A prolific writer that evolved the
mainstream thinking and practices of today

Evolved the mainstream thinking and practices of today

A prolific writer and best-selling author that together with some of the most legendary and prominent authorities of our time has evolved the mainstream thinking and practices of today. His work has become the software standards that is used by over 50% of organizations nowadays. 
 
He has authored 2 bestselling business books, 3 famous academic management textbooks and over 70 numerous articles, research papers. Today there are 2249 highly influential citations and 243 scientific research papers of his work.
 
Some of his publications are required reading at universities for bachelor and master degrees and for anyone seeking to harness the power of how to innovate and where to transform compete and grow.

BOOKS

Strategy in the Age of Disruption

Bringing Future Thinking to Strategy  

Book  | Wiley

Henrik von Scheel, Ciprian Popa, Joshua von Scheel and co-created with 230+ practitioners around the globe

This is a complete handbook on strategic execution. It’s a step-by-step tutorial designed to get you to clearly see your strategic position, the choices available to you, and how to execute on those choices. 

You’ll learn with visual thinking how to translate future trends into strategy + execution in a guided step-by-step tutorial with reusables templates.

Body of Knowledge from Process Modelling to BPM

The Complete Business Process Handbook, Volume 1

Book  |  Morgan Kaufmann

Henrik von Scheel, August-Wilhelm Scheer & Mark von Rosing

The most comprehensive body of knowledge on business processes, written as a practical guide by the authorities that have shaped the way we think and work with processes today.

Extended Business Process Management

The Complete Business Process Handbook, Volume 2

Book  |  Morgan Kaufmann

John A Zachman, Henrik von Scheel & Mark von Rosing

The most comprehensive body of knowledge around Extended Business Process Design and Management. Revealing new research and gives the most comprehensive picture on contemporary BPM.

Leading Practices from the Outperformers

The Complete Business Process Handbook, Volume 3

Book  |  Morgan Kaufmann

Henrik von Scheel & Mark von Rosing

An extensive collection of award-winning real-life examples of leading organizations who apply leading practices to outperform the market. Learn from the outperformers what works and what doesn’t through hands-on descriptions of how to do it.

Applying Real-World BPM in SAP Environment

Book  |  SAP PRESS

Ann Rosenberg, Henrik von Scheel, Greg Chase, R. Omar, James Taylor

This book is your guide to implementing SAP in all its aspects in your business and IT: It explains how BPM and standard software work together, how to prepare your company for the project, and how to put technology, governance, and the philosophy behind it in action.

Future competitiveness of a welfare state

Danish title:  Danmarks Fremtid

Book  |  Forskningens Forlag

Henrik von Scheel, Bent R Jørgensen, & Mark von Rosing

An extensive review of the national competitiveness ecosystem and the future competitiveness of the welfare state. Together with Denmark’s most influential business leaders, thinkers, and prominent academics and researchers, the authors have come together to provide a unique perspective on Denmark’s future.

CONTRIBUTOR TO BOOKS

Industry 4.0 with SAP

SAP Press 

Dipankar Saha, Chandan Jash, Soumya Das, Anupkumar Ketkale, Henrik von Scheel

Smart manufacturing, industrial IoT, intelligent factories—you’ve heard the buzzwords. But what is Industry 4.o – and what does it mean for you? This forward-looking guide focuses on the practical implementation of Industry 4.0 concepts with SAP solutions! Reduce asset downtime using digital twins, automate quality checks using AI and machine learning, track your production with SAP Digital Manufacturing, and much more. Don’t let the revolution leave you behind.

Future of Work

Book

Paul Lalovich, Tesha Teshanovich, Ivan Bjelajac, Emilija Vukovic, Henrik von Scheel, Helen White

The Future of Work from Cubicle to Tribe is a thought-provoking examination of the modern workplace and the radical changes we can anticipate due to emerging technologies.

