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Team Olivia is one of the Nordic region's largest private healthcare companies — roughly 60 businesses trading under local brands across more than 160 locations in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, employing over 11,000 people between them.

Communication had not kept pace with that growth. Several different email systems ran side by side, there was no shared intranet, and individual companies had no dependable way to reach everyone who worked for them. We moved the group onto Google Workspace — Gmail, Meet, Chat and a Sites-based intranet — beginning with 600 employees migrating off legacy office software, then bringing the group companies across in stages alongside a growing Chromebook fleet.

Every employee now works on one platform. The programme largely paid for itself by retiring the complicated, costly systems it replaced, and opened up collaboration between companies and teams that previously had no way to find one another.

Tring School is a Google Reference School, but its Digital Learning Lead, Emma Ferris, describes the real obstacle as human rather than technical: staff are understandably wary of change until they can see what it gives back.

So adoption is deliberately incremental. Gemini helps teachers raise the quality of their resources and personalise material for individual learners. Screencastify lets art teachers give feedback by voice and screen rather than writing it out, returning hours to actual teaching. Each step is proven in practice before it spreads further.

The school also wrote its own AI assessment scale, setting out clearly where AI use belongs in assessed work and where it does not. Students are taught to use these tools responsibly and to understand their limits — a curriculum decision, not an afterthought.

Valkeakoski's schools began from a difficult position: roughly one shared computer for every eight pupils, no proper wireless coverage and no digital textbooks. Digital teaching was an ambition rather than a daily reality.

The city planned the change with us before buying anything, including benchmarking visits to Finnish schools already running these tools. Chromebooks arrived in August 2019 as personal devices for pupils from year four upward, together with Google Workspace for Education and the network to support it. Everything was delivered ready to use — staff and students signed in and began.

Change management mattered as much as the technology, something the city's ICT coordinator, Simo Siitonen, has singled out as decisive. Pupils took to their own devices immediately, and teachers could finally set work that continues beyond the classroom.