Tag: Innovation
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A Culture of Innovation – Interview with Daniel Sundlin, Partner at Bjarke Ingels Group
In this podcast interview, my guest is Daniel Sundlin, a partner at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in New York. We talk about how BIG innovates and what opportunities and challenges digitalization brings to architecture. BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, builders, and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism,…
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The Innovation Maze – A Book for Innovators and Game Changers
Innovation is a maze. You can get in, but navigating to a commercialized innovation fails eight times out of ten. Gijs van Wulfen’s book The Innovation Maze is a practical guide to finding your way through the maze. Gijs van Wulfen is a professional keynote speaker and author. He facilitates innovation workshops for companies, and assists organizations…
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Smart Energy Saving Window Wins Finnish Innovation Award
Skaala Alfa cLean was the winner of the Finnish residential market innovation competition in January 2016. The product is an energy-efficient window with an integrated ventilation unit that can be controlled via a mobile device. There are over two million housing units in Finland with poor ventilation and no heat recovery. Skaala Alfa cLean is…
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Three Views into Residential Innovation
The leading Finnish residential business conference of 2016 gathered industry leaders to Helsinki on January 26, 2016. In addition to the presentations on the present state and future trends of the market we also learned about digitalization and residential innovations. My company, AE Partners, was one of the organizing partners of the Asuntomarkkinat 2016 conference.…
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A Mobile Magazine on Construction Innovation
In the era of the social media, trade magazines have retained their appeal. Construction is no exception. One of the latest ones is CORPUS, with a tagline Constructing tomorrow. CORPUS is the customer magazine of the 150-year-old German chemistry giant BASF. It is published in both English and German. CORPUS is a mobile magazine for iOS,…
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Construction Innovation News from the North
Many of you know Nokia and Rovio, the creator of Angry Birds. Are you aware that Finland also has innovative companies in the construction industry? A one-hour roof Two Finnish companies, Koskisen Oy and Brand Building Oy, have developed a patent-pending roofing system (Vetokatto) that takes under an hour to install. The roof is prefabricated…
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Transforming an Unispiring Office Campus into an Innovation Village
SRV, a Finnish building contractor, hosted an interesting seminar on the future of offices and workplaces in Helsinki on June 2, 2015. In this podcast episode, you can hear the presentation by Mikko Kauppinen, Finance Director and Health Innovation Village Project Leader at GE Healthcare. Mikko tells a story of an uninspiring office campus that GE Healthcare…
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Construction Innovation in the Headlines
Here are my latest picks on construction innovation news. ORBA Convention: Construction firms must embrace a culture of innovation to keep up Gregg Shoppman, principal at FMI Corp., and Bridgit co-founder Lauren Hasegawa, spoke at the recent Ontario Road Builders’ Association (ORBA) 88th Annual Convention in Toronto. Shoppman pointed out that, on a macro level, the…
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Gamestorming – Bring Structure to Innovation
In this episode of the AEC Business Podcast Dave Gray, founder of XPLANE and co-founder of Boardthing, talks about innovation, design, and collaboration. The title of the presentation is Gamestorming. Dave gave this inspirational presentation in our Webinar in 2011. Dave helps large organizations solve complex problems related to culture, innovation and change. He uses structured…
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Success in Innovation Requires Both Leadership and Management
I had the pleasure of interviewing management consultant Markku Vesa on his PhD thesis Innovation Management in the Construction Products Industry. Markku has a 40-year-long history in the industry in Finland, which makes this thesis very personal and insightful. He used a qualitative research methodology, strongly relying on theme interviews. What is the problem with…