“ I actually walked up to Steve Wood ( CEO of Forwood ) after the meeting and said , ‘ I need to get involved in this ”
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“ I actually walked up to Steve Wood ( CEO of Forwood ) after the meeting and said , ‘ I need to get involved in this ”
— Thorsten Scholz , CTO , Forwood Safety
by joining the endeavour , which he did shortly afterwards . “ I actually walked up to Steve Wood ( CEO of Forwood ) after the meeting and said , ‘ I need to get involved in this ’,” he says . With previous IT roles at large mining operations in Australia and project experience in high risk industries globally , Scholz understands the challenges of risk management and safety well – an understanding which has valuably contributed to his approach at being a CTO .
The drive and determination to excel at pace stems from Forwood Safety ’ s emphasis on a corporate culture which empowers employees within non-hierarchical structures across the company , always centred on the idea of delivering success to clients . For Scholz , his approach to IT can be summed up in one word : Quality . “ We ’ ve implemented Agile first in the product team and then across the rest of the business . Now , we can really scale and standardise our products , from content development to marketing while never losing focus on the business value of the outcome for our clients ” he explains . From a technological standpoint , he credits the advent of cloud-computing as totally revolutionising the ERP computing which prevailed at the beginning of his career . “ When I look at the IT sector , I can say with certainty that the cloud ’ s introduction was a catalyst for digital transformation . We could never deliver large scale enterprise safety and risk management solutions at such great value without the cloud and without a partner like Amazon Web Services ( AWS ).”
SUMMER / AUTUMN 2020