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Summary

Independent Consultant / Associate professor specializing in:

• Organization Development (Facilitating Strategy and Change interventions and M&A integration)
• Management development, teambuilding and conflict resolution
• ERP, EIS (OLAP) and IT infrastructure implementation
• Cross-cultural issues

Offices:

Endre Sjøvold Consulting AS /NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Recent Professional Experience

Royal Norwegian Naval Academy

• Combined research and development program concerning leadership training and organizational values. Initiated 1999 and are still ongoing.
• Surveys on organizational culture and leadership in public sector:
• Conducting yearly surveys on organizational culture, and related work (leadership training, values, balanced scorecard approaches etc). Ongoing relations with clients in public sector each lasting more than one year:
• Sørum kommune
• Fet kommune
• Vestby kommune
• Holtålen kommune
• Oslo kommune

Nemko ASA

• Culture and leadership development including yearly culture-surveys since 1994.

NCC Trondheim 1998 – 2000

• Financially initiated turnaround including process reengineering, culture change and leadership development.

Corrocean

• Culture change emphasizing organizational values and leadership / team development.

Schneider electric

• SAP/R3 implementation (modules SD, MM, PP, FI, CO, AM) with process reengineering 1998 - 1999.
• Nordic implementation (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden). 4 sales organizations and 2 production units in scope (600 employees) Project team of total 28 DC and 30 client participants Responsible for change leadership
• Change team consisting of 4 top-level managers (HR, External Communication and operational) from client and a full time manager and part time senior manager from Deloitte.
• Change Leadership (CL) is an integral part of each country implementation. All modules and activities of the CL methodology are applied.

Norsk Hydro

• Reengineering Finance in the Global organization 1998-2000
• Project limited to the finance organization of Norsk Hydro focusing re-enginering of processes and shared services. This project is now integrated with other initiatives in cooperation with BCG.
• Responsible for change leadership
• Change Leadership involvement in the re-engineering part of the project the CL-team consisted of 3 managers from client one double-hatter and a part time senior manager from Deloitte. All modules and activities of the CL methodology are applied.

Norsk Hydro

• eBusiness Strategy development 2000
• Responsible for eChange services

Siemens AS

• Process reengineering with SAP/R3 implementation as backbone 1998 – 1999
• Local implementation with five (plus) of 7 divisions in scope.

ABB Signal group (Europe) (3 years)

• Developing and implementing EIS covering financial, customer, employees and market development ("Market Warfare"). Finished and implemented on Microsoft Windows platform in 1991 before "Balanced scorecard became" a buss-word (HBR, 1992). System fully Accessible from laptops on the Windows 3.0 platform.
• M&A of 13 companies in 11 different countries (integration phase)
• Establishing management systems and supported organizational integration including yearly organizational surveying over a three-year period.

Televerket/Telenor AS (Norway) (2.5 years)

• Developing and implementing EIS covering financial, customer, employees and market development (Balanced Scorecard) Finished and implemented 1995, building on an MBO approach.
• Management system development and implementation
• Integration of IT infrastructure of merged companies and divisions, Data-warehousing and decision support (with the IT-RD dep. of the company).

Olivetti group (Norway) (1.5 years)

• Developing Decision support system (EIS) supporting a balanced scorecard approach.
• Leading "culture change" project leading to a successful financial turn-around without any major structural changes or lay-offs.
• Mapping of the complete organization including yearly surveys. Overall OD.

Lucky Goldstar group (Korea)

• Management training, seminars on organizational change and methodology

Norwegian Saving Banks (4 years)

• Implementation of "New Terminal Generation" in more than 2000 offices spread all over Norway (with NCR/FD).
• Supporting the concept of "the bank of tomorrow", which at that time was the most modern in the world.
• The project was facing most of the problems today associated with so-called e-Business. Extensive use of eLearning concepts.

Fellesdata AS

• Established open learning centre and eLearning facilities.
• Contributed as author of CBT and IVI software.
• Responsible for external and internal technical training.
• Responsible for internal organizational change and Management education and training.

Employment history

2002- Organizational consultant at Endre Sjøvold Consulting / Associate professor at NTNU 1998 Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting. Responsible for building the Nordic Change and performance serviceline, European e-Change responsible and member of the European management-team for change. Several IT-based change-projects. 1988- Organizational consultant at Endre Sjøvold Consulting AS (Oslo). Part of an international virtual consulting consortium (US, GB, The Netherlands, South Korea). 1984- Frequently used as lecturer at Norwegian Universities and Business schools (MBA level and higher) 1984 Training officer at Fellesdata AS. IT transformations / eLearning and organizational change 1980 Lecturing, instructing and educating. Administrating work at Norwegian institute for physical education (NIH) in environmental and leadership topics. 1975 Duty as officer in the Norwegian Army (Infantry).

Education & Professional Qualifications

1995 PhD in Organizational Psychology at Department of Organization and Work Science, University of Trondheim, NTNU 1984-88 Several OD Courses at Management Center Europe, Brussel and eLearning (CBT / IVI dev) / IT infrastructure at NCR- Europe, Birmingham 1984 MSc at University of Oslo 1977 Degree in sports and physical education at, NIH, Oslo 1975 Military Academy

Other information

Nationality Norwegian Location Oslo, Norway Language(s) Scandinavian, English Date of birth Feb 1 1954 Status Married, Three children Driving Full Driving Licence Web site  (in Norwegian)

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