About Oliver: For more than ten years, Oliver has specialized in large-scale transformations of enterprise architecture in various customer-facing industries, such as retail, insurance, and financial services. He supports clients in establishing the function of enterprise architecture management and in executing the transformation of architecture, including the application landscape.

More recently, Oliver has focused on transformations of companies toward using platform-based architectures that allow them to build and scale digital innovation at reasonable cost beyond the pilot stage, such as by design and implementation of digital technology platforms. He also leads McKinsey’s Digital Architecture Center.

Besides serving clients, Oliver leads McKinsey’s knowledge-development work and research collaborations on enterprise architecture. In this role, he is in constant contact with vendors, start-ups, academia, and other third parties to continuously enhance and extend the firm’s knowledge base. For example, Oliver leads the Enterprise Architecture Survey, a McKinsey and the Henley Business School collaboration.

The "ERP Platform Play"-Paper: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-erp-platform-play-cheaper-faster-better

The "Managing the forces of fragmentation: How IT can balance local needs and global efficiency in a multipolar world"-Paper: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/managing-the-forces-of-fragmentation-how-it-can-balance-local-needs-and-global-efficiency-in-a-multipolar-world

Oliver's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-bossert-8384a45/