Gunther Lenz
VP Software R&D at BD Biosciences
Redwood City, California, United States
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As a creative and risk-taking software R&D executive, I am committed to leading the value-driven digital transformation of the organization, applying novel technology solutions to achieve a competitive advantage.
Currently, I am leading the BD Biosciences Software R&D organization's digital transformation. I manage the $30MM+ budget and ~200 associates focusing on accelerating time to market, achieving higher quality software, and fostering innovation via lean value stream mapping, state-of-the-art software architecture concepts, and agile processes.
At Google, I shaped the future of businesses by creating innovative, strategic software ecosystems and value-driven solutions for our largest Healthcare and Lifesciences customers, their employees, partners, and patients.
I am a certified "Google Cloud - Professional Cloud Architect."
My work at IBM focused on managing the distributed Watson Oncology software organization with a ~$35M budget and 150+ software developers, architects, project managers, UX, SQE engineers, managers, and directors.
I am a highly data-driven engineer committed to designing unified enterprise platforms with solid technical domain expertise and business acumen.
My track record of significantly decreasing time-to-market is a result of introducing genuinely Lean and Agile execution processes in regulated environments.
As a direct result of my work, I published three books. I was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Software Architecture 4 consecutive times (1 of only 100 globally), and I published three books.
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Digital Transformation "Phoenix" Style in Healthcare
Healthcare software is complex, slow, and usually 15 years behind other non-regulated industries. In this session, I will discuss our digital transformation journey as a worldwide market leader in flow cytometry from the old ways to a learning organization; encompassing all aspects of the organization (people, process, product) by leveraging the three ways :
The First Way: Principles of Flow.
The Second Way: Principles of Feedback.
The Third Way: Principles of Continuous Learning.
I will discuss the symptoms we saw, deduct the root causes for the problems, and discuss the solutions that we applied (and are applying) to transform a traditional healthcare software organization to the next level of digital fluency.
The audience will walk away with a structured approach and a blueprint of mapping problems to root causes and learn about solutions that might be able to help them to solve similar problems in their organization.
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