In his 30+ years in the IT industry, Dieter has held a variety of positions. His extensive experience in IT & Business Management centers around Enterprise Lifecycle Management, encompassing Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Engineering. This field includes various sub disciplines, such as Software Engineering, Knowledge Engineering, Ontology Engineering, Quality Management, Business Process (Re-)Engineering, and Product & Service Development.

During his career, Dieter has been largely involved in technology analysis, identifying critical technologies and analyzing their readiness in terms of maturity and fitness in the context of given strategic and tactical goals. In that capacity, he has authored and co-authored a number of studies, reports, research notes, white papers, etc. in the information technology field, many of which have been released under the names of the respective clients.

In addition, Dieter was involved in developing an extensive business management ontology, encompassing business semantics, business strategy management, business process management, and business rules management.

Dieter is very focused on managing the translation of technology advances into innovative architecture, engineering methods and practices. Innovation is a key driver in managing the translation of business strategy into architecture and engineering, and into plans, realization and benefits. Dieter has coined the term 'Knowledge-Driven Enterprise Engineering' to describe a new discipline that provides a cure for productivity, agility and quality issues at all levels and in all dimensions.

Based on the conviction that business agility can only become reality when business analysts 'engineer' the enterprise, and not IT experts, Dieter has developed a Knowledge-Driven Enterprise Engineering process. A meta data-driven, model-driven and component-based environment is suitable for business analysts without expert IT knowledge, and marks a stark contrast to traditional, complex software development environments. Experience has shown that productivity gains in the region of 2,000% and more are realistic. As a result, solutions can be provided in a fraction of the time needed with traditional software engineering practices, yet quality is not compromised at all.

Dieter's strengths include excellent interpersonal, managerial, consulting skills, as well as coaching and mentoring expertise.