FULL BIO Carl-Johan PetriCarl-Johan Petri holds a Ph.D. from Linköping University in Sweden. He works as a writer and advisor, and was previously a partner in Cepro (from 1995-2003), a Stockholm based consultancy which in 2000 became part of US-based The Concours Group. As a corporate advisor he has more than a decade’s experience from working with strategy and management control projects, especially implementing strategies using balanced scorecards. Carl-Johan Petri was born in Kalmar (Sweden) 1970. He received his B.Sc. in computer science at Växjö University in 1994. During 1994-1995 he worked in a research project at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, funded by Vattenfall (Sweden's largest power utility), studying the effects of a deregulated power market and increasing use of information and communication technologies. In 1995 Carl-Johan Petri joined Cepro Management Consultants (now The Concours Group/Cepro) in Stockholm. At the same time he enrolled as a Ph. D. student and started to work on his doctoral thesis at Linköping University. In November 1998 Petri defended his thesis for the degree of Licentiate of Economics and Business Administration (Title of the thesis: Information Provision - A matter of Responsibility), which focuses on how to use existing information systems to stimulate knowledge sharing within organizations by re-designing the management control systems. In 1999 Petri participated in a research project at Marschall School of Business at University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. The project focused on the European single currency's - the Euro's - implications on transnational trade and inter organizational supply chain management, and was funded by the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management. In December 2001 Petri defended his doctoral dissertation "Organizational Information Provision - Managing Mandatory and Discretionary Utilization of Information Technology" where he studied 18 organizations' use of information technology to promote organizational knowledge sharing and how the internal management control systems influence these efforts. Petri has received several academic awards: in 2000 Petri and Nils-Göran Olve's paper "Increasing the bandwidth in telework control" was voted best paper at The Fifth International Workshop on Telework in Stockholm and Petri's doctoral dissertation was selected "The Best Dissertation in Business Administration of The Year" at Linköping University by Ekonomiska Klubben, in Linköping. During his years with TCG Cepro (1995-2003) Petri has been engaged in several strategy development and management control projects in different industries (financial services, telecom, retailing, automotive, health care, public sector, et cetera). In these projects Petri typically brings an analytical capacity to the table, which he has developed during his years in academia. Petri has also written various research reports for different public agencies such as the Swedish Government's commission on IT (IT Kommissionen), Konkurrensrådet and Invest in Sweden Agency (ISA). Petri is a frequently invited speaker at universities, conferences and seminars on the issues of strategy, management control and knowledge management.  The Authors
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