Thomas Ochs

Thomas OchsThomas Ochs is the CIO of the Villeroy & Boch Group. Within Villeroy & Boch he introduced a complete supply chain management support for all shops, subsidiaries, and production locations within the Tableware Divi-sion. Furthermore, he introduced a fully integrated CRM software while integrating marketing, call center, and sales as well as a corporate-wide portal solution using the latest technical features with a high degree of usability. This has been accompanied with the harmonization of the busi-ness lines and organizational change from country-specifically organized IT departments to one globally acting corporate IT with a harmonized SAP system landscape available for the entire company. This IT effort serves as a basis for the optimization of the IT costs, further standardiza-tion, and the enablement of an outsourcing of the entire IT infrastructure as well as the coordination of digitalization projects at Villeroy & Boch. Mr. Ochs is also the assistant professor for computer science teaching e-business at the Saarland University of Applied Science, Germany. In his private life he enjoys golf with his friends and family.

Publications

IT Strategy Follows Digitalization
IT Strategy Follows Digitalization
Thomas Ochs, Ute Anna Riemann. © 2019. 17 pages.
The IT strategy is a key anchor for the further development of a company-centric information management. For serving as such, existing IT strategies need a regular check and...
IT Strategy Follows Digitalization
IT Strategy Follows Digitalization
Thomas Ochs, Ute Anna Riemann. © 2018. 15 pages.
The Internet of Things: From Things to Valuable Outcomes
The Internet of Things: From Things to Valuable Outcomes
Thomas Ochs, Ute Anna Riemann. © 2017. 21 pages.
Objects become embedded and gain the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce...