Erik Haahr

Principal Consultant / Owner, ErikHaahr Consult

Through his entire education and career, Erik Haahr has enjoyed being in the field of tension between technology and management. Business opportunities in new technology balanced with the potential risks interests him. The challenge is to find the optimal point in time to implement the right technology in order to maximize benefit in the shortest possible time‑span. Erik Haahr has long experience within enterprise architecture, business process integration, business process reengineering and IT development methodologies. Within these areas Erik Haahr has proven his management and leadership skills. Erik Haahr has been building, staffing and running the enterprise architecture function in DSB from scratch for five years. Prior to this Erik was responsible for enterprise architecture at the pharmaceutical group Lundbeck where he worked for eleven years at the headquarter. Erik Haahr has been working with methodology and architecture since the mid 80's within utilities, education, government administration, pharmaceuticals and transportation. Erik Haahr has very strong analytical skills and a good sense of humour. This combined with stamina and endurance gets the job done - and always with a smile. He communicate naturally with people at any level and from any background, and culture. Erik Haahr define what he does - enterprise architecture - as the way to help business managers define their business requirements for change and a way to implement strategy. Enterprise architecture is a combination of skilled people with a service minded attitude and a holistic view of the company and a toolbox with description of the current architecture, a methodology for describing the future and some tools to facilitate dialog and description. Erik Haahr's main task is to make business managers realise enterprise architecture as a help. One way of convincing them is to ask if they find the following text familiar. "We don't know what data we've got, when we know what we've got then we don't know where it is, when we know where it is then we can't get at it" Enterprise Architecture combined with Portfolio Management will enable implementation of the company strategy. Leaving out one of the disciplines will have you relying on luck - which may work...