My companies have had the opportunity to facilitate and coach major industrial, public, and financial organizations with their change of direction and improvement of their business, i.e., their strategic initiatives.
The book makes it possible for me to share our experience with you. Reading the book in connection with strategic initiatives that you get involved with you’ll have access to concrete guidelines and techniques that can prevent major blunders and even improve your results in many cases.
The strategic initiatives that we have been involved with were based on business needs to improve efficiency, competitiveness, growth, profitability, market presence, and other strategically important measures of their success.
We implemented the solutions in the form of concrete improvements to production, logistics, client service, IT etc., supported by or implemented as efficient information systems.
The book presents a number of challenging situations, where my companies had the opportunity to facilitate and coach our clients to be successful with their strategic initiatives. In all cases, the book explains why we handled the cases the way we did.
I believe the book can contribute to prevent at least some problems with strategic initiatives in public and private organizations of all sizes.
Our facilitation and coaching were mere catalysts and in most cases, our contribution to the success of our clients has been invisible once the required result was in place.
This is how we want it to be!
The focus of the book is on the other hand our experience from involvement as facilitators and coaches to be shared with you.
I wish to thank former and current employees, clients, and sponsors for their great help in making this book a success. Especially I would like to mention the support from Jesper Ringvad Nielsen (now working for Deloitte in Luxembourg), Claus Raa, Danmarks Nationalbank, Jan Hallberg, Ericsson Sweden, my editor, and John Wyzalek of Taylor & Francis.