Agenda Day 2, April 30th, 2021:   (see Agenda Day 1)     (back to Strategy Execution Event Summary)

09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair

Laurent-Jan van der Westen, Partner, been management consulting

09.15 – Influencing Strategy Creation to Improve Execution

•    Why the creation of a good strategy is just as critical as its execution

•    How to create an environment where corporate strategy is well defined, articulated and dynamic

•    How to bring together the creation of strategy with its implementation for increased success

Alexander Hanslik, Director Corporate Strategy and International Affairs, Austro Control

10.00 – Recognise the Challenge, Adapt the Approach

• What makes a transformation a transformation?

• What does this imply, why is this relevant now and what paradoxes does it create?

• What can we learn from a horse? from a damned Roman Emperor? And from Oscar Wilde?

• Concretely: What does it mean for us as transformation professionals? And for the way we approach transformations? And how have we applied it?

Koen Vranken, Head of Continuous Improvement and Transformation, Euroclear

Alexander Sulaimani, Director, Innovation, Euroclear

10.45 - Our ABB Motion Transformation Journey within Finance, HR and Data & Analytics to Ensure More Efficient Processes and Better Analytics Insights to Support Faster Business

Fabrice Noel, Group VP, Business Analytic CoE: Head of Practices & Programs, ABB

11.30 - Virtual Coffee and Networking

• Private Smaller Meetings at Virtual Roundtables and 1-to-1 Meetings

• Meetings with Event Partners at their Virtual Tables

12.00 – A Centralised Strategy Function (Avoiding Isolation and Creating Value)

• Trust and Value

• People

• Facts, analysis and priorities

• Recommendations and consequences

Lars Oechel, Head of Corporate Strategy, Dussmann Group

12.45 – Making Sense of Megatrends and Translating Them to Build a Resilient Business

Radhika Shah, Head of Global Business Franchise, Merck Life Science

13.30 – Lunch Break

14.15 – Complex Strategic Organizational Transformation at the Speed of EUV Light

ASML has been facing a rapid increase of the global semiconductor market in combination with an ever increasing increasingly complexity of technology. The introduction of the new EUV technology facilitates the greatest technology challenges that exist like self-driving cars, smart cities and hyper-personalized medicine. How does the company transforms itself to keep-up with its innovative promises to world technology markets.

Albert–Jan Pomper, Program Manager D&E Strategy, ASML

15.00 – Digital Value Proposition to Boost Leadership Development

•    What leadership capabilities count for Allianz today

•    Leadership support and development in Crisis situation like Covid

•    How to foster leadership development through digital learning

Laura Marsi, Head of HR Strategy & Transformation at Group HR, Allianz SE

15.45 – Virtual Coffee and Networking

• Private Smaller Meetings at Virtual Roundtables and 1-to-1 Meetings

• Meetings with Event Partners at their Virtual Tables

16.00 – Implementing a Growth Strategy through Commercial Excellence in a Mining and Metals Company

• Getting organised around growth

• Sales growth and margin priorities

• Embedding in the organisation sustainable growth

• Engagement, leadership from senior management

Natalya Kurdyukova, Head of Corporate Strategy Department, EVRAZ

16.45 - Getting Sponsorship for Strategy Execution

•    Understanding why Strategies fail

•    Bringing the ‘project mindset’ to the board room

•    Managing your Executive Sponsors

Frederic Casagrande, Chief Strategy Officer, PMO Global Alliance

17.30 - Leading Transformational Change

Applying the Leadership Behaviors that Drive Higher Success Rates in Organisational Change Initiatives

Ashutosh Pandey, Head of Process Reengineering, Nokia

18.15 – Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Forum

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