Sunogos is member of a network of highly qualified consultants.

Our engagement teams are comprised of experienced consultants who are specialists in their field. Since we are an alliance-based organization and have consultants with a wide range of experience, we are able to form teams of consultants with the right skills and expertise to meet the unique needs of each engagement.

Claus D. Schafhalter

Managing Director, Senior Management Consultant, President Sunogos Inc.

Mr. Claus D. Schafhalter has more than 15 years management experience serving global 100 companies, medium sized companies and startups. His areas of expertise are :

Business and IT Strategy: Assisting clients to define strategies and IT solutions. This includes all aspects to create a successful business from IT architectures over business processes to organizational structures and implementation roadmaps.

Lean and Sustainability: Assisting clients to save money and the palnet by applying common sense sustainability principles. Impact assessments, development of metrics and measurement systems, management to increase efficiency on all levels.

Business Operations / Business Process Design: Designing business processes so they are efficient and effective. This includes defining requirements for supporting systems like IT or metrics and implement those systems to ensure results.

Technology Selection and Implementation: Assisting clients in defining requirements, selecting technology solutions and implementing the selected system.

Change Management and Organizational Development: Assisting companies in improving the performance of the organization. This includes assessment of the internal roles, responsibilities and procedures, clarify responsibilities and organizational interfaces, and re-engineer organizational processes.

Lean and Cost Reduction: Finding ways to increase productivity and lower costs through organizational efforts like business process reengineering and team based value analysis. Mr. Schafhalter is Six Sigma - Black Belt cerified.

Project Management: Serving as project manager for important transition projects, providing project management assistance to internal strategy, IT and change management projects.

Mr. Schafhalter has prior consulting experience with Systems Integrator Infogain, e-Business Services Firm Groundswell, IMCS and Infora Management Consulting. Among his clients are Chevron, Philips Electronics, Siemens, Daimler Chrysler and companies in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Email: info@sunogos.com

Ronald J. Raumer

Ronald J. Raumer is the founder of Raumer & Associates. He has more than eighteen years of professional information technology experience serving established companies and startups in industry and government. He has practiced and consulted in more than twenty countries throughout America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. His areas of expertise are:

IT Strategic Planning and Organizational Development: Assisting organizations in aligning their IT function with their business objectives. This includes setting future IT strategic direction and defining the technology architectures, processes, organization, staffing and initiatives necessary to implement the strategy.

E-Business Strategic Planning and Architecture: Assisting clients combine business strategy and Internet technologies to create innovative digital strategies and new business models. This includes designing the business and technology architectures and the organization necessary for implementation.

Technology Selection and Deployment: Assisting companies in defining technology requirements, selecting software packages (e.g. ERP) including hardware, realigning business processes, and implementing the selected solution.

Change Management: Assisting companies in improving the organizational performance and effectiveness of their IT function. This includes performing an assessment of the IT function, redesigning organizational roles and responsibilities, re-engineering IT management processes, and developing IT guiding principles and technology standards.

Project Management: Providing project management assistance to important projects, providing turnaround assistance to troubled projects, or serving as interim CIO.

Mr. Raumer has prior consulting experience with the Groundswell, The Gartner Group, KPMG and Deloitte & Touche in assisting clients across a wide variety of sectors to develop IT and e-business strategic plans and architectures. He has also served as CIO for a high-technology company in Silicon Valley and as software R&D director for one of the fastest growing software companies in America.

Mr. Raumer is an experienced instructor who has conducted technology seminars and workshops for client and consultant staffs. He holds a Bachelors degree from San Francisco State University and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Email: info@sunogos.com

For further information go to www.raumer.com

 

Sunogos Partners:

Sunogos works exclusively with handpicked consultants who have broad experience and a results oriented mindset. All our consultants are extremely customer focused and bring every project to a success.

Raumer & Associates
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