Performance that lasts.
Inicio Advisory is a consultancy committed to helping private-sector institutions and defense organizations achieve substantial and lasting improvements in their performance. We help clients shape direction, mobilize their organizations, build capabilities and support execution for sustainable results.
Get in touchFrom first decision to lasting result
Our work follows the way change actually happens inside an institution. We stay with each stage until the organization can carry it on its own.
Shape direction
Clarify where the institution is heading and what it will take to get there, in terms leadership can act on.
Mobilize the organization
Align leaders and teams around shared priorities, so the change has owners and momentum from the start.
Build capabilities
Develop the skills, structures and ways of working that keep performance up after the project ends.
Support execution
Stay close to delivery, clear blockers early and track results against the plan until they are sustained.
We work in four industries
Modern warfare demands capabilities that did not exist a few years ago, developed on very short cycles. We help Western defense forces, ministries of defense and the companies that serve them run two clockspeeds: a steady one for core capabilities and a much faster one for new high-tech capabilities, built on a data architecture ready for AI.
Operators and service providers adjusting to new technology cycles, changing customer expectations and cost pressure.
Publishers and broadcasters building sustainable models around audiences, content and distribution.
Software and hardware companies scaling products, teams and operating models without losing focus.
Sami Luukkonen
Global business executive with a solid track record of building and managing global businesses. Investor, board professional, and advisor to industry and start-ups. He holds positions on a number of boards.
17Tech Oy
A Finnish defense technology accelerator and venture capital firm. Its structured programs help early- to mid-stage start-ups grow rapidly, with investment, mentorship, workspace, and connections to investors, future users and a peer network in the defense industry.
Singtel NCS
Led Telco+, one of three strategic business groups of Singtel NCS, the leading IT services provider in Southeast Asia and Singapore, with 2023 turnover of SGD 2.7 billion and operations in over 15 countries. Part of the board composition.
Accenture
Member of the Global Leadership Council and Global Managing Director for Aerospace and Defense, Electronics and High Tech, and Media and Entertainment.
Sami's strengths are strategy, market entry and expansion, and business portfolio rotation in the global professional services environment. He has in-depth experience in Aerospace and Defense, Telecommunications, Electronics and High Tech, and Media and Entertainment. He has seen first-hand how modern conflict reshapes requirements, supply chains and the speed at which defense technology must move from idea to the field.
Start the conversation.
Tell us what your organization needs to change. Sami Luukkonen will reply personally and keep the first conversation focused on your situation.