Our story
For thirty years, we've helped organisations navigate change, embrace bold ideas, and transform challenges into opportunities. We've learned a great deal, grown and partnered with leaders to shape a future where ambition meets impact.
Niels Ahrengot, Jens Vasehus, and Mads Barslund founded Implement on the dream of helping organisations succeed with their most important change initiatives. The vision was, and is, simple: turn plans and ambitions into reality, and move things forward.
Growth
50
One key pillar of our culture is the constant desire to become better at what we do – and to help others do the same. That's why we founded Implement Learning Institute to support this through training and developing project managers and employees across the private and public sectors.
Curiosity has always been – and will always be – key to how we do things at Implement. That's why we launched our first all-employee University offsites, designed to satisfy our collective thirst for knowledge and bring us closer as one team.
10 years of Implement
Thought Leaders is our event series where we invite leading business thinkers to inspire and provoke us on our core competence: change. It began as an internal Implement event, and in 2009 we branched out, inviting our wider community to be part of it too.
Thought Leaders 2009 - Leading change in tough conditions
Award-winning thought leader John Kotter showed how to turn crisis into opportunity, drawing on his bestseller A Sense of Urgency to lead change when conditions get toughest.
Thought Leaders 2010 - The upside of turbulence
Is there an upside to turbulence? Donald Sull, a global expert on strategy execution, showed how volatility can create an environment where organisations thrive even better.
Thought Leaders 2011 - The execution trap
Roger Martin, who coined the term ‘execution trap,’ revealed how the cascade model helps leadership avoid great ideas failing at the execution stage.
Implement and MarkUp Consulting in Oslo join forces, laying the foundation for a Scandinavian-wide consultancy.
Growth
100+
We reached a significant milestone in Implement’s history, growing past 100 employees.
Implement MP in Stockholm joins Implement, marking another step in our Nordic expansion.
Thought Leaders 2013 - Moonshots for management 2.0
How do we bring management into the 21st century? Once again, Gary Hamel, one of the world's most sought-after management speakers, joined us. This time to make the case for ‘management 2.0’ – a fundamental mindset shift for tomorrow's business world.
With the Danish Industry Foundation and Aarhus University, we co-developed Half Double, a hybrid project management approach and now a defining feature of how we work, focused on delivering double the impact in half the time through impact, flow, and leadership.
Thought Leaders 2014 - Thriving on disruption
Clayton Christensen, the architect of disruptive innovation, challenged traditional views on strategy and innovation, and how we measure success in a world built for disruption.
On 27 April 2015, a fire spread from a nearby construction site to our Copenhagen office on Strandvejen. Luckily, no one was hurt. During the 18-month rebuild, the Danish office relocated – to right next door.
Thought Leaders 2015 - Moonshots for change
How can organisations become more human-oriented to drive change? Daniel H. Pink and Roger Martin explored the answer through so-called moonshots for change – radical, ambitious leaps rather than incremental steps.
20 years of Implement
New office
Zurich
Abegglen management consulting joins forces with Implement and the Zurich office opens.
Growth
500+
We reached another milestone in Implement's history, growing to more than 500 employees.
Thought Leaders 2017 - From fragile to agile
Gary Hamel, Herminia Ibarra, and Jim Hagemann Snabe shared how organisations can move from fragile to agile, from challenging management assumptions to leadership that creates followership.
Thought Leaders 2019 - Agile organisations for real
At Thought Leaders 2019, Eric Ries, best-selling author and leader of the Lean Startup movement, challenged our thinking on organisational agility and what it takes to make it real.
How can operations become fit for the future? That's the question we set out to explore when we launched Implement OPEX 2020, our first edition bringing together guest speakers from IKEA, APM Terminals (Maersk), and Dow Chemical Company to share insights on driving operational transformation through digitalisation, sustainability, and adapting to constant change.
The Tech Collective was founded as a subsidiary of Implement, home to tech artisans leading organisations through strategic transformations across data, AI, analytics, QA, testing, and DevOps.
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1000
Thought Leaders 2021 - Fit for humans and fit for the future
In the wake of the pandemic and lockdowns, we launched our ongoing series of virtual thought leader events – featuring the likes of Gary Hamel, Bjarke Ingels … and the list goes on.
The first episode of the podcast series Changing Conversations airs. The podcast brings together business leaders, management thinkers, and academics to discuss how change happens, both for us as humans and for organisations.
New office
Borgergade, Copenhagen
Opening our third office in Denmark.
Thought Leaders 2023 - Choice making in an era of paradoxes
How can discomfort and tension spark creativity? Wendy Smith and Roger Martin challenged us to see creative tension as a tool, make better choices, and lead boldly in a world where challenges are the new normal.
We established our DEI Council, bringing together voices from every level and practice, including our CEO and employee resource groups (IM Rainbow_, IM International_, IM Parent_, and IM Neuroinclusion) to keep our initiatives relevant and effective through open communication and continuous feedback.
We started our University 20 years ago to make space for shared curiosity. The concept has evolved a great deal since then, and in 2025 we held our first Winter University: three days of intensive learning in Aarhus, with AI as the driving theme.
As part of Beyond, we started a strategic transformation partnership with Danish Red Cross Youth, aiming to strengthen their organisational foundation and support young leaders, volunteers, and staff.
30 years of Implement
We launched Implement Studios, bringing our videos, podcasts, and webinars together in one place.
Bluestage joins The Tech Collective to help clients gain value by connecting business and technology, strengthening capabilities within Salesforce, digital transformation, IT architecture, and AI solutions.
Growth
2000
Implement hits 2000 employees!
