Interim management

An IT executive, effective from day one, to accelerate your transformation.

As an interim CIO, Data & AI Director or Chief AI Officer, I take the helm of your IT department or one of its divisions when the stakes are high: a vacant leadership role, a stalled transformation, AI that needs to scale. Full-time or part-time, with a fast start.

Portrait of Didier Drobecq

Expertise

Four levers to align strategy and IT

Depending on your situation, I work on one or more of these levers. Flip a card to see a concrete example.

  • Lead and stabilise

    Taking charge of an IT department or one of its divisions (Data & AI, Digital), effective from day one.

    Former Chief AI Officer

    Service

    Interim management: rapid diagnosis, securing day-to-day operations and critical projects, a structured handover.

    Track record

    Head of IT Data & AI at a major telecom operator: Data, AI, Cloud and Green IT strategies defined and rolled out company-wide.

  • Transform

    IT master plan, agile organisation and IT-business alignment.

    CRM rolled out in 5 months

    Service

    Leading the IT master plan, the move to feature teams and IT-business governance.

    Track record

    Omnichannel Salesforce CRM rolled out in 5 months for 8,000 advisors and 3,500 sales agents.

  • Accelerate with Data and AI

    Strategy, governance and industrialisation of Data and AI at scale.

    1,000+ AI agents

    Service

    Data & AI roadmap, AI Factory, AI governance, Cloud migration, team upskilling.

    Track record

    1,000+ AI agents deployed and 3,500 employees trained; ~70 TB migrated to the Cloud, saving €1.5M a year.

  • Develop talent

    Expert career tracks, recruitment and retention of experts.

    An Expert track created

    Service

    Expert career track, attracting scarce Data & AI profiles, career paths, retention plans, mentoring for managers.

    Track record

    Created a company-wide Expert track at a major telecom operator to attract and develop technical talent.

Adaptability

An executive who adapts to your context

Large group or start-up, French or international market, consumer or business clients: I have led teams in very different environments. That is what lets me be effective quickly, whatever yours is.

  • Sectors

    Telecoms, gaming, services, consulting

    Bouygues Telecom, Française des Jeux, Accor Edenred, StratX.

  • Size

    From large group to start-up

    Divisions of over 100 people in a large group, and co-founder of a local loop telecom operator.

  • Geography

    In France and internationally

    E-business and CRM solutions rolled out in 12 countries, projects for international clients such as L’Oréal and General Motors.

  • Business models

    B2C, B2B and B2B2C

    Consumer customer journeys in telecoms and gaming, licensing to around 3,000 partner venues.

Contexts I have worked in

  • Market liberalisation
  • Acquisitions and IT audits
  • Agile transformation
  • Cloud migration
  • Founding a company

Approach

A structured assignment, from day one to handover

  1. 1. Listen and diagnose

    Meet the teams and business units, secure what is urgent, build a diagnosis shared with executive management.

  2. 2. Align

    Build a clear roadmap, with priorities agreed between strategy, business and IT.

  3. 3. Lead and transform

    Drive the workstreams, report with concrete indicators, build up the teams’ skills.

  4. 4. Make it last

    Hand over, document and make teams autonomous so the transformation holds after the assignment.

My goal: to leave a leadership team and staff satisfied with their transformation, for the long term.

Are you an interim management firm?

CVs in French and English, accepted assignment formats (interim or advisory, full-time or part-time): everything you need to present this profile to your clients, without back-and-forth.

An IT leadership role to fill, a transformation to accelerate?

A first 30-minute conversation to understand your situation and see how we can move forward together. No commitment.

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