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The Nordic Africa Institute Interview with Carin Norberg Scandic Hotels One of Scandinavia and northern Europe’s largest hotel chains Financial security for Swedish pensioners The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund Telenor Serbia “Making life easier for the consumers” Tele2 Sweden The lowest price provider among the network operators Bilia Scandinavia’s largest automobile chain Tele2 Netherlands Europe´s leading alternative telecom operator. PRI Pensionstjänst AB PRI helps companies gain access to capital for investments. DMI Stockholm County Council, Drug Management and Informatics Separett Focused on environment friendly toilets worldwide »Show more assignments

Tele2 Netherlands Tele2 Netherlands is part of the Tele2 group. Tele2 serves over 24 million customers in 11 countries in Europe. This makes Tele2, Europe´s leading alternative telecom operator. Tele2 has set out to be perceived as a price leader and offers the market´s most attractive prices. For two days the Tele2 Netherlands management group held a planning session with the help of Lots® in the beautiful place of Noordwijk, on the Dutch Atlantic coast. Read more Drug Management and Informatics Maria von Witting is a manager in Drug Management and Informatics (DMI), a department of health within the Stockholm County Council. DMI’s mission is to be a knowledge center; to produce knowledge and tools for providing the healthy use of medicine within healthcare. Lots® helped us find a way of working in structured planning sessions where we feel confident that we cover what’s important to us. The fact that we work with the Five Aspects as a base has helped us further. Now we have a good foundation to start planning our activities. I am well aware that the result depends on how we use what we’ve got. It’s our plan, we own it, and it’s our responsibility to continue the work ahead. Our work has just begun, but it feels really good. Read more Henry Schein Medical Group Dave McKinley is the President of Henry Schein Medical Group, with over a billion dollars in revenue. “I have been using Lots® since 1985 and it is an excellent tool. We use it both in strategic and budget planning. I like to use Lots® for quick management updates as it provides a good thought process for business reporting keeping the team informed on real world dynamics. “The Outside-In discipline is the best part of Lots®. For established successful companies it can be hard to maintain an “Outside-In” perspective. As it becomes part of the company culture and values, reinventing the business drives creative managers to produce more rewarding results for our customer and us.” Read more Swedbank Mats Holmfeldt is the manager of the business area Home Financing at Swedbank and is in charge of the banking group´s business development, marketing and sales. He was employed about three years ago. "The very first step was to try to change the customers´ image of us, as they perceived us to be expensive. Measures were taken and in 2006 we could see the results of our efforts. Our market share in Sweden increased from 24 percent to 32 percent and we can see clear signs that the trend is upward in 2007 as well." Read more Alm. Brand A/S Alm. Brand was established by a Royal decree signed by King Christian the 7th on February 29, 1792. Today the company has more than 1,600 employees generating revenues of approx DKK 6 billion. To sustain this long tradition and continue the work with the group’s vision and values, Alm. Brand uses Lots® as their business planning tool since the spring of 2005. Last month five persons from Alm. Brand were certified within the realm of Scandinavian Leadership in Lyngby north of Copenhagen. Read more Lena Nyberg, Children´s Ombudsman The Children’s Ombudsman is appointed by the Swedish Government for a term of six years. The current Ombudsman, Lena Nyberg, was appointed in 2001 and is in charge of the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman. The Ombudsman’s main duty is to promote the rights and interests of children and young people as set forth in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (the CRC). The Ombudsman has the assignments to inform and to educate people about the CRC; to promote the application of the CRC in the work of government agencies, municipalities and county councils and to promote public interest regarding key issues. Read more Rezidor Hotel Group Rezidor SAS is one of the world’s fastest growing hotel chains. This 350 hotel chain will top 700 hotels by 2015. With this rapid growth Rezidor needs to ensure that its business planning is consistent and done with a common language throughout the organization. To ensure this Rezidor has used Lots® as their business planning tool throughout the company for the past 17 years. Read more "Lots® helps us to see opportunities" By administering their pension disbursements PRI (The Swedish Pension Registration Institute) helps some 1350 Swedish companies gain access to capital for business investments. 575,000 clients receive their pension through PRI. Read more Growing rapidly in North America Astra Tech Inc. is growing at a rapid pace in its North American market. The business consists of two divisions in Dental Implants and Urology. Scott Root the CEO of Astra Tech Inc. is utilizing both Lots® for business development and Mindo® for leader and team development. He says “With two businesses in different markets I need a way to understand the businesses and have our people be focused on the customer. Read more COLUMBIA Hotels & Resorts implement Lots® The new Managing Director of COLUMBIA Hotels & Resorts, Alexander Huschka, has decided to implement Lots® within the company for two reasons. First he would like to see, that people find a balance way in their daily life and second, he believes that being successful at work, a structured thinking and doing is a must. Read more Sacci develops carrying equipment “We focus on quality and customer service in our business” says Claes Nideborn, CEO of Sacci. “We know that our products will be used daily for many years and based on that we choose design and materials. Our ambition is to produce very high quality equipment.” Read more Separett - green road to the future Separet is a company focused on the manufacturing of environment friendly toilets. The family owned company is today one of northern Europe’s leading manufacturer within its field. Separett hired Scandinavian Leadership for a three-day exercise. “We needed to become more of a team and get a better grip. During these three days we chose to develop a plan for the export markets.” Read more Promonte, Montenegro With a population of 650,000 Montenegro is one of the smallest countries in Europe. But for Promonte - the largest mobile operator in the country and for its owner Norwegian Telenor - Montenegro is an exciting market where tourists are important customers. Today the cell phone penetration is approximately 90%, and still growing. According to Kåre Gustad, Promonte’s new CEO, Promonte has a strong position with a market share of 60 %. Read more The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund Mats Andersson is the new CEO since January 1st, 2007. “I wanted us in the management team to have a common tool to enable the development of a common strategy and business plan. To accomplish this we asked Carl Filip Bergendal from Scandinavian Leadership to guide us with the help of Lots®.” Read more

GOOD RETURN ON REFLECTION The balance between thinking and acting Outside-in and Inside-out is a constant challenge for us as individuals and as an organization. How can we become more aware of this condition? What can we do in order to develop ourselves and our organization in a way that will be successful and sustainable? A clear and inspiring Vision and true Values are the beginning. The processes presented in this book will guide you on the way from a Vision to successful implementation. Read more