Manuel leads McKinsey’s global work in digital strategy in pharma and medtech. His work focuses on digital and analytics along the entire healthcare value chain.
Examples of Manuel’s recent client work include the following:
- designing the digital and advanced-analytics strategies for the research
organization of a global top 15 pharmaceutical company
- creating the digitalization road map for a top three global medical-technology company
- creating the digital-transformation road map, including the setup of a digital center of excellence, for an international pharmaceutical company
- helping an international medical-technology company build a digital platform and ecosystem for its digital-healthcare-services business
- designing the omnichannel target picture for a top three German public health-insurance organization
- working on IT-performance-management projects in major European pharmaceutical companies
- leading multiple reimbursement-cost-control programs at large German health insurance organizations
- creating the IT-core-system requirements for one of the largest health insurers in the Middle East.
Published Work
“Data and culture as stepping stones for Digital@Scale,” McKinsey & Company, February 2020
“The technology imperative for life sciences,” McKinsey & Company, January 2020
“Barriers to Digital@Scale: Shifting the focus from tech to culture,” McKinsey & Company, October 2018
“Digitizing healthcare—opportunities for Germany,” McKinsey & Company, October 2018
Past Experience
DFKI
Researcher
Siemens
Invited graduate researcher, corporate research
Education
University of Kaiserslautern
PhD, artificial intelligence
Chemnitz University of Technology
MA, computer science
MA, philosophy