The book serves as a guide, illuminating the path from the static, isolated office environments of the past, symbolized by the cubicle, to the dynamic, interconnected ecosystems of the future, or the “tribe.” It argues that success in the impending technological era will require a fundamental transformation in how we view work, leadership, and collaboration

Rebuilding Your Business Model

Harvard Business Review Press

Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble, Joan Margetta, Elie Ofek, Luc Wathieu, W. Chan Kim, Mark W. Johanson, Paul Nunes, Tim Beene, Clayton M. Christiansen, Henning Kagermann, Henrik von Scheel, Renee Mauborgne, Chris Zook, Joseph L. Browers, Scott D. Antony, Matt Eyring, Lib Gibson, 

If you need the best practices and ideas for creating business models that drive growth – but don’t have time to find them–this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you:

  •  Reinvent your business profitably 
  • Set your model up for success with a winning competitive strategy
  • Test and change your assumptions about customers
  • Spot trends that could transform your business
  • Exploit disruptive technologies
  • Give traditional offerings a shot in the arm
  • Produce game changers for your industry or market
  • Build a new business in an established organization

Economia Criativa 4.0 - o mundo não gira ao contrário

Book  | Independente 

Vinnie de Oliveira, Valdecir Becker, Henrik von Scheel

O livro “Economia Criativa 4.0 – O mundo não gira ao contrário” aborda enormes disrupções que a sociedade vivencia e aproxima qualquer pessoa que estiver lendo este trabalho de assuntos emergentes e de enorme significado na atualidade.

A combinação das temáticas de Indústria 4.0 e Economia Criativa, a partir de uma abordagem leve e com inúmeros exemplos práticos que farão o leitor se sentir mais próximo de assuntos que muitas vezes são difíceis de se entender. Ele vai te inspirar a entender como os diversos elementos tratados no livro te ajudarão nos seus negócios e na sua vida pessoal.

Passports to Success in BPM; Real-World, Theory and Applications

Book  |  Future Strategies Inc

Nathaniel Palmer, Frank Kowalkowski. Henrik von Scheel and Mark von Rosing

Henrik contributed to the chapter on “Learning from the Leaders”. Discover in what one can learn from leading and outperforming organizations, discussing them with others, thinking about how we would react in similar situations, we are actively learning.

Big Data, Using SMART Big Data, Analytics and Metrics To Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance

Book  |  Wiley

Bernard Marr

Henrik reviewed the book and his recommendation was featured on the cover page with: “Data and analytics powers everything that we do. This is the go-to-guide on data for 2015”

Smarter Selling, How to grow sales by building trusted relationships

Book  |  Financial Times Press

David Lambert, Keith Dugdale

Henrik is a contributing to the chapters “Selling today” and “Patterns Research” of the #1 Best Seller in Business Sales

Guide to Cloud Computing: Principles and Practice

Book  |  Springer

Richard Hill, Laurie Hirsch, Peter Lake, Siavash Moshiri. von Scheel

Henrik contributed to chapter 7: Intelligence in the Cloud. The book is a milestone book that describes the landscape of cloud computing from first principles, leading the reader step-by-step through the process of building and configuring a cloud environment

JOURNAL AND MAGAZINES 

German Federal Government Digital Strategy 2015

Report  |  Federal Minister of Economics & Technology

Digital Strategy is a final report by the Advisory Council at the Federal Minister of Economics & Technology tasked to outline the strategy for the digital 2015 future of Germany. The Germany´s “Digital Agenda” evolved into Industry 4.0 and was adopted by the European Commission in March 2010 as part of the Europe 2020.

Industry 4.0 – Strategy implementation recommendation to German Government

Report  |  Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany

Final report of the Industrie 4.0 Working Group on the recommendations for implementing the strategic initiative INDUSTRIE 4.0 to the Federal Germany Government.

Never Waste a Crisis – A Real Leadership Opportunity

Turnaround Management Journal

Journal  |  Research Center of Management Practices

Henrik authored the article on “Never Waste a Crisis – A real Leadership Opportunity”. You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before, when talking about how governments must take advantage of our current economic crisis. But the same idea applies to each of us, as individuals and as business leaders.

