Welcome to KnowledgeHouse

KnowledgeHouse


KnowledgeHouse is a research-based consultancy that provides strategic advisory services, board work, consultancy services, workshops, training, and keynote speeches for Top 100 DK private and public organisations as well as small and medium-sized enterprises.

KnowledgeHouse’s core competencies include:

  • Strategy and business development

  • Digitalisation and digital transformation

  • ESG, sustainable business, and green transition

  • Innovation and idea development

  • Change and transformation processes

  • Knowledge sharing and knowledge management

  • Human resource management and social capital

KnowledgeHouse offers targeted and strategic advisory services, board governance, development programmes, courses, keynote speeches, and workshops for all types of organisations, their boards of directors, executive management teams, leaders, and employees, at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels of the organisation.

All assignments are developed in close collaboration with the client and are based on best practice and the latest research. Courses and keynote speeches are tailored to the company’s specific needs and ambitions, integrating models and tools with practical company cases in a language that the organisation and its employees can understand and relate to.

For longer transformation and development programmes, we apply a train-the-trainer concept. This means that all modules are developed and delivered by KnowledgeHouse, while also including the training of internal consultants within the company to ensure continuous, effective, and successful implementation and integration after the advisory and training programme has ended.

Our twenty years of experience show that this method strengthens successful integration in both the short and long term, particularly because employee involvement enhances motivation and sustains focus on the development or change targeted by the programme. At the same time, the method also helps the company reduce costs, as parts of the integration process can be managed internally by trusted employees.

Annabeth Aagaard has held board positions since 2006. She is Programme Director and Lead Lecturer for Aarhus University’s board education programmes in digital transformation and green transition, as well as for the university’s other board education programmes.

She is an active board member in companies, an advisory board member at Innovation Fund Denmark, and a representative in foundations and associations within strategy and business development, governance, digitalisation, green transition/ESG, transformation, and communication.

In addition, she is frequently engaged as a moderator, facilitator, and coordinator of seminars and conferences.

Should you wish to contact Annabeth Aagaard regarding your next strategy process, board assignment, or similar engagement, please feel free to contact her directly by email at: info@knowledgehouse.dk

About Annabeth Aagaard

Aagaard Aagaard holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical & Biotech Front End Innovation in collaboration with Aalborg University, Stanford University and H. Lundbeck A/S and has a Master's in Business Administration. She has worked for twenty years in management, strategy & business development, transformation, sustainability, digitalisation, innovation and communication as a leader, project manager, strategic adviser and scientist across both private and public companies.

She is a Professor at Aarhus University, AU BSS, Center for Small and Medium-sized Companies and was for seven years the founding director of Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Business Development (DBD) at Aarhus University. She is an active industrial researcher in digital and sustainable business development, transformation, and innovation and has published 200+ papers in internationally acclaimed and peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference papers across her research interests and has written a vast amount of columns and articles for newspapers and business magazines on management, innovation, sustainability and digitalisation across sectors and contexts. 

Annabeth Aagaard has published the following books:

  • “Business Model Innovation - Game Changers and Contemporary Issues, Palgrave Macmillan (2024)

  • “The Changing World of Mobile Communications - 5G, 6G and the Future of Digital Services”, Palgrave Macmillan (2024)

  • “Business Models for Sustainability Transitions”, Palgrave MacMillan (2022)

  • “Digital Business Models – Driving Transformation and Innovation”, Palgrave MacMillan (2020)

  • “Sustainable Business Models – Innovation, Implementation and Success”, Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

  • “Sustainable Business - Integrating CSR in Business & Functions", River Publishers (2016)

  • "CSR med succes - fra teori til practice", Gyldendal Business (2012)

  • "Idea and Innovation Management", Gyldendal Akademisk (2011)

  • "Innovation and Entrepreneurship", Hans Reitzel (2011)

  • "Dansk ledelse i særklasse", Ankerhus (2010)

  • "Idéudvikling", Børsens Forlag (2008)

  • "Skab resultater - gennem læring, viden og kompetencer", JP Business Publishing (2005)

  • "Viden i bevægelse - på vej mod den vidende virksomhed, Børsens Forlag (2003).

Furthermore she has co-authored a number of book chapters for management handbooks in Business modelling, Innovation Management, Sustainability, Knowledge management, Public management, Change management and HRM. 

You can also meet Annabeth on social media:

Annabeth Aagaard on LinkedIn

LinkedIn group – CSR, sustainable innovation and social entrepreneurship (CSISE)

LinkedIn group – Digitalization and digital business models (DDBM)

Our values

All activities, collaborations and operations of KnowledgeHouse are based on our four core company values, which characterise how we do research, collaborate, engage and develop as an organisation. These values ​​serve as our daily guidelines for our dialogues, collaborations and interactions with people and organisations. 


1. Quality

We seek and apply the newest research and knowledge, the most competent partners and the most potent combination of methods and approaches to ensure the highest level of quality and innovation of our solutions. 

Value in action: we evaluate all our solutions and results together with our customers to ensure the highest quality and for us to continuously learn and develop as an organisation. 

2. Customer centricity

We put the customer first by starting from where the customer's organisation is now and where it wants to go. 

Value in action: we identify development areas and needs together with the customer to tailor a prioritised model of solutions to meet the customer’s strategy, requirements and expectations, while ensuring optimal integration of the solutions throughout the organisation.

3. Innovative solutions

We develop new, tailored and innovative solutions for our customer through the optimal integration of the latest research, empirical knowledge, partners and approaches. 

Value in action: we continuously perform and explore international research and dissemination of knowledge and collect best practices across industries and solutions. 

4. Sustainability

We ensure sustainable results for the customer by assessing the company's development based on the three Ps (people, planet & profit) and select the best and most sustainable solution in the short and long term. 

Value in action: we are a sustainable company that takes an active stand in ensuring a more sustainable future through the three P's - People (e.g. mentoring and developing of green start-ups, sponsoring NGOs), Planet (e.g. only electric and public transportation) and profit (developing sustainable business results and philanthropic activities)