Agenda Day 1, March 20, 2025:   (see Agenda Day 2)     (back to Strategy Execution Event Summary)

(time zone used is Central European Time)

08.30 – Welcome and Networking

09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair

09.20 - Strategic Planning:  Align Objectives to Strategy

·        The strategic planning process and alignment between/across corporate HQ and business units

·        Linking strategy and execution in the strategic planning process

·        How to approach the KPI definition process

Andrea Campanino, Vice President – Global Strategy and Marketing, AMMEGA

10.00 - Strategy without Execution is Hallucination - How We Strengthened Strategy Execution at Centrient

·        At Centrient we have trialled multiple systems/ ways of working to bring our strategic plan to life.

·        The do’s and don’t’s and what is working well for us currently to manage the execution of our ambitious plans

Astrid Bretterbauer, Global Director, Strategic Commercial Planning & Business Intelligence, Centrient Pharmaceuticals

10.40 – Transformation at Vueling

Veronica Mae Hull, Head of Transformation, Vueling Airlines

11.20 – Morning Coffee and Networking

12.00 – Democratising Strategy

·         After conducting research with over 600 strategic and operational professionals, we have found that sentiment across the strategic planning and execution process is generally high; but there is a major disconnect between different parts of organisations

·         Strategy is still stuck in spreadsheets, slide decks and printouts, with no solution proving able to unite the end-to-end process

·         If we're to take our strategy execution into the future, we need to democratise the way we do it, bringing people into every layer of the strategy setting process, and continuing it into the execution and tracking

Simon Crowther, CEO, i-nexus

12.40 - The Trust Formula - A Meta-Level-Tool to Build Trust with your Stakeholders

Jan Bracke, Global Head of Transformation, Agfa Radiology Solutions

13.10 – Lunch Break

14.10 - Cutting across the Hype: Setting up an AI Execution Capability

·        Cutting across the Hype: Setting up an AI Execution Capability

·        November 2022 – Generative AI breaks the news

·        At Amadeus, we believe AI has the potential to transform the travel industry

·        AI also comes with significant ethical and regulatory challenges

·        Learn how to set your execution capability to seize the AI opportunity, while carefully managing associated risks

Maria Plaza, AI Office Lead, Amadeus IT Group

Ludovic Tardy, Associate Director Strategy Execution & Integration Services, Amadeus IT Group

14.50 – Building an Operational Excellence Program to Support Strategic Objectives

As part of the ongoing Fresenius Kabi company-wide transformation (Vision 2026), the challenge is to build a new Operational Excellence program to support the achievement of Technical Operations and Quality goals. This presentation discusses the creation of the functional vision, strategy, and operational plan to maximize the contribution of the manufacturing network to Fresenius Kabi strategic objectives as well as achieve a long-term best in class operational performance.

Marcelo Costa, VP, Head of Operational Excellence, Fresenius Kabi

15.30 - Agile Ways of Strategy Execution

Agile Project Portfolio Management and Integration with Corporate Strategy Execution

Christian Barnhausen, Head of Strategy Execution, AXA

16.10 – Afternoon Coffee and Networking

16.40 – Strategic Execution through a Cross Functional Lean Six Sigma Capability Programme

Donatienne Phillips, PhD, Six Sigma Black Belt, CPM, Transformation Director, Catalyst Technologies, Johnson Matthey

17.20 – M&A Integration Strategy – Merger of Equal Size Companies

Jesper Sand Christensen, VP, Head of Group Portfolio Management, Alm Brand Group

18.00 – Changing Business Models to Support Strategy Execution  (or How to Start a 100 million Project/Transformation without PM and PMO)

·        Reviewing the problems with your current business model and why it cannot implement your strategy: What is missing and what are the requirements?

·        When the business model must be transformed to make the strategy implementation possible

·        Experiences with changing the business model (bringing your business methods in line with your actual strategy)

·        Digitalisation, AI, ecosystems, remote working, centralization of functions and outsourcing

Ľuboš Práznovský, Director Software Design and Development, Tatra Banka

18.40 - Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Day 1

18.40 – 19.40 – Reception

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