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Aarhus, Middle Jutland, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Working with people and organizational design in Consumer and Content Technology, providing awesome digital solutions for kids, families, AFOLs as well as supporting digital consumer platforms.

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Billund, Region Syddanmark, Danmark

My job consists of one task: to figure out and facilitate that my teams deliver maximum value to LEGO. My teams and I work towards two goals: 1) We must provide LEGO employees with extremely fast, reliable and relevant IT, Finance and HR services. We will do this through a highly automated, modern one-stop-shop supported by ML, chatbots, user friendly guides - and facilitating personal assistance when issues become too complex.2) We must create experiences and services… Show more My job consists of one task: to figure out and facilitate that my teams deliver maximum value to LEGO. My teams and I work towards two goals: 1) We must provide LEGO employees with extremely fast, reliable and relevant IT, Finance and HR services. We will do this through a highly automated, modern one-stop-shop supported by ML, chatbots, user friendly guides - and facilitating personal assistance when issues become too complex.2) We must create experiences and services in our LEGO offices - spearheaded by our new unique headquarter, LEGO Campus in Billund - that increases productivity and make users feel inspired, engaged and motivated. We will do this by providing digital meeting facilities and work desk setups of high quality, a unique guest onboarding experiences, wayfinding technologies to locate anything in the physical world, conference and townhall areas that allows for a message to really reach a large scale audience, and much much more... Show less

Billund, Denmark

In CIT Technology & Security we are responsible for developing, operating and maintaining the IT infrastructure for the entire LEGO Group. We host our own data centers around the globe while we aspire to transition to the cloud, we connect 19,000+ employees through our global network and we provide computers, tablets and mobile phones to handle everything from sales on the road, finance in the office, and production in the factories. We are responsible for cyber security, and we provide… Show more In CIT Technology & Security we are responsible for developing, operating and maintaining the IT infrastructure for the entire LEGO Group. We host our own data centers around the globe while we aspire to transition to the cloud, we connect 19,000+ employees through our global network and we provide computers, tablets and mobile phones to handle everything from sales on the road, finance in the office, and production in the factories. We are responsible for cyber security, and we provide IT training and support to our end users. We are going agile! In my work as scrum master for my leadership team I focus primarily on becoming agile in spirit rather than implementing new processes. We do Scrum but are inspired by Scrum@scale and Agile at Heart (by Alistair Cockburn).I furthermore drive strategy development in various areas of the organization, i.e.: • Digitalization (designing the IT vision for the future digital workspace in our new headquarter in Billund)• Confidentiality (establishing risk assessment, control frameworks and implementation plans and governance for the LEGO Group)• IT security (development of anti-malware strategy and communication to top level management & board of directors about malware threats)• IT infrastructure (service availability analysis and improvement) Show less

Billund, Dk

In my year as executive assistant to the TCO and the Technology and Security leadership team my role was to: - Facilitate formulation of strategic decisions and priorities in general and support the LT meetings by providing the best foundation for decision-making in the form of analyses, guidance, and recommendations.- Help converting decisions into implementation plans. - Communicate issues and requests within the LTs area to top level management (CxOs).- Support the… Show more In my year as executive assistant to the TCO and the Technology and Security leadership team my role was to: - Facilitate formulation of strategic decisions and priorities in general and support the LT meetings by providing the best foundation for decision-making in the form of analyses, guidance, and recommendations.- Help converting decisions into implementation plans. - Communicate issues and requests within the LTs area to top level management (CxOs).- Support the yearly project portfolio process.I worked intensively this year with: - Establishing LEGO's cloud strategy. - Defining LEGO's new approach to support knowledge workers in a global structure ("Digital Workforce”).- Drive definition of objectives and value capture in implementation of Microsoft O365 and Cisco virtual conferencing.- Provide status on current IT security initiatives for top level management and design up-coming security initiatives .- Analyse availability of services run in on premise data center and define initiatives to improve availability.- Drive a task force which was to improve budget processes in the area of CIT. Show less

Billund, Dk

I was promoted from Sr. IT supporter to IT Consultant in January 2013, at the same time as I begun my PhD fellowship at Aarhus University.The PhD position is a three year full-time position but during the three years I chose to continue with the tasks that I had filled up until now and spent 1-2 workdays a week on the strategy and leadership team support tasks at the LEGO office in Billund.

