INNOVATION WORKSHOPS
At the center of Innovation Pioneers Summit you'll find hands-on learning opportunities. We are therefore proud to present four summit tailored workshops presented by our initiators and member organizations.
All summit participants will have the opportunity to take part in three out of four innovation workshops during the two day summit. You will be able to select your preferred workshops upon arrival at the Summit.
Workshops presented by:
Workshop #1:
Intrapreneurial Capital
Hosted by Principles of Intrapreneurial Capital
We plan to demystify intrapreneurship by deep-diving into the 4C Model. It helps organizations navigate and manage transformative projects by guiding them through four key contexts: Chaos, Complexity, Complicated, and Clarified. It offers a structured approach to innovation, starting with exploring new ideas in uncertain environments (Chaos) and moving towards their integration into stable business operations (Clarified). By understanding the distinct dynamics at each stage, the 4C Model aids in reducing conflicts, improving collaboration, and ensuring that leadership adapts to both stable and changing systems. Ultimately, it helps build organizational resilience and adaptability, turning disruption into strategic growth.
Workshop #2:
Adjacent areas for a Heavy Duty Truck company - Using Future Facts to immerse into possible futures
Hosted by Volvo Group and Pollen.
Working with the future tends to get vague, because trends are typically volatile and because it’s socially easier to make sweeping, abstract descriptions rather than commit to a clear description of the future. There’s also a tendency to want to work on happy scenarios, which might hinder us to explore relevant, but not ideas futures.In this workshop we address these issues with two concepts: randomization and future facts. Future facts are made up, but probable events that a combination of trends might give rise to, e.g. that a competitor floods the market with a cheap alternative, or that a new safety law is passed in congress.You will get the opportunity to work with future facts that concern Volvo and explore what new business opportunities might arise in the worlds described by these future facts.
Workshop #3:
Vision for a better life and shaping sustainable places
Hosted by Skanska + Superlab
At Skanska, we build for a better society. We build the Physical part of the society. From schools, hospitals to stadiums, airports to corporate headquarters, and power plants to tunnels and bridges, the important buildings and infrastructure we create help heal, transport, entertain and energize communities.
We shape sustainable places. Building the structures and places of tomorrow – most importantly - comes with a responsibility.
What we build today will be around for more than hundreds of years. In our efforts to shape the society for people we shall all strive to build a better life for the many.
How can that be done in fruitful collaborations.
In this workshop we will elaborate with the ingredients, constructions, designs, operations and buildings needed, in line with the people side of the organisaiton.
Together we will get your help in providing more value for a better life in the future society we all wish to see.
As a starting point we kick off with our mutual ideas of the importance of purpose, values, visions and leadership for the future. Hallmarks for building supporting organizational structures and handling of hindrances, will be adressed.
And least but no last we will look in to how to objectively measure outcomes of our input, according the OECD Better Life Index and the 11 criterias for a society providing a better life for the many.
Workshop #4:
Navigating Innovation Paradoxes: Leveraging Polarity Management for Driving Innovation
Hosted by CGI and City of Helsingborg
In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing business landscape, innovation leaders often face complex, recurring challenges that don’t have straightforward solutions. These are not problems to be solved, but polarities to be managed—such as stability versus change, control versus empowerment, or efficiency versus innovation. This interactive workshop will introduce the theory of Polarity Management, a dynamic framework designed to help leaders manage these ongoing tensions in a way that creates sustainable innovation.
Rather than traditional problem-solving, you will engage in hands-on activities to explore how polarities operate in your own organisation, learning how to leverage both sides of an issue to maximize their strengths while avoiding the downsides. Through examples, group exercises, and polarity mapping, you will experience firsthand how to balance competing demands and turn tension into an asset for innovation.
By the end of the session you will have gained practical tools to identify key polarities in your organizations and strategies to manage them, fostering a more resilient, innovative, and adaptive culture. This session is designed for active engagement, learning by doing, and leaving with concrete takeaways that can be immediately applied in your work.
