The objective of the HERKULES program was to equip the employees of the German Armed Forces with modern, reliable, secure and economical ICT. 

System implementation offers extraordinary challenges to IT professionals and the organisations impacted by the implementation. The new nationwide IT infrastructure includes 140,000 end-user systems, 300,000 landline and 15,000 mobile phones, as well as a 12,000 kilometre-long, high-performance wide area network. Almost 45,000 users work with a centralised and fully integrated SAP-based software solution. A PPP alliance combines the expertise of the German Armed Forces and industry to master the program scheduled for ten years. In this hour I will lead you through executing the inputs, controls, resources to outputs from the initial stages to completion success.

Since 2013 Silke Schönert is a Professor for Business Information Systems and Project Management at the University of Applied Science in Cologne. 

Before she was Head of Strategic Planning and Controlling of the Program Management Department at BWI – a joint venture of Siemens AG, the Federal Republic of Germany represented by the Federal Ministry of Defence and IBM Deutschland GmbH. With her experience in program management, she and her co-authors wrote one of the first German books on management of programs in 2013. She has 20 years’ experience in several industries and Academics with a focus on project management and program management for strategy and process optimization.

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