What is Beyond Budgeting?
Passionate about management innovation - there is a better way!
Passionate about management innovation - there is a better way!
Beyond Budgeting is challenging the two main assumptions behind traditional management, that the future is predictable, and that people can't be trusted. Beyond Budgeting is a tested and proven management model that helps organizations perform better by being more adaptive and more people focused.
Beyond Budgeting offers effective alterna
Beyond Budgeting is challenging the two main assumptions behind traditional management, that the future is predictable, and that people can't be trusted. Beyond Budgeting is a tested and proven management model that helps organizations perform better by being more adaptive and more people focused.
Beyond Budgeting offers effective alternatives to command and control management, including traditional budgeting. The 12 Beyond Budgeting principles has a strong focus on coherence between what is said and what is done in organizations.
Beyond Budgeting implementations vary in scope, from budget process improvement to broader organizational transformation. If your organization is on an agile transformation journey, there is no way around also adressing the budgeting process and the budgeting mindset. Beyond Budgeting is Business Agility in practice!
Learn more at bbrt.org
Passionate about management innovation - there is a better way!
Passionate about management innovation - there is a better way!
Passionate about management innovation - there is a better way!
For the past 25 years, I have helped organizations all over the world getting started on a Beyond Budgeting journey, alongside my Finance and HR roles in Borealis and Statoil/Equinor. Some of these organizations are listed on the left.
I am forever thankful for the great opportunities these companies have given me. I have now taken early r
For the past 25 years, I have helped organizations all over the world getting started on a Beyond Budgeting journey, alongside my Finance and HR roles in Borealis and Statoil/Equinor. Some of these organizations are listed on the left.
I am forever thankful for the great opportunities these companies have given me. I have now taken early retirement from my company life, hoping to help even more organizations radically improve their management practices.
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Who is Bjarte Bogsnes?
Passionate about management innovation - there is a better way!
Who is Bjarte Bogsnes?
I headed up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), and led a similar initiative at Borealis, one of the companies that inspired the Beyond Budgeting model. I am Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT), a popular international business speaker and Beyond Budgeting coach, and winner of a Harvard Bu
I headed up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), and led a similar initiative at Borealis, one of the companies that inspired the Beyond Budgeting model. I am Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT), a popular international business speaker and Beyond Budgeting coach, and winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award..
I have a long international career and are among the few that has worked both in Finance and HR.
Organizations I have worked with
Organizations I have worked with
Organizations I have worked with
IKEA, H&M, Bosch Siemens, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, ING, Barclays, Mærsk, Aviva, Pernod Ricard, Volvo, Proximus, Spotify, Telenor, Keolis, ISS, SKF, Scania, Shell, PwC, BPP, BCG, Santander, TDR Capital, Saudi Aramco, Stonegate, Schibsted, Norilsk, Aviva, Haier, Adnoc, Scandi Standard, Orkla, Neste, Bose, Petrobras, CMI, Arla, Societe Generale, Bekaert, Exxaro, Lotos, DBS Singapore, Tenaga, Trizma, Coloplast, Øssur, NTE, 66 North,Folksam, Gazprom, Rosneft, NLMK, SUEK, DNV GL, Gyldendal, Repsol, Baloise, Jotun, Teekay, Hennig Olsen, Dragon Oil, Tryg, Svenska Spel, Petronas, Hurtigruten, HomeCredit, Fortis, X5, David Lloyd, Danfoss, Entra, Telekom Malaysia, Hedin/Bavaria, Eidsiva, NAV, Sparebank1 Gruppen, Sullivan Stanley, NAF, Statkraft, Statnett, Eimskip, Reykjavik Energy, Bank West Australia, NRK, Casumo, NAF, RiksTV, Swift, Shakespeare Martineau, InflowControl, Bertel O. Steen, SD Worx, Ferrer, Allianz Technology, Stonegate Group
My previous book
Organizations I have worked with
Organizations I have worked with
"At last, Bjarte Bogsnes has made his experience and enthusiasm for Beyond Budgeting available for a wider audience with this remarkable book. I have appreciated his engagement in these important management issues for many years, and his knowledge and leadership has been critical in the transformation of our organization.“
- Eldar Sætre, former CEO & CFO Equinor (Statoil).
“This is an excellent book for those who want to grapple with the difficult task of radically changing conventional ways of running a company to more effective ways of doing it and ways more in accordance with human nature.”
- Jan Wallander, former CEO and Honorary Chairman of Handelsbanken (RIP)
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My new book
Organizations I have worked with
Upcoming events
Foreword by Gary Hamel.
“The budgeting process and mindset is behind so many soul-destroying evils in organizations it is astonishing that it has been so persistent. There is a better way. Bjarte Bogsnes’ new book is the antidote you have been looking for. It isn’t undisciplined, expensive, or hard, and it can unlock a whole new vector of effective management for you. He has proven Beyond Budgeting works with organizations big and small over many years. I’m a big believer – read this book and you will be too!!
Rita McGrath, Professor, Columbia Business School
“Bjarte is one of those rare individuals who has lived the life of an executive in a large corporate, realised its limitations, and made radical changes stick. He has done so with an open mind and open heart, creating methods and tools of critical importance to our increasingly uncertain and complex world.”
Dave Snowden, Founder The Cynefin Centre
“I have met thousands of business executives over the years, and none of them has a good word to say about budgeting—it is slow, burdensome, and shortsighted. This book provides the antidote—Beyond Budgeting—by one of the pioneers of the concept and perhaps its most experienced practitioner. Don’t just read the book—make sure to put this into practice in your own company.”
Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School
“Bjarte Bogsnes has been a fixture as a speaker at management conferences for many years now, passionately making the case for more adaptive and human organizations, better fitted to the demands of our turbulent world, and the aspirations of today's employees. If you have not had the pleasure of listening to him, this book is the next best thing—a distillation of his thoughts and insights into this incredibly important topic.”
Jos de Blok, CEO and founder, Buurtzorg
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Upcoming events
Selected past events
Upcoming events
Leading Complexity - 8 December
Webinar - 11 January
Webinar - 7 February - Handelsbanken case
Agile India - 15-18 March. Keynote and workshop .
Workshop Helsinki - 28 March
Selected past events
Selected past events
Selected past events
Short introduction https://bit.ly/37Wccyp
CFO Summit https://bit.ly/3Gp80n2
Fireside chat with Rita McGrath - https://bit.ly/3llWT70
Business Agility conference Vienna https://bit.ly/3q8Z6og
USI Paris - https://bit.ly/3llWT70