My Research
I like working in interdisciplinary contexts, at the intersection of design, engineering and organization. In my research I am interested in how organizations make design choices in situations that demand looking far into the future. I am especially interested in the methods and tools that organizations develop for better knowing in advance whether novel ideas are any good and worth pursuing. I am also interested in organizational routines and how, with all human variation, organizations still manage to get as much repetition and predictability in actions as they do. And once set paths are in place, how can we change them?
Empirically I have studied the expansion and scaling of chain organizations in the fast fashion industry, organizational change and the introduction of roadmapping and agile ways of working in the IT and processing industry. More recently my research has focused on the aerospace industry and the transition from physical to digital prototyping in jetfighter development, starting up greenfield development of jetfighters after long periods of brownfield development of existing systems, as well as educational initiatives aimed at reviving development processes and skills that have been lost.
My Teaching
I do most of my teaching within our Business Administration MSc SMIO (Strategy and Management in International Organizations) and within combinations of subject areas such as Organization, Leadership, Strategy and Innovation. I also teach courses in the MSc Design as well as our engineering program in Design and Product Development. I supervise theses and projects in all three programs. I like teaching challenge-based and in collaboration with industry, with a strong theoretical foundation.
For some years now I have been involved as a teacher in the SUGAR Network for Innovation (www.sugar-network.org) and been engaged in the Global Teaching Team of Stanford’s ME310.