Billund, Dk

After having finished my master, LEGO offered to sponsor an Industrial PhD project for me and hired me in to a permanent position in CIT Technology as Sr. Analyst Supporter where I spent some of my time preparing and applying for the PhD position while being responsible for several other tasks in LEGO: IT security- I developed the overall IT use policy for all employees in the LEGO Group (including privacy and security compliance governance), - Communication of progress of and… Show more After having finished my master, LEGO offered to sponsor an Industrial PhD project for me and hired me in to a permanent position in CIT Technology as Sr. Analyst Supporter where I spent some of my time preparing and applying for the PhD position while being responsible for several other tasks in LEGO: IT security- I developed the overall IT use policy for all employees in the LEGO Group (including privacy and security compliance governance), - Communication of progress of and issues within the IT security program to top level management (CxOs)- Forming and developing security assessments of cloud service providers (such as Microsoft) and communicating to top level managementStrategy- Organisational development of the IT Support Organisation, including designing a mission-vision statement and three year support strategy plan and a reorganisation.- Supporting the portfolio planning process for the department and qualifying project briefs.- Development of business cases for a global, central log management platform (SIEM).Leadership support- Executive assistant to the IT Technology & Security leadership team, providing ad hoc analyses on topics in all areas of the organisation (from incident response time and trend analysis to analysis of availability of services in our on premise data center).- Driver of the yearly process cycle of defining the KPI board for the department and the teams in the department, including designing and defining KPIs based on the mission statements set by the leader team. Show less

Billund, Denmark

I was temporarily employed in the IT Business Support department in LEGO, hired to evaluate the 7000 global user's satisfaction with the IT Support service level.I developed a satisfaction survey and trend analysis setup, and I improved and refined the process of documentation of incidents (including documenting and cementing the use of the ITIL incident process in the organisation) in order to automatically combine data about incidents and the related satisfaction. The data was then used… Show more I was temporarily employed in the IT Business Support department in LEGO, hired to evaluate the 7000 global user's satisfaction with the IT Support service level.I developed a satisfaction survey and trend analysis setup, and I improved and refined the process of documentation of incidents (including documenting and cementing the use of the ITIL incident process in the organisation) in order to automatically combine data about incidents and the related satisfaction. The data was then used in the problem process (ITIL) for trend analysis.We used the results as input in a reorganisation and I developed Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to support service level improvement. Show less

Aarhus, Denmark

At Center for Analyse og Erhvervsfremme I worked on projects that estimated the current and future potential of and need for IT competencies in different segments of the workforce. This included several reports for the EU Commission.I collected, integrated, and analysed vast amounts of statistical data from various different origin sources for these reports and authored sections of the reports.

Deloitte Business Consulting was an ambitious consulting house within the areas of management & leadership, organisational change & change management, and Information Technology.The organisational structure was flat and consultants were assigned to projects in various different areas, so I was provided as much responsibility as my senior colleagues and gained experience within many different areas, from tenders to change management tasks. Due to my background in political… Show more Deloitte Business Consulting was an ambitious consulting house within the areas of management & leadership, organisational change & change management, and Information Technology.The organisational structure was flat and consultants were assigned to projects in various different areas, so I was provided as much responsibility as my senior colleagues and gained experience within many different areas, from tenders to change management tasks. Due to my background in political science I was mostly assigned to our public customers where I developed requirement specifications for IT systems on behalf of customers and analysed bids.I also facilitated internal knowledge sharing about IT and IT projects by arranging a "Boot Camp Day" that focused on digital strategies, business case models and different IT standards (i.e. DS484). Show less

København C, Region Hovedstaden, Danmark

The Minister's secretary consisted of 7 employees who supported the (elected) Minister of Environment and the permanent secretary (head of staff).I developed new processes in the department (i.e. handling of requests from the public), functioned as tester in the development of new IT systems, and acted as on site IT support to the minister and permanent secretary. My tasks also included general PA support of the minister and permanent secretary and editing the ministry's online… Show more The Minister's secretary consisted of 7 employees who supported the (elected) Minister of Environment and the permanent secretary (head of staff).I developed new processes in the department (i.e. handling of requests from the public), functioned as tester in the development of new IT systems, and acted as on site IT support to the minister and permanent secretary. My tasks also included general PA support of the minister and permanent secretary and editing the ministry's online news letter. Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Information Technology Project Portfolio Management And Strategy Implementation

My PhD fellowship was an Industrial PhD that I carried out in collaboration with the LEGO Group. This meant that I used the LEGO Group.

Cand.It, E-Business

Projektledelse Strategi og ledelse IT-sikkerhed Enterprise Architechture Basic programming (C#)

Bachelor, Statskundskab

Organisationsteori Kvantitativ og kvalitativ metode Offentlig forvaltning& forvaltningsret Økonomi (mikro & makro) Sociologi International.