Establishing
the innovation hub
HBG Works
The City of Helsingborg has been acclaimed to be one of the most innovative cities in Europe. Their forward-thinking approach opened up for collaboration with us to create the innovation hub Hbg Works – welcoming employees, citizens and partnering companies – and bridging the gap between ideas and deployed digital solutions.
Challenge
- The city of Helsingborg wanted to bridge the gap between ideas and deployed digital solutions for employees and/or citizens of the city
- More and quicker (IT) results for less cost
- Become more attractive for recruiting new personnel
- A new environment to test and accelerate stuff
Approach
- Establish a new physical office space where teams from the digitalisation department and other units moved in together
- Mix of activity-based workspace, open space and rooms
- Benefit from Open Innovation by also having partner teams placed in the environment
- Injecting new ways of working and new methodologies, from the entrepreneurial area
- Ideon Open coaching, challenging, empowering, driving, developing.
- Weekly Pulse-meetings
Results
- “Hbg Works” is established, an innovation hub for the city
- 15 employees and 2 partners moving in during phase 1
- An accelerator process including design sprints
- Partner setup, offering portfolio, governance policies
- https://innovation.helsingborg.se/hbgworks/
Client
- Helsingborg is the 8th largest city in Sweden (approx. 149 000 ppl)
- Reporting to the director of the digitalisation department of the city
“If you are planning to start an innovation environment, like Hbg Works, I would strongly recommend you get in touch with Ideon Open.”
– Martin Güll, Chief Digital Officer, City of Helsingborg