Using the Business Ontology to Develop Enterprise Standards

Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications

International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications

Henrik authored a 23 page  article on “Using the Business Ontology to Develop Enterprise Standards” and the importance of understanding the structures of the Enterprise layers

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

The importance of a Business Model
Applying real-world BPM in an SAP environment, page 23-54. Henrik von Scheel, Mark von Rosing. Publisher: SAP Press, ISBN 978-1-59229-877-8

Lessons Learned from past recessions
Global Outperformer Research. Henrik von Scheel, Cay Clemmensen, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

Link Strategy to Operations: How to work with Tiers 
Practical Research Paper by Henrik von Scheel et al. on how to organize and structure strategic, tactical and operational tiers across competencies, strategy, decision making, measurements, reports and processes.

The secrets of market Outperformers
Global Outperformer study. Henrik von Scheel, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

Mastering the building blocks of Strategy Execution
Global Outperformer study. Henrik von Scheel, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

Reinventing Your Business Model
Antony Dicks, Henrik von Scheel, Hendrik Bohn, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

Enterprise Value Tree a practical management tool
A practical management tool to accelerate the connection between actions and dependencies i.e. value, performance, measurement, owner, CSF and KPI, to name a few. First version develop by Henrik von Scheel in 2001. 

What can BPM learn from Enterprise Architecture (ISO/IEC/IEEE 4201)
Rich Hilliard, Henrik von Scheel, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

SAP Blueprint Methodology and Governance
Applying real-world BPM in an SAP environment, pages 297-412. Henrik von Scheel and Mark von Rosing. Publisher: SAP Press, ISBN 978-1-59229-877-8

Delivering BPM projects on time, budget, and value with requirements management
Christopher  Swierczynski, Joshua von Scheel, Henrik von Scheel, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605 

Emerging & disruptive Business Process trends
August-Wilhelm Scheer, Henrik von Scheel, Daniel T. Jones, James P. Womack, Jeanne W. Ross, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028602

Using the Business Ontology to develop Enterprise Standards
Henrik von Scheel, et. al. Publisher: International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications Volume 4, page 48–70. Doi:10.4018 / IJCSSA.2016010103

Change the Organizational DNA structure for Strategy Execution  Practices from the Outperformers, case study research paper authored Henrik von Scheel, Nathan Fullington, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Value Driver Processes sorted after Strategic, Tactical and Operational level
 Applying real-world BPM in an SAP environment, pages 641-654. Henrik von Scheel. Publisher: SAP Press, ISBN 978-1-59229-877-8

Using the Business Ontology to Develop Enterprise Standards
Academic Research Paper, Henrik von Scheel and Mark von Rosing. Publisher: International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications, DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.201601010

The organization of the future: Role Oriented Process Modelling
Neil Kemp, Krzysztof Skurzak, Louwrence D Erasmus, Henrik von Scheel, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

Educations and Developments: How the education system can secure a future welfare?
Academic Research Paper. Henrik von Scheel and Prof Niels Egelund. Publisher: Centre for Strategic Research in Education and Competence at Aarhus University. ISBN: 978-87-997575-0-3

The future of Labour market 
Academic Research Paper. Henrik von Scheel and Prof Per Kongshøj Madsen on the academic research paper: Publisher: Faculty of Social Sciences at Aalborg University. ISBN: 978-87-997575-0-3

Global and Megatrends on Denmark
Academic Research Paper. Henrik von Scheel and Prof Georg Sørensen. Publisher: Advanced Studies Department of Political Science at Aahus University. ISBN: 978-87-997575-0-3

Innovation and transformation in the Public Sector
Academic Research Paper. Henrik von Scheel and Prof Bent Greve. Publisher: Roskilde University, The Department of Society and Globalization Changing Societies: Welfare and Diversity. ISBN: 978-87-997575-0-3

The Competitiveness of the Danish Economy depends on the innovation of organizations.
Academic Research Paper. Henrik von Scheel, Prof Frank Gertsen & Allan N Gjerding. Publisher: Department of Economics & Business Management atAalborg University. ISBN: 978-87-997575-0-3

Process Concept Evolution from Labor to Automation
Academic Research Paper. Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer, John A. Zachman, Henrik von Scheel, Daniel T. Jones, James P. Womack. et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028602 

Sustainability Oriented Process Modeling
Academic Research Paper. Henrik von Scheel, Prof David Coloma. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028602

