Sandvik

Management system transformation and IT function development

”Our cooperation with Brave Alliance started in 2018 shortly after I had been appointed as the CIO of the Business Area. The entire Sandvik Group was transitioning from a centralized operating model to a decentralized one, with which our existing ways of working were largely incompatible. Consequently, the IT function had to be nearly completely rebuilt and company governance model altered to enable cross-organizational decision-making in the decentralized setup.

Support from Brave Alliance was instrumental in making this change. Majority of the work by Teemu Saikkonen and the Brave team concentrated on changes to the governance model. Comprehensive discussions with key business stakeholders formed the starting point for the new decision-making structure design, which was then implemented with hands-on support from Brave to the first rounds of decision-making.  

Brave Alliance’s approach immediately inspired confidence. They dug into the topic exceptionally profoundly, didn’t lock into any single theoretical model and drove the implementation decisively while still incorporating new ideas into the model as new information and feedback came in. During the final steps of the nearly 2-year development process, Brave Alliance did an exemplary job at making sure our organization properly assumed the new governance model roles and responsibilities.

The results of our cooperation were excellent. In addition to rebuilding the IT organization we ended up making changes to the operating model of the entire Business Area, which has helped us clarify the next steps of our digitalization development. Despite subsequent significant changes in our business environment, the changes we made with Brave Alliance have persisted and I believe they continue to create value for us for years to come.

I warmly recommend Brave Alliance for similar assignments.”