Michael Majster

Partner

Areas of Focus

Education

Université Libre de Bruxelles
Master in Engineering Sciences
Vlerick Management School
Master of Business Administration

Past Experience

Accenture
Managing Director

Michael is a Partner based in Brussels, with more than 15 years of experience advising CIOs and CDOs on making strategic changes and achieving tangible results.

Michael has been serving clients on topics including digital transformations and operating models, IT strategy & architecture, and achieving business scale and agility through the cloud, big data, and AI.

Examples of his work include:

  • Designing digital-native business models, organizations, and platforms to cope with disruptions
  • Digital decoupling roadmaps to enable the coexistence of traditional and digital businesses
  • Big data architectures, data monetization, and AI opportunity assessments
  • Designing and implementing new IT operating models to improve the quality of service for internal clients, leveraging AI and automation
  • Office set-up for IT portfolio rationalization and digital value realization

Prior to joining Arthur D. Little, Michael worked for Accenture, advising clients in the utilities, chemicals, and oil & gas industries, across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

Michael is married to Emilie, and they have two daughters. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing golf and has a passion for music.

Recent Publications

Lost in translation
Michael Majster, Wilhelm Lerner, Abhishek Srivastava, Fabian Sempf
Despite two decades of accumulated experience, the majority of digital transformations still fail to meet expectations. The root causes typically relate to the often-difficult relationship between business and IT functions, resulting in the original strategic aims getting “lost in translation” during execution. In this Viewpoint, we explore how setting up a value office can help overcome common problems by tracking defined value and ensuring realization — leading to successful execution of the strategy.
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Winning the war for digital talent
Winning the war for digital talent
Michael Papadopoulos, Michael Majster, Olivier Pilot, Alexey Pankov, Greg Smith
Businesses across the world are facing a shortage of professional talent and expertise in digital and IT skills and capabilities. For example, a 2021 survey suggested that 76 percent of IT decision-makers worldwide faced critical skills gaps in their departments, an increase of 145 percent since 2016.[1]
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Energy & Utilities
Energy retailers’ business model
Florence Carlot, Michael Majster
Phaseout of supply generation assets such as coal, a high demand for gas in Asian markets pushing down European supply, cold weather, and the shortage of Russian gas supply together have led to record energy prices across Europe. Tensions between Ukraine and Russia will likely worsen the already dramatic situation on energy markets. The consequences are dramatic, both for retailers and consumers. On the one hand, there have been a series of electricity and gas retailer bankruptcies, as they have been unable to pass the full cost of the commodity price increase to end consumers.
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Unleashing innovation in IT
Michael Majster, Frédéric Rosès, Volker Pfirsching, Fabian Sempf, Rick Eagar
IT is still often seen as inflexible and costly Digitalization has been at the top of the strategic agenda for over a decade (see Figure 1). IT assets, and the function that manages them, are usually seen as the backbone of the digitalization effort.
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Travel & transportation
Artificial intelligence in mobility
Michael Majster, François-Joseph Van Audenhove, Olivier Pilot, Mathieu Blondel, Dr. Klaus Schmitz, Dr. Michael Eiden, Rick Eagar
Beyond the hype, where the true value lies
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Michael is a Partner based in Brussels, with more than 15 years of experience advising CIOs and CDOs on making strategic changes and achieving tangible results.

Michael has been serving clients on topics including digital transformations and operating models, IT strategy & architecture, and achieving business scale and agility through the cloud, big data, and AI.

Examples of his work include:

  • Designing digital-native business models, organizations, and platforms to cope with disruptions
  • Digital decoupling roadmaps to enable the coexistence of traditional and digital businesses
  • Big data architectures, data monetization, and AI opportunity assessments
  • Designing and implementing new IT operating models to improve the quality of service for internal clients, leveraging AI and automation
  • Office set-up for IT portfolio rationalization and digital value realization

Prior to joining Arthur D. Little, Michael worked for Accenture, advising clients in the utilities, chemicals, and oil & gas industries, across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

Michael is married to Emilie, and they have two daughters. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing golf and has a passion for music.

Recent Publications

Lost in translation
Michael Majster, Wilhelm Lerner, Abhishek Srivastava, Fabian Sempf
Despite two decades of accumulated experience, the majority of digital transformations still fail to meet expectations. The root causes typically relate to the often-difficult relationship between business and IT functions, resulting in the original strategic aims getting “lost in translation” during execution. In this Viewpoint, we explore how setting up a value office can help overcome common problems by tracking defined value and ensuring realization — leading to successful execution of the strategy.
Find out more
Winning the war for digital talent
Winning the war for digital talent
Michael Papadopoulos, Michael Majster, Olivier Pilot, Alexey Pankov, Greg Smith
Businesses across the world are facing a shortage of professional talent and expertise in digital and IT skills and capabilities. For example, a 2021 survey suggested that 76 percent of IT decision-makers worldwide faced critical skills gaps in their departments, an increase of 145 percent since 2016.[1]
Find out more
Energy & Utilities
Energy retailers’ business model
Florence Carlot, Michael Majster
Phaseout of supply generation assets such as coal, a high demand for gas in Asian markets pushing down European supply, cold weather, and the shortage of Russian gas supply together have led to record energy prices across Europe. Tensions between Ukraine and Russia will likely worsen the already dramatic situation on energy markets. The consequences are dramatic, both for retailers and consumers. On the one hand, there have been a series of electricity and gas retailer bankruptcies, as they have been unable to pass the full cost of the commodity price increase to end consumers.
Find out more
Unleashing innovation in IT
Michael Majster, Frédéric Rosès, Volker Pfirsching, Fabian Sempf, Rick Eagar
IT is still often seen as inflexible and costly Digitalization has been at the top of the strategic agenda for over a decade (see Figure 1). IT assets, and the function that manages them, are usually seen as the backbone of the digitalization effort.
Find out more
Travel & transportation
Artificial intelligence in mobility
Michael Majster, François-Joseph Van Audenhove, Olivier Pilot, Mathieu Blondel, Dr. Klaus Schmitz, Dr. Michael Eiden, Rick Eagar
Beyond the hype, where the true value lies
Find out more

More About Michael
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles
    Master in Engineering Sciences
  • Vlerick Management School
    Master of Business Administration
  • Accenture
    Managing Director