Juha Asikainen
Senior Managing Consultant, ICT Management Community Lead
“Juha has successfully led complex business and ICT transformations. Having worked extensively across industries, Juha has an extensive track record from large scale program and project portfolio management.”
Special skills
Leading business and ICT transformations: ICT strategies and roadmaps definition, implementation of changes
Large and complex program management, project portfolio management
Mergers and acquisitions
Enterprise level agile development models
Product development processes
Digitalization
Large scale outsourcing incl. vendor evaluation, selection & mgmt
Quality assurance and measurement
Strengths
Driver of change with a can-do attitude
Commitment to objectives and understanding the big picture
Proven track record of leading large organizations and international multicultural teams
Good understanding of current technologies combined with business acumen
Extensive experience from different delivery models and methodologies used in systems integration programs
Relevant experience
Over 20 years of experience in large-scale transformational business and technology development programs
Defined ICT strategies and roadmaps for several clients
Lead of multiple ICT carveouts in a divestment program of a manufacturing industry client
Program director for key strategic business transformation initiative in gaming industry
Lead for 150+ person project and product development unit for a major Finnish bank
Education
Master of Science (Economics), Accounting, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland (1998)