Andy Copsey, COO, Handelsbanken: the UK’s Fastest Growing Bank
Andy Copsey is the Chief Operating Officer of Handelsbanken in the UK, where he has overseen the bank’s unprecedented growth following the financial sector crisis in 2008.
Learning Nuggets from Dom Monkhouse, Happy Workplaces Conference 2015
At the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, in this two-minute video, Dom Monkhouse of Rackspace explains what he did to create a great workplace – including how he found 100 things to fix without spending any money.
Julian Birkinshaw from London Business School: Bureaucracy, Meritocracy and Adhocracy
In this talk from the 2015 Beyond Budgeting Conference, Julian Birkinshaw approached the principle of Beyond Budgeting from a slightly different angle. The London Business School academic began by forecasting past the information age into what he grudgingly termed the ‘Agile age’. In the second half, Julian’s focus turned to the three models of organising – bureaucracy, meritocracy and adhocracy.
Jesper Krüger on Driving Performance at AP Moller Maersk
Jesper Krüger is Head of Group Performance and Analysis at AP Moller Maersk.
Jesper’s Performance and Analysis team is responsible for driving the company’s short-term and long-term planning cycles, and for analysing, tracking and challenging the performance of business units within the APMM Group against their strategic ambitions.
The team supports the Group and BU decision-making process by providing value-add analysis, financial management information, performance management reporting and financial planning.
First Happy Workplace Ireland Conference
The first Happy Workplace Ireland conference took place in Dublin on 29th October. This was jointly organised between Happy Ltd and locally-based happiness entrepreneur Stephen Dargan of Wake Up!. (If you are interested in organising a Happy Workplace conference in your country, do get in touch: henry@happy.co.uk.)
Here is an account of the day from one of the participants (and, from me, a huge thanks to Stephen Dargan for his fabulous work in organising the event.)
