Jón Grétar Guðjónsson
Managing Consultant
Seasoned Management Consultant and acknowledged leader, with extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture and Entrepreneurship, business development, performance management and start-ups. Over 10 years of experience working with complex business and technology scenarios within the finance sector. Working with CEOs, CIOs and CTOs in formulating technical strategies aligning IT with business priorities and processes.
Specialities: product development, change management, new ventures, strategy and execution, communication, lean management, performance management, infrastructure operations and design, analysing and optimizing both complex, as well as highly integrated distributed systems processes and procedures as well as management coaching and development.
Expertise
The overall scope and direction of a corporation and the way in which its various business operations work together to achieve particular goals. We can help formulate a corporate strategy by facilitating the process, involving the stakeholders and making sure it delivers.
We use proven methodologies and professional approaches for our Enterprise Architecture projects. We employ industry best practices and enrich them with our insights gathered over years of practicing Enterprise Architecture.
When your organization undertakes projects or initiatives to improve performance, seize opportunities or address key issues, they often require changes; changes to processes, job roles, organizational structures and types and uses of technology. However, it is actually the employees of your organization who have to ultimately change how they do their jobs. If these individuals are unsuccessful in their personal transitions, if they don’t embrace and learn a new way of working, the initiative will fail.
Digitalization presents big opportunities for businesses. It creates additional value for your customers and increases efficiency and effectiveness in the process. It is the fundamental disruptive force shaping the 4th industrial revolution. It is blurring the boundaries separating industry sectors, forcing companies to re-imagine industry models and take on new competitors.
There are three phases to digitalization
- Leverage the existing
- Run the business in dual mode
- Orchestrate the future
In order to be successful in Digitalization, you need to build strong execution capabilities as well as platforms to support your digitalization efforts. Let's talk about how Digitalization can improve your business today.
Lean has taken the world by storm, and by good reason. Applying lean to your organization helps you do more for less, improve quality and re-focus your operations on your customer and his happiness. Isn't that exactly what everybody wants?
Business efficiency is crucial to the success of any enterprise. Every aspect of your business, from finance to human resources, from production to distribution, can be riddled with inefficiencies that drive costs up. You might nead to adapt Lean methodologies or re-organize to re-mobilize your workforce. Either way, we can help.
When Scrum is used the right way, Scrum will help you with getting a leaner approach to your product development and more transparency on how the work is conducted. By using Scrum, you will have a better overview on priorities and progress and you will also be able to adjust and react faster to new challenges in an ever changing and competitive market.
We have experienced project managers that can help you manage any project. We can prepare, execute and follow up on project plans, oversee and troubleshoot or even help you get a project that's gone off track, back on the right track.
Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to making an organization's workflow more effective, more efficient and more capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment. Everybody can do business process management, you don't need a heavy investment in automation tools, just start with us at the beginning and take it from there. Stepwise implementations result in lower automation costs and improved agility. Let's talk about how we can get you started.
IT Service Management is a general term that describes a strategic approach for designing, delivering, managing and improving the way information technology (IT) is used within an organization. The goal of every IT Service Management framework is to ensure that the right processes, people and technology are in place so that the organization can meet its business goals. We are experienced in ITSM and can help you navigate the complex economy of frameworks, standards and buzzwords helping you home in on the real business value of ITSM.
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Undanfarið hafa dunið á okkur fréttir um að efnahagsumhverfi heimsins fari versnandi. Covid-19 veiran hefur farið um heiminn eins og eldur í sinu og mörg ríki hafa sett á samkomu- og útivistarbönn. Einnig hafa fjármálamarkaðir tekið dýfu, sambærilega við þá sem þeir tóku í efnahagshruninu 2008. Bjartsýnustu spár hagfræðinga gera ráð fyrir töluverðum samdrætti sem mun vara í mánuði á meðan þær svartsýnustu gera ráð fyrir niðursveiflu í allt að 5 ár. Allt veltur þetta á getu stjórnvalda til að spyrna á móti útbreiðslu veirunnar og auka rýmd heilbrigðiskerfisins. En hvað getum við sem leiðtogar, stjórnendur og frumkvöðlar gert til að vernda þau störf sem við höfum hjálpað til við að skapa og leggja okkar af mörkum til að hjól atvinnulífsins haldist áfram að snúast?
