Voice Of Clients
There were different parties involved, including different
stakeholders at the client and competitor consulting firms.
Arsalan was able to align all of these parties and established a common structure to get to a shared end deliverable. Program was politically complex, The different elements of the actual program were well identified and structured. Business case was complete and Arsalan managed to get it accepted by all stakeholders. This has been called one of the most successful large scale projects at the client.
Chief Enterprise Architect at a big European telco leadermajor impact on the business…required the support of many stakeholders…They were all delivered, orchestrated by Arsalan. Stakeholders included business and IT, but also Consulting and Technology providers. The stakeholders would not have supported this if Arsalan had not had this attitude….Arsalan was the leader of the complex billing consolidation project…Arsalan’s discussions with the business people responsible convinced them that this was a sound investment. Today, after nearly 3 years, the last complex customers have been migrated, and all Invoices effectively come from One billing system. The project is considered a major success by customers, and by our mgmt., and has given the confidence that the team is capable of executing similar projects. I would highlight Arsalan’s qualities as professional, hard working, smart, understanding the situation quickly, and getting results in a complex environment. The type of person we would like to have on our team!
Chief Enterprise Architect at a big European telco leader
CIO of a global technology leader and household name
A Head of Innovation at a Healthcare Leader
CIO of a Global insurance leader
CASE STUDIES
Strategic Enterprise-wide Digital Transformation I
Strategic Enterprise-wide Digital Transformation II
Testimonials- Arsalan Rad
Here's what my clients, Colleagues, and Competitors say about my work:
Arsalan is operating well at senior executive management of the client. Arsalan presented his recommendations on the overall solution for to the CIO, IT Director and other Business Executives to obtain acceptance with greatly positive feedback from the CIO on Arsalan´s work. Arsalan was considered one of the strongest subject matter experts and also provided important recommendations to our engagement leadership team to secure a strong position to enable future major revenues. Arsalan made a large impact on the IT director’s view and he very much appreciated his recommendations for the transformation program in scope. Arsalan showed role model behavior by working very determined, not only with the client executive management and SME’s but also with the our wider team. He proactively reached out to bring IBM best practices and solutions to the client. I believe Arsalan’s experience, strong business and IT and consulting skills, as well his ability to communicate recommendations effectively at multiple levels in client organizations makes Arsalan a valuable senior advisor for clients and an effective leader….
IBM Global Vice President, Global Insurance Sector Leader
Arsalan led the strategic baselining engagement helped us understand where we are and how our current applications are supporting our – our current processes and how the technology will support our – our ambition in terms of our future strategy. And through that work we can start to identify where the gaps are, where the opportunities are and we’ll be able to do our transformation based on that work and that will really transform our ability to deliver our services in a much more flexible and lower cost way, and be much more responsive to our service needs, and the work has really helped us understand that link between the technology and how it supports the delivery of services.
Director of IT, Scottish National Health Services NSS-NHS
Arsalan Rad has a wide and versatile professional skill set and is able to use his international background in many emerging parts of the globe being a recognized leader in Business and Enterprise Architecture. He is very empathetic individual about client pains and needs, brings strong architectural know-how and leadership to his client engagements while leveraging his consultative client-facing abilities with dedication and result orientation. These qualities, coupled with great interpersonal skills, make him very influential with business and IT executives as a Trusted Advisor, who succeeds in bridging business and IT. This is exemplified by his successful involvements in leading highly complex engagements over the globe.
IBM Chief Technology Officer Benelux
Arsalan is an outstanding solution executive and business architect who thrives in client facing roles. He has an amazing ability in gaining the trust of C-level clients and influencing them in decision making, and exceptional drive and energy in leading teams when taking charge to ensure successful delivery and bridge from business strategy all the way down to implementation.
Managing Director Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Accenture
Its remarkable what Arsalan was able to achieve in such a short time frame, let me outline a few high lights: … This is just to mention a few examples in addition you brought a lot of best practice models to strengthen Enterprise Architecture discipline as well as IT services. Arsalan has an outstanding work ethic and doesn’t settle for anything but top quality. It has been a pleasure working with him and I am certain our Architecture Function will benefit greatly from your work.
Global Head of Architecture & Technology, Philips
… experienced and passionate … broad and deep IT understanding, always focused on business impact and the value contribution of IT. He has successfully proven that he can shape and lead IT transformation initiatives addressing key topics from our clients like leveraging innovative technologies (e.g. for Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Analytics) or modernizing existing application landscapes. It was a great pleasure to have Arsalan in my team, and I wish him all the best for his further career.
