People
The management team
Lars Percy Andersson, founder and managing director. Lars is an international entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience from developing new concepts and starting new businesses in Europe, Asia and in the United States. He is an economist by profession with extensive management training from the leading global business school IMD in Switzerland and has a Bachelor’s degree in behavioral science & psychology.
Karin Wall, co-founder and chief editor. She has a Bachelor’s degree in media & communication. Karin has worked with information and communication in different roles, for example as editor, writer and communications manager.
Sven Andersson, co-founder and CTO. Sven is a web- and internet professional working with development of web platforms technically and functionally, as well as strategies regarding digital marketing. Sven holds a MSc in Agricultural Economics from SLU and has been attending the Master Class program for Project Managers and Strategists at Hyper Island. The last six years he has been working with web development and marketing as a project manager in his own firm based in Barcelona.
Amelia Johannsen, publishing editor based in Barcelona, Spain. Amelia has a Bachelor’s degree from University of California Davis in Communications and Spanish. She has worked in marketing, sales, content management and customer relations in various roles.
Gert-Inge Nilsson, CFO. Gert-Inge is an engineer and economist by profession and has more than 30 years of experience from managing both strategic as well as hands on finance and accounting functions. Gert-Inge has also extensive experience from developing and implementing strategic financial strategies and ERP-systems.
Bengt-Arne Vedin, senior advisor. Bengt-Arne, PhD, is Professor emeritus in innovation management, now affiliated with the Department of Industrial economics and management at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. After practicing innovation and entrepreneurship, resulting in a handful patents, he has been into innovation studies since the mid-1970′ with professorships at the Royal Institute of Technology and Mälardalen University, also serving as a guest professor at Kasetsart University in Thailand and Universitat de Girona in Spain. He has consulted for large and small firms as well as organizations such as the US National Academy of Engineering and the OECD, and has served on some fifteen corporate boards of directors. His research is geared at innovation, IT, and futurology in various combinations, most recently at design-inspired innovation. He is working on his book no 71 on that theme.
Gunjan Bhardwaj, advisor, senior editor and member of the editorial board. Gunjan is the leader of the Global Business Performance Think-tank of Ernst&Young. He is also the solution champion for Pricing strategy and effectiveness as well as Innovation management in the advisory services of Ernst & Young with a focus on Pharmaceutical and FMCG sector.
Gunjan is also a guest professor for Growth and Innovation management at European Business School (EBS) in Germany and a member of the scientific advisory board of Plexus Institute in the US which researches on complexity in health sciences.
Gunjan has published a number of papers and articles in various Journals and magazines and has been a frequent speaker in conferences on marketing and innovation related topics. He is also the chief editor of the quarterly journal of Ernst & Young’s advisory practice called Performance.
Publishing team
Karin Wall, chief editor. She has a Bachelor’s degree in media & communication. Karin has worked with information and communication in different roles, for example as editor, writer and communications manager. Her assignments have also included leading a major innovation project.
Jennie Björk, contributing editor. Jennie is a PhD candidate in the Center for Business Innovation and the division of Innovation Engineering and Management at Chalmers University of Technology. Her main research interest is ideation and then in particular the design and management of ideation systems in large firms. More specifically, she uses a network perspective and Social Network Analysis to investigate differences in ideation patterns in large firms and identifies different variables that influence ideation activities positively. Jennie, who is currently based in the US, holds an MSc in electrical engineering specialized in management and economics of innovation from Chalmers University of Technology.
Frode Lundsten, contributing editor, Denmark. Frode has more than 20 years of experience in helping companies to sustain or revitalize their growth. He has worked both in national and international contexts of business development and change management, where strategy implementation and applied innovation management has been the focus. Frode also has experience from publishing and media industry, both as a publisher and a columnist. Frode holds a MBA degree from Henley Management College, UK, where his dissertation focused on the adoption of open innovation in Danish companies. Frode is also founder and partner of Strategy2Tactics.dk.
Frank Mattes, contributing editor, Germany. Frank has more than 15 years of experience in managing projects and innovation. He has worked for medium-sized national consulting companies as well as for The Boston Consulting Group. Additionally he was working at C-level for an IT company and a Professional services company. Frank´s focus in innovation is in designing processes / management systems and in Culture Change. He is also the author of several books and articles. Frank finished his studies in Germany and in the USA with a MSc in Applied Mathematics. Frank is currently working at www.hlp-online.de .
