Per Stenius
Client Director
Client Director with over 20 years of experience in corporate strategy, PE, new business building and transformations. Currently focusing on private equity related projects in Europe and Asia.
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Per Stenius
Per Stenius
Insights by Per Stenius
New business building — Sales growth — Strategy
Discovering business opportunities in South Korea
15 July 2020 — South Korea has been known as a rapidly growing prosperous economy, home to global conglomerates called chaebols. However, actual opportunities and challenges of the South Korean market remain unknown to most foreign companies. Here we discuss recent developments in the South Korean economy, and what they mean in terms of opportunities for market entry.
Strategy — Financial performance — New business building — M&A and divestments
SMEs and national economic development
12 February 2020 — Reddal Client Director, Dr. Per Stenius, was invited to speak about the impact of SMEs on national economic development at the APEC Public-Private Dialogue “Capitalize on Research and Development” 2020 in Malaysia.
Strategy — Financial performance — New business building — M&A and divestments
Policy ecosystem for strengthening innovation capacities
13 December 2019 — Reddal Client Director, Dr. Per Stenius, was invited to speak about how countries can strengthen innovation capabilities through a policy ecosystem at APCTT International Conference 2019, Malaysia.
Strategy — Financial performance — New business building — M&A and divestments
Exploring new growth paths for technology SMEs
26 July 2019 — Reddal Client Director, Dr. Per Stenius, was invited to speak on real life technology transfer experiences and insights into new growth paths for technology SMEs at APCTT Regional Workshop 2019, India.
Sales growth — Financial performance
Optimizing sales managers’ role in digital sales transformations
23 May 2019 — B2B organizations undergoing sales transformations tend to focus on improving digital tools and training for salespeople with insufficient guidance for sales managers. In this article, we discuss typical challenges in managing sales and what it takes for sales managers to both support and succeed personally in digital transformations.
Strategy — Financial performance — New business building — M&A and divestments
Exploring new growth path for Asian Pacific Technology SMEs
6 November 2018 — Reddal Client Director, Dr. Per Stenius, was invited to speak on internationalization of technology SMEs at the “Innovation Summit & International Conference on Technology Transfer and Internationalization of Technology-based Businesses".
M&A and divestments — Productivity improvement
Creating value in gridlocked industries
7 November 2017 — In a saturated and stagnant market, the whole industry is often stuck in a gridlock. This article focuses on the case of Korean packaging industry, and presents some initial thoughts on key value creation levers that could lead the winners into a new healthier industry paradigm.
Financial performance — Strategy — Sales growth
Reddal Talks: Breaking out of a gridlocked industry
6 November 2017 — Companies in traditional industries often face a gridlock with low growth and a saturated market. Unless decisive moves are taken by the management, breaking out of this cycle is challenging.
New business building — Strategy
Reddal Talks: The potential of the Iranian market
1 November 2017 — Iran is a controversial market, fairly unfamiliar for many. Often portrayed in a biased light by Western media, it is in reality developing rapidly. We share some experiences and insights about this market, gained during the past five years of our work in Iran.
Strategy — M&A and divestments
Vietnam Investment Review: PE's industrial moment may be here
20 September 2017 — We continue our series of publications on the role of private equity in driving Vietnam’s economic growth. In this article contributed to Vietnam Investment Review, we analyze value creation opportunities in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector.
M&A and divestments — Strategy
DEALSTREETASIA: Vietnam's PE landscape improves, SOE opportunities uncertain
18 September 2017 — Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc's (DEALSTREETASIA) report on the state of Vietnam’s PE landscape in 2017 features our on-going work on the role of private equity in Vietnam’s economic growth. The market shows signs of improvement with much more potential to capture.
Turnaround and transformation
Building the skills of a Chief Transformation Officer
18 September 2017 — In a world of continuous change, companies should turn market pressure into a change capability that becomes a competitive advantage. Appointing a chief transformation officer to comprehensively lead change itself is a solution.
Financial performance — M&A and divestments — Strategy
Driving Vietnam’s economic growth – the role of private equity
25 May 2017 — Reddal was invited as a speaker to “AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum Vietnam 2017” in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam on May 25, 2017. We presented results from our on-going work on how venture capital and private equity is affecting growth in various countries.
Strategy
Learnings from the Peter Pan Syndrome
22 December 2016 — South Korea has long been hailed as the growth miracle of the east. Yet, currently its economy is weak, and its industrial titans seem to be unable to carry the burden of the nation’s growth. The shadow of chaebols also lies heavily on the SME sector.