We are looking for a tech support and consultant to our head office in Stockholm. Find more information on our Swedish version of the site, here. 

Ungdomar.se and Kairos Future collaborates on the project we_change – Swedens largest sustainability initiative for young people, with the aim of providing thousands of young people the opportunity to express their views on how the world can become better place. The starting point is the UN's 17 global goals, you can read more about the project here. The tour began in Umeå and will pass trough several cities during April, with Helsingborg as the final stop. Sponsors include SEB, IKEA, H&M, Sida, the city of Stockholm, Uppsala and Kinnarps. To collect comments, keep dialogue going and document the results of the tour we_change uses the innovation platform Co: tunity.

We are currently supportinging the City of Gothenburg in developing a mobile strategy. Should Sweden’s second largest city plan for a unifying smart app, and in that case what functionality should it offer? As part of this process, we are researching future needs and requirements. This is where we would love to have your thoughts and ideas! Are you open to answer questions and share your opinions about the mobile services? Please go to our go:creation page.

Do you find that you sometimes get stuck in a rut, and that the ideas run out? Does it tease you to challenge the innovation capacity of your own market, product, or development department with ideas from people outside your organization? Take your chance with a crowd empowered innovation activity, where a group of external idea sparks adds fire to your challenge!

Test Co:tunity SpeedCrowd where we let 30 handpicked people give you inspiration and ideas related to your markets, products or services. Contact Trond Bugge on mobile +46 70 391 0202 or e-mail: trond.bugge@kairosfuture.com

Photo attribution to Julian Fong under the CreativeCommons license.

There are lots of inspiring cases where companies has included engaged external experts or consumers in parts of their innovation activities. Most cases garding is associated with bigger companies such as Unilever, Lego and Arla. But, open innovation is a method that can be used by all organizations, especially start-ups and small companies where diversity is lacking. We would like to invite you to a webinar where we will talk about the benefits of consumer driven innovation and also discuss topics such as "How much are you willing to share and with whom?" "How do you handle the intellectual property rights?"  "What challenge questions usually work?". The webinar will be held on Tuesday the 27th of September 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM GMT, in english.  

Sign up for the webinar here!