Marcel Wiedemeier

Head of Enterprise Architecture & Governance

In everything I do, I challenge the status quo. I believe in thinking differently because well managed information technology services help people do more and lead better lives. Businesses thrive providing value to their partners and customers. As a passionate implementor of information technology within research and business organizations, I’m able to deal with complex problems, combined with a strong sense of duty allowing me to remain calm under pressure and encourage structure and order. As an innovative and thorough thinker, I deeply understand what it takes to deliver. Honesty, clarity, and integrity are cornerstones of my personality.

Interests

Business and IT Strategy
IT Architecture and Data Analytics
Leadership and Teambuilding
Business Operation Models and Process Management
Information and IT Security
Machine Learning and AI

Education

Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in IT Management, 2015

University Luzern
IT Excellence Leadership Training, 2013

IMD Business School, Lausanne
M2 The role of the leader training, 2012

Novartis

The challenge

Transparency is one of the key elements creating self-managed teams and enabling people to make informed decisions in progressive organisations.

Every single activity we conduct at work — recruiting, sales, accounting — is dependent on information processing and knowledge transfer. If we can tap into our collective intelligence, we can accomplish amazing things. And so it’s somewhat surprising how little time we spend on our information architecture — our approach to discovering, storing, and sharing what we know.

Apr 25, 2022 3 min read

My current skillset

One of my goals is to be skilled in all IT service management areas to become an all-encompassing IT Leader. To track my progress, I created this chart indicating my experience with various IT service management practices as outlined by ITIL v4.

The blue areas where I have the least amount of experience are the ones I’m currently concentrating on.

Oct 8, 2020 1 min read

To cloud or not to cloud

The question of how to integrate cloud service providers as part of the IT strategy is one of the tougher questions IT leaders are currently facing. In this blog post, I’ll outline our thought process and the conclusion derived.

For the sake of this blog post, we’ll peruse the definition of “cloud computing” by NIST:

“Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models.”