Sara Najafi

Current

• Senior Consultant Strategic IT at Statoil

Past

• IT Strategy Consultant at Accenture
• Project manager - Owner at Sara Najafi Consulting (Self-employed)
• Master's Student at SRV återvinning

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Education

• Örebro universitet
• Stockholms universitet
• Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

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Connections

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Industry

Oil & Energy

Sara Najafi’s Summary

Cross-industry senior consultant with special skills within the area of Strategic IT Effectiveness (IT Strategy, IT Organisation and IT Workforce).

Strategic consulting within IT Strategy, IT Transformation, IT Workforce Transformation and IT Operating Model. Business plans & implementation strategy development.

Industry knowledge include Telecom, Government, Oil & Gas, Forest Products, Health & Life Sciences.

Sara Najafi’s Specialties:

IT Strategy, IT Workforce, IT Organisation, IT Process Management, IT Operating Model Development, IT Governence, ITIL, SLA, COBIT
Market Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Non-Profits, Project Management, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Business Plan Development, Innovation Plan Development
IT Strategy and Functional Strategy Development and Alignment
IT and Business Transformations

Sara Najafi’s Experience

• Senior Consultant Strategic IT

  Statoil

  (Public Company; STL; Oil & Energy industry)

  September 2009 — Present (4 months)

  Working with Strategy within CSO CIMT at StatoilHydro.
  
  Corporate Information Management and Technology (CIMT) is responsible for the corporate function related to Information Management (IM) and Information Technology (IT). Responsibilities include the IT arena, process ownership for IM and IT and corporate IM and IT strategy.

• IT Strategy Consultant

  Accenture

  (Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

  August 2005 — September 2009 (4 years 2 months)

  Strategic IT Effectiveness (SITE) is an Accenture practice that focuses on improving the business value of IT. Its professionals are experienced with bold, value-creating approaches to IT, bringing boardroom-relevant criteria to IT investments and helping high-performance businesses to “think bigger” about IT’s ability to improve operating results. SITE is uniquely qualified to help its clients create new business opportunities by changing the way its enterprise works, streamline costs through repositioning or restructuring of the total IT spend, and identify the untapped value in the current IT environment so it works more efficiently. SITE reaches its recommendations through assessment of technology infrastructure, application environment, internal IT capabilities, sourcing strategies, and investment plans for IT.

• Project manager - Owner

  Sara Najafi Consulting (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2005 — September 2005 (6 months)

  Consultant based employment through my own company (Sara Najafi Consulting). Responsible for the development of a new system for the Swedish department of defence.

• Master's Student

  SRV återvinning

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Public Safety industry)

  December 2004 — May 2005 (6 months)

  Responsible for developing a new 3-5 year IT strategy including governing model and handbooks. Held workshops with top management, prepared material for communication and held presentations.

Sara Najafi’s Education

• Örebro universitet

  Business and Administration 2006 — 2007

  Distance learning.

• Stockholms universitet

  Business and Administration 2004 — 2005

• Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

  Master of Science , IT management , 2001 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Vice chairman at the Program for Information Technology, member of the public relations committee, founder and Chairman of KonstIT (an art association), project manager for the purchase and furnishing of the facilities at the Institute, and responsible for the reception committee at the Program for Information Technology.

Additional Information

Sara Najafi’s Interests:

Management training, leadership, golf, new technology, investing, fishing, swimming

Sara Najafi’s Honors:

Named the number one female IT student of the year by Microsoft (2004)
Winner of Exicitera Innovation Challenge (2005) - innovation plan competition
Received 2 Scholarships for good performance at university level (2004 and 2005)