About Me

Hello! I’m Maria Tikkala, a business development professional with many years of experience in the retail industry.

Throughout my career, I have worked in a variety of roles supporting business development, digital transformation, process improvement, training, and collaboration across different functions. My work has allowed me to participate in projects where technology and business meet, helping organisations adapt to changing customer needs and an increasingly digital environment.

I believe that continuous learning is one of the most important skills in today’s working life. This blog reflects my interest in digitalisation, new technologies, and lifelong learning as part of the Digitalized Working Environment course.

This image was created by providing a prompt to the image generation feature of ChatGPT. It represents my role as a business development professional and reflects the digital transformation I have experienced throughout my career. When I entered working life, paper documents, landline phones, fax machines, and paper calendars were still part of everyday work. Today, digital platforms, cloud services, collaboration tools, and AI-assisted technologies have become an essential part of working life—fortunately, coffee has remained just as important. ☕