models in the Telecommunications industry. Cloud Computing and cooperative business models in next generation fixed and mobile access networks.

• Delivery and oversight of consulting projects to senior management in major European ICT businesses covering strategy, business development, organisation change and business process improvement
• Example projects include: Multi-country organisations, best practice development, sourcing optimisation, complexity (cost) reduction, time-to-market improvement and harnessing innovation
• Responsible for identifying and developing intellectual capital and consulting products, bringing them to market and driving revenue targets
• Development of individual and teams’ knowledge, experience base and project management skills
• Experienced IT Program Manager: >100m€ systems & software change program covering the full project life-cycle from requirements, establishing PMO, installing recognised PM & development methods, vendor.

London, GB

• Reporting to Group CTO to establish a group-wide technology function across the global portfolio of mobile assets, and running the technology harmonisation committee to identify and export best practices in preparation.

• Reporting to CTO maintaining his annual capital expenditure plan & budget (~1.5 bn€ p.a.) for build-up and launch of the fixed and GSM mobile networks according to a Fixed Mobile Convergent architecture

London, GB

• Technical lead on Joint Venture business plan & new business blue-print designs
• Business case preparation, investment appraisal and funding acquisition
• Launch Management for new businesses and Joint Ventures e.g. BT Wireless UK, O2 Germany, Wipro BT India, New T&T Hong Kong, and Post Merger Integration activities e.g. Syncordia - BT North America.

London, GB

• Technical launch manager for BT’s Managed Bandwidth Services based on a wide portfolio of then available technologies including; X.25, Frame Relay, IP, ATM, SHD, and development of associated terminal and network side.