Roland Ettema

Expertise

• IT Strategy & Business Change

Prof. Dr. Roland Ettema is a specialist in enterprise IT architecture and organizational transformation, with a focus on enterprise engineering, business process improvement, and quality management. His strength lies in making complex change both clear and practical. “I connect people, information, and technology—always with an eye for culture and context. As both a leader and educator, I translate knowledge into usable, scalable solutions.” His goal: progress that is embraced by people.

With over 25 years of experience in consulting and academia, Roland combines deep practical expertise with a solid research foundation. He earned his M.Sc. in ICT Management from Middlesex University in 1996, and completed a joint PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Antwerp in 2016, focused on Lean Six Sigma and enterprise engineering. He began his career as an IT consultant at Atos Origin and Vigenic B.V., and later spent more than eight years at Logica Management Consulting. Since 2011, he has worked at the Open University of the Netherlands, where he leads the Information Expertise Center.

Throughout his career, Roland has contributed to the development of international standards and professional communities—working with the founders of the ArchiMate modeling language (now an Open Group standard), contributing to the DEMO enterprise ontology method, and launching a Lean Six Sigma special interest group in industry.

He has been a faculty member at Antwerp Management School since 2018, where he teaches in the Executive Master in Enterprise IT Architecture. Additionally, he is an Associate Professor BIV-AO (BIV-IB BIV-IC) / Financial Auditing at Nyenrode Business University.