Marabou

Leif was engaged by Marabou in October 1993. The company had been acquired by Kraft and its IS Manager had been requested to spend most of his time addressing the IS / IT-consequences of the merger, hence forcing a need for back-up management. Leif had worked with Marabou before and was pleased to accept the challenge.

The Marabou IS organisation was running very smoothly, with everyone clear about their role and responsibility. The commission was to continue to run the organisation as usual;

	To lead group meetings
	To lead status meetings with the outsourced data production partner
	To focus on certain prioritized projects, primarily Data Security and a new system for Financial Budget and Planning
	To manage to departmental budgets, and lead the preparation for future period budgeting, including ongoing and future projects
	To be the IS representative in meetings with Business Functions (Marketing and Sales, Operations, Logistics, QA, etc)

In 1994, Leif became the Swedish representative in a Kraft European committee, working on a pan-European common coding system for products.

In April ‘94, the IS Manager returned and Leif’s commission gradually reduced from June until October.