Mr. Christian Rangen

Christian Rangen is a strategy & transformation advisor to companies, innovation clusters and governments around the world. He is a transformation advisor to companies and works closely with governments to accelerate national transformation.

Over the past four years, a large part of his work has gone into exploring, researching and building Innovation Superclusters. This work has taken him to Asian Governments, European ecosystems and Norwegian growth industries post-oil & gas. He is currently involved with Innovation Supercluster projects in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Christian Rangen is founder of Engage // Innovate – a global strategy & innovation consulting company and Strategy Tools – the Modern Strategist’s Platform.

He is the inventor of over 50 visual strategy tools in use with 1000’s of companies around the world. Built around his research since 2010, Strategy Tools is a global open-source strategy platform, with more than 50 visual strategy tools, spanning strategy, innovation entrepreneurship, business model portfolios and Superclusters. Working with a global team of strategy leaders and software developers, Strategy Tools is quickly turning into a go-to-hub for strategist’s worldwide. Recently, the team launched three strategy simulations, currently being deployed with leading companies, clusters and business schools around the world.

He is also faculty at BI – Norwegian Business School, where he has been teaching strategy, entrepreneurship and numerous executive education programs.

His recent publications include Building Innovation Superclusters (2019) the Shifting Energy Arena (2018) and Building Switzerland’s Innovation Superclusters (2018).

He is author of INNOVATION SUPERCLUSTERS  – A New Playbook for Economic Growth (forthcoming)

Christian resides in Norway with his family and two young children.