Transformation

Building a Stronger Nordic Marketing Model

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:50:05 GMT

Elkjøp and Implement Consulting Group

How do you transform marketing across multiple markets during uncertain times? In this video, Elkjøp shares how a new operating model created clearer roles, stronger collaboration, and a more effective way of working across the Nordics. Learn how change can become a platform for growth.

The challenge
The post-pandemic period was a difficult time for many retailers, including Elkjøp. Market conditions changed quickly, and an organisation built for growth needed to adapt. Across four Nordic markets, marketing operated in different ways, with separate KPIs, strategies, and processes that created unnecessary complexity.

The transformation
Elkjøp introduced a new marketing operating model, moving from a decentralised structure to a more centralised setup. This created clearer ownership, stronger collaboration between Nordic teams and local markets, and a better understanding of how marketing supports the wider commercial agenda.

The impact
The result has been a more aligned and KPI-driven organisation with clearer mandates and improved agency management. Implement Consulting Group supported the journey with benchmarks, best practices, and practical problem-solving that helped maintain momentum and deliver lasting change.

Unlock the full potential of your transformation – Capability Building

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:49:59 GMT

Learn how capability building turns transformation plans into real, lasting results. This session explores how to equip people and leaders with the skills and behaviors needed to sustain change, ensuring that benefits are not only delivered but embedded in everyday work.

Why capability building is critical

Many transformations fail not because of poor plans, but because people are not equipped to adopt new ways of working. When capability building is deprioritized, organizations fall back into old habits. Early and structured investment in skills and behaviors is essential to ensure lasting impact and benefit realization.

A structured approach to building capabilities

Effective capability building follows four key steps, define, design, deliver and sustain. This means identifying target behaviors, creating engaging learning journeys, delivering high impact experiences, and reinforcing learning over time. Combining motivation, low friction and continuous triggers ensures that new behaviors are adopted in practice.

From learning to lasting change

Sustainable transformation requires more than training sessions. It demands ownership, leadership engagement and integration into daily operations. By embedding capability building into the program from the start, organizations can strengthen adoption, improve performance and ensure that transformation benefits truly stick.

Unlock the full potential of your transformation - Engage to Change

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:08:12 GMT

In this session, the speakers explore why engagement, communication and ownership are decisive for successful large scale transformations and how to work with them in practice. Viewers gain concrete principles, practical examples and a clear understanding of how to shape change that people genuinely adopt.

Why engagement defines transformation success
To succeed with large scale transformations, engagement must be built from the start and not added later. The speakers explain how early alignment, clear vision and a strong connection between strategy and behaviour create the foundation for real adoption. Viewers learn why impact, progress and engagement need to work together as one ecosystem.

Common pitfalls in transformations
The session highlights recurring challenges, including weak ownership, late surfacing of resistance and a lack of clarity about what the change means for employees. When change communication is deprioritised, plans move faster than people, leaving organisations struggling to embed new ways of working. The presenters share data showing how the gap between leaders and employees continues to grow.

The role of strong change communication
A compelling core story and a structured engagement plan are essential tools. The speakers walk through how to create honest, simple and motivating communication that resonates across the organisation. They explain the importance of understanding concerns, involving stakeholders and using stories that engage both hearts and minds.

Practical methods and real world examples
Through concrete cases and examples, including how thoughtful communication drove transformation in a major energy company, the session demonstrates what good change communication looks like in practice. Viewers gain actionable guidance on building shared language, enabling leaders and supporting employees on their journey from awareness to sustained behaviour change.

Build business resilience that works

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:15:21 GMT

Business resilience is becoming essential as risks grow more complex. In this webinar you gain insights into the evolving threat landscape and learn how organisations can build stronger and more effective resilience programs that create lasting impact.

Overview of the session
The webinar introduces the concept of business resilience and why the pace and complexity of global risks demand a new approach. It highlights key challenges organisations face, including geo economic tensions, cyber threats and societal polarisation. You hear how these risks influence operations and why resilience requires involvement across the entire organisation.

The six resilience dimensions
The presenters outline six dimensions that shape holistic resilience work. These include brand trust, operations, digital technology, business models, people and culture, and financial resilience. Real examples illustrate how priorities are shifting from isolated compliance tasks to long term, strategic investments that span multiple functions and require strong leadership mandates.

From analysis to implementation
A four phase approach is used to build and implement resilience programs. The presenters explain how organisations move from assessing risks and ambitions to developing remediation initiatives, managing complex cross functional portfolios and sustaining change through long term governance. Transparency and strong program structures are emphasised as critical success factors.

Ensuring lasting change
Finally, the session highlights why resilience must become part of everyday work. Leaders and teams need capabilities, ownership and clarity to embed new practices. The speakers underline that lasting impact is achieved when strategic direction, daily execution and organisational engagement work together as one coherent program.

Unlock the full potential of your transformation – Drive Progress

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:10:41 GMT

Learn how to turn transformation strategy into real results through clear governance, strong cadence and high transparency. This session shows how to reduce complexity, improve execution and increase the chances of delivering value in large scale transformations.

Why execution matters

Many transformations start with a clear vision but lose momentum during execution. Complexity, unclear roles and lack of transparency often slow progress and reduce impact. This session highlights why strong execution discipline is essential to deliver the value initially promised.

Building a strong execution engine

A successful transformation relies on simple governance, clear accountability and a structured cadence. By aligning strategic, tactical and operational levels, organisations can ensure faster decisions, better coordination and a consistent flow of information across the programme.

Driving progress with rhythm and transparency

Establishing a fixed rhythm with weekly, monthly and quarterly touchpoints creates predictability and control. Combined with a shared performance system and clear data ownership, this enables forward looking decisions and early risk mitigation.

Delivering impact through projects

Real value is created at project level. Standardised ways of working, clear ownership and integrated change management ensure that each initiative contributes to measurable outcomes, not just activity. This is how transformation moves from plans to tangible results.

Unlock the full potential of your transformation – Build for High Impact

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:16:00 GMT

Join this webinar session to explore how to build for high impact in large scale transformations. Learn how clear vision, benefits, scope and organisation can increase success rates and help you steer complex programmes toward real, measurable value and lasting change.

Why this session matters
In this webinar, you explore why many large scale transformations start wrong and deliver only a fraction of their potential impact. The speakers introduce the Build for high impact discipline and show how a clear aspiration and impact case set the direction for the entire journey.

From vision to measurable benefits
You learn how to translate a compelling vision into concrete benefits, a target operating model and a value driven roadmap. The session dives into benefit categories, baselining and ownership, sharing survey insights on why benefits leak and what it takes to manage them actively throughout the programme.

Organising for effective delivery
Finally, the webinar outlines how to organise the programme around impact, from governance and roles to staffing for capabilities rather than availability. You get practical advice on working with suppliers, building transformation competencies and creating a setup that supports lasting change and realisation of the promised value.

Sådan får du modtagerorganisationen med ombord

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:16:00 GMT

Webinar in Danish

Store transformationer kræver mere end gode planer. I dette webinar dykker vi ned i, hvordan målbilleder kan skabe ejerskab, fælles retning og engagement i organisationen, så forandringer ikke blot leveres, men forankres.

Praktisk programledelse i virkeligheden
Helle Faldholt og Signe Højdahl fra Implement Consulting Group introducerer deres tilgang til praktisk programledelse og viser, hvordan målbilleder kan bygge bro mellem program og drift. De deler erfaringer med, hvordan visuelle og fælles billeder af fremtiden hjælper organisationer med at forstå, prioritere og handle i store transformationer.

Fra teori til praksis hos DSB
Underdirektør Nana Eram Jensen fra DSB giver et konkret indblik i, hvordan DSB bruger målbilleder til at engagere driften i en af Danmarks største transformationer. Hun deler erfaringer med at kombinere tidlig involvering, fælles sprog og integreret samarbejde mellem projekt- og driftsorganisationer for at skabe varig forandring.

