EUROPE has lived and breathed IT and technology throughout his entire life , he had to adapt .
Luckily in the beginning , Schreck was backed significantly by the board , but as he embarked on this new company , he had to make a decision as to what data and what property he would take with him to HENSOLDT .
This is where the establishment of a solid base of communication proved key .
“ It was very helpful to create a common understanding . Handling data and solutions like this , and of this scope , I needed to convince business
leaders to buy into what we were doing ,” he says .
“ It also proved very helpful in establishing a multi-functional team that would work with me on this . After all , as we were starting from scratch we only had a very weak definition of what the separation would be , and I alone could not define what was the intellectual data of Airbus and what was the intellectual property of the carve out . This was something that had to be clarified from the beginning .” As the journey gathered steam ,
Schreck and his team had to migrate
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