Author Archives: Josefine Aspenstrand

About Josefine Aspenstrand

Marketing Manager, Barium, Sweden

Happy New (Process) Year

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Happy New Year, and many thanks to all our clients, partners and employees for a fantastic 2011!

Happened at Barium during 2011

  • The Map to App concept is gaining ground, and the number of users on Barium Live! is steadily growing – and Barium as a company has grown by 50 percent for the second year in a row.
  • The app Barium Business Navigator makes processes and applications available in every iPhone.
  • Barium SharePoint Client adds processes to the widely used portal Microsoft SharePoint.
  • The welcome of 23 new process-oriented employees.
  • The move to a larger office, better equipped for inspirational meetings.

Now we are looking forward to another exciting year together!

From Map to App

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Barium’s autumn 2011 marketing campaign is named From Map to App, and communicates how easy it is to convert process maps to executable process applications.

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Barium: From Map To App (magazine ad)Exhibition materialBarium: From Map To App (roll-up)Seminars
The seven BPM seminars from last spring were a huge success. This autumn we are keeping the three venues from last time, as well as adding three new ones. The seminars are still held only within Sweden, but a future expansion is possible – and we have great partners in Benelux and UK/Ireland that have similar events!

Thursday September 29, 3-6 PM: GÖTEBORG, Sweden
Thursday October 6, 3-6 PM: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Thursday October 20, 3-6 PM: LINKÖPING, Sweden
Thursday October 27, 3-6 PM: JÖNKÖPING, Sweden
Thursday November 10, 3-6 PM: MALMÖ, Sweden
Thursday November 17, 3-6 PM: KARLSTAD, Sweden
Thursday November 24, 3-6 PM: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Thursday December 1, 3-6 PM: GÖTEBORG, Sweden

Our Swedish followers can read more about the seminars here.

Welcome to the seminars!
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager

Curious George and Barium

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Apart from a process company, barium is the chemical element no 56 in the periodic table. And just like the elements are parts of something bigger, the Barium Company offers a tool to be a part of your organisation and help you make it even greater.

Not everyone knows what the substance barium is used for, but within some areas of business they are very familiar with it. Health care is one example. The other day one of our clients within the health care sector brought us a page from the book Curious George Goes to the Hospital. It showed George drinking barium! He needs an X-ray, and it turns out that he has eaten a piece from a puzzle … just because it looked so tasty.

Curious George drinking bariumPicture from Curious George Goes to the Hospital
(1966) by Margret & H. A. Rey.

Curious George was open and inquisitive enough to try Barium to make him better – are you?

Be curious!
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager
www.barium.se

NOTE: In Sweden we pronounce barium with an A like in the word car, pronounced (bɑːriːθm). In English the element is called bair-ee-əm, pronounced (bɛəriəm), but since Barium is our name we use the Swedish pronunciation when we go abroad.

Barium introduces guest bloggers

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Barium Live! Guest BloggerLast week I promised you a number of guest bloggers to give you a new perspective on Business Process Management. From three of our partner companies we have now recruited these bloggers:

Guest bloggers
Barend Beenackers – Senior Business Consultant, Process Express (Barium Partner in the Netherlands)
Andy Salmon – Technical Director, WSP (Barium Partner in UK and Ireland)
Johannes Vänngård – Business Developer, Vangard Consulting (Barium Partner in Sweden)

Each of the guest bloggers will start by introducing themselves – starting with Barend Beenackers this week – and then continue blogging about business development, change management, processes and such. Please, keep commenting their posts and ask questions to get interesting discussions going!

Regards,
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager
www.barium.se

An office perfect for personal meetings

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Late last year we realised that Barium was growing so fast that we were in desperate need of more space. We already had the perfect location in the centre of Göteborg, and luckily we found a beautiful two-story office space across the street.

The Barium Office at Västra Hamngatan, Göteborg, Sweden

Now we have settled down in our new office, which is twice as large as the old one and has plenty of room for personal meetings, seminars, training courses and, of course, the system developers that are producing our service Barium Live! We are now close to 30 employees passionate about Business Process Management.

The Barium Lounge, where we meet clients and parnters

Jeroen de Groot at Processdagarna 2011

Now, in the summer time, we sometimes take a break in the park across the canal …

The park across the canal from the Barium Office

You are very welcome to visit us in our new office!

Regards,
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager
www.barium.se

A fresh start for the Barium Live! blog

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Today Barium launches this new blog, hoping for an intense debate around business improvement, processes and Barium Live! features. Several authors from the Barium office will keep up the blogging, seeing things from the perspective of their role. In a few days we are also going to introduce guest bloggers from partner companies around Europe to get an even wider perspective. So, bookmark the Barium Live! blog to follow what is going on within Business Process Management!

Authors from Barium
Michael Johansson – CEO
Jonathan Franze – Process Consultant and Barium Live! Expert
Fredrik Selander – Sales Representative
Josefine Aspenstrand – Marketing Manager

Regards,
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager
www.bariumlive.com

Successful customer event at the Barium office

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For three days last week we at Barium held our annual customer event Processdagarna (the Process Days). It was the first larger event at our new office, but with thorough preparations it became a success. With skillful speakers from Barium and our partner companies as well as from AstraZeneca, Karlstads kommun, Västra Götalandsregionen and Universitetssjukhuset i Linköping and guests coming from both Sweden and abroad we all learnt a whole lot from the event. We hope that all of our guests arrived home with new thoughts on process management and agile working methods.

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You are welcome to download the presentation material from May 17-19:

Healthcare, May 17th: Download material (pdf)
Local government, May 18th: Download material (pdf)
Private sector, May 19th: Download material (pdf)

Regards,
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager
www.bariumlive.com