Læring og gode råd til forandringsledelse
Webinaret afsluttes med refleksioner om ledelse, ejerskab og ressourcer. Deltagerne får praktiske råd til, hvordan man involverer tidligt, skaber tryghed og gør målbilleder til et aktivt værktøj for både ledelse og medarbejdere. Fokus er på at gøre forandring håndgribelig og skabe energi omkring det fælles mål.

Boehringer Ingelheim and DNAnexus: Making global drug approvals faster and...

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:16:00 GMT

Technology and collaboration are transforming the way medicines reach patients. Discover how global regulators and the life science industry are proving that secure cloud platforms can make submissions faster, smarter, and more connected across regions.

Global submissions made simple

For decades, the vision of submitting once to multiple regulators seemed far away. This conversation between Vada Perkins, VP Global Regulatory Intelligence & Policy lead, PRISM Principal Investigator at Boehringer Ingelheim and Omar Serang, Chief Cloud Officer at DNAnexus together with Implement Consulting Group explores how technology and collaboration can turn that dream into reality. Viewers will learn how shared cloud environments connect regulators and industry to speed up reviews and improve global access to treatments.

The power of collaboration

Project PRISM and Project Cryptics show that global submission processes can be both secure and efficient. Through cloud-based collaboration, health authorities and companies can now review, share, and validate data in real time. This innovative approach shortens timelines, reduces duplication, and allows experts to focus on what truly matters—getting life-saving medicines to patients faster.

Proving the dream possible

The teams behind these initiatives demonstrated full end-to-end regulatory submissions across multiple agencies in just six weeks. By leveraging mature platforms like Precision FDA and Trusted Regulatory Spaces, they proved that technology is not the barrier. The result is a blueprint for global collaboration and a new standard for how innovation can accelerate access to healthcare.

Rethinking change, leading systemic transformation

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:16:00 GMT

In this talk, Mette Tofte and Charlotte Hagelskjær explore why traditional, linear change frameworks fall short in a complex world, and present a systemic approach to change that links strategy, impact and leadership so you can strengthen your organisation’s capacity for ongoing transformation.

Why systemic change is needed
Systemic change goes beyond tweaking processes or IT systems. In this talk, Mette Tofte and Charlotte distinguish continuous improvements from the deeper shifts that change the DNA of an organisation, its strategy and customer experience, and explain why yesterday’s linear change models no longer match today’s fast moving, interconnected reality.

A new delivery model for impact, engagement and adoption
They introduce a new delivery model that integrates impact, engagement and adoption. Rather than treating change as a fixed plan, they show how to hold impact as a constant north star while building collective engagement early on, then shifting focus to systemic adoption so new behaviours and practices take root across the organisation.

Building capacity for leading change
Finally, they explore what it takes to lead systemic change. Drawing on thinkers like Indra Nooyi and Deborah Rowland, they highlight key leadership tensions and seven change capacities from systemic and integrative thinking to sense making and experiencing so leaders can navigate complexity and turn strategy into real impact.

From failing transformations to lasting impact

Wed, 14 May 2025 12:53:45 GMT

Program management is critical for turning strategic ambition into real transformation, yet too many initiatives fall short. In this video you will discover how a structured TPM assessment can reveal blind spots, strengthen core capabilities and increase your chances of joining the 22 percent that succeed.

Why transformation programs struggle
Many organisations invest heavily in transformation programs but only 22 percent achieve their intended impact. Typical pitfalls include weak stakeholder involvement, unclear governance and limited focus on the receiving organisation. Recognising these challenges early allows you to steer the program, reduce risk and focus efforts where they matter most.

What the TPM assessment reveals
With 25 years of experience in transformation, we have developed a TPM assessment that gives a 360 degree view of your program. It combines qualitative insights and quantitative data to assess how you design and build the program, drive progress in execution and engage the receiving organisation across 24 critical parameters.

From insight to concrete action
The assessment delivers a clear roadmap that links findings to concrete optimisation initiatives. By simplifying structures, strengthening capabilities and making progress more predictable, it helps you build the program management practices needed for long term transformation success and significantly improve your chances of joining the 22 percent of programs that truly succeed.

Unlock the full potential of your transformation – TPM X-ray

Wed, 14 May 2025 09:16:00 GMT

In this session, we explore how an X-ray of your transformation can uncover root causes, clarify improvement areas and boost progress. You will gain insights into how structured assessment and shared understanding can strengthen impact and build real momentum in your organisation.

Setting the scene
This session introduces the X-ray as a powerful approach for understanding the true state of a transformation. Many programmes face high complexity and uncertainty, making transparency and predictability essential. The X-ray offers a structured way to clarify challenges, align expectations and identify the most valuable improvement opportunities.

What the X-ray delivers
An X-ray provides both qualitative and quantitative insights across impact, progress and change. By collecting data through surveys, interviews and observations, it creates a 360 degree view of your transformation. The outcome is not just a report but a foundation for informed dialogue, better decisions and measurable improvements over time.

How it drives value
With a clear baseline, organisations can focus on high impact initiatives, strengthen collaboration and improve execution. The approach enables continuous learning and supports leadership in mobilising people, reducing rework and accelerating value creation. It helps ensure that the transformation evolves in the right direction.

Looking ahead
The session also previews upcoming deep dives into building strategic targets, driving effective progress and engaging stakeholders. These events expand on how to design and run successful transformations while creating lasting organisational impact.

Unlock the full potential of your transformation – TPM Framework

Wed, 14 May 2025 09:16:00 GMT

In this session, you learn why large scale transformations often struggle and how greater transparency, clarity and engagement can radically improve outcomes. Discover practical ways to reduce complexity and gain the tools to create real, lasting impact.

Building a strong foundation
Transformations often fail because they start without a clear vision, aligned scope or shared understanding of the benefits they seek to realise. This session highlights why early clarification of ambition, structure and capabilities is essential for reducing complexity and increasing predictability from the outset.

Driving progress with structure
Learn how effective governance, a strong transformation office and common project methods create transparency and ensure fast, informed decision making. The speakers show how streamlined routines and shared tools help organisations stay on track even as conditions change.

Engaging people to create lasting change
Successful transformation requires early and consistent involvement of stakeholders at all levels. The session explains how deliberate communication, capability building and active leadership ownership strengthen engagement and enable the organisation to absorb and sustain change.

Unlock the full potential of your transformations

Wed, 14 May 2025 09:16:00 GMT

Transformation programs are essential for delivering strategic value, yet most fail to achieve their goals. In this video, Implement Consulting Group shares proven insights and a framework to reduce complexity, increase predictability, and improve the chances of success for large-scale organizational transformations.

The transformation challenge
Many organisations run transformation programs, but only a small fraction succeed. High complexity, scale, and impact make execution different from standard projects. Most transformations struggle due to mismatched capabilities, insufficient governance, and lack of tailored approaches, leaving organizations at risk of failure.

Implement Consulting Group approach
With 25 years of experience, Implement Consulting Group has developed a practical framework, Implement TPM, to tackle these challenges. TPM helps organisations set ambitions, drive progress, and engage stakeholders effectively. The framework is designed to reduce complexity, improve predictability, and unlock the full potential of transformations.

Three core disciplines of TPM
Built for high impact focuses on strategy and future-state design. Drive progress ensures robust governance, structured management, and project execution. Engaged to change prepares the organisation through communication, stakeholder management, and change initiatives. Together, these disciplines form an ecosystem for successful transformations.

Tailored solutions for real impact
Success in transformation is context-specific. Implement TPM provides adaptable practices that align with each organization’s unique challenges. By focusing on ambition, execution, and engagement, organisations can increase the likelihood of achieving strategic goals while minimizing rework, scope changes, and program risk.

Take control of your strategy with portfolio management

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:15:58 GMT

In this session, we explore how strategic portfolio management turns ambitious plans into real value creation. Learn the key fundamentals, common pitfalls and a practical five step approach that helps you align leadership, create transparency and prioritise the initiatives that matter most.

