Richard Normann

Richard Normann (Finland, 1943 - Paris, November 18, 2003) was a Swedish management consultant and researcher early in the development of theories of service management, interactive strategy, and offerings.[1]

Biography

Normann received his MBA and then PhD in Business Economics in 1975 at Lund University, leading to a professorship. He was soon working at management consultancy Scandinavian Institutes of Administrative Research (SIAR) and was its president from 1976 to 1980. He was also a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School and visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. Being the founder of Service Management Group, SMG in 1980, he later also founded the strategy consulting firm NormannPartners[2] that bear his conceptual legacy today.

Normann was the one who in the 1970s introduced the concept of mission.[3] He was, among other things, strategy consultant for SAS when the airline in the 1980s, during Jan Carlzon CEO's time, developing the idea, together with Denis Boyle of "moments of truth" oriented toward business travelers and customers.

Green Templeton College, at Oxford University, honors his memory with the Annual Richard Normann Lecture.

In the introduction to Reframing Business, Henry Mintzberg cites Normann as a "significant scholar", "using the consulting opportunity to advance general scholarship, namely our understanding of how this world works".

Publications

1984. Service Management. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. [The seminal work.]
1989 (with Rafael Ramírez) “A Theory of the Offering: Toward a Neo-Industrial Business Strategy.” In Strategy Organisation Design, and Human Resource Management, ed. Charles C. Snow, 111–128. J.A.I. Press. .
1991 Service Management: Strategy and Leadership in Service Business
1993 (with Rafael Ramirez), "Designing Interactive Strategy", Harvard Business Review
1994 (with Solveig Wikström) Knowledge and Value: A New Perspective on Corporate Transformation
1998 (with Rafael Ramirez) Designing interactive strategy: from value chain to value constellation
2001 Reframing Business: When the Map Changes the Landscape
2006 (with Niklas Arvidsson), People as care catalysts: from being patient to becoming healthy

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References

Isaksson, Pär. "Richard Normann död". Affärsvärlden. Retrieved 20 November 2003.
"The legacy of Richard Normann". NormannPartners.
Bränfeldt, Lars-Eric. "Gurun om jättarnas strategiska missar". Affärsvärlden. Retrieved 20 November 2003.

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[1] Isaksson, Pär. "Richard Normann död". Affärsvärlden. Retrieved 20 November 2003.

[2] "The legacy of Richard Normann". NormannPartners.

[3] Bränfeldt, Lars-Eric. "Gurun om jättarnas strategiska missar". Affärsvärlden. Retrieved 20 November 2003.