How to combine BPM and Enterprise Architecture concepts
Academic Research Paper. John A Zachman, Henrik von Scheel, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

Business Process Management Alignment
Academic Research Paper. Henrik von Scheel, Justin Tomlinson, Kenneth D. Teske &, Michael Tisdel. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028602

Digital Business Process Management
Research Paper. Henrik von Scheel and Prof  Zakaria Maamar. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028602

LEGO – Innovating a Turnaround at LEGO
Leading Practices from the Outperformers authored by Henrik von Scheel and Anette Falk Bøgebjerg et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Carlsberg – Operating Model that delivers on strategy and optimize processes.
Leading Practice Operating Model case study authored by Lotte Tange, Anni Olsen, Henrik von Scheel, et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Transform the Operating Model by rethinking Saxo Bank way of working
Leading Practices from the Outperformers, case study research paper authored by Mikael Munck and Henrik von Scheel. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

SAL Heavy Lift – Profit from the core with a new business model discipline
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored by Paul Okpurughre, Henrik von Scheel, Dennis Grube, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Maersk Line – Accelerators of innovation and transformation
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored by Henrik von Scheel & Mads Clausager, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

FLSmidth turning point – Execution on a service-driven Business Model  
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored Henrik von Scheel, Jacob Lüdemann Gammelgaard, et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Novozymes – Beat the transformation odds  
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored by Thomas Chr. Olsen, Henrik von Scheel, et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Health Canada long tail, big savings to deliver impact with Procure to Pay                       
Leading Practices from the Outperformers, case study research paper authored Henrik von Scheel, LeAnne Spurrell and Jamie Tibbets. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Health Canada the transforming power of smart automation          Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study  authored LeAnne Spurrell,Henrik von Scheel, Jamie Tibbets, et. al.  Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Airfrance & KLM – Leading practices around documentation from the airline industry
Leading Practices from the Outperformers, case study research paper authored by Henrik von Scheel and Henk Kuil. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Nothern Health – Healthcare 4.0 the next-generation Operating Model
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored by Bonnie Urquhart, Fraser Bell, Henrik von Scheel, Linda Dodd, Melanie Mogus, Shawn Smith et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

NATO – Improving the NATO meta-model behind the C3 Taxonom
Enterprise Architecture Research and Analysis. Krzysztof Skurzak, Henrik von Scheel, Peter Woudsma, et. a.. Publisher: THF Research Paper

German Federal Employment Agency – Behind the German jobs miracle 
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored by Thomas Boosz, Henrik von Scheel, Volker Rebhan, Klaus Vitt, et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

U. S. Department of Defense – Achieve ERP success in Federal Government
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study  authored by Henrik von Scheel and Thomas Preston, et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

U.S. Department of Defense – Evidence based decision making
Leading Practices from the Outperformers, case study authored by Darin Morris, Thomas Preston, et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

United States Government – The Alignment & Unity
Leading Practices from the Outperformers, case study research paper authored by Henrik von Scheel, Michael D. Tisdel and Kenneth D. Teske. Publisher Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Transforming LEGO one process at a time
Leading Practices from the Outperformers, case study  authored by Henrik von Scheel and Anette Falk Bøgebjerg, et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

FLSmidth – Reinventing Performance Management 
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored Henrik von Scheel and Jacob Lüdemann Gammelgaard, et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684

Getting organizational redesign right, from plan to practice
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored by Henrik von Scheel, Nathan Fullington and Lindsey Rivera et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684  

Saxo Bank – Rethinking how to apply testing concepts
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored by Henning Isager Troelsen, Henrik von Scheel, et al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-10: 0128028605

ConnectWise – Using the Business Ontology to transform three leading Organizations
Leading Practices from the Outperformers case study authored by Henrik von Scheel, Nathan Fullington and Lindsey Rivera et. al. Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN-9780128030684  

Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009 – Initial Steps To Building A Sustainability Framework
United Nations Climate Change Conference paper authored by Henrik von Scheel, et al.

Dutch Railway – Using Role Oriented Modelling Concepts to Develop Smart Applications
Henrik von Scheel and Bas Bach. Publisher: International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications. Volume 5. DOI: 10.4018 / IJCSSA.2017010103

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