Günter Richter

Umlaut Consulting

Founder

June 2025 - present•umlautconsulting.co.uk

After three decades working in the trenches of ERP, business intelligence, and modern data platforms, I've learned a fundamental truth: technology alone doesn't transform a business. People do. That's why I founded my freelance consultancy - to help medium and large corporate organisations bridge the often-painful gap between their technology investments and their business goals. I specialise in crafting data and AI strategies that make sense for your business, establishing governance that builds trust, and leading the change management that ensures your people come along on the journey. From the boardroom to the IT department, I work alongside your stakeholders to understand their unique challenges and build the internal capabilities you need to succeed. The result? Improved compliance, reduced data management costs, and the ability to clearly quantify the success of your most important strategies. Core Services: Data & AI Strategy, Data Governance, Organisational Change Management Let's connect and build something great together.

I passionately believe that we all need to take charge of our lives, careers, and businesses. To do this, we need to ensure that we constantly maintain a growth mindset, are open to new opportunities, and build the transferable skills that will help us achieve our goals. It is not always easy to do this by ourselves and sometimes, we all need a pull or a push! Over 25 years of coaching, consulting, and mentoring has reinforced the fact that any successful change is a result of personal change. I have worked with a truly diverse set of people and have delivered successful outcomes to clients in the United Kingdom, the European Union, Africa, and North America. I would love to be working with you to help you achieve the goals and outcomes you have imagined for yourself.

Telefónica Tech

Head of Business Consulting

August 2024 - June 2025•telefonicatech.uk

In October 2021 Adatis was acquired by Incremental and both companies were subsequently acquired by Telefónica Tech in March 2022. 1 August 2024 sees us come together as a single brand to continue working with our great clients and providing them with an even greater portfolio of services. My focus on data strategy, data governance, and business change remains the same. I joined Adatis to establish and lead the Business Consulting practice, to provide advisory services to our customers. I am responsible for defining, designing, and leading the delivery of propositions for: - Data strategy - Data governance - Business change enablement My role entails evolving these propositions to customer needs and market demands, enabling the sales team to sell them by providing sales playbooks, proposal content, and case studies. In addition, I am building the team to (alongside myself) deliver these engagements to our customers.

There is no longer anything like "employed for life" and, whether by design or default, careers don't often follow a straight line. Our environment is constantly changing, so how do we ensure that we have the necessary skills to deal with this constant change? The Agile Career podcast where we will take you on the journey from “employed for life” to “employable for life”. We’ll give you the tips, insights, and strategies to help you build the transferable skills that you’ll need.

I have joined a dynamic techology consulting company to establish and grow their business consulting capability. This includes designing the consulting products that we'll be delivering, growing the consulting capability and capacity, and working with customers to help them deliver their business transformation programmes.

Hitachi Consulting acquired Information Management Group in 2014. As part of the larger Technology Services function, I lead the Business Analysis and Change Management practice which works with the Analytics, Digital, and Enterprise Applications practices to deliver solutions to our customers. My role has been to establish this Practice and grow it in capacity, skills, and competencies - by delivering value propositions such as Business Analysis, Business Process Review and Improvement, Business Change Management, Information Management and Business Intelligence Strategy, and Business Intelligence Competency Centre design and implementation to customers. I also lead customer engagements and a number of pre-sales activities.

As part of the larger Service Delivery function, I was key in establishing this practice and capability to support other delivery areas of the business such as Business Intelligence, Enterprise Content Management, and CRM. My role has been to establish this Practice and grow it in capacity, skills, and competencies - by delivering value propositions such as Business Analysis, Business Process Review and Improvement, Business Change Management, Information Management and Business Intelligence Strategy, and Business Intelligence Competency Centre design and implementation to customers.

Managing consultant, leading and implementing business change and improvement, specifically in the Mobile Network Operator industry. I was also part of the organisation's senior management team and contributed to the definition and execution of the organisation's strategy. Blue Platinum Consulting was acquired by Enterprise Outsource Holdings.

Freelance Management Consultant specialising in Business Intelligence and Telecommunications, where I played a key role in the delivery of an Enterprise Data Warehouse to Africa's largest Mobile network operator, by leading the business stream.

Analysis, design, architecting, and delivery of Business Intelligence solutions. During this time I also led the establishment of the Corporate Performance Management practice.

I managed the development of custom applications primarily in the Property Management industry. Design, build, and deployment of ERP solutions and customised ERP modules.