Jan Finnesand
Helping businesses
identify opportunities
for growth, through
the lens of; planet,
people, profit.
Helping businesses
identify opportunities
for growth, through
the lens of; planet,
people, profit.
Planet.
People.
Profit.
About Jan Finnesand
Jan is an experienced strategist, mentor, and innovation director with an entrepreneurial mindset and a compassionate leadership style that combines creativity and management consulting in order to support and enable future growth.
That during the past 20 years, has developed a set of skills that enables him to envision, direct, and drive future opportunities into tangible business outcomes. Crossing strategy, business, design, communication, and technology in order to challenge the current dominant industry logic, propose new-to-the-world services, business model innovations, restructure organizations for future resilience, and co-create new value enabling synergies and value constellations.
Believing purpose-driven organizations are those that will succeed in the future and convinced that futures’ thinking and creativity are critical capabilities in order to transform current businesses into customer-centric organizations.
— Where growth must manifest through the triple sustainability lens of; planet, people, profit.
Business Environment & Key Capabilities
As business environments are exponentially becoming more complex, and competitive advantages become more transient. Innovation as a capability has never before been more mission-critical.
This is where Jan comes in.
Applying his broad set of experience and skills in the follwing capabilites, making him uniquely positioned to support senior management in their pursuit of future growth.
Business Transformation
a
Management
Consulting & Future
Growth Strategy
Business Growth
b
Strategic Design
& Strategic
Foresight
Business Growth
c
Innovation Strategy
& Business Model
Innovation
Creativity & Leadership
d
Creative Direction,
Creative Strategy &
Art Direction
Craft & Execution
e
Design, Concept
Development &
Creativity
Value Proposition & Key Processes
As an innovation strategist and business design professional, Jan is convinced that in order to sense and seize future opportunities, reconfigure organizations for resilience, and accelerate innovations. Organizations need to apply a future-back mindset, in addition to the traditional present-forward approach, in order to remain competitive and relevant.
Delivering value through three primary business objectives; (1) Align and facilitate top management to become future oriented. (2) Create innovation as a capability within organisations. (3) Lead and identify new strategic options for actions for future growth.
Combining the key capabilities of Innovation Strategy, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Design, Discovery-Driven Planning, and Design Thinking, through the following key processes:
1
Inspire,
advise, and align
key stakeholders for
strategic choices,
and direction
& Management Consulting
2
Analyze,
envision, and
conceptualize
strategic options
for action
Business Model Innovation
3
Structure,
direct, and lead
prioritized options
through incubation,
and validation
& Service Innovation
4
Reframe,
structure, and
restructure
organizations for
resilience
& Management Consulting
5
Advice,co-implement,
and scale validated
options into the
preformance
matrix
& Management Consulting
Work Experience
With a broad and varied career, Jan has gained in-depth experience and knowledge in a multiple set of fields. From design, concept development, and creative direction — To innovation strategy, business model innovation, and management consulting.
Get in Touch
Curious to know more, or just want to have a friendly chat? Contact Jan via e-mail, whether it is about innovation as a capability, consulting, new ventures, or job opportunities.