The Digital Edge

Der er flere brancher hvor det siges, at man møder folk på en af de værste dage af deres liv. Men for den globale - og danske - virksomhed Viking Life-Saving Equipment er det helt sikkert sandt. For Esbjerg-baserede Viking Life-Saving Equipment har i mere end 60 år leveret redningsudstyr som redningsflåder, redningsbåde, evakueringssystemer, branddragter, redningsveste og overlevelsesdragter – for...

De sidste par måneder har for alvor understreget hvor svært det er at spå om fremtiden. For hvem havde i februar regnet med corona-krisen ville betyde, at først gær og toilet-papir – og senere rødvin og oksekød var blandt danskernes favorit-varer? Men faktum er at vores indkøbs- og madvaner bliver påvirket af trends, modeluner og ja…også pandemier. Det ved CIO hos Arla Torben Fabrin noget om. Torb...

With almost 500.000 employees in 70 countries, the Danish facility management company ISS is one of the largest companies worldwide. And with just 15 percent - or 7500 people - based in Denmark, ISS is a truly global company. Managing this huge amount of employees and customers across multiple borders, regions, and cultures takes skill - and would be almost impossible without the right IT-setup to...

AirBnb og Uber er det vi typisk forbinder med moderne virksomheder: De er videnstunge – og ofte skabt ud fra en eller to grundlæggeres gode idé. Men gode ideer er ikke en ny opfindelse. I dag produceres for eksempel omkring 50 procent af verdens kunstgødning ved hjælp af teknologi fra den danske virksomhed Haldor Topsøe, der blev grundlagt i 1940 af dr. Haldor Topsøe….på baggrund af hans store vid...

"Vi skal bruge teknologi og data til at skabe suverænt gode kundeoplevelser. Datadrevet vækst er et strategisk mål for Pandora. Vi vil skabe en overvisende kundeoplevelse for alle vores kunder." Sådan forklarede CIO hos smykkefirmaet Pandora, Peter Cabello Holmberg, fremtidsplanerne til Computerworld i januar 2020. Siden er verden som bekendt blevet vendt på hovedet af den globale corona-pandemi,...

For de fleste danskere er Grønland ukendt land. Et sted hvor naturen er ubarmhjertig og barsk. Men hvor Grønland kan virke kold og bar på overfladen er havene rundt om verdens største ø rige på liv. Det ved Royal Greenland, der siden 1979 har leveret fisk og skaldyr af høj kvalitet. Men som kan spore sin historie helt tilbage til 1774. I dag har Royal Greenland, der ejes af det grønlandske hjemmes...

Velkommen til første episode af The Digital Edge i 2020. Som noget nyt er podcasten nu på dansk. For vi må simpelthen konstatere at der er så mange gode historier og så mange dygtige mennesker herhjemme, at vi har indhold nok til at holde sæsonen rent dansk. Dine værter er dog stadig Lars Jacobsen, chefredaktør på Computerworld og Jesper Schleimann, der er Chief Innovation Officer, i Nordeuropa ho...

With 37.000 employees, 1.050 shops and 36% share of the Danish market the 153-year-old retail chain COOP is one of the largest Danish companies. But the core market is in decline: When it comes to food we Danes focus more on price than quality, we dine out more and we prefer to spend our money traveling the world or buying the latest iPhone. COOP's response has been to make Coop more local, simple...

Every year the Danish collective pension insurance fund ATP pays out more than 250 billion Danish Kroner - around 38 billion US Dollars. A vast sum all based on the contribution of almost all Danish citizens during their working lives. Originally set up in 1964 ATP today also manages 2 out of 3 Danish welfare payments for the more than 5 million members. Managing this complex, unique and highly re...

Since 2016 Mark Dajani has been the CIO and Senior VP for Global Business Services at Carlsberg Group. One of the world's best-known breweries. Describing himself as one part Business Executive, one part People Champion and one part IT-Innovator Mark Dajani's job is to ensure that Carlsberg is ready for the digital future - in whatever shape or form it may arrive in. This is no small task in a glo...

In 2002 Jan Amtoft - the global CIO at industry giant Rockwool - arrived at an important decision: He wanted to become a great manager. Not just good. But great. It was and still is a bold ambition. Especially so in the IT-industry were bits, bytes, shiny new hardware, and daring "take no prisoners" managers normally seize all the attention. But none of the innovation we take for granted happens w...

Few inventions have benefitted humankind as much as electricity: Electricity brought light where there had been darkness before. And electricity let us apply incredible forces to tasks that were normally done by muscles, water, or steam. The challenge is that the traditional production and usage of electricity have not only changed our lives - it also changed our climate. As a result, we are on th...

109 years ago the first vacuum cleaner rolled off the production line at Nilfisk. Over a century later both Nilfisk and the world has grown larger - and more digital. But how do a storied company like Nilfisk become a digital company? And how do you make the switch from successful products to popular services? At Nilfisk the person with the answers is Bjarne Schøn. He leads the digital transformat...

Few Nordic companies have grown as fast as Danish transport and logistics company DSV. Through organic growth and several large acquisitions, today DSV has annual revenues of more than 12 billion UDS and a market capitalization on Nasdaq Copenhagen of more than 15 billion USD. DSV employs more than 40,000 people in 75 different countries and is among the top five largest transport and logistics co...

Amazon has yet to enter the Nordic market. But the American tech company´s initiatives such as the fully automated supermarket Amazon Go and fast home-delivery service has generated a lot of interest in the retail sector. Maybe because our searches are dominated by Google and our communication is facilitated by Facebook - but our grocery-shopping is still done in the classic analog way. At least f...

At Velliv, CDO Christine Hunderup is at the center of a fast-paced digital transformation. Velliv, which was formerly named Nordea Liv & Pension, will in a few years change the central IT-platform, change the brand and change the very way the company works digitally. It is a transition that affects several hundred thousand pension customers in Denmark's third largest pension company. Today, the di...

At Spar Nord, one of the largest Danish banks, Senior Vice President of Communication & Business Development Ole Madsen is right in the middle of Spar Nords ambitious digitalization. Its a transformation project that Ole calls "one of the most ambitious in the world right now" - and a project that aims to change the way Spar Nord adopts new technology - and the way that the bank interacts with the...