Why portfolio management matters
This webinar is part of Implement Consulting Group's strategy execution series and zooms in on strategic portfolio management. You will hear how a flexible roadmap, clear prioritisation and strong governance help bridge the gap between ambitious strategy and concrete value creation across your projects and initiatives.

Four fundamentals for success
Alexander and Nikolai walk through four fundamentals for success, leadership alignment, transparency, clear priorities and robust portfolio processes. Through concrete examples, they show how to structure sub portfolios, build a single source of truth for data and define criteria that link your strategic value drivers to specific projects.

From principles to next steps
Finally, they present a practical five step guide you can start using tomorrow. Learn how to gather leaders, create portfolio transparency, align what matters most, prioritise within your capacity and keep improving over time so your portfolio becomes an active driver of strategy, not a passive list of projects.

Driving successful AI adoption in organisations

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:13:11 GMT

How do you build a strong, lasting culture of AI use across an organisation? In this video, Kåre Ronex and Tobias from Implement Consulting Group share their insights from achieving an 80 percent AI adoption rate. Learn what it takes to move from experimentation to meaningful transformation.

Understanding the AI adoption landscape
The team explores global trends in generative AI use and productivity impact, highlighting that adoption is accelerating across industries. They discuss both the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI tools, such as trust, awareness and quality expectations, setting the scene for how organisations can approach the journey more strategically.

Implement’s own AI transformation
At Implement Consulting Group, a focused internal program drove 80 percent adoption in just one year. Key enablers included a dedicated AI task force, internal tools like IMGPT, and practical learning formats. From leadership training to department workshops, the initiative combined structured experimentation with continuous communication and data-driven insights.

Lessons learned and key takeaways
Their experience shows that AI adoption is more about people than technology. Strong leadership backing, a clear strategy, and a culture of openness were crucial. Continuous improvement of tools and training ensured engagement remained high. The result is a blueprint for any organisation aiming to make AI a natural, trusted part of everyday work.

Predicting transformation success through benefits realisation

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:22:26 GMT

Many organisations still struggle to turn ambitious strategies into real, measurable value. In this session, Maja and Rasmus reveal new insights from Implement’s latest study on benefits realisation and share how understanding the right behaviors and capabilities can predict transformation success.

Why benefits realization matters
Organizations continue to leave significant value on the table when executing change and transformation. This video shares findings from Implement’s latest study, revealing that only a fraction of potential benefits are actually realized. The discussion highlights how shifting focus from technical delivery to structured benefits realisation can transform impact.

Key findings from the study
Based on data from more than 140 participants across sectors, Implement identified three key drivers of success: project and program maturity, benefit ownership, and benefit-driven prioritisation. The research shows that these capabilities are deeply interconnected and that strengthening all three significantly improves an organisation’s ability to turn vision into value.

Practical guidance for change leaders
Maja and Rasmus present the “benefits equation” and share practical advice for building a strong case for change within your own organisation. Viewers learn how to assess performance, define benefit ownership, and create a culture where decisions are based on credible benefit data rather than assumptions.

How to get started
The session concludes with actionable tools and reflection points. Implement suggests a simple four-question survey to build your organisation’s baseline for benefits realisation. The insights enable better prioritisation, stronger ownership, and ultimately, a transformation approach that delivers measurable impact.

FTFa rethinking how we apply for jobs with AI

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:42:00 GMT

This video explores how a simple idea sparked the creation of an AI driven job application service, showing how innovation grows when companies listen to real user needs. Viewers gain insight into transforming business models and uncovering new value by embracing emerging technologies.

Why the idea emerged
The video shares how an employee’s personal experience inspired a new AI powered service that helps people apply for jobs more easily. It highlights how meaningful innovation often starts with simple user problems and grows when organisations are open to ideas from across the business.

How AI reshapes the business
By exploring generative AI as a response to customer needs, the video shows how shifting perspectives can transform an organisation. It encourages leaders to see beyond technology itself and instead focus on how new tools can enable better services, new opportunities and long term relevance.

Unlocking the power of a national AI supercomputer with DCAI

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:31:37 GMT

AI is rapidly evolving and transforming industries, and this video explores how access to a powerful AI supercomputer can accelerate that journey. Viewers can expect insights into practical AI applications, emerging opportunities and why curiosity is key to unlocking future value.

About the video

This video introduces the capabilities of a state of the art AI supercomputer and the ecosystem it enables. With powerful computing resources available to researchers, startups and businesses, the platform supports ambitious projects that push the boundaries of what AI can accomplish today.

Why it matters

The video highlights how AI is already solving complex problems, from predicting enzyme sequences to optimising quantum circuits. It encourages viewers to stay curious, explore how AI can elevate their own work and consider how emerging technologies will shape industries and society in the coming years.

Looking ahead

The message is an open invitation to imagine new possibilities. By bringing together diverse stakeholders and lowering barriers to advanced AI capabilities, the aim is to accelerate innovation and build a future shaped by bold ideas and meaningful collaboration.

Novo Nordisk Foundation - Setting direction for AI in a growing organisation

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:19:49 GMT

This video explores how the organisation moved from early experimentation to a focused, strategic approach to AI. Viewers gain insights on enabling grassroots innovation, setting a clear direction and balancing potential with responsibility.

How AI adoption began

The conversation highlights how the organisation reacted quickly to emerging AI tools and rapidly shifted from initial restrictions to secure access for all employees. Early experiments revealed both exciting opportunities and the need for coordination, prompting leaders to define clear goals and prioritised areas for value creation.

Managing growth and shaping direction

As the organisation expanded internationally, AI became a tool for improving efficiency, quality and scalability. At the same time, it sparked deeper questions about the future role of the foundation and how applicant expectations might evolve when everyone has access to advanced technology.

Building ownership and responsible governance

The foundation intentionally supported a grassroots movement, empowering employees to identify meaningful use cases. A governance model and ethical sounding board ensured responsible implementation, allowing the team to balance trust, security and innovation while moving swiftly from ideas to proof of concepts.

Imagining the futures of AI together

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:01:22 GMT

If AI is the new electricity, how will it reshape our world? This video invites you to rethink the role of generative AI, exploring how it transforms businesses, leadership and innovation. Discover stories and insights from leaders already shaping the future of AI.

Understanding the bigger picture
Generative AI is often seen as a simple tool, but what if it is more like electricity, changing everything from the ground up? This discussion invites us to look beyond chatbots and lightbulbs to understand how AI can reshape organizations, industries and societies when guided by purpose and imagination.

Learning from early adopters
Through cases like FTFA’s Job Partner and the Novo Nordisk Foundation, we explore what happens when leaders dare to imagine new possibilities. These stories show how curiosity, courage and trust can drive real transformation, empowering employees and redefining entire industries through responsible AI adoption.

Exploring the AI wonderland
AI’s rapid evolution can feel like stepping into a wonderland, full of promise and uncertainty. Experts from Implement Consulting Group and voices like Benedict Evans and Nadja Kallsten share insights on balancing ambition with responsibility, encouraging leaders to co-create an AI future that benefits people, business and society.

Transforming ambition into value with smarter resource management

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:19:57 GMT

Effective resource management is essential for turning strategic ambitions into real organisational value. In this video, you gain insights into common root causes, practical levers and strategic opportunities that strengthen decision making, improve prioritisation and enhance the capacity to deliver what matters most.

Why resource management matters
Resource management plays a central role in bridging the gap between ambition and value. The speakers highlight how many organisations struggle not with defining strategy but with converting it into impact. By building transparency, clarity and shared priorities, companies can better balance demand, avoid overload and create the momentum needed for effective execution.

Common challenges and root causes
The video outlines recurring barriers such as lack of transparency, unclear processes and conflicting priorities across silos. These challenges often surface as firefighting, bottlenecks, task shifting and burnout. Understanding these patterns helps organisations identify where to focus and how to improve cross functional alignment and capacity planning.

Regulatory insights and strategic opportunities
The EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions requires organisations to document working hours. While driven by compliance, this obligation also offers strategic benefits. By collecting reliable data, organisations can build stronger foundations for resource management, protect employee wellbeing and improve the ability to allocate capabilities effectively.

