Episode 62 – BPM Implementation – A User Story: Martin Holling
This episode is a first for the podcast – we are not talking about something from an external perspective, but speak with someone “in the trenches” who is actively implementing BPM in an 160-year old organization.
Our guest today is Martin Holling, who is working at Kemna (a road construction company in northern Germany) and who has worked at Siemens, as well as a consultant in the BPM space before. His main objective is to figure out processes and how they should be designed and implemented to be efficient and effective. Then you should think about tools that can help you digitalize your work with continual improvement and automation.
Martin is also very active in the German BPM scene and is the co-host of the “BPM Stammtisch” (a regular meetup of BPM enthusiasts in Hamburg) that is organized via the New Process Pro community.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- Martin’s background
- His transition from Siemens to a consulting role, and his current BPM Lead role in a road construction company
- Challenges in road construction industry, including competition and thin profit margins
- Importance of efficiency and process improvement
- Martin’s approach to introducing process management in a new organization
- Importance of employee engagement in the process
- Encouragement for listeners to stay open to new ideas and strategies
You can reach Martin via LinkedIn, and also via his website here: living-processes.de.
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.
Ep. 62 – BPM Implementation – A User Story: Martin Holling – What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified
Additional information
- In this episode we referred to Episode 56 “Center of Excellence” with Gia Thi Nguyen
- If you want to join Martin and the group at the next BPM Stammtisch go here: https://pro.newprocesslab.com/c/bpm-stammtisch-hamburg/
Credits
Music by Jeremy Voltz, www.jeremyvoltzmusic.com
- CP1 (Welcome)
- Wind Will Blow (Interlude 1)
- Love Won’t Let You Down (Interlude 2)
- South Wing (Outro)
Roland Woldt is a well-rounded executive with 25+ years of Business Transformation consulting and software development/system implementation experience, in addition to leadership positions within the German Armed Forces (11 years).
He has worked as Team Lead, Engagement/Program Manager, and Enterprise/Solution Architect for many projects. Within these projects, he was responsible for the full project life cycle, from shaping a solution and selling it, to setting up a methodological approach through design, implementation, and testing, up to the rollout of solutions.
In addition to this, Roland has managed consulting offerings during their lifecycle from the definition, delivery to update, and had revenue responsibility for them.
Roland has had many roles: VP of Global Consulting at iGrafx, Head of Software AG’s Global Process Mining CoE, Director in KPMG’s Advisory (running the EA offering for the US firm), and other leadership positions at Software AG/IDS Scheer and Accenture. Before that, he served as an active-duty and reserve officer in the German Armed Forces.
