Strategy Consultant, Project Manager, Technology Evangelist
Cologne Area, Germany
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- Founder, Managing Director, Consultant at wirksame-meetings.de
- Founder, Managing Director, Consultant at Agilentro
- Independent Project Manager, Strategy Consultant, Technology Evangelist at Stefan Lesser
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- Project Manager, Strategy Consultant at MGI METRO Group Information Technology GmbH
- Manager Research & Development at Envers AG
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Stefan Lesser’s Summary
I'm an independent consultant, with lots of experience in IT and retail, offering a diverse set of skills to help your company respond to change and become ready for the future.
I started my professional career as a software developer. In 2002 I joined big business as a project manager in the innovation initiative of world's third largest retailer. Planning and building Metro's Store of the Future, I explored the human part of technology and learned about the powerful capabilities of motivating change through technological innovation.
Always fascinated by technology, and even more interested in the people using it, I became a facilitator between technology experts, business leaders and consumers. With a strong focus on simplicity, I successfully adopted agile project management principles, providing my project teams with the necessary flexibility to cope with highly dynamic environments.
In 2007 I started my own business to offer my knowledge and experience to companies and organizations that want to utilize the least understood but most important force in today's business world - change.
Stefan Lesser’s Specialties:
agile methods, disruptive innovation, geek-2-suit communication, simplexity, usability, software architecture, network theory, swarm Intelligence, peer-to-peer
Stefan Lesser’s Experience
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Founder, Managing Director, Consultant
wirksame-meetings.de
(Management Consulting industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
http://wirksame-meetings.de/ is a specialized service product focused on better meetings. Instead of training groups in simulated environments, we join real meetings as passive observers and offer practical advice tailored to you in a coaching session afterwards.
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Founder, Managing Director, Consultant
Agilentro
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
With our brand Agilentro we offer services to make your projects more agile. Based on the four principles of the Agile Manifesto, we bring agile project management to your projects. Even if you're not in IT.
We are not training a specific methodology. Instead, we focus on pragmatic advice tailored to your project team. For that we use a variety of tools from different agile methods like Scrum, XP and even from other frameworks like Lean Six Sigma.
Agilentro consultants can join your team as project managers or project assistants from beginning to end of your project. Or we support your project managers in specific situations, like moderation of important project meetings or during requirements definition. -
Independent Project Manager, Strategy Consultant, Technology Evangelist
Stefan Lesser
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Project management utilizing agile practices and methods.
Strategy consulting for adopting disruptive innovation.
Technology evangelism with expertise in comprehensive collaboration and communication.
Training and public speaking on above topics.
Sample projects:
Requirements definition, functional specification and project management for a large retailer introducing couponing info-terminals.
Requirements definition, functional specification and project management for a retail standards organization implementing a complex information system for a supply chain demonstration integrating twelve different technologies into a single showroom experience. -
Project Manager, Strategy Consultant
MGI METRO Group Information Technology GmbH
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2002 — December 2006 (4 years 5 months)
implemented, tested and operated innovative technologies in the METRO Group Future Store Initiative: e.g. electronic shelf labelling, digital signage, info terminals, personal shopping assistants;
designed software infrastructure for and introduced a central, group-wide content management system for extended product information combining numerous internal and external data sources and data suppliers;
marketed innovations and concepts to METRO Group’s sales lines, especially Category Management and Marketing;
mediated between management, users and technology experts
identified, analyzed and evaluated innovative technologies, prepared decisions for selection of strategic technologies and suppliers for METRO Group’s IT strategy;
developed a strategic innovation framework for comfort shopping technologies;
represented METRO Group's Future Store Initiative on international events, e.g. ECR Europe and D-A-CH, EuroShop, National Retail Federation -
Manager Research & Development
Envers AG
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 3 months)
Software Engineering, Research and Development
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Stefan Lesser’s Interests:
open source, creative commons, swarm intelligence, peer-to-peer, crowdsourcing, literature, movies, music, philosophy
Stefan Lesser’s Contact Settings
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