Thomas Becker

Digital transformation — Industrial IoT — Agile coaching

Strategy. Know-how. Implementation.

Moin Moin.

I am Tho­mas Becker, foun­der and Mana­ging Direc­tor
of KAPITEL D and Cipac­to.

I have been sup­port­ing com­pa­nies on their digi­tal trans­formation jour­ney for over 25 years — as a foun­der, mana­ging direc­tor, pro­ject mana­ger and con­sul­tant. I com­bi­ne entre­pre­neu­ri­al thin­king with tech­no­lo­gi­cal imple­men­ta­ti­on strength and design digi­tal stra­te­gies with impact: from the idea to the busi­ness plan to going live.

My work moves bet­ween:
Start­ups, cor­po­ra­ti­ons, public cli­ents

Focus skills:
Pro­cess digi­tiza­ti­on, web tech­no­lo­gies, IoT, CMS, agi­le methods, sys­tem inte­gra­ti­on

Cipacto — Monitoring with added value

Cipac­to is an IoT plat­form I desi­gned for moni­to­ring non-public tank faci­li­ties and indus­tri­al flu­id con­sump­ti­on — espe­ci­al­ly for die­sel, AdBlue and water.

Based on micro­con­trol­lers deve­lo­ped in-house, digi­tal­ly adapt­ed sen­sors and an open API, Cipac­to records all pro­cess par­ti­ci­pan­ts — tanks, vehic­les, machi­nes and users — in real time. Com­pa­nies recei­ve high-reso­lu­ti­on data on tank dura­ti­on, inter­rup­ti­ons and with­dra­wal quan­ti­ties that are not available in con­ven­tio­nal sys­tems.

Cipac­to is used in:
Con­s­truc­tion indus­try, agri­cul­tu­re, logi­stics and fleet manage­ment, ener­gy and uti­li­ties indus­try, rail and trans­por­ta­ti­on com­pa­nies, muni­ci­pal vehic­le fleets.

The plat­form crea­tes the basis for redu­cing con­sump­ti­on, con­trol­ling emis­si­ons and AI-sup­port­ed pro­cess opti­miza­ti­on.

Experience. Innovation. Results.

I com­bi­ne stra­te­gic thin­king with ope­ra­tio­nal imple­men­ta­ti­on exper­ti­se, tech­no­lo­gi­cal depth and a clear eye for pro­fi­ta­bi­li­ty.

50+ projects in digital strategy, implementation, product development
Budget responsibility up to € 50 million
Leading international teams of up to 120 people
Projects in 10+ countries
Automotive, Railways, Chemical, Finance, Trade, Industry, Logistics, Media, Pharmaceutical, Traffic
ACE, Aldi, BMW, Celesio, Lanxess, ÖBB, Sanofi, Volkbanken (A) …
Digitalization, agile methods, CMS, IOT, platform development
Jira, Confluence, Adobe, Sitecore, 5 Hats, DevOps, ChatGPT, Miro, BPM
German, English, Spanish, Italian

For example

ÖBB Infra: Agile methods

Agi­le deve­lo­p­ment of a data plat­form in a SAFe envi­ron­ment with inter­nal teams of ÖBB Infra­struk­tur.
Goal: sus­tainable impro­ve­ment of data qua­li­ty, intro­duc­tion of stan­dar­di­zed pro­ces­ses and estab­lish­ment of agi­le rou­ti­nes in a com­plex cor­po­ra­te envi­ron­ment.

Results:

  • Intro­duc­tion of effec­ti­ve mee­ting for­mats & agi­le KPIs

  • Coa­ching of pro­duct owners & manage­ment

  • Mea­sura­ble increase in effi­ci­en­cy and team satis­fac­tion, set­ting a new stan­dard

Sanofi — Guerrilla approach for global omnichannel strategy

Con­sul­ting, design and imple­men­ta­ti­on of a com­pa­ny-wide omnich­an­nel stra­tegy with a focus on health­ca­re pro­fes­sio­nals (HCP). The aim was to set up a sca­lable infra­struc­tu­re for digi­tal cam­paigns, CRM inte­gra­ti­on and KPI-based per­for­mance mea­su­re­ment.

