Boris Kneisel

Current

• Director Service Strategy & Innovation at SAP AG

Past

• Product Manager SAP A1S SCM at SAP AG
• Business Development Manager at SAP AG
• Project & Program Manager at SAP AG

Education

• Henley Management College
• Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

• University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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Industry

Computer Software

Boris Kneisel’s Summary

EXPERIENCE:
10years+ of relevant Enterprise-Application-Solution (EAS) software-industry experience covering ERP-, SCM-, & BI-solutions through experiences in:
- (5 years) Consulting: IT-impl./Syst.-Integr., Proj. & Program Mgmt,
- (2 years) Marketing / Sales & Business Development,
- (2 years) Product Mgmt, and
- (1.5 yrs) Service Strategy & Portfolio Mgmt

GOAL:
Bringing a new business on-track in the area of combined software & service, leveraging productized, disruptively new customer value-adding service offerings.

Boris Kneisel’s Specialties:

competitive analysis, market-research & intelligence, market-driven outside-in competitive strategies, holistic strategic option evaluation, scenario analysis, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), innovation through services, software patenting, strategic IP-fencing, new business development, design-thinking, use-case & persona driven development, story-boarding, rapid prototyping, agile development

Boris Kneisel’s Experience

• Director Service Strategy & Innovation

  SAP AG

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  SAP´s Service Innovation Group is with Service Strategy & Portfolio Mgmt (Dept. of Global Services). My position focuses on:
  - Managing Global Service Portfolio (SAP Business ByDesign)
  - Identifying white-spots: triggering gap-closure activities
  - Innovating service-offerings: IP-claims & Strategic IP-Mgmt
  - Conceptual Prototyping (agile methods & disruptive technology)
  - R&D collaboration networks (SAP Research & beyond)
  - Incubating partner-ships & co-operations (academic & start-up)

Boris Kneisel’s Education

• Henley Management College

  MBA, General Management, 2004 — 2008

  Selected Majors on:
  - Innovation Management
  - International Business Culture
  
  Additional voluntary Electives on:
  - Competitive Intelligence
  - Portfolio Management
  - Business Finance
  - Dynamics of Branding

  Activities and Societies:

  Runs 2yr-study on "Innovating Business Strategy Implementation": Explorative research on cross-cultural BRIC-country dev. (conducted at China: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong) featuring cross- industry Exec-(C/SVP/VP)-level interviews on installed-base mgmt methodology & best-practice tools. Captures market- requirements on day-to-day mgmt issues and solves them applying:
  - Disruptive Technologies of "Semantic Search & Ontologies"
  - Design-led concepts leveraging Web2.0/3.0 paradigms

• Universität Karlsruhe (TH)

  Dr. rer. nat., Natural Sciences (Chemistry & Crystallography), 1995 — 1997

• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

  Dipl.-Chem., Natural Sciences (Chemistry & Crystallography), 1990 — 1995

• University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

  EU-ERASMUS-scholar, Natural Sciences (Chemistry), 1993 — 1993

Additional Information

Boris Kneisel’s Interests:

coaching of high-potentials, skiing, scuba-diving, disruptive technology & its way on turning an eco-system

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