Jochen Göttelmann – CIO at Lufthansa Cargo – Running the backbone of German industry

Jochen Göttelmann – CIO at Lufthansa Cargo - is nominated to the #EDLOTY Award in the B2B category! Register here: https://www.cionext.com/16 and join us on 1st February 2023 at #CIONEXT | Let’s talk Money to find out how the Finalists of the European Digital Leader of the Year 2023 support the bottom line in times of crisis. Lufthansa, one of the top 10 airlines in the world, was close to insolvency in 2020, while playing a crucial role for the society in the pandemic: transporting medical equipment as quickly as possible. Do current events in the world significantly impact the company’s financial performance and what measures are in place to save money? To what extent does IT help with optimising costs at this difficult time? In this #LeadershipDeepDive Interview Hendrik Deckers discusses with Jochen how the first large-scale cloud project at Lufthansa Cargo – migration to a new booking engine – was planned and implemented and how to manage a large agile team of 60 – 80 developers working on high-complexity projects. They also talked about the Production Planning and Steering environment (PPS), which helps predict shipment flows to up to 14 days, and at the same time is one of the strategies to deal with lack of skilled workforce. Is Lufthansa’s cloud strategy bringing savings to the company or is it actually more expensive than the traditional on-prem approach? How to make sure security is not affected while escaping legacy systems? Are CIOs becoming “Chief Inspiration Officers” when it comes to innovation? Watch the full interview to find out! Table of contents: 00:56 | Introduction 01:12 | Jochen’s background 04:28| About Lufthansa Cargo 05:45 | Main challenges for the company 09:07 | New booking engine 13:39 | Implementing cloud at Lufthansa Cargo 16:36 | Maintaining agility in large teams 19:33 | Security by design 23:28 | Returns & savings with the program 24:04 | Advantages and disadvantages of cloud 25:14 | Production planning and steering environment (PPS) 31:32| New technologies 33:16 | IT organisation 36:05 | The role of the CIO 39:26 | Lufthansa vs. Lufthansa Cargo 40:49 | Management style 42:15 | Leadership style 45:17 | Personality & MBTI profile 51:03 | Drivers & hobbies 52:08 | Personal values 52:56 | Personal mantra and mentors 55:40 | Most brilliant failure 58:44 | Best and worst things in life 1:00:22 | Loves & fears 1:03:30 | Advice for aspiring digital leaders