  • Stra­tegy deve­lo­p­ment & tool sel­ec­tion

  • Mode­ra­ti­on of work­shops in seve­ral mar­kets

  • Intro­duc­tion of agi­le pro­ces­ses & con­trol logic

Result:

  • Struc­tu­ral­ly ancho­red omnich­an­nel capa­bi­li­ty

  • Reduc­tion of 100+ out­da­ted, inef­fec­ti­ve web­sites to 1 ful­ly func­tion­al por­tal to address rele­vant tar­get groups (hos­pi­tals, medi­cal staff, phar­macists)

  • Incre­asing effi­ci­en­cy in sales

  • Impro­ved cus­to­mer expe­ri­ence in a regu­la­ted envi­ron­ment

Cipacto — Transparency for operational infrastructure processes

IoT-based plat­form for moni­to­ring non-public tank faci­li­ties and indus­tri­al liquid logi­stics (die­sel, AdBlue, water). Cipac­to com­bi­nes in-house deve­lo­ped micro­con­trol­lers, digi­tal­ly adapt­ed sen­sor tech­no­lo­gy, edge com­pu­ting and an open API to crea­te an end-to-end solu­ti­on.

The plat­form pro­vi­des real-time data on refue­ling pro­ces­ses, vehic­les, machi­nes and users — inclu­ding pre­vious­ly unavailable infor­ma­ti­on such as refue­ling times, inter­rup­ti­ons or with­dra­wal pat­terns.

Eco­no­mic bene­fit:

  • Reduc­tion of los­ses & emis­si­ons

  • ESG-com­pli­ant pro­cess data

  • Basis for later AI inte­gra­ti­on

The tar­get groups are fleet ope­ra­tors, rail­road com­pa­nies, uti­li­ties and indus­tri­al infra­struc­tu­re ope­ra­tors.

My focus

Company setup

From zero to Series A — teams, orga­niza­ti­ons, struc­tures, pro­ces­ses

Digital transformation

Stra­tegy, imple­men­ta­ti­on, going live — from start-ups to cor­po­ra­ti­ons

IoT & M2M

Embedded sys­tems, sen­sor tech­no­lo­gy, API, edge inte­gra­ti­on

Product development

From use case to archi­tec­tu­re to go-live

Project management

PMP and Scrum-cer­ti­fied, agi­le & clas­sic, inter­na­tio­nal­ly expe­ri­en­ced

Agile methods

Scrum, SAFe, Kan­ban — intro­duc­tion & coa­ching at all levels

Stakeholder management

Manage­ment con­sul­ting, mode­ra­ti­on, com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on

International rollouts

Trans­con­ti­nen­tal pro­jects for Aldi, BMW, Lan­xess, Sano­fi, among others

Content Management Systems

Eva­lua­ti­on, RfI, RfP, set­up, imple­men­ta­ti­on of lar­ge and very lar­ge imple­men­ta­ti­ons, e.g. for ACE, Aldi, BMW, Cele­sio, Dresd­ner Bank, Hen­kel Wasch­mit­tel, Kar­stadt, Lan­xess, ÖBB, Sano­fi, Volks­ban­ken (A)

Identify and eliminate systemic inefficiencies

Ob in der Betan­kung, in der Sup­p­ly Chain oder bei der Ener­gie­ver­wen­dung: Ich ent­wick­le Lösun­gen für Pro­ble­me, die oft unter dem Radar blei­ben – aber enor­me wirt­schaft­li­che und öko­lo­gi­sche Rele­vanz haben.

