- Current Activity
- Stefan Novotny is Managing Director of sus:ro GmbH, a KMU consulting company focusing on Quality- and Process Management for product manufacturing companies. Before he worked for over 10 years as Divison Manager for Quality and Processes at ThyssenKrupp Presta AG, a manufacturer of steering systems for cars supplying big OEMs. There he was responsible for Quality and Process Management throughout the Presta Group with 15 locations worldwide. This comprised the build-up and corporate governance of the global Business Process Management System, internal consulting for process improvement across the companies' disciplines, post merger integration projects for acquired companies as well as the respective internal and external auditing. With his group Stefan drove Presta's process maturity along ISO TS 16949, ASPICE (ISO 15504), ISO 14001 and other international standards. BPM at Presta is done using a model-based and document-oriented approach to share knowledge about processes, compliances and the related organizational structure corporate wide. His process knowledge is based on his technical background, including a PhD in manufacturing engineering and work experience in product management and engineering as well as ERP-systems implementation. He also works as BPM-Expert for the University of Liechtenstein and contributes his knowledge to process management trainings.