Approaches to resource management
Seven typical allocation logics are presented, from reactive and decentralised approaches to priority driven and agile models. The video encourages reflection on which logic best fits the organisation and how to evolve towards more value creating practices. Transparency tools, whether simple or advanced, must be paired with strong change management to succeed.

How to close the strategy execution gap

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:09:29 GMT

Why do so many well crafted strategies fail to deliver their promised results, and what would it mean for your organisation to close that gap. In this video, we explore the size of the strategy execution gap and the performance gains leaders can unlock by addressing it.

Why the strategy execution gap matters
Many organisations invest heavily in strategy but accept surprisingly poor execution. The video highlights a persistent gap between plans and realised performance, a gap no CEO would tolerate in operations or machinery downtime. Seeing strategy through an execution lens reveals a significant, often hidden, performance problem.

What the numbers tell us
Referencing a Harvard Business Review article, the video explains that strategies on average deliver only 63 percent of their predicted financial performance. That means a 37 percent shortfall in impact. For most companies, closing even part of this gap could translate into performance improvements of 60 to 100 percent.

What leaders can do
Leaders are invited to treat strategy execution as rigorously as operational performance. By making the execution gap visible, questioning what is truly acceptable and focusing on closing it, organisations can turn strategic intent into real business development and unlock substantial, measurable value.

Hager Group and STARK: How to build a profitable go-to-market model

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:03:20 GMT

How can companies grow and stay profitable when the market is shifting? This session explores real-life lessons and concrete steps from leading firms that balance digitalisation, customer centricity and efficiency to thrive in uncertain times.

Understanding the growth dilemma
At the heart of this discussion lies a core challenge: how to meet ambitious growth targets while improving efficiency. Implement Consulting Group highlights key market trends, from digitalisation and sustainability to customer centricity, showing how companies can adapt their go-to-market models to stay competitive.

Five steps for channel and customer growth
The event introduces a five-step framework to accelerate channel strategy and customer engagement. From mapping channels and understanding customers to designing the right setup and integrating it into the operating model, the approach helps companies prioritise, test and scale efficiently while staying close to customer needs.

Real-life cases from industry leaders
Roger Claessen, Senior Director Residential & Distribution Business from Hager Group and Lars Trier Bjerglund, Product Director Athene - Digitalization Programme from Stark Group share how they navigate digital transformation and evolving customer demands. Through pilot projects, testing and speedboats, they demonstrate how involving local teams early and using data-driven insights can drive both efficiency and growth in traditional industries.

From strategy to implementation
The discussion concludes with reflections on implementation success factors. Early involvement, co-creation and local ownership are key to turning strategic initiatives into lasting impact. The takeaway: transformation succeeds when vision meets collaboration, and when companies dare to test, learn and adapt.

Closing the gap between ambition and impact

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:05:45 GMT

Many organizations excel at delivering projects but struggle to realize their full benefits. In this session, Maja and Rasmus from Implement Consulting Group explore how to close the gap between strategy and impact by focusing on the right behaviors, capabilities, and data-driven insights.

Why benefit realization matters
Understanding benefit realization is crucial for translating strategy into real value. Despite growing awareness, most organizations still fail to capture their full potential. This video explores why only a few achieve strong results and how small changes in approach can make a big difference.

Key findings from the benefit survey
Maja and Rasmus share insights from a recent Implement Consulting Group survey involving over 140 participants. The findings highlight that only 3% of organizations realize most of their benefits. The session unpacks the main drivers behind success, including benefit ownership, project maturity, and prioritization.

Building a stronger case for change
The video introduces practical tools and questions to help organizations build their own case for change. By combining data on benefit estimation, change readiness, and project performance, leaders can identify where to focus their efforts and start improving benefit realization immediately.

Learn more and take action
Viewers are encouraged to explore Implement’s website for survey materials, tools, and real-world cases from companies such as Novo Nordisk, Norlys, and Nykredit. The goal is clear: to help organizations move from technical success to true business impact.

Closing the gap between strategy and execution

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:15:24 GMT

Even the best strategies fail without strong execution. In this session, Implement Consulting Group shares how to close the gap between ambition and results by rethinking how strategy connects to real value creation.

Why strategy execution fails

Many organizations fail to realize the full potential of their strategies, leaving significant value untapped. This session explores why that happens, highlighting common pitfalls such as lack of prioritization, unclear ownership and weak feedback loops. Viewers gain insight into how to identify and address the biggest blockers to effective execution.

A framework for connecting vision to value

Implement’s model introduces a dynamic feedback loop that links strategic ambition with real-time execution. It emphasizes doing the right projects and doing projects right, supported by governance, performance management and leadership alignment. The framework helps companies stay agile, prioritize effectively and maintain transparency throughout the execution journey.

How to get started

The presenters share a practical approach to assess and improve your organization’s strategy execution maturity. By establishing a clear baseline and shared ambition, leaders can focus improvement efforts where they matter most. The video demonstrates how a structured assessment and targeted roadmap can turn strategy into measurable value and lasting impact.

Naviair: Leading through self-management and shared power

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:16:00 GMT

Explore how shared leadership and self-management can transform organizations to become more adaptive, collaborative and purpose-driven. Discover lessons, metaphors and real-life experiences from leaders who have embraced new ways of organizing work.

Building a new way of leading
In a rapidly changing business environment, traditional hierarchies struggle to keep pace. This conversation explores how organizations can evolve toward self-management and co-leadership, empowering teams to take ownership and make faster, more informed decisions based on trust and shared accountability.

From control to collaboration
Through practical examples and the metaphor of traffic roundabouts, the video illustrates how distributed authority can improve efficiency and engagement. Leaders must shift from command and control to facilitation and inquiry, helping teams develop autonomy, psychological safety and collaborative skills.

Transformation in practice
Using real experiences from Naviair, presented by their CIO Jens Bald the discussion highlights the journey from theory to practice. By redefining roles, clarifying accountabilities and experimenting through small, iterative steps, organizations can embed self-management into their structure and culture, creating workplaces built on inclusion, trust and continuous learning.

How leaders navigate crises and societal challenges

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how leaders are navigating an era of constant crises, societal expectations, and complex dilemmas. This video explores why decision-making now demands more than business acumen, and how executives are adapting to a world where societal problems are inseparable from corporate strategy.

Crisis load and executive focus
For the past few years, leaders have faced an unprecedented series of crises, from geopolitical tensions to supply chain disruptions. Executives spend more time and energy than ever in board and executive meetings, navigating high-pressure situations that demand collective decision-making and strategic foresight.

Societal problems as business challenges
The Edelman Trust Survey highlighted a shift in expectations: the public now looks to organizations and CEOs to address societal challenges. This means companies must consider a wider range of stakeholders beyond shareholders, taking responsibility for ethical, social, and environmental impacts while maintaining business performance.

Complexity, paradox, and persistent tension
Leaders now face problems that are ambiguous, persistent, and value-laden. Issues such as diversity, equity, and inclusion illustrate the ongoing nature of these challenges, requiring continuous adaptation and commitment. Executives must navigate paradoxical tensions while guiding organizations through persistent societal and business demands.

How leaders can shape courageous conversations

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how leaders can move beyond superficial dialogue and embrace courageous, curiosity-driven conversations that drive real impact. This video highlights practical steps to stop unproductive discussions, start essential ones, and reimagine strategy as a continuous, empowering process for any organization.

Courageous conversations matter
In today’s complex business environment, leaders need more than routine discussions. David and Henrietta explore how curiosity and courage can transform conversations, helping organizations focus on what truly matters. They provide practical questions to identify which conversations to stop and which are essential to start.

Reimagining strategy
Traditional strategy as a periodic event is no longer sufficient. The video discusses how organizations can shift to continuous strategy conversations, building capabilities that enable better decision-making at all levels. Leaders are encouraged to move from static plans to dynamic, always-on strategic thinking.

