Christian Rangen

Business Model Innovation

Categories: Business, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Productivity, Strategy, Trends

Christian Rangen is a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, strategy & innovation consultant, author, entrepreneur and business school lecturer. He speaks to and takes up consulting assignments with companies around the world on strategy, innovation, business model innovation, leadership and change. Most of his talks and workshops helps clients explore topics on leading strategic transformation, business model portfolios and innovation. He holds an MBA from Copenhagen Business school and degrees in political science and marketing from University of Bergen, Norway and BI-Oslo respectively.

Christian is known for his passionate and engaging style, his highly interactive presentation format, deep client and industry insight. He always laces up his presentations with contemporary local news and up-to-date examples. He speaks fluent Scandinavian and English.

Over the past few years, Mr. Rangen has worked with companies from countries such as Italy, UK, US, Brazil, Kuwait, Norway, Germany, India, Australia, The Netherlands, Denmark, United Arab Emirates and more.

Programs

Christian delivers both keynotes (30 – 90 minutes) and hands-on workshops with innovation tools (90 minutes – 2 days). He can adapt the program and content to client specific requirements. He also mixes the formats, with a 30-minute keynote at a conference, and a further 2-3 hour (or 2 day) hands-on, learning workshop at the same event.

The below outlines can be adapted to both keynote and workshop formats.

Strategy Tools for Business Model Innovation

Business Model Innovation is on every Executive’s mind. Yet, few companies have built a structure, tools and shared understanding of business model innovation. In this inspiring keynote, Christian Rangen shows how new strategy tools help drive business model innovation. He combines up-to-date case studies with an interactive format to help engage the audience on new strategy tools for business model innovation.

Toolkit: Strategic Innovation Canvas, Three Levels of Business Models, Innovation Mindset

The Architecture of Strategy & Transformation

Successfully leading long-term transformation requires a specific architecture. You need the Mandate, the Money and the Structure. Few firms get this right from the beginning.

In this energizing talk, Mr. Rangen will show the research, case studies and tools to help your company understand what it takes to drive successful transformation.

More importantly, he will give you the tools and key metrics to help develop your architecture for strategy & transformation.

Toolkit: Transformation Architecture

Digital business models

Digitization and globalization are the two biggest waves hitting companies around the world. Combined, they offer unprecedented opportunity and market space. Yet, developing profitable, digital business models is proving challenging to many. Building on years on research, Christian Rangen will show a series of examples on digital business models and how established firms struggled to understand and adapt to them. Netflix vs. Blockbuster, Newspaper vs. Online news, Amazon.com vs. the book retailers, Napster, Apple and Spotify vs. the Music industry and Tesla Motors vs. the car industry are just some of the relevant examples. More importantly, he will show you how your company can get started on developing digital business models.

Toolkit: Business Model Canvas

Business Models for Space Industry

The private space industry is emerging as one of the most ambitious and exciting growth industries of our generation. Companies like SpaceX, Planetary Resources, Zaptec, Shackleton Energy, Deep Space Industries and many more are building new industries – and new business models. This exciting and inspiring keynote will open your eyes to profound opportunities and daring entrepreneurs that will drive the next big wave of value creation that ranges from software, electronics, seismic, 3-D simulations, communications, mining asteroids and Space-based solar power.

Alphabet’s (Google’s) innovation Strategy – and what you can learn from it

Alphabet (formerly Google) is building an audacious company structure ranging from IT, nanoparticles in your blood, advanced robotics and changing how healthcare really works. Behind all these efforts lies an incredibly complex Innovation Strategy. Hear Christian Rangen reveal some of the secret insight and structure from Alphabets Innovation Strategy. He will show how Three Levels of Business Models is the key to understanding today’s innovation magic and help your company start applying this Innovation Strategy today.

Toolkit: Three Levels of Business Models

Learning to Work Differently with Strategy

“Strategy is stuck”, says Professor Rita McGrath. For most firms, strategy is a stale, repetitive process, not a creative, ambitious, innovative strategy design. In the face of globalization and evermore rapid pace of change, leading companies are learning to work differently with strategy. Christian Rangen will show you how to think differently around strategy, how to visualize strategy and how to use new strategy & innovation tools.

Tookit: Strategy Tools for the Next Generation

“Listening to Christian Rangen talk about transformation, innovation…interesting and challenging”
~ Party Leader, Norwegian Labour party, Jonas Gahr Støre.

“Christian’s short but intense workshop provided the impetus for me to be more daring and radical in formulating my company’s strategy”.
~ CEO, Malaysian Consulting Company, Malaysia

‘’Christian has a unique way of getting the best out of people. He provokes, engages and inspires like no one I have ever met!’’
~ Program Manager, Executive Education, BI – Norwegian Business School

‘’Impact… Inspires big thinking and action… Connects practice and theory”
~ Innovation Manager, Statoil, Norway

“Refreshing approach to strategic innovation – with concepts that were engaging, challenging and sometimes confronting”
~ General Manager, Development and Innovation, Australia

“Christian is an enthusiastic speaker with a lot of positive energy, he knows well how to engage people regardless of the background, profile, and experiences
~ Project Manager, Gaming Industry, Denmark

“Christian has a unique way of combining deep academic knowledge with an understanding of how business functions in reality. In all the workshops I’ve been in with him, I come away inspired not only by the material, but also by the way he engages participants and fills the room with energy. I’ve learnt an enormous amount from him!”
~ Strategy Analyst, Statoil, London, United Kingdom

“Chris is truly inspiring and leading light of the innovation community, his workshops are always evolving to create an invaluable experience for the audience. He is smart, fun and a very effective professional facilitator”
~ CEO, World Innovation Convention and B2B Europe, The Netherlands

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