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For strategic programmes that must move from plan to delivery.
Interim programme manager · digital transformation and AI
I get programmes moving: the sequence clear, the conditions in place, and the people on board.
Twenty years of programme leadership, digital delivery and operational improvement. From ambition to working result.
What I match
Three focus areas
Operating model
Where the operation has to grow with what the organisation wants, from process to headcount.
AI in the process
For AI adoption that has to land in the real process. With the people who work in it.
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What I do
Three areas of work
Programme leadership
Transformation programmes that need direction, from the board table to delivery.
- Programme plan with sequence, dependencies and decision points
- Governance that works: who decides what, and when
- A steering group that gets the right question in time
Digital delivery
The technical side made real, with the teams you already have.
- Working proof that the chosen direction is feasible, built before the decision falls and the money is committed
- Platform step or migration, delivered with your own teams
- A handover pack the team can carry on with
Operational excellence and innovation
Work that measurably runs better.
- Process measurement: where your time goes today and where the errors are made
- Redesign that puts the work back with its owner, with the technology underneath repaired
- AI in the real process
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How it runs
On the table
I make it safe to show what is really going on. As an outsider with no stake in the internal balance, I get onto the table what otherwise stays unspoken.
Untangle
Then we separate cause, symptom, interest and technology. Only once those are apart can you choose on what is really going on.
Build with the teams
After that I build the working proof, on the data and the process knowledge of the people themselves. What comes out of it I hand over. Support grows because people see it work.
Career
Four tracks
- 1996 – 2006 Media Marketing and business development
- 2006 – 2009 Consultancy Strategy consultant
- 2009 – present Interim Interim programme manager
- 2025 – present AI AI delivery and governance
About
Eric-Jan Achten
I am Eric-Jan Achten, interim programme manager. Twenty years of strategic programmes. From the board table to delivery, at Philips, Signify, AkzoNobel, IceMobile and an insurance intermediary.
Four tracks that run into one another: media, consultancy, interim programme management and AI. The same thread runs through all of them. Hold the complexity, build support, and make sure what we build keeps working.
