Due to their focus on business or technology, respectively, general managers or systems engineers are not able to holistically conceptualize and manage large transformation projects. Business engineers should have skills ‘from both worlds’, enabling them to assess business potentials of IT innovations, create strategic visions, analyze and redesign business processes, plan and control transformation pro- jects, and get people actively involved in change processes (Martin, 1995). Figure 1 illustrates the relationships between transformation, IT, and Business Engineering. Traditional general management know-how is needed to run traditional companies. Various types of IT innovations (as well as other change triggers like deregulation).
