Scenarios from 60 Msc. Students!

Some of the 60 Msc. students

We recently finished a cooperation with Chalmers, a technical university in Göteborg.

We produced 10 different subjects that is of interest for Volvo. They had 10 groups with about 6 students in each group. The task was to present 4 future scenarios for each of the subjects with the use of scenario analysis. The time frame was set to 5-10 years. Some examples of the subjects are “Human Computer Interfaces”,  ”Megacities”, “Driverless Vehicles” and “3D Print”.

Martin Börjesson from futuramb first had a lecture about how to create these future scenarios. The students had 2 weeks to work with the scenarios.

The result was over my expectations and can be seen here, if you are behind the Volvo Firewall.

It is always refreshing to get a second opinion about the subjects that we are studying. I think this is a good example of a win win cooperation between university and industry.

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Two weeks ago the team was involved in three-day long exhibition for people within the Volvo Group. The exhibition was coordinated from Group Trucks Technology and the purpose was to share interesting projects and prototypes between the function and units. Different sites all around the globe participated and we from Volvo IT, TWBI showcased seven different business innovation prototypes; covering many fields. We also participated in the seminar sessions in which two from the team spoke about how we go from vision to reality which was the theme for the entire event. I really enjoy these sessions where you have opportunities to meet and to discuss with peers within the Volvo group. Personally I had many interesting dialogues which hopefully can lead to interesting collaboration activities in the future.

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Following up on last succesful JAM where our employees generated 274 really good ideas, we decided to start our 2011 global innovation jam, “JAM IT” this week.
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Volvo Group TechShow 2011

Last week, our team, TechWatch & Business Innovation, participated in the Volvo Group TechShow, a great full week event, aiming for demonstrating new innovative concepts and solutions that have not yet reached the market. Over 100+ exhibitors, visitors from all Volvo Group BA/BU’s, customers, partners, suppliers, universities external press etc.

Our small team, TechWatch & Business Innovation, had these stations;

  • Connected Mechanic
  • iMONT
    • The prototype explores new ways to present information to the assembly worker through the use of Smartphones. Enabling the user to get personalized data at the right time and at the location it is needed – saving time and improving quality.
  • Roadmapper
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    • A prototype that explored the potential of game-based learning, both from a technical and business value perspective.

Meet J-P Fendrich, our TechWatch manager, who presented the “Serious Leap” prototype

Read more;

http://www.chinatrucks.com/news/2011/0601/article_2718.html

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/innovation/forskning_utveckling/article3186354.ece

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