C.V. Dr. Hans Le Fever
Januari
2009
Full Name: Hans Theo Le Fever
Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1948, Dutch
Nationality
Marital Status: Married, 3 children
Employment
status: Managing Director of eNovITe, Founding Partner of SummitPartners
Education: 1973 Completed
study Experi
1980 Obtained Ph.D. at Leiden University, The Netherlands
Synopsis
Hans Le Fever worked until
2003 for the Royal Dutch Shell Group where he broadened his technical education
with a range of business and organizational skills.
As IT planning manager in
London he initiated plans for development and effective use of international
data communications networks. In Nigeria and Brunei he held CIO positions with
responsibility for all aspects of IT, from planning to operational services.
During these years in the Operating Units he gained a solid understanding of
(systematic) performance improvement, competence development and cultural
aspects in environments of substantial change.
Mid 1998 he returned to
London to develop the consultancy practices on Electronic Commerce and
Management of IT. He consulted for external organizations as well as
facilitating in Shell’s innovation process (GameChanger). Here he worked side-by-side with world-class,
external management consultancy companies.
End 2002 he left Shell
Finance Services to pursue his broad consulting interests. He started his own, innovation
oriented company and co-founded two companies for IT related interim
management.
The common thread through
all these years has been involvement with technology & strategy innovation:
creating value by transforming existing business practices through introduction
of new (mostly information) technology. His recent work concentrates on value
creation and benefits realization, in particular for industrial organizations. He
has shared this experience in numerous conferences and workshops as well as
lecturing at MSc level with Leiden University. He
also took on the supervisor role for a number of master thesis projects.
He is secretary of SOL Netherlands (Society of Organizational Learning),
practicing the five disciplines of Peter Senge. He is
a member of PDMA Nederland and involved in complementing their traditional
innovation approaches with Theory U of Otto Scharmer.
Work History:
2008 Innovation related (www.eNovITe.com)
·
design and execution of a business coaching workshop
(Venture Challenge)
·
NGI (Netherlands Genomics Initiative), see http://www.genomics.nl/NewsAndEvents/30%20June%202008.aspx
·
Deltares (Dutch Institute
for Delta Technology)
·
awareness session on valorization for bioinformatics
PhD students
·
assessment of business aspects of private equity
funding opportunities
IT related (www.summitpartners.nl):
·
Review of SAP implementation program in major
industrial conglomerate.
·
Coaching of CTO of a major engineering company.
Academic (MSc ICT in Business at Leiden
University):
Lecturing at MSc level:
·
Strategy: Formation and Implementation
·
Managing and Leveraging the ICT Infrastructure, Fifth
consecutive year
·
ICT enabled process innovation
Thesis supervision:
·
Change Management in Information Systems
Implementations that depend heavily on external partners
·
Open Source CRM Selection Framework
·
Assessing added value of project management methods.
The case of InFraMe.
·
Measuring the alignment between security and
business
·
Measuring Performance of Not-for-profit
Organizations
2007 Innovation related (www.eNovITe.com)
·
design and execution of a set of innovation /
venture workshops for the bio-informatics community (NBIC, Netherlands
Bioinformatics Centre); see http://www.nbic.nl/research/Dissemination_valorisation/VentureChallenge/
and http://www.nbic.nl/nbic/newsevents/Venture_challenge_final/
·
business coach for a bioinformatics start-up company
IT related (www.summitpartners.nl):
·
Co-founder (march 2007) SummITpartners a consultancy organization to assist
companies with IT renovation programmes. Setting-up the
new company and developing associates and customer network.
·
Information analysis and design for the Amsterdam
Court of Justice (penal court)
·
Review of outsourcing project of a major engineering
company
Academic (Leiden University)
Lecturing at MSc level:
·
Managing and Leveraging the ICT Infrastructure,
Leiden University School of Management, MSc level). Fourth
consecutive year.
Supervising MSc thesis work:
·
Strategic Alignment: Enterprise Architecture for the
insurance company of the future
·
Applicability of RBAC (Role Based Access Control)
methodologies
·
A Process Oriented Framework for Articulating IT
Value and ROI
·
Analysing IT Risk
Management Tools
·
Post M&A Information Technology Integration
2006 IT
related reviews:
·
Quarterly, independent reviews of the ERP journey
(selection, planning, realization) of an independent
judiciary government institute. Impact analysis of organizational changes.
·
Strategy advice for a large mail-order, retail
organization.
·
Strategy advice on a large insurance / mortgage
provider chain
Academic: Lecturing at MSc level:
·
Managing and Leveraging the ICT Infrastructure,
Leiden University School of Management, MSc level).
Third consecutive year.
