Strategy

Shafqat Azim is a Partner in ISG’s Digital practice and leads ISG’s Technology Modernization, M&A and Global Security practices. He brings more than 30 years of business and IT experience to the firm, including international business management experience in Southeast Asia and Europe. He leverages his personal expertise, experiences and successes, enabled by and ISG’s competencies and solutions to help Fortune 1000 global service providers and end client enterprises adopt and scale digital strategies and innovative business/technology models.

Dr. Daniel Gerster is a Partner at ISG and offers clients more than 22 years of experience in strategic information management, thereof nine years as global CIO in a professional services company and more than 13 years in management consulting. Daniel helps CIOs and leading IT executives to successfully master digital transformation and to increase core capabilities such as organizational agility or resilience. He has a highly successful track record in CIO advisory. He is a well-known specialist for IT sourcing and contracting and covers commercial, legal and data protection aspects. He is a recognized speaker at conferences for IT executives, on IT events such as Sapphire, DSAG, VOICE, and BME IT Sourcing, VOICE Entscheiderforum.

Loren Absher works in the design and implementation of strategic change initiatives, helping clients to transform organizations so they can achieve their business objectives. He specializes in the identification and implementation of enabling technologies and process re-engineering to drive agility and innovation. He leverages deep experience from private, public, labor, and non-profit sectors to drive the implementation of solutions that succeed. Loren has over 15 years of experience in delivering high-impact projects that address complex challenges by helping clients align business goals, facilitating technologies, and processes to achieve solutions. He brings a broad perspective having worked on projects in healthcare, education, finance, construction, entitlements, logistics, and regulatory industries in seven countries and forty-five states.

Michael advises his clients on the development and implementation of business-oriented IT strategies, comprehensive IT sourcing strategies as well as ramp-up and operation of transformation programs. He supports medium-sized and large companies in organizing and carrying out tendering and negotiation processes for IT services (ADM and IT infrastructure). In addition, Michael advises CIOs and IT managers on the strategic realignment and redesign of IT organizations (role of IT, target operating model, structural organization, IT governance and IT processes and roles). In addition, he has concrete experience in change management as well as in coaching IT executives. Michael has developed 360-degree assessments for selected IT management functions and successfully applied them in customer projects, e.g., project and application portfolio, enterprise architecture management as well as sourcing and change readiness assessments.

As ISG’s Business Transformation team, Shriram brings 25+ years of experience in operational roles, entrepreneurial startups that were instrumental in specifying, architecting, building, and rolling out multi-billion-dollar initiatives in various industry verticals. He offers ISG clients his comprehensive digital imagination and adoption experience for their mission critical initiatives and their innovation ventures.