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About Tale Skjølsvik

Tale Skjølsvik works as a professor in technology leadership at the Department of Computer Science at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University. She holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from BI Norwegian Business School and has experience as a management consultant from Bain & Company and Gemini Consulting. For more than 20 years, Tale has worked as a public speaker, lecturer and consulting academic within strategic management, innovation and technology leadership. Her research concentrates on strategy, technology, knowledge work and innovation. She has published papers in a number of leading international journals. Currently she is working on a strategy book which are to be published in 2026.

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Technology Leadership

Digital Futures

Knowledge Work

Selection of Academic Paper

Strategy

As a board member and through numerous conversations with leaders and boards I am allowed to contribute in practice to strategic thinking and doing. In 2012 I completed my PhD in strategic management. I have been teaching strategy courses for half my life.

Currently, I am writing a strategy book that aim to provoke and integrate strategic thinking and doing. It will be launched approximately in 2025.

As part of the book-project I am doing the podcast www.valuestrategypod.com

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The value of strategy is underrated

Digitalization

Understanding digitalization is at the heart of our time. What do you think it is? How can it be used in times of crisis?

Leadership

Leadership in times of crisis demands that everyone puts all their resources into it: competences, emotions and beliefs. What does that demand on leaders?

Strategy

Strategy is about choosing what (not) to do – and thinking differently. What are relevant frameworks to help you think about strategy in times of crisis?

Knowledge

Technology solutions are enabling new ways of thinking about knowledge. How will knowledge and professions be transformed in the years to come?

Writing

Larsson, Karl Kristian Skjølsvik, Tale(2021). Making sense of the digital co-production of welfare services: using digital technology to simplify or tailor the co-production of services. Public Management Review.

Pemer, Frida;Skjølsvik, Tale(2019). The cues that matter: Screening for quality signals in the ex ante phase of buying professional services. Journal of Business Research. Vol. 98.

Skjølsvik, Tale; Pemer, Frida; Løwendahl, Bente R. (2017). Strategic management of professional service firms: Reviewing ABS journals and identifying key research themes. 36 s. Journal of Professions and Organization. Vol. 4.

Pemer, Frida; Skjølsvik, Tale (2017). Adopt or Adapt? Unpacking the Role of Institutional Work Processes in the Implementation of New Regulations. Journal of public administration research and theory. Vol. 28. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mux020

Pemer, Frida; Skjølsvik, Tale (2016). Purchasing Policy or Purchasing Police? The Influence of Institutional Logics and Power on Responses to Purchasing Formalization. Journal of Supply Chain Management. Vol. 52. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12112

Skjølsvik, Tale (2016). Business-to-business professional service relationships under multiple logics. Service Industries Journal. Vol. 36.

Skjølsvik, Tale; Løwendahl, Bente R.; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild; FOSSTENLØKKEN, Siw Marita (2007). Choosing to learn and learning to choose: strategies for client co-production and knowledge development. California Management Review. Vol. 49.

A tale can be defined as: 1) a presentation of facts or 2) an imaginative narrative. Professortale.com tells ideas, facts and stories as perceived by a Norwegian female professor involving both science and fun.