Background of Milan Kratochvíl

Summary: training, analysis, advice, components, model driven, UML, objects, use cases, ERP, knowledge technologies, mass customization.


Having grown up in Prague, I settled in Stockholm and acquired Swedish citizenship in 79. I speak Czech, Swedish, English, and some German (passively: Norwegian, Slovak and a little of some other Nordic and Slavic languages). University Degrees in:

- Business & Administration (Prague University of Economics)
- Business, Administration & Data Processing (Stockholm University).

IT-consultant since 1977:

Programator AB (CAP) 77-79, programmer, program designer
Statskonsult AB (Sema) 79-82, system analyst/methodologist
Michael A. Jackson Scandinavia 82-89, methodologist, system analyst, instructor/guidance
independent 89- advisor, instructor/guidance, analyst.

Graduating from top university teachers Mats Lundeberg (BPM, corporate change, IM), Anders G. Nilsson (BPM, ERP), and Goeran Goldkuhl (corporate communication, KM), I started working with people who were fine-tuning new architectures and methods of enterprise-systems development in large consulting firms. As software-engineering pioneer Michael A. Jackson was founding Jackson Scandinavia AB in 1982, I was among the first ones hired for consulting in Stockholm and I stayed until 89. My own company is focusing on methodology of software & biz engineering, mainly in knowledge-intensive enterprises; in 90, I wrote and started teaching my “Manager's Overview” in object and knowledge technologies. Atop of advice and guidance, I’ve also taught 200+ public and on-site courses in UML and object analysis & design of business applications, some of these in English; course attendees prvide a valuable feedback which fits into my other roles, too. Ever since 77, my customers have been finance, the public sector, global hi-tech firms, software-houses, management consultants, IT-consultants and training-providers for IT-professionals.

Papers at NordData , at 1st (91) and 2nd (94) World Congress on Expert Systems ("Developing a Know-how Strategy" has been referenced a couple of times). Lectures in Electrum/Kista (90) and in Ronneby Soft Center (98, 99). I published books in 2003 and 2005, see Homepage.

Certified UML 2 Professional, Advanced - that is, all 3 levels of cert (Sept. 2003 as the first and only in Sweden, among the very first people in Europe).



I feel comfortable in several roles:

- Instruction & training.
- Feasibility studies/reports, strategic advice and tool briefings.
- Use Case analysis and BPM
- Component methodology push and guidance.
- Mass customization & knowledge-tech advice, in SW as well as in other hi-tech business.