Innovation: Opportunities of wearables in
Field Operations
·
Study on the opportunities for handheld computers in
(oil&gas) field work
·
Advice on selection of a Permit-to-Work system (for
Shell)
2005 Preparatory
work on a number of European (IT) consolidation and ERP projects. Several companies in
various stages of their rationalization efforts, all including a mixture of IT
and non-IT challenges. Other projects:
·
Second Opinion on SAP selection for department of
ministry of Justice
·
Grip on IT: Developed and delivered a one-day
seminar, as executive education for non-executive directors and CFO/CEO level
managers.
·
E-mail retention strategy for multinational
publisher
2003-2004 Co-founder
(march 2004) BastaGroup (www.bastagroup.nl): a Second Opinion on IT investments.
Consultancy on the management issues of IT such as IT (opportunity) planning,
risk management, governance, benefits realization of enterprise systems
Target
customers: Netherlands-based multinational companies
Completed
assignments
·
IT Strategy advise for a wholesaler in the food
sector
·
IT Outsourcing evaluation for a multinational office
products distributor
·
Development strategy for internet based holiday
accommodation rental co.
·
IT Strategy advice for a large fashion chain
Started eNovITe (www.enovite.com) on 1-jan-2003, focused on
facilitating and building in-company capabilities for innovation with IT and
internet.
Target markets:
·
Educational: MBA, Management Training Institutes
·
Industrial:
strategy & implementation planning, business case development, business
development, general awareness creation
Focus has been on developing a network of alliances in The Netherlands
and map out best market opportunities for advisory services. Main results
·
Lecturing MBA classes at TSM - MBA (Twente)
·
IT Strategy Planning course using the Teletop eLearning environment for Shell
·
Feasibility study for NAM on mobile, wireless
technology in operations
·
IT Strategy study for Shell Renewables
– Wind.
·
Partnership with Inmedius,
Pittsburg on advanced concepts around IT support for frontline workers.
2000 – 2002 e-Business Strategist, Shell Finance
Services, London, UK
In this period my main focus has been on identification of strategic
opportunities to transform business activities through the use of internet
technologies. This was achieved through leading multiple strategic planning
workshops, internally as well as with external audiences, mainly in the UK, the
US and Asia Pacific. Main deliverables:
· Identification
of transformation opportunities in finance processes
· Stage I seed funding proposal for a venture
in the area of operations transformation.
1998
- 2000 e-Business Strategist, Shell
Services,
Leading an internal consultancy
in the area of e-Business
Strategy, comple
· Developing new
consultancy offerings, skills and competence for e-Business
·
Global co-ordination (
1994 - 1998 Information
Manager / Planner,
Main challenges:
· Introduction of portfolio approach and
cross-functional, process orientation in planning.
· Introduction of
systematic appraisal of key IT manage
· Develop
· Substantial Change Manage
1990 - 1994 Head
Information & Computing Service, Shell
Responsible
for transition to the
1987 - 1990 Senior Consultant Office Systems, Shell
International,
Responsible for advice on worldwide application of
e-mail; consultancy on cost justification, added value and imple
Responsible
for advice on opportunities and new applications of international networks.
1985 - 1987 Technology Planner, Shell Expro,
Responsible for
technical evaluations of hardware, software, leading to recom
for
purchase. Develop
1980 - 1985 Research Scientist, Royal Dutch Shell
Group,
Evaluation /
Benchmarking of seismic processing hardware & attached processors
Software develop
Workshop / Conference Activities:
Grip on IT for non-executive
directors or CFO/CXO level managers
One day seminar
with essential and probing questions on managing IT investments and value of IT
Managing and Leveraging IT
Infrastructure (2004-2006, MSc level, Leiden
University, The Netherlands)
Plant Online workshop,
IQPC Exchange
Asian Business Forum,
presentation eBusiness opportunities in Oil&Gas,
Managing Knowledge through
the web, IQPC conference,
IQPC: Knowledge Manage
Paper: Knowledge Manage
IBC
Workshop: Strategy & Imple
Eyeforenergy: e-Business
conferences
Presentations and workshops
International
Business Strategy & Planning Conference (
APEC (
Chairman of the e-Business Forum on
HR issues
IQPC Conference
Singapore (June 2000): chairman and Strategic Planning for e-Business workshop
Mumbai,
India Chairman of GMARC conference
Launching and Managing Strategic
e-Business Units (11-13 April 2000):
Planning Workshop
Inhouse seminars for DBSland, Singapore and Citybank,
Jakarta, Indonesia (2000)
IQPC Conference
How to Launch & Manage e-Business units, presentation and workshop
IQPC Conference
Aligning IT and Business Strategy
through the BSC, presentation and workshop
Corplan ‘99: Annual
Conference Strategic Planning Society,
Publications
SME Strategy for
the e-World, World Oil & Gas Technologies 2001, vol.2, ISBN 1 85938 360 2
Models in the Oil&Gas Industry, World Oil & Gas Technologies
2001, vol.1 ISBN 1 85938 228 2