Consulting

ESACA was at the center of a breakout session at the 2026 Fsas Technologies Summit, presented by Dr. Jan Jikeli, Head of Artificial Intelligence at MGM. In his talk, Dr. Jikeli showed how critical infrastructure companies and public authorities can use agentic coding without sensitive data leaving their data centers.

Test management is something that most teams know they need, but nobody wants to take ownership of. Test cases end up in spreadsheets, communicated...

The question “Are CIOs becoming obsolete?” is not new. The Harvard Business Review first posed it back in 2000: Are CIOs obsolete? Today, the question resurfaces with greater urgency and a significantly more complex context. Three trends are currently impacting CIOs simultaneously.

On June 9, Frank Kneschke, Nils Gralfs, and Anne Bernemann represented mgm consulting partners at the IT Executive Forum in Hamburg. There were 120 IT executives, a long day, many open discussions, and a few questions that were still on our minds on the way back.

Two days in Berlin, over 2,000 decision-makers from government, politics, and business, and one theme that ran through nearly every discussion: Those who do not control their own digital infrastructure lose their ability to act. The Future Congress on government & administration 2026 demonstrated that digital sovereignty has long been a pressing issue of the present. mgm was represented this year with two program contributions and actively shaped the debate.

By joining, we add a valuable perspective to this network: experience from large, company-wide digitalization initiatives where project management and organizational development are inextricably linked. We bring methodologies from IT-driven transformations that go beyond traditional project management, thereby making the Alliance accessible to clients who want to shape transformation across its full scope.

On June 9, IT decision-makers from all over Germany will gather in Hamburg. At the IT Executive Forum hosted by the IT Executive Club, around 120 executives will gather at the Factory Hammerbrooklyn to discuss the issues currently at the forefront of the IT world: hybrid threats, digital sovereignty, artificial intelligence, and what the IT organization of the future will look like.

In this episode of Innovation Implemented, Hauke Rickertsen from the Ministry of Finance and Digitalization of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Raik Writschan from the City of Rostock, and Marcus Warnke from mgm consulting partners discuss at Noerd in Rostock what happens when the state and local governments establish genuine joint structures.

When the topic of digital sovereignty comes up in public administration, many people first think of technology—software, servers, the cloud, and license agreements. That’s not wrong, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. At its core, digital sovereignty is a question of power.

In virtually every company, it has long been on paper: the IT strategy, closely integrated with the business strategy, with clear goals and defined priorities. And yet, implementation is proving difficult. Budgets are insufficient, resources are scarce, and entrenched structures offer silent resistance. It is precisely this gap between strategic aspirations and operational reality that mgm consulting partnershave examined in detail in their latest CIO study.