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Ewa Braf

Adjunct Associate Professor

I am very interested in future organisations and leadership. I work with questions like: How should we lead and organise to be sustainable and create more value for our customers? How can we increase individuals’ commitment and meaningfulness?

Future Organisation and Leadership

We are facing a paradigm shift. Technical development has allowed globalization and increased rate of change. One consequence of this is an increased complexity and thereby reduced predictability. We live in a world of predictable unpredictability and stable instability. We need to rethink why we do what we do. We need to do it now, as the future is already here.

My Purpose

Call me practical theorist or theoretical practitioner. Development is my driving force and I aim to increase the understanding of how we can develop successful value-creating organisations that utilise the opportunities of IT as well as the abilities and potential of people. This is my purpose both in the role of teacher, researcher and practitioner.

A New Way to Lead and Organise

We need to lead and organise in a new way. We need organizations that create conditions for increased flexibility, networking and innovation. Organizations that are doing well with people who feel well.

Future Leadership

Future leaders need to create conditions for the organization as a system to work in a value-creating way for the customers. In addition, leaders need to coach and support individuals and teams to make decisions themselves and take responsibility for the consequences. This requires enhanced engagement, responsibility and initiative of the individuals: An increased self-leadership.

The Digital Transformation

The ongoing digitisation drives the need for a new way of managing and organising. In addition, that follows a need for new abilities and, above all, a shift in mindset. The provision of skills and collective learning is central to ensuring continuous value creation and the right abilities.

Change Leadership

The ability to initiate, drive and implement changes is a key. This ability is needed both in formal leadership and in each one of the actors in the organisation and its network.

Research Interests

  • Leadership and Self-leadership
  • Change Work
  • Management and Organisation
  • Data-Driven Operations
  • Knowledge Management and Collective Learning

Publications

2023

Jason Martin, Andreas Wallo, Ida Gremyr, Malin Wiger, Ewa Braf, Ulf Melin, Mattias Elg (2023) Närhet på distans: En guide för ledarskap på distans med stöd av digitala arbetssätt
Jason Martin, Andreas Wallo, Ida Gremyr, Malin Wiger, Ewa Braf, Ulf Melin, Mattias Elg (2023) Närhet på distans: En guide för ledarskap på distans med stöd av digitala arbetssätt

2004

Ewa Braf (2004) Knowledge demanded for action: studies of knowledge mediation in organisations

2002

Ewa Braf, Göran Goldkuhl (2002) The Significance of organisational capability - the interplay of knowledge, communication and technology Proceedings of European Conference on Knowledge Management 2003 (ECKM2003), 24-25 September, Dublin, Ireland, p. 95-107 (Conference paper)
Göran Goldkuhl, Ewa Braf (2002) Organisational Ability: Constituents and Congruencies Organisational Ability: Constituents and Congruencies: The graffiti continues, Part 1, p. 30-42 (Chapter in book) Continue to DOI

Academic Degrees

Ph D Informatics, Linköping University 2004

Organisation