Defining Iran’s path for growth – the role of private equity
7 December 2016 — Reddal was invited as a keynote speaker to “the 6th international conference on management of technology”, organized by IRAMOT and held in Tehran, Iran, on December 6-8, 2016. We presented results from our on-going work on how venture capital and private equity is affecting growth in various countries.
Capturing the private equity value creation opportunity among Korean mid-cap SMEs
31 August 2016 — We present some early results from our recent study into Korean private equity, and in particular the mid-cap SME sector. The Korean economy needs to find a new path to growth, and SMEs must play a major role.
Succession planning in the context of a family business and why you need outside help
13 January 2016 — The subject of family owned business is important globally, and in particular in the Middle East, where it is further exacerbated by the fact that many of these types of businesses are first or second generation family-owned companies.
Ensuring strategy implementation through competence management in blue-collar industries
19 December 2014 — The full potential of competence management is not often exploited when seeing it as only being relevant for knowledge-intensive work and for people in managerial positions. In this article, we argue that managing the competences of blue collar workers is crucial for many service and manufacturing companies to ensure effective strategy implementation and sufficient operational performance.
Lessons learned from policy support for academic-industry collaborative startups in Finland
23 July 2014 — We review lessons learned from the development of Finland’s venture capital and private equity ecosystem development, and what insights this could provide to South Korean government.
Using a (massively) participative strategy process for corporate change – lessons learned
21 September 2012 — The competitive environment of all companies, whether large or small, is getting increasingly complex and fast-changing. To address this, the strategy process in many companies has been developed towards larger participation. Using crowdsourcing as a part of the strategy process seems to be the topic of the day among consultants advocating new approaches.
Securing strategy implementation through iterative operating model design
21 September 2012 — One of the most common debates in management literature is whether the strategy or the operating model should deserve more focus. The answer is usually something in between – strategy alone does not determine a successful company, but an operating model does not do that either. The trick lies in designing the equilibrium between these two; ensuring that the strategy is implemented through a good operating model design.
Vision-driven strategy the Korean way
30 December 2011 — South Korean companies have for years been among the fastest growing in the world. To understand how Korean companies drive their growth, Reddal traveled to this rapidly developing country and visited multiple companies. The objective was to understand how Korean management thinks about strategy and how they translate their ambition into execution.