Innovation turbine in Trollhättan

Purpose and goal

Purpose: To map what is required to manage test beds that contribute to new innovative ways of working in caredepartments, meet future challenges and utilize resources within our own department, in academia and in business sectors. The goal: Identify conditions that is required to run test beds in caredeparments with focus on organization development, new methods and working methods that contribute to development, growth and value for public organizations, companies and academia.

Expected results and effects

The project has contributed to consensus on common challenges and the value of test beds in existing department. Knowledge of methods such as shadowing, interviews, focus groups, workshops has been developed. The methods have helped the project team to identify the necessary focus areas, identified obstacles and opportunities and highlighted the need for support for a test bed. During the project there has been a continuous dialogue and anchoring with both academia and the business community, which has contributed to guidance in how we best perform test beds in public operations

Planned approach and implementation

The projekt was conducted with various work packages with related activities. The project has had a creative nature with a clear focus on participation for interested parties and where structure and planning have been changed based on the insights we have made along the way. In the project has methods originating from service design and from our own model for organization development have been used for both mapping, analysis and reporting of results. There has been a recurring dialogue with both academia and the business community about whether a test bed could be of value to all concerned.

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