Transformational Leadership Everywhere

by Christian Rangen | Oct 27, 2020 | Stories

This blogpost is written for the Global Drucker Forum 2020, Leadership Everywhere She was not the obvious leader in the room. As a female CFO, she was not the obvious go-to-leader, but it was very clear once you got to know her and the work she did, that for all...

Leadership in Clusters and Networks

by Christian Rangen | Oct 27, 2020 | Stories, Supercluster

By: Christian Rangen and Tanja Hoel This blogpost is written for the Global Drucker Forum 2020, Leadership Everywhere Why Clusters Matter Clusters can play a significant role in shaping national growth industries and accelerate national transformation. Countries like...

Building Better Cluster Business Models

by Christian Rangen | Sep 22, 2020 | News, Stories, Supercluster

A Global Challenge Over the past 5 years I have worked with more than 50 clusters and cluster initiatives around the world. Over the past 12 months I have read more than 250 cluster snapshot analysis. The single biggest challenge standing out across all of these...

Clusters & Capital: 10 Challenges to Overcome

by Christian Rangen | Aug 20, 2020 | Stories, Supercluster

By: Christian Rangen & Victor Haze  Over the past five years, we have worked closely with clusters, cluster managers and national cluster programs. One of us as an advisor, the other as an Innovation Manager. Most of the clusters we have met are firmly grounded in...

Three Reflections on the Swiss Ecosystem

by Christian Rangen | Aug 20, 2020 | Stories, Strategy Simulation

First of all, congratulations! Europe needs more scale ups. Equally, Europe needs a higher quality ecosystem, with a strong emphasis on the quality and skills of the investors. Switzerland is rapidly developing both. From less than CHF 400M invested in 2012 to nearly...