Organisational change management frameworks, like Prosci and ADKAR, have their merits but also limitations. I acknowledge these methodologies' popularity and ...
Read moreThe year 2023 had lower-than-normal M&A activity. This was mainly due to the high interest rates yet still high company ...
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One of the strategic objectives of Kontiotuote Oy (later Kontio) for the strategy period is "exploiting the potential of digitalisation". ...
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Effective integration on all levels of business revolves around controlled actions based on sound data and an understanding of the ...
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Before reading further, I ask you to stop here and think: what do the title’s three words mean to you? ...
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MES is designed to manage and optimise manufacturing processes. In the ISA-95 framework, MES is positioned in the heart of ...
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Finding the right balance between technological, productivity-driven and human-centric development is key to success in manufacturing in the 2020s. Actions ...
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If your company’s strategy is to increase its growth or profitability (rapidly) through several acquisitions or divestments, I recommend introducing ...
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Welcome to read part one of our industrial production blog series. In today's dynamic business landscape, understanding the ever-shifting nature ...
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Jussi, Riikka and Sanna joined our team in early August, bringing vast knowledge from transformation and development projects in the ...
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Midagon's consultants come with many different experiences and backgrounds, which is our company's strength. As a good example of this, ...
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My professional working life started in the paper and printing industry with a two-year experience in production supervisor roles. After ...
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For the last 20 years before joining Midagon in March 2023, I worked on the IT vendor side. I started ...
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Before joining the team of Midagonians, I had the privilege to gain more than 16 years of experience from 3PL ...
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I recently saw a comic strip on LinkedIn where digital transformation was compared to a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. ...
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When insurance companies are in the process of modernising and renewing their business processes due to customer expectations, they often ...
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Over the last couple of years, Gartner has highlighted the topic of ”composable” models: Composable Organisation, Composable Architecture and Composable ...
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The ERP is now live, but the work is not over. I see that as companies evolve over time, new ...
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So, this ERP project execution phase will last for quite a while. In some large projects, we are talking almost ...
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And now it’s off to the races. Things start moving, deadlines are set, and the project plan is finalised. Assigned ...
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In the previous chapters, we figured out that we really do need an ERP project and what processes the new ...
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Ok, now it seems that someone inside your company is pushing for an ERP. If the idea came from a ...
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This six part series about ERP projects has been written to highlight - with some humour - the lifespan of ...
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When I started as a summer worker in a large electronics manufacturing company to do order handling activities on the ...
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When considering an investment in a core system, whether it be a new one or a replacing an existing system, ...
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It was a great summer holiday spent mostly traveling with family and friends, eating lots of delicious food, enjoying warm ...
Read moreWhen companies plan for the management of transformative projects, they have several options to source the required project management skills ...
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Hello all! I was walking up the streets of a small town in southwest Finland on a grey day in ...
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We’ve just arrived to the Azores islands with the Ocean Ladies yacht, and I wanted to share with my network ...
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At the end of last year, we initiated community work in several areas. It has been a great pleasure to work ...
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In this blog, I would like to introduce Midagon’s ICT Management community. Midagon’s communities aim to improve internal team building and ...
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Midagon helped SSAB design and implement a new Track and Trace (TnT) visibility platform for transportation, providing customers with direct ...
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During the past two months, many Western companies have pulled out of Russia and at Midagon, we have recent experience ...
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The M&A Community started its work a few months back and we are now ready to share a couple of ...
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I have been working with financial services systems deployment, development and maintenance for more than 20 years. My career started ...
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The traditional approach to supply chain is relatively simple and straightforward. Suppliers supply, producers produce, distributors distribute, retailers sell and, ...
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Finland is my second home and soon I will have lived here half of my life. I was brought up ...
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ERP projects are known for their complexity and significant risk of failure. However, this is not how an ERP project ...
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How would you describe a world-class finance function? If you think of adjectives like reliable, competent, efficient, consistent and impartial, ...
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Hi! It’s been a month since I started at Midagon and I’d like to share a little something about me. ...
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In industrial digital capability development, the focus has turned from technology-oriented pilots to functional business core changes. Simultaneously for data, ...
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Creating an M&A playbook - a standardized approach for mergers and acquisitions implementation can help your organization to run projects ...
Read moreIn this blog, I will share my experiences in the past few decades from various different roll-outs, and discuss my ...
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It takes skill to identify potential benefit sources of modern technologies in different industrial contexts. You must know both the ...
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I have always been somewhat fascinated by finance. When I was about five years old, my dream job was to ...
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Culture, change and people leadership are some of the most challenging and disputed aspects of M&A integration. Especially when integration ...
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Planning future events is essential for every organization in order to maintain focus and direct the business in each market ...
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In October 2020, Midagon released the white paper How to drive business value from digital in process and manufacturing industries. ...
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2020 will be remembered as a year of uncertainty, rapid changes and adapting to new conditions. The pandemic forced all ...
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As the preparation phase of an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) project progresses towards the final stages of solution and vendor ...
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An exceptional year for Midagon’s M&A services came to an end and a new one has started. The feeling is ...
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As mentioned in our previous blog, new Artificial Intelligence (AI) related business opportunities can be found by considering which tasks ...
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Are you familiarized with all the ways in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) can benefit the area of sourcing and procurement? ...
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Far too often driving analytics in companies comes down to single analytics rehearsals conducted by just a few enlightened individuals ...
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Cross-ordering in this context stands for a process where acquired and acquiring businesses sell each other’s products and services to ...
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Almost exactly one year ago I attended the Dagens Industri's M&A conference in Stockholm. Our CEO Ilkka Töyrylä had encouraged ...
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Unlike the Olympics, an ERP go-live is all about winning. Our project team has been challenged by the pandemic during ...
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Digital development in process and manufacturing industries is on the move. Important advances in the ways in which companies are ...
Read moreThe first half of 2020 was exceptional in M&A markets. When market fundamentals are unclear, thorough and strategic due diligence ...
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As discussed in our previous articles, process and manufacturing industries are facing an important challenge when it comes to bringing ...
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There is a general expectation that the recession following the COVID-19 lockdown will create a major wave of new business ...
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While the M&A landscape has been impacted by the current crisis, and many deals are on hold, it’s more important ...
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Throughout the 2010's, digital development was focused on innovations, pilots and digital strategies. These were all formed apart from the ...
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The development of digital is changing many industries and value chains dramatically. Today, digital is a vital piece of everything. ...
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In my previous blog, I opened the key challenges to scale digitalization from small experiments to true business benefits. Let's ...
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Integration services related to mergers, acquisitions and carve-outs have been at the core of Midagon's service offering as long as ...
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SAP has announced that its support to the SAP Business Suite 7 will end by 2025. SAP will then support ...
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‘The only thing that is constant is change’-is a phrase that you often hear in organizations which are enabling change ...
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The majority of Mergers and Acquisitions fail to achieve their targets. According to KPMG (2015), 83 percent of the mergers ...
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For a project to succeed, strong top management support and sponsorship is vital. This is not only our personal experience ...
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As a leader you have a need to improve your business top or bottom line by digital means. However, you ...
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