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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
WEEK 25-26, 2018 – by Cindy
We´re in a period of transition and reflection. Wrapping up the last details on big projects like New Legal Structure and Flat Sorter, gearing down (up?) for summer holiday season, and getting emotional about our last few days of shared ownership with Peak Performance.
The kids grow up so fast, seems like just yesterday we were finding our feet together as InWear and Carli Gry joined forces to become IC Companys!
There´s no doubt about it, the coming year of transition handover from IC Group systems to Peak´s future setup is going to be nothing short of fascinating, educational, probably exhausting, and hopefully we´ll all come out of it even stronger. But more on that another day.
Three things that have inspired me this week:
1. Collaboration at By Malene Birger, where various teams together worked through some of the challenges introduced by the transparencies and automations of the new Samples process. BMB planned the workshop, and drove the agenda, and invited us along to help keep the discussion on track and add perspective where needed. Thanks to Anette Kroløkke and the rest of the team for checking in!
2. Read: Hit Refresh, by Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO – I´m not a Microsoft fangirl, but this book struck a note with me. I found lots of parallels with their transformation towards a more empathetic, empowering, partnership-focused culture and mindset. Together with Anders, I decided to “hit refresh” on our IT Governance format, simplifying our overviews and tuning the meetings to fit each brand’s pace and culture; the re-launch is already in progress.
3. My team of superheroes – talk about bias, you guys inspire me every day! But in this OKR season, we dig a little deeper and give ourselves permission to step back and consider our role in the big IC world and beyond. I´ll try not to be this gushy on every blog post – but humour me on this inaugural one, as we put a bow on the finance year 17/18 and prepare to throw ourselves into the new one… thank you Bente, Daniel, Inma, Krzysztof, Lotte, Ove, and Vanessa, for taking such good care of our Brands and each other.
Cut on the Bias 