The Swedish Flagship Factory

Purpose and goal

The aim of the project was to develop new knowledge and good examples on how to develop competitiveness in a competitive factory in a global group beyond the Lean concept. The goal was to, in addition to best practice sharing among participating companies, to disseminate the results to smaller companies. The best practice sharing has been of high quality and the participating companies have responded in very positive terms. The dissemination and knowledge transfer has started and together with Flagship 2 there is a plan for further activities.

Expected results and effects

Flagship 1 has developed and tested a model of best practice sharing and produced a final report with the strengths to build on as the basis for wider dissemination and development. The project has created direct benefit to the participating companies by inspiring and strengthen each company´s development. We are convinced that efforts strengthened the argument and sharpened tools of the participating enterprises to assert and develop their roles in the global competition they face - both externally and internally.

Planned approach and implementation

The set-up with a full-day workshop on a given theme with one of the participating companies as a host and formulation of a specific issue together with the related homework has worked very well. However, this requires that companies dare to be open up and share experiences, ie that they are not in a competitive situation. Documentation has been compiled by our ´follow´ researchers and has been highly appreciated by the participating companies as they can go back to and get facts and inspiration for internal company discussions.