🔹 Tech­no­lo­gie­trans­fer in tra­di­tio­nel­le Bran­chen
🔹 Ska­lie­rung von daten­ge­trie­be­nen Platt­for­men
🔹 Nach­hal­tig­keit durch Digi­ta­li­sie­rung mess­bar machen

Measurable experience at the interface of technology and entrepreneurship

Founder & Managing Director — KAPITEL D GmbH

With KAPITEL D, I sup­port com­pa­nies in the stra­te­gic and ope­ra­tio­nal imple­men­ta­ti­on of digi­ta­liza­ti­on pro­jects. The focus is on buil­ding digi­tal busi­ness models, sca­ling tech­no­lo­gi­cal plat­forms and trans­formation in data-dri­ven and ESG-rele­vant envi­ron­ments.
I work across indus­tries — from auto­mo­ti­ve and rail to phar­maceu­ti­cals and che­mi­cals to infra­struc­tu­re and pro­duc­tion — always with the aim of achie­ving sus­tainable busi­ness impact.

Operational project management & consulting

Con­sul­ting and pro­ject manage­ment for com­pa­nies such as Sano­fi, Lan­xess, ÖBB, Aldi, Auto Club Euro­pa and Luft­han­sa Tech­nik — with a focus on digi­tal trans­formation, agi­le methods (Scrum, SAFe) and cross-sys­tem imple­men­ta­ti­on.
I accom­pa­ny com­plex pro­jects in regu­la­ted and indus­tri­al con­texts — hands-on, with respon­si­bi­li­ty for results and an eye for effi­ci­en­cy, sca­la­bi­li­ty and prac­ti­cal fea­si­bi­li­ty.

Founder — Cipacto

Design and deve­lo­p­ment of an IoT plat­form for moni­to­ring non-public tank faci­li­ties and indus­tri­al liquid logi­stics (espe­ci­al­ly die­sel, AdBlue, water). Cipac­to is based on in-house deve­lo­ped micro­con­trol­lers, digi­tal­ly adapt­ed sen­sors and a ful­ly inte­gra­ted end-to-end solu­ti­on for recor­ding tank pro­ces­ses, machi­nes, vehic­les and users.
The plat­form pro­vi­des high­ly detail­ed data (e.g. tank dura­ti­on, inter­rup­ti­ons), pre­vents fuel theft, redu­ces con­sump­ti­on and emis­si­ons and enables pro­cess opti­miza­ti­on. An open API allows the con­nec­tion of any sys­tem — and crea­tes the data basis for sub­se­quent AI-sup­port­ed ana­ly­ses and decis­i­ons.

Cipacto seeks strategic partners and investors

The tech­no­lo­gy has been deve­lo­ped, the first cus­to­mers are onboard­ed and the ROI is mea­sura­ble.

To rea­li­ze its full poten­ti­al, Cipac­to:

  • Inves­tors with a focus on ESG, IoT or logi­stics

  • Com­pa­nies inte­res­ted in acqui­si­ti­ons or tech­no­lo­gy trans­fer

  • Part­ners who want to inte­gra­te the solu­ti­on into exis­ting sys­tems or plat­forms

Are you looking for a project manager, coach or strategic sparring partner?

In addi­ti­on to my entre­pre­neu­ri­al acti­vi­ties, I have exten­si­ve expe­ri­ence in agi­le pro­duct deve­lo­p­ment, pro­ject manage­ment and sup­port­ing com­plex trans­formation pro­jects — both in a free­lan­ce role and as part of long-term part­ner­ships.

I sup­port teams and orga­niza­ti­ons with:

  • Intro­duc­tion and sca­ling of agi­le methods (Scrum, SAFe, Kan­ban)

  • Deve­lo­p­ment of sus­tainable pro­duct stra­te­gies & road­maps

  • Mode­ra­ti­on of work­shops, retro­s­pec­ti­ves & stake­hol­der syn­cs

  • Use of tools such as Jira, Con­fluence, Miro, Slack & Co.

  • Agi­le lea­der­ship in cross-loca­ti­on teams

Interested in a collaboration or more?

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Tho­mas Becker, M.A.
KAPITEL D GmbH
Münz­gas­se 1/2/47
1030 Wien

📞 +43 676 830 83 400

✉️ thomas.becker@kapitel‑d.com

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