T-SYSTEMS
Patrick Beyer discusses T-Systems ’ global efficiency programme and how the company helps others to boost efficiency via cultural change
Starting his career at T-Systems in 2009 , Patrick Beyer has climbed through the business from IT Project Manager to Vice President Global Business Operations . T-Systems has several portfolio units ; Beyer , in particular , runs the Global Business Operations in T-Systems ’ Private Cloud Business . “ To just give you a feel of what Global Business Operations are about , we are not finance , but we are doing all efficiency programmes . We are not human resources , but we are doing the entire resource management . We are not procurement , but we do all make supplier and licence management . That means , it ' s mainly about being a cross-functional unit in a large IT company ,” explains Beyer .
With 28,000 employees and a revenue of € 4.2bn a year , “ T-Systems is one of the leading IT service providers in Europe , and we are serving our customers with nearly all services , from digital solutions to cloud services and security services , and this makes us really unique in the market that we can serve the entire value chain for our customers .”
Patrick Beyer T-Systems
Boosting Global End-to-End Efficiency Sharing some insight into the management of global efficiency programmes and how T-Systems boost them , Beyer explains that agile end-2-end efficiency is a framework for how T-Systems push significant efficiencies in IT operation . “ We are also deeply convinced that this method , how we do IT , and efficiency is also valuable for a lot of other companies . Basically , we
324 September 2021