Agenda Day 2, March 21st, 2025:   (see Agenda Day 1)     (back to Strategy Execution Event Summary)

09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair

09.00 – Establishing a Strategy Office to Facilitate Strategy Execution:  Doing it the Right Way

·        Centralised versus Decentralised business models

·        Governance and Roles in the Business Units:  Clarity on who is really executing the strategy and how we are supporting them

·        Relationship between programme management offices (PMO) and larger strategic initiatives

·        Lessons applied from M&A Integrations and IT PMOs

·        When and how to use consultants

Abida Lalani, Director of Strategy and Transformation, Executive Board Member, Costain Group

09.40 – The Art of Execution or How to Bring a Strategy Down to the Shopfloor

·        Aligning functional strategies with the overall group strategy & vision

·        Linking to other strategic initiatives

·        How to implement it with concrete initiatives

·        Bringing the functional strategy to life on the shopfloor

Patrick Pommerenke, VP Global Business Excellence, thyssenkrupp Aerospace

10.20 – Building Organizational Resource Capabilities to Implement Strategies

·        Allocating all kinds of resources effectively

·        Testing your organizational capability:  Seeking the bottlenecks in your organization where there is poor coordination

·        Setting up a strategy for untapping resources that are poorly coordinated

Daniel Haußmann, VP Strategy Execution and Post Merger Integraton, MANN + HUMMEL GmbH

Dennis Pfisterer, Director Performance Office, MANN + HUMMEL GmbH

11.00 - Morning Coffee and Networking

11.30 - Business Transformation Maturity & at a Global Scale

·        Compiling and managing the right portfolio of improvement projects

·        Embedding knowledge and organizational skills to promote change and ability

Jens Erasmus, Global Director Business Transformation, ZF Group

12.10 – Smart Manufacturing: Unleashing the Power of Digital Operations

·        Digital Transformation Roadmap: Align digital initiatives with the overall business strategy, and develop a technological roadmap focusing on data and applications to drive transformation

·        Digital Tools and Lean Principles: Combine Lean methods with digital tools to achieve operational excellence, implementing real-time transparency and predictive systems

·        Digital Catalog and Factory of the Future: Standardize and scale digital solutions through a catalog, while building a solution factory for rapid prototyping, and creating a roadmap for future autonomous systems

Riccardo Picca, Executive Director, Strategy & Global Business Transformation, Sandvik

12.50 – Lunch Break

13.50 - Real Life Insight: How to Address Cultural Change

Driving Business Improvements via Behavioral Change

Laura Marsi, Global Head of Talent & Leadership, Allianz

14.30 – Culture and Communication across the Nordics, Europe and the Rest of the World

Paul Francis Walvik-Joynt, SVP Real-Time Payments, Mastercard

15.10 – STRATEGY UNLOCKED

With the increasing rate of change, the dynamics between strategy and strategy execution are changing. We explore what that means for the job of strategy and how you reconfigure to a strategy-led organization able to absorb and prosper from the unexpected.

Morten Elvang, Contributor, Thinking Twice Works

15.50 - The Governance of Strategy Execution

·        Where should strategy and strategy execution fit within the organization?

·        Structures, accountability and KPIs that work in a complex organization

·        The gap between the corporate strategy function and ‘strategy execution’

·        Repositioning Strategy Execution in your organization to make it more effective

Sherene Jose, Former Head of Strategic Planning, London Stock Exchange Group

16.30 – Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Forum

 (see agenda Day 1)     (back to Strategy Execution Event Summary)