Mörgum fallast hendur þegar markaðurinn dregst saman en það eru mörg tækifæri sem leynast í slíku umhverfi og í harðnandi samkeppni. Það er mikilvægt fyrir fyrirtæki að að nýta tækifærin á meðan þau bjóðast í stað þess að sjá til og hugsa of mikið um það sem ekki er hægt að gera.
Digitalization eða stafrænar umbreytinga eru flókin og aðkallandi viðfangsefni sem flest fyrirtæki standa frammi fyrir í dag. Flestar stafrænar umbreytingar fylgja hefðbundnum breytingarferlum, fyrst hundsa fyrirtæki aukna samkeppni frá keppinautum. Næst fara þau að horfast í augu við samkeppnina, og viðurkenna svo fyrir sjálfum sér að það er þörf á því að breyta einhverju. Þegar fyrirtækið hefur lokið ýtarlegri naflaskoðun getur ein niðurstaðan verið sú að það þurfi að ráðast í umbreytingu og þá er stafræn umbreyting eða stafræn framtíð eins og það er líka kallað það sem verður oft fyrir valinu. Við köfuðum í reynslubankann okkar og tókum 10 dæmigerðar áhættur við stafræna umbreytingu.
Hvernig veistu að verkefnin þín eru að skila raunverulegu virði? Eru verkefnin þín að skila pening í kassann eða eru þau bara góð saga í næsta kokteilboði? Hefur þú einhvern tímann átt erfitt með að sjá hvernig verkefni getur mögulega borgað sig? Ef eitthvað af þessum spurningum eiga við þig, lestu áfram. Hvernig þú svarar þessum spurningum geta þýtt líf eða dauði fyrir fyrirtækið þitt. Sprotafyrirtæki, startup, gæti klárað fjárfestinguna sína og stærri og eldri fyrirtæki gætu orðið undir í samkeppninni. Við ætlum að sýna þér hvernig þú svarar þessum spurningum rétt með því að nota Lean Startup aðferðirnar hans Eric Ries, nánar tiltekið Innovation Accounting.
I’m often stunned when I engage in dialogue with people that work in organizations that have a job title with the word architect in it. The conversation usually goes:
“So tell me about your <subject area> architecture”
The reply I tend to get is something along the lines of:
“Well, you’d have to talk to the <subject area> architect to find that out, I don’t know.”
Allar tölvudeildir þurfa að gæta að jafnvæginu á milli nýsköpunar og rekstraröryggis. Of mikil nýsköpun ógnar stöðugleikanum og rekstraröryggi fyrirtækisins á meðan of mikil áhersla á rekstraröryggi ógnar nýsköpuninni. Án nýsköpunar getur fyrirtækið ekki þróast og aflað sér nýrra viðskiptavina, en án rekstraröryggis getur fyrirtækið ekki viðhaldið stöðugu þjónustustigi en það getur kostað það viðskiptavini.
Is your business strategy vague or hard to understand? Do your employees lend different understanding to your strategy depending on their role or the task at hand? There are ways to simplify and communicate your strategic statement in a more efficient way. Let’s look at how you do it.
Is your business strategy vague or hard to understand? Do your employees lend different understanding to your strategy depending on their role or the task at hand? There are ways to simplify and communicate your strategic statement in a more efficient way. Let’s look at how you do it.
For most IT people, the term IT strategy is connected to vague visionary statements, cultural buzzwords and huge documents. These documents can be expensive to produce, difficult to maintain and a nightmare to communicate. Visions are hard to implement without specific guidance and cultural buzzword are fireworks that quickly fizzle out when people walk out of your presentation. If you aren’t one of those huge businesses chances are that you don’t have one of those gigantic documents to follow. Even if you are, there are still ways to make your IT strategy better.