Interview with Martin Petry on “Digital Innovation for the Networked Society”

Dr. Martin Petry, who became Hilti’s CIO in 2005, is responsible for 400 IT employees based in Schaan, Liechtenstein; Plano, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since 2009 he has also been in charge of Hilti’s Business Excellence initiatives. Dr. Petry came to Hilti in 1993 and has held various leadership roles in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Great Britain and Japan. He developed Hilti’s ground-breaking IT Strategy in 2000 and led its implementation, and Hilti’s global SAP implementation cum business transformation project is now used by 18,000 Hilti employees in more than fifty countries.