Empowering leadership in times of tension
The discussion emphasizes upgrading both mindset and capabilities to navigate ambiguity and complex challenges. Embracing a both-end mindset, shaping courageous conversations, and rethinking strategy are presented as key pathways for leaders to drive progress and ensure their organizations thrive in uncertain times.

Making great choices in an era of paradoxes

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:16:00 GMT

In a world shaped by paradoxes and constant change, leaders face choices that cannot be solved by simple trade-offs. This video explores how to embrace both and thinking, navigate tensions with courage and authenticity, and build the mindset needed to make better choices in an era of complexity.

Why choice-making matters
Choice-making begins before decisions are finalized. It is about keeping options open, listening, and navigating complexity with intention. Today’s leaders must balance competing demands like profit and planet, inclusion and growth, or short-term results and long-term purpose. The key lies in developing the mindset to thrive amid tension and uncertainty.

Navigating paradoxes
Crises, societal expectations, and shifting stakeholder landscapes have made leadership more complex. As shown through insights from thought leaders like Roger Martin and Wendy Smith, effective leadership now means embracing paradox rather than resolving it. By cultivating both and thinking, leaders can transform discomfort into creativity and build resilience in decision-making.

Courageous conversations
Authentic leadership requires conversations that matter. As Maersk’s Henriette Halberg Thygesen highlights, progress comes from reflection, feedback, and vulnerability. Courageous conversations invite honesty and shared learning, enabling teams to move beyond surface dialogue and shape the discussions that define an organisation’s direction.

Reimagining strategy
The traditional approach to strategy as a static, top-down process is no longer enough. Implement Consulting Group encourages organisations to view strategy as continuous choice-making—a living conversation across all levels of leadership. By holding tension, embracing uncertainty, and building collective capability, leaders can turn paradox into progress.

Turning CSRD compliance into business value

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:16:00 GMT

The CSRD is not just about compliance. It is a catalyst for change that can drive transparency, improve governance and accelerate a company’s sustainability transformation. In this video, discover how to turn CSRD requirements into real business value and future-proof your organisation.

Understanding the CSRD and its potential
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) introduces mandatory sustainability reporting for thousands of companies in and outside the EU. But it is more than a compliance requirement. The CSRD represents a shift toward sustainable transformation, transparency and accountability. By linking sustainability and business strategy, companies can use the directive to strengthen competitiveness and build resilience.

The journey from compliance to transformation
Implement Consulting Group outlines a six-phase approach to CSRD readiness, from establishing a foundation and conducting double materiality assessments to implementing actions and reporting with assurance. The key lies in transforming compliance into opportunity by embedding sustainability across functions, aligning leadership and creating clear data and governance structures.

Turning insights into business value
Manuela Huck-Wettstein and Kasper share client experiences showing how companies can derive strategic benefits from CSRD. Through collaboration, stakeholder engagement and strong IT and data systems, businesses can use the directive to drive transparency, enhance reputation, attract talent and create long-term value while shaping a more sustainable future.

Zafer Achi - How to lead in complexity

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:00:00 GMT

Zafer Achi is an executive coach, a team coach and a designer and facilitator of leadership development interventions. He has 34 years of consulting experience, including 27 years as a partner with McKinsey & Company. We have invited Zafer Achi to talk to us about complexity. He will help us create a language on the different types of challenges we face to enable us to apply the right tools.

The key topics covered in this episode are:

The difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and when something is complicated or complex
How to lead with curiosity and compassion
How to address adaptive challenges
Integrating perspectives to manage complexity better
How to set a direction instead of a destination and lead towards it

For references, links and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.

Wendy Smith - Finding comfort in the discomfort of paradox

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:16:00 GMT

Paradoxes often trigger strong, sometimes negative emotions, but these emotional tensions can unlock strategic thinking and leadership growth. In this video Professor of Delaware University and author of Both/And Thinking, Wendy Smith explores how to navigate discomfort, embrace ambivalence, and turn emotional challenges into opportunities for insight and better decision making.

Understanding paradoxes and emotions
Paradoxes create tension by presenting dilemmas, uncertainty, and conflicting demands. While they often trigger negative emotions such as anxiety, frustration, and defensiveness, they can also spark positive feelings of possibility and opportunity. Recognizing these emotional responses is key to leveraging paradoxes for growth and effective decision making.

Strategies to engage with discomfort
Implementing practices such as pausing, accepting emotions, and broadening perspective allows leaders to navigate paradoxes more effectively. Pausing provides space between trigger and response, radical acceptance helps acknowledge negative emotions, and broadening the perspective encourages positive emotions to fuel creative solutions.

Turning emotions into strategic advantage
By leaning into emotional ambivalence, leaders can use both positive and negative emotions to inform rational thinking. This approach, supported by research and expert insights, enables more thoughtful decisions, stronger collaboration, and innovative problem solving, ultimately transforming discomfort into strategic advantage.

David Whyte - Real conversations can transform the way we lead, collaborate,...

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:16:00 GMT

In this video poet and philosopher David Whyte explores how leaning into courageous conversations, embracing feedback, and fostering a reflection culture can unlock new insights and strengthen relationships at work.

The courage to start
Many of us avoid difficult conversations, yet real dialogue begins with taking the first step. By acknowledging the conversations we hesitate to have, we open the door to growth, understanding, and connection. Even small moments of courage can lead to meaningful transformation.

Reflection and feedback culture
A key part of courageous conversations is fostering a reflection culture. By focusing on what went well, what could improve, and the lessons learned, teams can embrace vulnerability and learning rather than blame. This approach strengthens collaboration and promotes authentic leadership.

Diversity, inclusion, and authenticity
Courageous conversations also extend to sensitive topics like diversity, equity, and inclusion. Leaning into these discussions, being honest about feelings, and focusing on outcomes enables teams to create a more inclusive environment. Authenticity and openness make these dialogues powerful and transformative.

Practical takeaways
Whether giving or receiving feedback, courageous conversations require vulnerability, presence, and willingness to engage. By asking the right questions and reflecting openly, leaders and employees can uncover insights, strengthen relationships, and drive meaningful change within their organizations.

Vestas and Quest: How Powering transformation through questions

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:16:00 GMT

Curiosity can be the key to transformation. In this session, experts from Implement Consulting Group, Vestas and Quest explore how asking the right questions can unlock engagement, foster leadership unity and turn large-scale change into meaningful, data-driven impact.

Changing conversations to change organizations
Transformation begins with dialogue. Implement Consulting Group and their partners show how Quest helps leaders understand what people talk about, connect across teams and use real conversations to shape organizational priorities. By listening to questions, leaders gain actionable insights that drive change.

Harnessing the power of questions
Quest, founded by Pia Lauritzen, democratizes the art of asking questions. It enables employees to connect, share perspectives and reveal patterns in organizational dialogue. Instead of surveys that only collect answers, Quest maps curiosity, helping companies identify focus areas, blind spots and new opportunities for growth.

The Vestas journey
Morten Ove Andersen, Global Head of Change & Business Implementation at Vestas used Quest to support a major digital transformation, engaging thousands of employees across global teams. By listening to real conversations, leadership aligned around what mattered most to people. The approach accelerated change, built trust and turned engagement into measurable transformation impact.

Key lessons on driving change
Transformation requires courage and curiosity. Leaders must dare to ask and commit to act. The Vestas case shows that by combining transparency, engagement and data-driven insights, organizations can close the gap between ambition and action, creating a culture ready for continuous learning and improvement.

Vow turning waste into value

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:50:59 GMT

In this video, we explore how a growing sustainability mindset and continuous innovation can turn waste into new value. Gain insight into how technology, purpose and strong leadership can drive circular solutions that scale across industries.

Developing technology with impact
The video highlights how early innovations in the cruise industry sparked new ways of handling waste, purifying water and converting waste streams into carbon neutral energy. As these solutions matured, the team discovered their relevance for broader onshore markets, opening the door to new applications and greater impact.