Executive Partner and Head of Global CIO Advisory at IBM
Passionate, Client driven, Extremely knowledgeable and a fun colleague would describe Arsalan the best, combined with the ability to communicate to any level I would recommend him to anyone who is looking to make his enterprise architecture a success.
Program Director, Atradius Insurance
Arsalan was the leader for the Innovation element. Arsalan introduced a structured approach to developing and presenting a solution back to the client. He was effective at using his and others’ network of contacts to access expertise and was focussed on matching the proposal to the client’s requirements throughout. His interpersonal and leadership qualities were such that he managed a dispersed, easily distracted team efficiently keeping us focussed on the client, articulating the value proposition. The end result was, thanks to Arslan’s leadership, encouragement and methodical approach, an asset I have been able to subsequently reuse in support of Innovation proposals elsewhere.
Distinguished Engineer & Cloud Practice Leader IBM UK
This was a complex and strategic country-wide transformational program. It was a major project involving business transformation (data cleaning, portfolio rationalization), billing and collection, control simplification and therefore improved accountancy control. As such it had major impact on the business. The project required the support of many stakeholders in order to shore up the business case. They were all delivered, orchestrated by Arsalan. Stakeholders included business and IT, but also Consulting and Technology providers. The stakeholders would not have supported this if Arsalan had not had this attitude.
The project aimed to simplify billing and collections processes for customers by integrating all billing functionality into one single billing system whilst improving the quality of the processes. Arsalan was the leader of the complex billing consolidation project. In spite of continuing problems Arsalan kept on going, believing in benefits that the project would bring.
Arsalan’s discussions with the business people responsible convinced them that this was a sound investment. Today, after nearly 3 years, the last complex customers have been migrated, and all Invoices effectively come from One billing system. The project is considered a major success by customers, and by our mgmt., and has given the confidence that the team is capable of executing similar projects. I would highlight Arsalan’s qualities as professional, hard working, smart, understanding the situation quickly, and getting results in a complex environment. The type of person we would like to have on our team!
Chief Enterprise Architect, Product Owner, KPN
Highly appreciate your energy and professionalism, and how you sailed this ship through rough waters in a highly political environment and severe competition. There were different parties involved, including different stakeholders at the client and competitor consulting firms. Arsalan was able to align all of these parties and established a common structure to get to a shared end deliverable. Project was politically complex, political complexity was driven by a potential loss of revenue by and different preferences on rationalization by the client stakeholders. The different elements of the actual program were well identified and structured. Business case was complete and Arsalan managed to get it accepted by all stakeholders. This has been called one of the most successful large scale projects at the client.
IBM Partner, Industry leader Travel & Transport Benelux
I worked with Arsalan directly on this comprehensive Transformation program. Arsalan came on board with the architecture work stream in crisis as our previous architects couldn’t connect with the client and the client himself had no idea on how to proceed. Arsalan provided clarity to client by proposing a structured approach with concrete deliverables. Through his way of working and demonstration of architectural skills, experience, and leadership, he won back the trust of the client. Within a very short time frame, Arsalan developed an implementation plan and drafted a pilot that gained consensus throughout all the members of the architecture team of the client. Even after leaving the project, Arsalan demonstrated dedication and commitment and continued to support the client in succeeding to build their EA roadmap and discipline. The client expressed to be very happy and satisfied with the work delivered by Arsalan, and his contribution made a highly positive impact on the engagement, and the client perception of our team.o.
IBM Sr. Partner, Manufacturing Sector Leader
Arsalan’s achievements went far beyond expectation. Some of Arsalan’s accomplishments were:
Taking leadership … to successfully win its first large-scale engagement at … Making a great contribution to bringing new business and key accounts …
Developing the Nr. 1 EA practice in Europe… Becoming the advisor that was most influential and trusted by top executive client management, Becoming a thought leader and worldwide authority in Enterprise and Business Architecture and transformation… Developing the career of the members of his own practice, teaching and mentoring them passionately
Arsalan has a strong “can-do” mentality, and takes on any difficult challenge with full confidence, and does not accept any outcome but success. There are few professionals that have the same mix and calibre of architecture skills, consulting and client facing skills, and team management and leadership.
Head of Business Solutions DXC Benelux, IBM Global Executive Partner-Global Head of M&E
Arsalan played a very important role in winning this business. He has worked with great enthusiasm and professionalism. Arsalan took a leading role in developing the solution and approach for this project. Arsalan is a very committed and hard worker and a very nice colleague to work with.
Managing Partner Financial Sector, IBM Benelux
Arsalan Rad – a truly inspirational, enthusiastic and innovative consultant with outstanding technical and business acumen – a most valuable asset to any company. I would highly recommend his services to any client!
Sr Director, BPFJ
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