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Per Aksel Holving

Per Aksel is among the foremost in strategic business management. He has over 35 years of experience from major strategy and management projects at all levels in both public and private companies. In recent years, Per Aksel has particularly supported the government sector in strategy development, goal and performance management, management of social and user effects and effect chains. This includes, among others, the Swedish Tax Agency, the National Archives, the Children and Family Directorate/Agency, the Migration Agency (Sweden), Oslo Municipality's nursing home agency, Statkraft, Statnett, Avinor, NSB (now Vy). ) and the Norwegian Armed Forces.

Per Aksel typically assists the management in revealing which critical conditions must be particularly taken into account during the implementation work. Per Aksel usually has an important, advisory role with the top manager and the top management team in these processes. This is to ensure a common platform and mobilization in both the initiation of major strategy and change projects and later in the actual implementation and management of these.

Per Aksel also teaches as a university lecturer and assistant professor at universities and business schools, and is co-author of textbooks for strategy and business management (Universitetsforlaget 2002, 2008, 2015, 2021).

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Gustaf Josefson

Gustaf is a senior management consultant within performance management. The main focus has been political and politically controlled organizations of different sizes and in different industries. The background as an officer in the Swedish defense and national economy with a special interest in statistics has provided a good basis for having tools to be able to analyze the effectiveness of organizations both from a leadership and statistical perspective.

As chairman of Sahlgrenska University Hospital between the years 2020-2022, work began where the focus was primarily on structuring management and control parameters. Since 2019, he has also led the work on the design of a new organization in the Västra Götaland region for more efficient management of health care.

Gustaf is Kaplan & Norton certified in the USA with expertise in Balanced Scorecards and Execution Premium methodology. Also has good knowledge of Blue Ocean Strategy and Shift. He has also completed strategy-related courses at INSEAD.

Gustaf has mainly worked in fully integrated roles and worked long-term within public organisations, mainly at municipal and regional level.

peraksel.holving@nordicstrategicmanagement.no

gustaf.josefson@nordicstrategicmanagement.se