Författare: Petri Uusikylä

Hanna Lehtimäki (Ph D) is a Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Eastern Finland Business School, and serves as a docent at the University of Tampere, Faculty of Management and Business. She has extensive international experience as a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, Canada; Fulbright Senior Scholar at George Mason University, USA; co-chair of the International Conference on Management Cases at BIMTECH, India; and international Strategy Practice interest group leader at the international Strategic Management Society. Dr. Lehtimäki’s research interests include strategic management, leadership, and organizational renewal. Her work chiefly focuses on constructionist meaning-making and language, stakeholders and networks, a humanist view on strategizing, and relational leadership. Petri Uusikylä is a co-founder and director at Frisky & Anjoy. He has over 25 years experience in policy analysis, capacity building and evaluation. Mr. Uusikylä is a member of the Board of the European Evaluation Society and of various OECD expert groups in the field of performance management. He has an extensive list of publications (more than 100 published articles, books and research reports) in the fields of public budgeting, policy evaluation and methodology, European policy-making and public management reform, and development aid. He has given several training courses on project management, EU policy-making, statistical methods, data analysis, and survey techniques. He has also consulted and offered training on evaluation and performance management in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary and other OECD countries. Anssi Smedlund (Ph D) is a Chief Research Scientist at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), Helsinki, Finland and an Adjunct Professor of Organizational Structures at the University of Tampere, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere, Finland. He received his Ph D in Industrial Engineering and Management from Aalto School of Science and has held visiting scholar positions at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, USA. Dr. Smedlund’s research interests include knowledge management, service science, and information system science.