The book addresses an explicit demand expressed in a large number of C-Suite interviews: managing significant transformations in the private and public sector. The book describes what types of transformation have to be reflected, why transformations are crucial in our days, the triggers they have, and how they might be best managed from a theoretical and practical point of view – technically and with all people-connected soft facts. The book, which contains numerous use cases, is written by an international community of practitioners, experts, and academics from different geographies, countries, public and private organizations, industries, and cultures, which guarantees the comprehensiveness and richness of the developed insights and the value of the presented use cases.
Peter Wollmann has been a manager, initiator, mentor, and facilitator in large, predominantly global transformations and strategic developments for almost 40 years. His specialties are the implementations of the Three-Pillar Model in organizations and focused setting checks to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and facilitate optimization measures. Since 2017, Peter has been working independently on organizational projects and future initiatives. After graduating in mathematics and physics from the University of Bonn (Germany), he began his professional career at Deutscher Herold, then part of the insurance group of Deutsche Bank. Later, he took on strategic leadership and most recently was program director for global transformation in the Zurich Insurance Company (ZIC). In his professional network, he has leveraged his experience and strategic thinking to the development of various leading companies. He is the author and publisher of severalbooks and articles on strategy, leadership, and project and project portfolio management. Currently, he is developing new consulting concepts involving the 17 UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Peter is also the founder of wine business: VinAuthority.
Reto Püringer has worked for more than 20 years in the banking and insurance industry. He held various senior positions in large international companies such as ABB, UBS, AXA, and Zurich, and his practical experience ranges from strategy development, proposition development/management, business/portfolio design, and large-scale change program delivery to finance/actuarial. Reto has seen the practical implications on what change means to individuals in their different context and also change that is required from a strategic point of view. The focus in his work continues to find a way to combine both aspects.
