Congratulations Mikael Johnsson, Doctor of Philosophy!
Mikael Johnsson was really happy when he got the result of the grading committee meeting from Professor Sofia Ritzén, it was a pass!
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Volvo CE Exploration Forum 2016 – Innovation Conference coming up
Upcoming week, several PDRL researchers are taking part in the VCE Innovation Conference in Eskilstuna. The meeting is bringing together researchers, engineers and innovators in the VCE network in order to share, learn, inspire, and connect.
Becoming An Innovative Company: Assessing An Organization’s Innovation Capability From The Perspective Of A Team
Research paper published in the 15th International CINet Conference, in Budapest, Turkey, 2014. Abstract Literature points out the need for companies to innovate continuously. Such need requires that companies develop capacities to exploit and improve current work as well as to develop and explore more radical opportunities. This paper is a case study that investigates the innovation capabilities of a...
Measuring innovation seminar at INDEK11 conference
How do we know that we are innovative? During the National Conference on Industrial Economics, INDEK’11, Professor Tobias Larsson held a session on “Measuring Innovation in Industrial Environment”. Participants in the session were, besides Tobias Larsson; Fredrik Nilsson (Associate Professor Design Sciences, Lund Unviersity), Niclas Nillroth (Global Director, Environmental Care & Safety, Volvo Construction Equipment), Johanna Wallin (Innovation Capability, Volvo...
Measuring Innovation in Teams – MINT | 2011-
2011- (ongoing) Objectives: Innovation capability is important for industrial companies today in order to be competitive on the market. But the questions are first, how can the current state of innovation capability be known? And second, what need to be undertaken to increase the innovative performance? These were the guiding questions behind this research project being conducted at Volvo Construction Equipment regarding innovation...
Measuring for Innovation – A Guide for Innovative Teams
White paper on measuring innovation team capability, with industrial cases. How do we know that we are innovative? This question was asked by a manager of a software development team with the explicit responsibility of creating and analyzing innovative product features before actual product development projects are started. Similar questions have been raised in many other organizations as innovation has...
Measuring innovation capability – Assessing collaborative performance in product-service system innovation
Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems. Abstract This paper reports on a qualitative study, carried out at a Swedish aero engine manufacturer. The study was initiated to explore key indicators related to innovation capability in a Product-Service System (PSS) context. Developing PSS changes the dynamics of collaboration, since the offering...
Many want to learn more about measuring for innovation
Within the PIEp research programme the research project on “Measuring Innovation in Teams – MINT” has focused important metrics to understand if teams are performing in terms of their innovation task at hand. An important and, according to the workshop attendance, very interesting area since the result of innovation efforts come when product/service hit the market and that might be...