Get help and support in your innovation work

You who work with innovation in the city can get support and help from us at Hbg Works to get on with your idea. We are at hand in the three phases of innovation work: during the idea stage, when a pilot is to be carried out and when the innovation is to be scaled up. If you want to know more about how we structure our innovation work, you can take a look at ours innovation model.

Sometimes you may need to get in touch with others who can contribute to the work, then we will help you find the right people within our own organization or with external actors.

Get started as soon as possible

To start up innovation work, there are several ways to go, the main thing is that it should be quick to test an idea. As an employee, you can get a lot of support from your innovation leader. We at Hbg Works are happy to help where extra help is needed.

Methods & tools

Get help with tangible tools and methods to investigate both who your user is and what challenge your idea can help solve.

Help with facilitation

We help you lead workshops and hackathons to find challenges, generate ideas for solutions and produce early design sketches.

Advice

We suggest resources and contacts that can be helpful. We can also act as a sounding board if you want to prepare a pitch for your innovation council.

Inspiration & knowledge

With us, you can go to events that can inspire you in your innovation work. We organize lectures, workshops and activities.

Next step: Run a pilot ∇

Run a smallest best pilot

It's time to start a pilot once your idea has been processed and anchored in your management. The ideas that also address one of our biggest challenges are the highest priority. The pilot is the smallest best version of a product or service, so that we can get a clear picture of what effects the innovation can have. We often need to test ourselves. We at Hbg Works help during the process.

Start-up

We help define the pilot based on goals, cost, results and time frame. You can also get support in establishing a team with agile working methods, finding collaborations and setting up a roadmap.

Research & test

At the pilot stage, we continue to help you investigate and understand the user and their needs. Together with intended users, we test different solutions and evaluate on an ongoing basis.

Design

Our designers work with concept development, UI and UX to create good experiences for the intended user. When needed, we can help produce the smallest best product for testing.

Development

We share knowledge about how products and services are developed. To some extent, we help with digital development, sometimes we suggest external developers who can be suitable for the pilot.

Next step: Scale up ∇

Scale up and create effect

When a pilot proves to create value, it can be scaled up and flourished as a full-fledged innovation. It is now that we can begin to see real effects! First, teams and structures may need to be rigged on the administration or administrations that have driven the pilot, so that the innovation has a given place in the business.

Planning before scaling up

We help to produce a basis so that a decision to scale up your pilot can be made. Such a basis requires expected results, a plan for effect retrieval and proposals on how innovation should be managed and further developed.

Implementation & new ways of thinking

If necessary, we can be of help when the innovation is to be implemented and made a natural part of the business. It can be about mediating contacts to support management, training in new ways of working and developing processes for following up results.

Further development

Once the innovation has been implemented, it must be so embedded in the business that it can be managed and further developed there. We can act as a sounding board if or when innovation is to be further developed.

Do you need a place to be?

We have flex seats open to everyone who works with innovation in the city. If you want to book a meeting room, you can email directly at hbgworks@helsingborg.se.