Haydn Shaughnessy, contributing editor, has been at the centre of innovative transformations throughout his career and is currently a Director of Bearing Consulting and a research fellow with nGenera Corporation. He has worked continuously in multinational environments and currently serves clients in the USA, UK and Sweden. He has worked with a range of companies in different sectors: Alcatel Lucent, Volvo, General Motors, Informa, KPN, AVG, Symbian Foundation, Unilever and more. His consultancy and research work encompasses changing enterprise structures, new business models and long-term trends in attitudes. He is in demand as a speaker on the impact of changing attitudes on business and on gearing innovation to new consumer requirements. More information about Haydn can be found at fiveideasthatmatter.com
Heinz Essmann, contributing editor. Heinz is a perpetual student, having spent much of the last 9 years understanding how companies are built, run and renewed through innovation. He obtained his PhD in Industrial Engineering on the topic of assessing and improving organisational innovation capability. Heinz has more than 5 years of experience in deploying a variety of tools and methods for business building, improvement and renewal as a researcher, business engineering and programme manager at the Innovation Management firm Indutech. Clients range from new and small companies, new spin-off units focussed on innovation, to large corporate and government organisations. He also lectures to final year Industrial Engineering students at Stellenbosch University on the topics of Innovation Management and Enterprise Engineering.
Rob Blaauboer, contributing editor, Netherlands. Rob has more than 13 years of innovation experience and he is currently the Innovation Practice Manager at Logica, responsible for, among others, participation in research projects (like FP7 and national programmes). Furthermore, he manages Logica’s contribution to the Norm for Innovation Management (TC 389) and is part of Logica’s Global Innovation Council.
In the past, Rob has worked as Interim Innovation Manager, Global Funnel Manager, Innovation Thought Leader and a number of other innovation positions both internally as well as for clients. He also has extensive experience in Financial Services.
Apart from the contribution to this website, he also blogs frequently (in Dutch) on Frankwatching.com on innovation, trends and gadgets.
Marcus Linder, columnist. Marcus researches environmental innovation among industrial firms at Chalmers University of Technology. Focus areas include strategic rationale and the practical how-to of including environmental aspects in the innovation process. An important starting point is that profitable environmental innovation often require more than just “quick-fixing” a firm’s existing offers.
In terms of applied innovation management, his main passion lies in business model design. He is currently employed as a PhD student at Center for Business Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology.
Anders Frick is a freelance journalist specialized on technology and economy. Anders holds a MSc in Media Technology and a MBA in Technology Management. He has also been studying innovation journalism at Stanford University. Besides the media industry, Anders has working experience as business analyst and project manager in telecom and defense industry. He has lived for several years in Taiwan and speaks fluent Mandarin, besides Swedish, English and French.
Erik Olausson is a freelance journalist covering technology and innovation news in southern Sweden and abroad. Erik has a MSc in computer engineering and a master of arts in journalism. His main focus is the intricate interplay between society and the technical development. Apart from writing for InnovationManagement.se, Erik works as an editor for Rapidus news agency, covering mainly small start-up companies within IT, telecom and biotechnology in the Öresund region.
Elisabet Granlund is a freelance journalist, with more than 30 years experience from different medias such as daily morning papers, radio broadcasting and monthly business magazine. Elisabet has also worked with advertising and corporate communications, for example documenting a major innovation project from start to finish.
Cyntia Little, language editor, is a freelance editor and proof reader who is based in the south east of England. She worked for several years at the University of Sussex in the UK in ~SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research as a research programme assistant and an editor.
Editorial board – IM Actionable Knowledge™
Sofia Börjesson, PhD, is Associate Professor in Technology Management, and Research Director of CBI (Center for Business Innovation) at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research is focused around the change and development of organizations with focus on the management of R&D and innovation and strategic change. Her work has been published in journals such as R&D management, Technovation and Creativity and Innovation Management.
Bengt Järrehult, PhD, is Director of Innovation and Knowledge Management for SCA Hygiene Products and SCA Packaging. Dr Järrehult is also Adjunct Professor in Innovative Packaging Logistics at the University of Lund.He earned his M Sc in Chemical Engineering in 1976 and later his PhD at Chalmers University of Technology. He has international experience and is frequently lecturing on and boosting innovation implementation both within SCA and at Universities and Industrial Networks.
Klas Bertilsson, is Concept Manager at the Product Center Compact Heat Exchangers, Alfa Laval, Sweden. He has extensive international experience in business /product development and innovation management. At present, he is actively involved in two important Innovation Networks in Scandinavia. Mr Bertilsson holds an MSc in Executive Master of Technology Management from Chalmers University.
Gunjan Bhardwaj, advisor, senior editor and member of the editorial board. Gunjan is the leader of the Global Business Performance Think-tank of Ernst&Young. He is also the solution champion for Pricing strategy and effectiveness as well as Innovation management in the advisory services of Ernst & Young with a focus on Pharmaceutical and FMCG sector.
Gunjan is also a guest professor for Growth and Innovation management at European Business School (EBS) in Germany and a member of the scientific advisory board of Plexus Institute in the US which researches on complexity in health sciences.
Gunjan has published a number of papers and articles in various Journals and magazines and has been a frequent speaker in conferences on marketing and innovation related topics. He is also the chief editor of the quarterly journal of Ernst & Young’s advisory practice called Performance.
