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Nicolas Roth

PartnerVienna

Works with clients across industries on digital and core tech transformations; helps telecom, software, and IT-services companies modernize their strategies and operating models

Nicolas helps organizations undergo tech-enabled transformations, working with them on topics such as business-value creation, core-tech modernization, and overall technology strategy. He is a leader in McKinsey Technology, serving clients across industries and coleading McKinsey’s enterprise-resource planning (ERP) work as well as the firm’s partnership with SAP. Additionally, he is a leader in McKinsey's Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice.

He brings more than two decades of experience in the digital space, having launched web-based companies in the early days of the internet and later serving as an SAP consultant prior to entering the tech-strategy consulting field over ten years ago.

Examples of Nicolas’ recent client projects include the following:

  • supporting a large Asian retailer to shape the business case and blueprint for their SAP S/4HANA migration
  • leading the transformation of a leading software and IT-services company, helping improve their efficiency and adapt their business model to the cloud
  • leading a merger and large-scale transformation of a telecom operator, running the transformation office and priority streams in various functions
  • shaping the growth strategy for a telecom-infrastructure provider in the light of an upcoming transaction
  • supporting the chief information officer of a tech company in defining the winning plan across business-value creation, agile-operating model, analytics, and capability building
  • conducting due diligence for a telco’s acquisition of an IT-services company
  • setting up an SAP S/4HANA migration as a value-oriented business transformation for a European retailer

PUBLISHED WORK

Tech-enabled SG&A transformation,” McKinsey & Company, September 2021

PAST EXPERIENCE

Arthur D. Little
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SAP
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BASF SE
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Xenforo
Founder

Basketball.de
Founder

EDUCATION

TU Wien
PhD, information systems

Stuttgart Media University
MS, information management