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titel: "Enterprise IT project leadership, Switzerland · Ivo Schönberner"
url: https://sacosi.ch/en/project-leadership
seite: /en/project-leadership
stand: 2026-09-24
beschreibung: "Ivo Schönberner leads IT programmes in corporate groups and joint ventures: greenfield, carve-in, carve-out and aviation, steered with evidence, not status slides."
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> Knowledge version of the page https://sacosi.ch/en/project-leadership. It contains the full text, including what is shortened or collapsible on the page itself. Publisher: SACOSI, Situational Awareness Consulting by Ivo Schönberner, Zürich.

# IT project leadership in the enterprise environment.

**Short answer:** As project leader, I steer IT programmes in corporate groups, group companies and joint ventures: greenfield build-outs, carve-in, carve-out, aviation. I connect shareholders with different standards, keep decisions on record with evidence, and hand over cleanly to the line organisation at the end.

## Which programmes do I lead?

Programmes in which the business, the shareholders and IT are all in motion at the same time.

### Greenfield

A new company needs, from day one, IT that meets group standards.

### Joint venture

Two shareholders, two IT worlds, one shared working environment.

### Carve-in and carve-out

Separating out or integrating units, without operations stalling.

### Aviation

IT in flight operations, where outages hit the business immediately.

## Which projects lie behind this?

The method emerged from two programmes in the Lufthansa Group environment, both delivered with IT am Main.

- **Discover Airlines, 2021 to 2026:** IT build-out from an empty office, growth to around 2’200 employees at the Frankfurt and Munich hubs, network connection of the Operations Control Center, prepared handover to the group IT.
- **FraAlliance, from 2022:** standalone IT for the joint venture between Fraport and Lufthansa in under four months, with central identity and the compliance requirements of the Lufthansa Group.

## How do I steer a programme?

- **Situation picture before the plan:** before the project plan is set, the goals, budget and interests of all shareholders and stakeholders are captured, for example in a stakeholder matrix.
- **Decision log:** every decision is documented with reasoning and approval, traceable for both shareholders and for audits.
- **Contracts and statements of work:** scope, budget and acceptances are steered against the statement of work, not against recollections.
- **Audit-proof documentation:** process flows, a RACI matrix and evidence, kept conformant in an auditable system, so that shareholders and auditors see the same status.
- **Handover to the line organisation:** the programme ends when the organisation carries it on its own.
- **Line-up:** roles and responsibilities in the RACI matrix.
- **Playbooks for the line organisation (documented procedures, SOPs):** the handover documentation with which the organisation carries the programme on its own.

## Questions about project leadership.

### Which enterprise projects has Ivo Schönberner led?

With IT am Main, among others, the IT build-out for Discover Airlines from 2021 to 2026, with a prepared handover to the Lufthansa Group's IT, and the IT build-out for FraAlliance, the joint venture between Fraport and Lufthansa, in under four months.

### What is special about IT projects in joint ventures?

Two or more shareholders bring their own IT standards, security rules and approval paths. The project leadership must connect these worlds without violating either one, and must be able to evidence every decision to both sides.

### Does Ivo Schönberner also take on carve-outs and carve-ins?

Yes. Separating a unit out of a group (carve-out) or integrating one into a group (carve-in) are situations where Situational Awareness has a particular effect, because the business and IT are in motion at the same time.

### How does Ivo Schönberner report as project leader?

With evidence, not status slides: decisions in the decision log, progress against verifiable results, risks with owners and dates.

### Does Ivo Schönberner have experience in aviation?

Yes. Two of his largest engagements were in the Lufthansa Group environment, including Discover Airlines with the network connection of the Operations Control Center, and FraAlliance in Frankfurt.

## Is a programme coming up?

Thirty minutes, no pitch. You describe the situation, I ask questions. Afterwards, we both know whether a situation picture is worthwhile.

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