Hultafors Group Digital & Sustainability Transformation Program
/ Driving a Group-wide Digital Business Impact Program and Embedding Sustainability Across Europe and North America
/ Hultafors Group Digital & Sustainability Transformation Program
Hultafors Group AB [HGAB] is a global company offering a unique portfolio of premium brands. HG conceptualizes, designs and produces products and services that improve functionality, productivity and safety in all aspects of professional user’s workday.
The story of Hultafors started in 1883 when a young engineer, Karl-Hilmer Johansson Kollén, invented a measuring device that would facilitate Sweden’s conversion to the metric system.
HG is a trusted partner that enables synergies and sustainable growth for both people and business. From business development and logistics to product design and marketing, HG forms a powerful partner that propels their brands and people forward.
HG has several brands which combine State-of-the-art technology with impeccable design and top-quality materials for maximum safety. For example, Hultafors for innovative and ergonomic hand tools to meet the high demands of craftsmen around the world, Johnson Level for a full spectrum of levels, lasers and layout tools, Fristads for durable and functional workwear, Hellberg for protective equipment for your eyes, face, and hearing among many other brand offerings.
HG is made up of proud and experienced specialists who work side by side with new talents. HG has sales and marketing teams in all key markets in Europe and North America. The Hultafors Group is owned by Investment AB Latour.
Source: Hultafors website
/ BLUEGAIN CONTRIBUTION
As part of Hultafors Group [HGAB]-wide Digital Business Impact program, our bluegain team worked with HGAB’s CEO Martin Knobloch and the entire Leadership team and reached the following results:
- Initialized Transformation with guiding Northstar, onboarded key stakeholders, and based on strategic opportunity analysis and digital maturity assessment, set-up the Group-wide HGAB Digital Transformation Strategy and Group-wide Program for Europe and North America.
- By running the Transformation Program Office, steered the Program professionally, orchestrated workstreams across businesses and countries, and with an effective Governance including Sponsors & Advisory Boards tracked the progress and impact realization.
- With Fast-Forward Approach, developed a prioritized portfolio of digital business demands, identified HGAB’s top priority Use Cases and Digital BizImpact Projects in workshops with Business Units and Divisions, mobilized key stakeholders, and aggregated on a Group-level to steer Transformation Program effectively towards impact at scale.
- Developed a Group-wide IT Target Picture both for Software Applications and Data Foundation with framing conditions and crafted bespoke Roadmaps for each Business Unit and obtained Board of Director Approval for a Multi-Year Budget Commitment for Hultafors Group Transformation.
- Accompanied the Vendor Selection Process for HGAB’s IT Target Picture both for software vendors and implementation partners, helped evaluate, shortlist, and select all vendors/partners fit-for-purpose in detail during the RfI and RfP phases as a neutral advisor.
- Helped define Hultafors Group’s Sustainability Vision and Ambition, identified key sustainability and circularity playing fields re. Environmental, Social Sustainability, Governance both bottom-up and top-down, and specified the sustainability / circularity implications on HGAB’s Group IT Target Picture and IT Strategy HGAB IT Target Picture.
/ CxO's Recognition of our Impact
“We have chosen bluegain as our partner in transformation from strategy, to program set-up, to execution because they combine credibility through own operational experience in top management and academic grounding with own frameworks developed with leading academics – always with a clear business focus from start to end.
We especially like that they show perspectives, expand the solution space, provide orientation in a complex playing field, develop solutions together with the leadership team, steer the program and orchestrate the workstreams, work through the issues step by step with the leadership team.
They get to the heart of the matter, reduce it to the essentials, to the core of what it’s really all about, drive focused execution and implementation, and act as a quality guarantor.
bluegain is the partner that sat in my chair for us. My leadership team and I feel well advised and guided to achieve sustainable and measurable results.”
– Martin Knobloch, CEO Hultafors Group AB, Sweden