Scaling sustainable solutions
Entering new industries requires the ability to scale technology and validate both solutions and business models. The team focuses on helping clients turn waste into value, creating new opportunities while supporting circular economy principles and decarbonisation goals.

Leading with purpose
A strong sense of purpose unites the organisation. By working toward eliminating pollution and enabling more circular operations, they attract the right people and build trust with clients who share a similar ambition for positive environmental change.

Keys to Prony Resources successful transformation

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how Prony Resources transformed from stainless steel to electric vehicle batteries, navigating market shifts, ownership changes, and complex stakeholder relations. Gain practical insights from CEO of Prony Resources Antonin Beurrier on humility, speed, and team alignment to drive successful business redirection.

Business transformation journey
Over the last 18 months, the company shifted from a supply unit in a large international group to a standalone business focused on batteries for electric vehicles. With Tesla as a main client, the transformation required a complete overhaul of products, markets, governance, and go-to-market strategy. The process demonstrates the importance of humility and market focus when undertaking major changes.

Keys to success
Success relied on engaging the entire team and stakeholders, from employees to investors and unions. Transparency, speed, and determination were critical, ensuring alignment and trust across all levels. Initiatives like employee shareholding schemes helped secure commitment and demonstrated a collective effort to preserve and grow the company.

Navigating challenges
Operating in the mining sector in New Caledonia brought unique challenges, including political pressures and resource nationalism. Overcoming these required resilience, clear communication, and a commitment to openness with international investors. The journey highlights the importance of leadership, adaptability, and collaborative problem-solving in complex transitions.

Rediscovering the power of agility at YouSee

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:16:00 GMT

In this conversation, YouSee’s CEO Christian Morgan reflects on a bold agile transformation that was rolled back and the hard lessons it revealed. Learn what really enables business agility, from legacy IT and culture to clear accountability and customer focused outcomes.

Agile aspirations and origins

The session opens by revisiting the roots of the Agile Manifesto and how its promise of faster, more responsive software inspired many large organisations. YouSee set out on an ambitious enterprise agile journey, aiming to improve time to market, customer centricity, employee autonomy and efficiency across thousands of people.

Why YouSee rolled back agile

Christian Morgan explains why YouSee ultimately chose to roll back its large scale agile setup. Despite inclusive design, pilots and strong engagement, deeply complex legacy IT and interdependent processes prevented teams from owning outcomes, turning accountability into frustration and making the agile framework feel more like veneer than real business transformation.

Lessons for sustainable agility

Together with Implement, Christian reflects on what truly enables agility in established companies. He emphasises fixing foundational IT, clarifying end to end accountabilities and using agile principles selectively where work is iterative, testable and cross functional, so that ways of working serve a clear customer focused strategy instead of becoming a dogmatic goal in themselves.

Leading with AI in real organisational change

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:16:00 GMT

Explore how leaders can move from AI hype to real, tangible impact. This webinar shows how to set a clear aspiration, run focused experiments, build trust in new tools and use change management to turn generative AI into sustainable value for people and business.

Why leading with AI matters

Generative AI is reshaping how organisations work, from everyday tasks to strategic choices. In this webinar, Marie and Marie share a fast paced overview of the last months of AI development, the real productivity potential and the risks and uncertainties leaders must address.

From hype to focused strategy

Discover how to define a clear aspiration for AI, choose use cases that solve real business problems and balance bottom up experimentation with top down direction. You will see how a learning journey, rapid prototypes and an operating model can turn experiments into scalable impact.

Leading the human side of change

Learn how leaders can build trust in new tools, involve users early and communicate a strong core story. The session highlights practical change management moves, from capability mapping to engaging AI ambassadors, that help teams embrace uncertainty, learn from failure and grow an experimental culture.

Rethinking your operating model for real impact

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 09:16:00 GMT

Organisations face a fragile and fast changing context that demands new ways of working. This video explores why updating your operating model is essential and how a structured approach can help you connect strategy with daily execution to create real and lasting value.

Why rethink your operating model
A rapidly shifting environment places new pressure on organisations to adapt with speed, clarity and purpose. Sustainability demands, changing stakeholder expectations and evolving market conditions all influence how companies must design their future ways of working.

A practical approach to transformation
Implement uses the playing to win framework to connect strategic intent with practical choices. By exploring capabilities, management systems and organisational design, the process helps create a target operating model that is feasible, aligned and ready for impact. Leadership teams gain a shared understanding of ambition and direction.

Designing a model that fits your reality
The operating model framework covers business context and key dimensions that must work together. Each transformation is unique, requiring exploration, testing and a learning mindset. Culture remains central to success, ensuring the organisation can live the change it designs and deliver value for its customers.

Cytiva and Scania: Unleashing corporate entrepreneurship with innovation...

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:16:00 GMT

How do you build real corporate entrepreneurship in a world of uncertainty and rapid change, not just talk about it. In this session, Cytiva and Scania share how internal innovation accelerators help them de risk bold ideas, grow new business and develop people with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Why corporate entrepreneurship matters

In a world of uncertainty, classic forecasting often fails to predict what is coming. Implement, Cytiva and Scania show how companies can borrow from entrepreneurs by running fast, low cost experiments. Viewers gain insight into why experimental excellence can become a competitive advantage and how it connects strategy, innovation and talent.

How innovation accelerators work

The internal innovation accelerator is a structured way to de risk strategic bets while engaging people across the business. You will hear how Cytiva uses a discover and deliver mindset, metered funding and six month accelerator cycles to turn ideas into validated opportunities that fit corporate priorities and build a balanced innovation portfolio.

What Cytiva and Scania have learned

Cytiva and Scania share concrete results from years of working with accelerators and corporate entrepreneurship. They discuss culture change, leadership roles, internal investors and how to avoid the corporate immune system. Expect practical examples of bootcamps, experiments and governance, plus reflections on what it really takes to build a long term innovation movement.

Generative AI beyond the hype

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:16:00 GMT

In this webinar, Implement’s data and analytics team cut through the noise around generative AI and focus on what really drives value. You will learn how the technology works, where it boosts productivity, which risks to watch, and how to get started in your own organisation.

Why generative AI matters
Generative AI is emerging as a new computing paradigm that moves beyond rule based systems and into fluid capabilities like reasoning, problem solving and creativity. The speakers explain how large language models such as ChatGPT learn from patterns in data and why this shift opens powerful, human centric ways of working with technology.

From hype to real impact
Building on fresh survey insights, the webinar shows how employees already experiment bottom up with tools like ChatGPT, while leadership strategies often lag behind. You will see concrete examples across marketing, HR, IT, legal and R&D that illustrate both productivity gains and entirely new products and services.

Getting started in your organisation
Finally, the presenters outline practical next steps. They discuss corporate guidelines, targeted training, AI strategy and technical architecture, along with key risks such as bias, privacy and dependency on third parties. You leave with a clear roadmap for exploring generative AI responsibly and turning experimentation into scalable value.

Unlocking innovation through servitisation and sustainability

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how combining servitisation with sustainability can transform business models, create new revenue streams, and drive long-term impact. Learn practical examples and strategies that organizations can use to implement sustainable service-focused approaches effectively.

Explore the concept of sustainable servitisation
In this session, Merle and Lars from Implement Consulting Group introduce the transformative idea of sustainable servitisation. They explain how shifting from product-focused offerings to service-oriented models can unlock value, enhance customer loyalty, and reduce resource consumption while aligning with sustainability goals.

Real-world examples and insights
The video highlights examples from diverse industries, including Blue Movement by BSH Household Appliances, Rolls Royce, Signify, ModJeans, and On Running. These cases illustrate how organisations are experimenting with product-as-a-service models, leasing, subscription-based solutions, and refurbishment to create long-term value and reduce environmental impact.

Strategies to apply in your organization
Merle and Lars outline four key conditions for successful sustainable servitisation: adopt a systemic perspective, decouple resource use, improve products and services continuously, and embed sustainability in organisational culture. Viewers gain actionable insights for designing business models that drive both economic and environmental benefits.

