Talk to sales Try for Free
Geir Graff

Geir Graff

Teacher in special education, ICT- consultant

Followers of Geir Graff2000 followers
location of Geir GraffNorway

Connect with Geir Graff to Send Message

Connect

Connect with Geir Graff to Send Message

Connect

  • Timeline

  • About me

    Innovation strategist, Portfolio Manager for strategic projects, P3O at Asker kommune

  • Education

    • RVS

      1987 - 1989
      High School Foreign Languages and Literatures, General, Business Economics

    • NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences

      2021 - 2022
      Sustainable business model innovation

    • BI Norwegian Business School

      2011 - 2013
      Part of Masterprogramme Organizational Leadership - leadership in teams

      Teams and leadership of teams

    • Oslo University College (HiO)

      1993 - 1997
      Spesialpedagog Pedagogy

      Teacher-education

    • University of Oslo (UiO)

      1996 - 1997
      Spesialpedagog Pedagogy, special education for persons with disabilities

      Teacher in Special Pedagogy

    • Universitetet i Agder (UiA)

      2007 - 2009
      Part of Masterprogramme Government, Leadership, ICT A

      Leadership in the public sector

  • Experience

    • Blakstad primary school

      Aug 1997 - Jun 1999
      Teacher in special education, ICT- consultant

      Technically:Working to build and maintain a newly built school-network, on the Novell-networking platform. Paedagogically:Also working as a teacher of special-paedagogy, with disabled children, that had both cognitive or physical challenges, providing ICT-support to help them learn better and coping in their everyday learning-experience.

    • Asker kommune

      Aug 1999 - now

      Experience-excerpts include:Coursemanager, speaker/presenter. Developing e-learning solutions. Web development.ITIL 2. Service Level Manager.Head of ICT-development for the educational sector of the municipality.Project management. Both internal projects, projects spanning different levels of the public/governement sector and Private-Public-Partnership (PPP)-projects. Co-develoment of project-management framework for the municipality. Process-management, risk-assessment and cost/benefit assessment.Introducing BPMN to the municipality and The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) through common projects.E-government. Show less

      • Innovation strategist, Portfolio Manager for strategic projects, P3O

        May 2014 - now

      • Program Coordinator

        Apr 2017 - Jan 2020

      • Head of ICT-development / ICT-services

        Aug 2007 - May 2014

      • ICT consultant / ICT special advisor

        Aug 1999 - Aug 2007

    • The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (​KS)

      Jan 2020 - now
      Project Manager

      Developing a taxonomy for classification of indicators related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The taxonomy is developed by Statistics Norway, with the emphasis of developing a tool that is practical and helpful at the regional or local level. Meanwhile, the taxonomy is designed generically, in a way that makes it equally well suited for users at a national or global level.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • MoP - Management of Portfolio - Foundation

      AXELOS Global Best Practice
      Nov 2015

    • An Introduction to Project Management

      Apolitical
      Mar 2023
      View certificate certificate

    • PRINCE2 - Foundation and Practitioner

      OGC

    • How to Make Better Decisions

      Apolitical
      Jun 2023
      View certificate certificate

    • Using the SDGs for Government Action

      Apolitical
      Jan 2023
      View certificate certificate

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Geir Graff
      The Norwegian Public Sector Innovation Award The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment Jun 2017 This year, we wrote the application based on a number of projects aligned with our innovation strategy, and won the Innovation Award for Asker municipality. The jury commented especially the project "Asker Welfare Lab" - a new way of investing in the lives of citizens, as one of the most radical ways of changing municipal service delivery they had seen. Our work with strategic building of an innovative culture throughout the municipal organization was also commended.
    • Awarded to Geir Graff
      The Norwegian Public Sector Innovation Award - finalist The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment Jun 2015 Co-wrote the application for the The Norwegian Public Sector Innovation Award of 2015, based on our work with making a structured strategy for Innovation in Asker municipality. We became one of three finalists, but did not win the award for 2015.

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Choir Membership Coordinator

      Issued by Local Church
      Local ChurchAssociated with Geir Graff