How to Thrive as AI and Decentralization Reshape Industries

Biography

Frode studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, an independent reserch institute which develops new management ideas, tools, and strategies to help organizations transform faster.  Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a community for leaders developing the organizations of the future.

From 2004-2014, Frode led the Lean Systems Institute (LSI)’s effort of reinventing Lean Management for modern knowledge work, resulting in the Lean Systems Framework™. The methodology has been used in larger organizations such as Lockheed and Schibsted as well as in smaller firms across many industries. For this contribution Frode was made a Founding Fellow of the Lean Systems Society. Frode’s second major contribution goes beyond Lean Thinking to the impact of the combination of rapid decentralization and exponential technologies. After researching 12,000 years of economic history, he concluded that we are transitioning to a post-industrial civilization and economy, which will require fundamentally ideas and principles for how we innovate, develop organizations, and pursue careers. The result of this work was an effort to develop a post-industrial management science, in whhich AI and decentralization are seen as reshaping our work landscape.

Frode’s multi-disciplinary background stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom.  He has more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Before founding LSI in 2004, Frode was the CEO and founder of Odegard Labs, Inc. in 1991, a software engineering research and consulting firm. In 1996 he founded Odegard Media, an early online content developer. While attending high school, Frode in 1986 founded his first company, M2CS, a startup building next-generation tools for embedded software development. Originally from Norway, Frode immigrated to California in 1990. His biggest passions aside from work are philosophy, history, mathematics, historical linguistics, and Iwama-style Aikido.

How to Thrive as AI and Decentralization Reshape Industries

Topics

• AI Agents and the Future of Organizations
• The Boardroom AI Agenda
• AI in Corporate Strategy
• Accelerating Organizational Transformation
• Industries of the Future

Sample venues

• Allocate
• Global PE Alliance
• Global Corporate Venturing
• YPO
• Various corporate clients

Keynote Speaker

Frode L. Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute

Biography

Frode studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, an independent reserch institute which develops new management ideas, tools, and strategies to help organizations transform faster.  Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a community for leaders developing the organizations of the future.

From 2004-2014, Frode led the Lean Systems Institute (LSI)’s effort of reinventing Lean Management for modern knowledge work, resulting in the Lean Systems Framework™. The methodology has been used in larger organizations such as Lockheed and Schibsted as well as in smaller firms across many industries. For this contribution Frode was made a Founding Fellow of the Lean Systems Society. Frode’s second major contribution goes beyond Lean Thinking to the impact of the combination of rapid decentralization and exponential technologies. After researching 12,000 years of economic history, he concluded that we are transitioning to a post-industrial civilization and economy, which will require fundamentally ideas and principles for how we innovate, develop organizations, and pursue careers. The result of this work was an effort to develop a post-industrial management science, in whhich AI and decentralization are seen as reshaping our work landscape.

Frode’s multi-disciplinary background stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom.  Frode has more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Before founding LSI in 2004, Frode was the CEO and founder of Odegard Labs, Inc. in 1991, a software engineering research and consulting firm. In 1996 he founded Odegard Media, an early online content developer. While attending high school, Frode in 1986 founded his first company, M2CS, a startup building next-generation tools for embedded software development. Originally from Norway, Frode immigrated to California in 1990. His biggest passions aside from work are philosophy, history, mathematics, historical linguistics, and Aikido.