As competition intensifies and new technologies and new business models are reshaping industry after industry the urge for innovation seems to grow in strength. The question is how far it reaches into practice, how many companies live by how academics, consultants and visionaries learn? That was the question we had when we recently conducted a survey among managers in a cross section of industries within the Swedish industry.

At the breakfast seminar on February 13, we present the results of the survey in which 200 leaders in Swedish companies described their innovation in theory and practice. How good are they in innovating, what are the biggest barriers, and which are the main focuses for the upcoming years?

Free of charge!

This seminar will be held at Kairos Futures head office in Stockholm, in Swedish, sign up for it here!

Recently Kairos Future received, along with a handful other businesses and universities, 2,5 million EUR from the EU's research budget Horizon 2020 Project STEP, Societal and political engagement of young people in environmental issues. The aim is to develop and test a language independent e-democracy platform that will facilitate cooperation between citizens and government.

The platform will be built on Kairos Future collaboration platform Co:tunity which will be supplemented by, among other things functionality for machine translation, social media streams etc. The platform will be tested in collaboration with a dozen regions of southern Europe and Turkey. The project will run for three years, starting in January 2015.

Co:tunity Breakfast webinars are short breakfast sharings for those working with innovation, marketing, product development, business strategy and trend analysis. Sign up, get your yummy breakfast and tune in on one of the upcoming breakfast webinars:

Unleashing the innovative power within your organisation

A creative climate is a necessity for unleashing the innovative power within the organisation, but far from enough. Innovation excellence requires shared language, processes and platforms too. On our next webinar, tuesday December 9, we will discuss how to engage and inspire your co-workers. Join us at 8.30-9.00 tuesday 9:th of December. Let us know if you would want the recorded version of this webinar! 

Team up man and machine - Automated trend discovery 

Learn how to crowdsource intelligence through monitoring media and make this in to actionable insights. How could a systematic approach look like? At this webinar we will give concrete advice on how to work with automated trend discovery and business intelligence with Co:tunity. Join us on november 4:th at 8.30-9.00. Let us know if you would want the recorded version of this webinar! 

Tap in to the collective genius of your consumers 

Learn how to engage customers in the co-creation of ideas and concepts. At this webinar we will set the stage with a few successful examples and give you the answers to how you can do this yourself with Co:unity and a crowd. Join this webinar on november 18:th, 8.30-9.00. Let us know if you would want the recorded version of this webinar! 

London is one of the trendiest places in the world. It's a playground for creative brands and it is often here trends and new consumption styles eventually finds its way home to the Nordic countries. The reason for the strong influences on the Swedish market most likly has to do with the large number of Swedes who  live in London and have strong ties with the city. More than 30,000 Swedes are Londoners.

Now you can travel with us to this colorful place and together look, scout and try the newest trends. During the course we will mix theory (What is a trend? How to discover and map the trends?) with practice. We will be using Co:tunity and also have guest lectures by exciting local trend spotters, and together find out more about the most interesting areas and trend phenomenas in London.

Read more and apply through Kairos Futures website, and please note that the course is held in Swedish. 

Are you one of those early Cotunity iPhone app users? 

Well, then we have some good and important news:

Good news:

We have created a new app with lots of featues that makes it easier to engage in innovation challenges, share trend spottings and generate ideas. You can even update your profile image, and chat with other innovators participating in the same challenges. 

Important news:

Due to increased security level on the app we have to kindly ask old users to remove the old app and download the new Co:tunity app from Apple´s App Store. It is not enough to just update the app - unfortunately you have to first remove the old and then download new version. 

Not really an iPhone wizzard and need to know how to remove the old and download the new? Follow the illustrated steps in the photo above.