Strategy and Leadership Development

Head of Section: Professor Christine Ipsen

In our work we identify the organizational and institutional capabilities and barriers to implementing new technologies and the necessary organizational and management changes. 

Insight into these processes is necessary for understanding management and organization of work, addressing the productivity paradox, and supporting managers, employees, and critical actors in their new roles and tasks.

Area of Research

We conduct research in organizational changes driven by new technologies and the effect on people and performance and work to map and understand organizational enablers and barriers in the workplaces.  

Our mission is to:

• Explore and understand  how organizations can facilitate the implementation of new technologies and new ways of working, i.e., algorithmic management, agile work methods, digital technologies (AI), hybrid work, and the impact on the organizational design, people, performance at the organizational level, and societal challenges.
  
  
• Understand the strategies behind the organizational processes and the management of technology implementation and understand the organizational and institutional enablers and barriers.
  
  
• Develop and (re)design methods, tools, guides and intervention programs to support organizational actors in the implementation and/or assess the impact of new technologies.

We work with questions such as:

• How can organizations facilitate the implementation of new technologies? What works – for whom, why and how?
• What are the critical organizational enablers and barriers when implementing new technologies, and how can these be mitigated?
• What are the key effects of new ways of working on people, performance, and societal matters/concerns?
• How does technology impact people, businesses, and society?
• What design criteria are necessary to develop participatory methods that effectively assist key organizational and societal actors in generating impact?

Collaborations

We work with organizations, public and private, large and SMEs in collaboration with industry partners and international scholars.