Bjarte Bogsnes
Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is currently heading up Statoil's Beyond Budgeting project. Statoil is Scandinavia's largest company, with operations in 40 countries and a turnover of 70 bn USD.
Beyond Budgeting shares many of the same beliefs found in the Lean and Agile principles, and Bjarte is involved in Statoil's own Scrum initiative. He has also been heading up a large IT project, vigorously fighting "waterfall" thinking already in the late eighties.
Bjarte is Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table in Europe (BBRT). He has just published the book "Implementing Beyond Budgeting - Unlocking the Performance Potential", where he writes about his experiences from Statoil and Borealis (where he headed up a similar initiative in 1995), and why traditional leadership and management practices no longer works in today's competence organisations operating in a business environment more complex, dynamic and unpredictable than ever.
