Michael writes at the seam between organisational structure and learning. He has spent years leading digital transformation programmes inside large, change-laden organisations and teaching in higher education, and the two careers have shaped each other: practice has kept the theory honest; theory has kept the practice considered. Across the series he grounds each volume in the academic literature, pressure-tests it against industry practice, and keeps the arguments tied to the decisions innovators make every day. Rigour and relevance, in his hands, are not trade-offs — they are the same standard seen from two sides.

Petteri has spent more than twenty years developing curricula and teaching in higher education, and an equally long parallel life inside industry — first in multinationals, later in startups — where he has watched innovation efforts succeed and stall from every angle. That double vantage shapes the structural spine of the series: he designs the underlying methodology, the ArchiMate-informed architecture, and the capability model that binds the volumes together, curates the worked examples and practitioner interviews that anchor each chapter, authors the visual grammar of the illustrated companion, and builds the digital learning platform that carries it all into classrooms and reading rooms.