Engage and innovate
The session encourages interactive discussions, allowing participants to share ideas, explore challenges, and envision how sustainable servitisation could be applied in their own organisations. It provides inspiration for innovative thinking and practical steps to start the journey toward sustainable, service-focused business models.

Novo Nordisk's journey to circular for zero strategy

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how Novo is transforming its global supply chain and engaging 60,000 suppliers in its Circular for Zero strategy. Learn how partnerships, employee movements, and practical sustainability measures can create meaningful change across industries and value chains.

Driving a circular economy
Novo’s Circular for Zero strategy aims for zero environmental impact through circular supply, circular company operations, and circular products. The company goes beyond its own production footprint to include CO2, water, and waste across the entire value chain, ensuring sustainability from suppliers to end products.

Mobilizing people and partnerships
Engaging 2,500 colleagues in the “movement” and leveraging formal strategic tracks, Novo creates informal networks and workshops that empower employees worldwide. Partnerships with Sky Energy for sustainable aviation fuel and Maersk for biofuel-powered shipping demonstrate how collaboration extends across suppliers and competitors.

Global supplier engagement
With 60,000 suppliers, Novo focuses on key partners first, helping them switch to renewable energy, while embedding sustainability requirements in contracts for all suppliers. Local adaptation ensures environmental solutions are practical and effective, even in challenging markets.

Sustainability as business strategy
For Novo, sustainability is a prerequisite for future business. By integrating environmental considerations into every decision, investing in technology, and fostering collaboration, the company demonstrates that profitability and sustainability can advance together while reducing the global environmental footprint.

Knauf Insulation on harmonising processes and customer focus

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how Knauf Insulation created a more agile and customer-focused organization by harmonising processes without losing local flexibility. Learn practical strategies for driving efficiency, ownership, and engagement across global teams while improving customer service and operational performance.

Transforming operations
Knauf Insulation has tackled the challenge of fragmented processes across its global markets by focusing on harmonisation rather than rigid standardization. This approach enables each region to maintain its specific strengths while aligning on common practices that enhance efficiency and reduce dependency on individual "superstars."

Driving engagement and ownership
Central to the transformation is involving employees from the start. By co-creating solutions with those directly in the process, Knauf Insulation fosters a sense of responsibility and ownership. This collaborative approach ensures that changes are embraced, creating lasting impact on both behavior and performance.

Measurable results and continuous improvement
The project has already improved operational efficiency by around 6%, with a target of 20% or more in the coming years. Employee approval and engagement ratings reflect strong buy-in, which indirectly enhances customer satisfaction. Continuous communication and celebrating small wins help maintain momentum and create a sustainable transformation culture.

Leadership lessons
Key takeaways include selling the change effectively, engaging employees in solution design, and continuously communicating results. Knauf Insulation demonstrates how thoughtful process harmonisation and strong governance can drive both operational excellence and a positive organisational culture.

Rethink, react and transform for the future

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:16:00 GMT

Transformation is more than a buzzword. In this conversation from OPEX 222, leaders and thought provokers explore how empathy, sustainability and digitalization come together to help organizations rethink, react and transform for a more resilient and purpose-driven future.

Building successful transformations

Transformations fail when they focus only on processes and numbers. As Martin Lindström explains, true change starts with empathy and common sense. Successful leaders look at transformation as a human journey, taking people from point A to point B with purpose and meaning. The key is involving employees early and aligning around shared ownership of the change.

Embedding sustainability into operations

Novo Nordisk’s Circular for Zero strategy shows how purpose-driven sustainability can mobilize thousands of colleagues and suppliers. By combining formal structures with grassroots movements, they engage people across functions and geographies. Their approach highlights that long-term environmental goals must become tangible actions today, creating both business value and collective impact.

Shaping the future with digitalization

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies demonstrates how intelligent automation and modular processes can speed up the delivery of life-saving medicine. Their digital transformation focuses on reducing lead time, improving quality and empowering employees with data-driven tools. The journey underlines that successful digital change depends as much on people and culture as on technology.

Turning insight into action

From harmonizing processes to collaborating across ecosystems, the event reminds leaders that thriving in uncertainty means acting with empathy, clarity and focus. Transformation is not a one-time project but a continuous journey of learning, innovation and purpose.

Streamlining biotech production at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is transforming its complex biotech production process with digital tools, modular systems, and end-to-end data. Learn how their journey reduces lead times, enhances efficiency, and engages employees in reshaping the way medicines reach patients faster.

Overview of the digital transformation
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has embarked on a digital transformation journey to tackle the challenges of producing medicines in a highly regulated, 24-7 environment. By focusing on a clear digital vision, the company is reducing lead times, streamlining production, and making critical data accessible to all stakeholders across the supply chain.

Key elements of the transformation
The transformation centers on four core elements: one-click tech transfer, modular and digital manufacturing, no-touch release, and data at your fingertips. These elements work together to standardize processes, integrate digital systems, and allow skilled operators to focus on high-value tasks, while automation handles repetitive activities efficiently.

Impact on people and processes
Beyond technology, the transformation emphasizes employee engagement and culture. By involving shop floor employees and quality teams, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies ensures that changes are adopted smoothly. This approach builds a sustainable way of working, reduces manual effort, and creates a more efficient, future-ready workplace.

Lessons and takeaways
Key takeaways from the journey include starting with business value, implementing standards early, and avoiding overreliance on specific tools. The process is long-term and iterative, requiring empathy, adaptability, and a focus on tangible results. The company demonstrates that digital transformation is as much about people as it is about technology.

Martin Lindstrøm - The power of empathy in driving transformation

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:16:00 GMT

Transformation often fails not because of strategy, but because of human behavior. In this video branding expert and New York Times best-selling author Martin Lindstrøm together with Implement Consulting Groups Pedro Maestrelli, explore how empathy, psychological safety, and default behaviors shape the success of organizational change. Viewers will gain insights into practical ways to make transformation stick.

Understanding transformation
Transformation is more than incremental change or process improvements. Martin Lindstrøm explains it as the act of speeding up a customer recalibration, focusing on both internal and external stakeholders. The key to successful transformation lies in empathy, the ability to see the world from the customer's perspective, and applying common sense to organizational decisions.

The role of psychology and behavior
Human behavior is the hidden barrier to change. Peer pressure, default habits, and social compliance often derail transformation initiatives. Martin illustrates this with examples of everyday actions, showing how even simple behavior changes can fail without conscious effort and practice, highlighting the depth of psychological impact on organizational change.

Lessons from innovation
Startups like Snapchat thrive because they are deeply in tune with customer needs. By fostering empathy and understanding, organizations can overcome fear and rigid compliance structures, creating space for innovation. The discussion emphasizes that lasting transformation requires both emotional intelligence and deliberate behavioral change.

Priya Parker - Gatherings that change us

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 06:00:00 GMT

In this episode we meet with conflict resolution facilitator and author, Priya Parker. We discuss takeaways from her book, “The Art of Gathering” and how to make a gathering meaningful, effective and engaging.

In the pursuit of designing more transformational conversations and meetings, Priya encourages us to address the deepest need of the moment in our gatherings, to name a meeting according to its purpose, and to think about when a conversation or a meeting should take place in the context of the “arch of the week”.

For references and links, visit the podcast homepage here.

Stig Albertsen and Katrina Marshall - Change is changing conversations

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:00:00 GMT

In this introductory episode, hosts Stig Albertsen and Katrina Marshall Dyrting discuss Changing Conversations in organisations and lay out the foundation for this podcast series: why focus on conversations, what could be possible if we do and who we will meet in the coming episodes?

The key topics covered in this episode are:

Organisations are conversations
If you want real change, change the conversation
That conversations are the smallest biggest thing we can play with when it comes to change.

For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.

Tony’s Chocolonely, Danfoss and Unilever: Shifting mindsets to build a better...

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:16:00 GMT

In this conversation, leaders from Tony’s Chocolonely, Danfoss and Unilever share how they drive change through culture, empowerment and purpose. Viewers will gain insights on how authentic leadership, trust and mindset shifts can unleash creativity and long-term impact within any organisation.

