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.

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