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 automate everything from payrolls to onboarding. So we very happy to have Senior VP, CIO,...

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 viden og gode ideer. Haldor Topsøe leverer i dag derfor viden og processer til katalyser i...

"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, hjemsendelser og hjemmearbejdspladser. Men ambitionerne om at nedbryde siloer i...

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 hjemmestyre, sin egen flåde af trawlere og egne fabrikker og eksportmarkeder over hele verden. Og...

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 hos SAP. Vores mission er også fortsat den samme: Vi vil dele nogle af Danmarks dygtigste it-...

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, simpler and digital. The building blocks have so far been a hugely popular app, more self-service...

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 regulated area would hardly be possible without a large scale it-operation. An operation that...

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 global company with 40.000 employees and with deep roots stretching back to 1847 - and in a...

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 without the right employes. The same employees that most companies spend millions of dollars...

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 the brink of a giant change when it comes to production and usage of energy. At the large...

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 transformation at Nilfisk - and Bjarne's team, called Digital Service, works as a startup within the...

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 company in the world. This creates a unique set of demands for the it-management of DSV....

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 for a little while - because the retail industry is changing. And new subscription models,...

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 digital department that Christine Hunderup started 3 years ago, now includes 13 employees -...

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 customers. Its a huge undertaking as few industries face the same massive challenges as...