BCG’s latest research reveals that only about half of the companies that claim high agile maturity have actually achieved their transformation goals and can point to real business impact.
Education
- PhD, national economics, Technical University of Darmstadt
- Diploma, business computer science, Technical University of Darmstadt
Honors and Awards
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Product Owner
- Speaker at Manage Agile, tmforum, and TDWI conferences
Erik Lenhard is a core member of the Technology Advantage and the Technology, Media & Telecommunications practices at Boston Consulting Group. He is a member of BCG’s worldwide Agile at Scale leadership team, and leads Agile at Scale in Europe. Also, Erik is an agile coach.
With BCG since 2012, Erik has deep knowledge and experience in agile software development, agile organizational design, agile transformation and information management.
Erik has worked with many clients in the telecommunications, consumer goods, industrial goods, and financial services industries, including clients in Europe and the Middle East. His work focuses on large-scale agile transformations across business and IT, optimizing IT delivery and product development as well as defining information management strategies and operating models.
Erik has supported the target-state design and implementation of integrated agile operating models at multiple leading European banks. He has supported the setup of agile pilot projects as well as ensuring agile leadership engagement, led the design and implementation of an E2E business agility program for a global travel industry service provider, and helped an international consumer goods company design its enterprise information management strategy and organization.
Prior to joining BCG, Erik headed the management information department at Kabel Deutschland and worked as a manager at Solon Management Consulting.
