Laszlo Szakal
My background
My goal is to help businesses to find their way how to survive within the rapidly changing – often disruptive –business environment by identifying new products and services or even establish turbulent business models.
I started my career as a software engineer in an academic environment and spent 5 years developing custom designed applications (computer aided design, business applications).
I moved on into the education area and obtained an assistant lecturer position and finished my postgraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence in engineering area – shop floor scheduling systems – and finally gained my Ph. D. degree. Therefore I am very close to engineering thinking.
In the next decade I joined a multinational professional organisation (Electronic Data Systems) and was involved in M&A type transactions as the company was the founder of outsourcing business – IT outsourcing as well as Business Process Outsourcing. During my time with EDS I had the opportunity to understand many areas: banking, insurance, manufacturing, transportation, airline as well as public sector.
In the next period I gained experience in state owned, privately owned public sector oriented businesses and successfully implemented complex projects.
Recently I returned to the private sector focus and helped a local IT services company to double its revenue.
Changes are inevitable part of the current economy, therefore I started looking for a non-classical way to help my clients to be prepared for the unexpected. Today disruption comes from new technology based business models as well as events which force to do thing differently – sometimes it is in extreme conditions (e.g. Covid-19).
I decided to gain systematically the skills about the transformation process which helps organisations to change their internal culture to embed innovative thinking and Lean-Startup mentality.
Flagship projects
Some of the successful service implementations where I played a key role
As a member of a contract negotiation team we established a billing system development outsourcing contract with multimillion Euro annual budget. I managed the services for the next year.
Core banking system implementation and consolidation project in a leading universal bank.
Successful realisation of the national emergency call services. This is classified as top-level critical operation which requires geo-redundant continuously working infrastructure and applications.
My certifications
With this qualification I can help my clients to score themselves and identify where the biggest opportunities for exponential growth lie
With my knowledge in the ExO Sprint transformation process I am able to run ExO Sprints for my clients with the help of online tools and content
I have an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and why it’s so effective in today’s adapt-or-die marketplace. You learnt practical advice on supporting Agile teams and programs, empowering a Lean Portfolio, building a continuous delivery pipeline and DevOps culture, and coordinating large solutions.
How can you benefit from ExO?
There are several steps to gradually embark upon the journey of your exponential transformation
The following steps are a possible roadmap to understand and acquire the critical amount of ExO characteristics to enable 10x growth
- Awake workshop to understand exponential technology implications (disruptive business models) in today’s economy
- Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP) workshop
- Perform an ExQ Survey the way to measure how exponential your organisation
- ExO assessment workshop to understand the focus development areas in your organisation
- 10 step ExO Sprint – typically 10 weeks process to develop disruptive or innovative market validated ideas