Creating a movement for change

At Tony’s Chocolonely, Inzo explains how an external mission to make the chocolate industry fairer became an internal movement rooted in trust and purpose. By replacing complex rules with a simple “ticket of trust,” the company empowers its people to act boldly while keeping fun and flexibility at the core.

Redefining leadership and self-management

Vivek from Danfoss shares how decentralised structures and self-managed teams encourage accountability and growth. Leadership, he argues, is not about control but about creating space for others to lead. Real empowerment happens when teams make decisions leaders may not agree with but still support.

Unleashing human potential

Lina from Unilever highlights how purpose and freedom drive creativity. Through platforms like Flex, employees can pursue projects that align with their passions, creating thousands of meaningful collaborations. Her advice to changemakers: start with yourself, shift your mindset, and lead with belief in human contribution.

Designing the master planet with Bjarke Ingels

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:16:00 GMT

Architect Bjarke Ingels explores how a bold idea, the Master Planet, can inspire global collaboration for a sustainable future. Viewers discover how architectural thinking can be scaled up to design not just buildings, but the blueprint for an entire planet.

The vision behind the Master Planet

In this conversation, Bjarke Ingels shares the idea of creating a master plan for the planet. Inspired by long-term projects like those for the Smithsonian, the Master Planet concept aims to unify strategies, technologies and investments into a single, practical vision for achieving carbon neutrality.

From pragmatic utopia to planetary design

Ingels reflects on how BIG’s approach has evolved from pragmatic architecture to global-scale design. By treating Earth as one project, the team tests what happens when creativity meets responsibility. The Master Planet becomes both a tool and a mindset, guiding every project toward a consistent, sustainable future.

Building the world we imagine

Drawing on collaborations with NASA and others, Ingels explains how exploring ideas like lunar habitats influences our approach on Earth. He reminds us that bold imagination drives real change, showing that the future becomes what we choose to design together.

Gary Hamel - From purpose to action: Creating problem-solving organisations

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:16:00 GMT

Explore how organisations can turn purpose into action and unlock human potential to address pressing global challenges in a conversation with Gary Hamel, leading business thinker and Professor at London Business School, and Stig Albertsen from Implement Consulting Group, as they share practical insights on empowering employees, driving innovation, and creating meaningful impact.

Understanding worthwhile problems
Organisations succeed by solving important problems, from feeding millions to advancing technology and sustainability. This discussion explores why purpose matters and how leaders can ensure their organization’s goals are noble, ambitious, and future focused, while maintaining real-world impact beyond mere profitability.

Unleashing human potential
True organisational change requires empowering employees, flattening hierarchies, and offering decision rights and financial upside. By fostering autonomy and initiative, companies can harness latent human capacity, transforming everyday workplaces into hubs of creativity and problem solving capable of addressing global challenges.

Collaboration for systemic change
Many societal challenges are systemic, requiring collaboration across companies, governments, investors, and communities. Implementing new incentives, accountability systems, and leadership development is essential to collectively solve problems that no single organization can address alone. This holistic approach ensures meaningful, lasting impact.

Driving purpose into action
Purpose without empowerment is ineffective. Organisations must connect noble ambitions with practical strategies that unlock creativity, initiative, and problem-solving skills. By embracing entrepreneurship within large institutions, businesses can contribute to solving the world’s toughest problems while engaging employees in work that truly matters.

How to create change that feels like a movement

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how change can become a movement, not just a project. This video shows how to unlock energy, ownership, and collaboration in your organization, helping you create impactful change that engages people at every level.

Why change needs a new approach
Traditional change management often fails to inspire people. This video explores why technical solutions alone are no longer enough and highlights three critical shifts in problems, structures, and power dynamics. By understanding these shifts, leaders can create conditions where change emerges through collective engagement.

How change movements unfold
Change movements rely on talking and doing, connecting people, co-creating ideas, and experimenting together. Real-life examples, including NASA's Centennial Challenge, show how small experiments spark engagement and innovation, demonstrating that ownership and collaboration are key to lasting change.

Three stages of successful change movements
Successful movements start with ignition, where a shared ambition motivates people. Emergence follows, with small experiments creating learning and momentum. Finally, diffusion spreads the change widely, embedding new ways of thinking and working into the organization’s culture.

The role of leaders and employees
Everyone has a part to play, from leaders coordinating efforts to employees contributing perspectives and solutions. By embracing collective problem solving and fostering a culture where people feel empowered, organizations can unlock creativity, energy, and sustainable change.

LEGO Group - Nurturing change through movement building

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:16:00 GMT

Discover how small initiatives can ignite large-scale change. Zahed and Otti share practical insights on building movements, fostering collaboration, and developing leaders to scale organizational transformation effectively, empowering both individuals and teams along the way.

Creating movements within organizations
Zahed Farahwald Ben shares how the LEGO Group leveraged the Leadership Playground to spark bottom-up change. By recruiting volunteers as movement builders, they fostered engagement across all parts of the business. Over the years, the focus has evolved from generating energy to defining clear purposes and providing tangible benefits to participants.

Building culture and collaboration
Otti highlights lessons from ING and other agile transformations, emphasizing the importance of community, collaboration frameworks, and culture. Organizations need both structured systems and flexible practices to enable dialogue, manage conflict, and co-create effectively. Leadership plays a key role in supporting these bottom-up initiatives without imposing control.

Learning and leadership support
Learning is central to sustaining a movement. LEGO invested in upskilling participants to experiment, learn broadly, and gain new skills. Leaders also require development to enable and nurture their teams. By combining energy, support, and a culture of psychological safety, organizations can transform ideas from the fringes into meaningful impact.

Measuring success and scaling impact
Both Zahed and Otti stress the value of stories and shared experiences as indicators of success. Signals of self-direction and autonomous initiative help track the spread of the movement. By listening to these signals and empowering participants, organizations can scale change organically and create lasting cultural transformation.

How leaders can ask the questions that transform

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:16:00 GMT

Explore how leaders can rethink strategy to tackle systemic challenges and create meaningful impact. This video uncovers the questions that move organizations from good to great, showing how connecting craft to purpose can unlock innovation, engagement, and a positive role in society.

Rethinking strategy for the future
In this video, we explore why traditional strategy focused on “where to play” and “how to win” is no longer enough. By learning from visionary leaders like Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Thune Andersen, we see how bold questions and a forward-looking mindset can help organizations imagine entirely new possibilities and redefine success.

Connecting craft to meaningful impact
We highlight how organizations can link their capabilities to solving worthwhile problems. Examples from companies like Unilever and Novo Nordisk demonstrate how catalyzing collective action, engaging ecosystems, and taking responsibility for societal challenges can transform both business and society, creating engagement, innovation, and long-term relevance.

Leading courageously at all levels
The video emphasizes that strategy and transformation are not limited to CEOs. Everyone in a modern organization can act as a leader. By asking the right questions, inspiring action, and embracing a catalytic role, organizations can future-proof themselves while contributing positively to the world.

Practical steps to unlock organisational potential

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:16:00 GMT

Learn practical strategies to reduce bureaucracy and increase agility in your organisation. This video shows four actionable approaches you can start applying today to improve leadership, project execution, and organisational efficiency.

Key strategies to reduce bureaucracy
This video highlights four practical steps for organisations seeking to become more agile and post bureaucratic. From measuring your bureaucratic load with a BMI test to running management model hackathons, these strategies help identify hidden barriers and unlock efficiency across teams.

Building post bureaucratic leadership
Learn how to develop leadership capabilities suited for a post bureaucratic environment. Focus on mindset shifts, sensitivity to natural hierarchies, and understanding when to lead and follow. These insights guide leaders to empower their teams while reducing unnecessary administrative overhead.

Detoxing your change engine
Discover how to streamline your organization’s project and change efforts. By addressing the bureaucratic habits in projects and steering committee meetings, organizations can transform project management into a laboratory for efficiency and learning, boosting overall performance and engagement.