Gartner Expert

Ivar M Berntz

VP, Team Manager

Ivar M Berntz is a team manager in Gartner's Advanced Manufacturing and Transportation group within the Research and Advisory Services area.

Mr. Berntz advises CIOs and senior IT Leaders on strategies, plans, approaches, technologies and processes, their impacts and requirements. He researches on how to leverage frameworks and initiatives like Industrie 4.0 together with information and technology assets to generate IT/OT convergence, accelerate digital transformation and composability for a sustainable attainment of results.

Previous experience

At Gartner, Mr. Berntz was previously part of the CEO and Digital Business Leaders group, with a focus on manufacturing and was the research lead of the Nordics CIO Forum 2017.

Before joining Gartner, he was a Partner with the Brazilian member firm of Deloitte, where he led firmwide (i.e., tax, audit, risk, financial advisory, BPS and consulting) the local relationship with two "Global Crown Jewel" clients, the automotive practice (covering Tier 1-n suppliers, OEMs and dealers), the German "Desk" and the German Multinational Companies initiative. While doing the previous, he also focused on manufacturing, consumer business and retail clients with technology consulting projects. Additionally, he held a seat at the Global Board for Consulting Knowledge Management.

Previously, within Deloitte, he was the innovation champion for consulting, the Brazilian and later the Latin American leader for ERP, and later also for overall technology consulting services.

In parallel, he served as Executive Vice President for an NGO, Programa Comunitario da Reconciliacao, for two terms and on the standing consultative board of Praxis, an ecumenical interdisciplinary think tank.

During the dot-com bubble, he was the CIO for Mundivox Communications, a Brazilian ISP and CLEC. Before that, he held various positions at PriceWaterhouse, ICS, his own firm and for Arthur Andersen management consulting practices, living in Spain, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Canada and the U.S. As an engineer, he worked for Vattenfall in the Organization and Methods for Nuclear Power Plants department where he had previously developed his master's thesis using game theory to optimize nuclear reactor fuel transport movements.

Professional background

Deloitte

Partner

Mundivox Communications

CIO

PriceWaterhouse, Arthur Andersen & Vattenfall

Various Roles

Areas of coverage

CIO Leadership of Culture and People

Manufacturing Digital Transformation and Innovation

Manufacturing IT Optimization and Modernization

Education

Deloitte in-house M.B.A. Certificate, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, School of Business Administration, Sao Paulo

Swedish "Civilingenjor," Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (at its time, equivalent to a joint B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering)

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

1Competitive Strategy and Business Transformation

2Digital Business Strategy, Business Model and (Manufacturing) Industry Changes

3The Factory of the Future

4IT/OT Convergence, Alignment and Integration

5Industry 4.0