This year, the municipality of Hollola implemented the personnel-oriented Productivity from Quality project, familiarly known as LATU. The objective is to achieve clear savings and better productivity; not by increasing people’s workload but through the development of everyday work.
In Finland, big is beautiful. But big production facilities and gigantic hypermarkets rarely serve the best interest of the common man – unlike decentralised solutions
Steve Blank, a professor at Stanford University, and a retired serial entrepreneur, visited Finland in early September. Thousands of people attended Blank's talks, boosting the civic movement of growth entrepreneurship that has been gaining momentum in the decision-making process for a couple of years now.
The current ways of thinking and action in traffic planning stem from the post-war period of reconstruction, industrialisation and motorisation. However, our global and dynamic operating environment impels us to question conventional practices, offering many new challenges and opportunities. Finland needs a strategically agile traffic system that responds to users’ rapidly changing needs while also promoting long-term strategic goals.
In creating growth companies, Finland cannot rely solely on slow incubation processes. Better identification of the most promising business ideas calls for faster progression and a larger number of ideas. Currently, only a few growth companies emerge in Finland each year. Because of Protomo, a next-generation business incubator, this number is expected to rise to dozens a year within the next decade.
Travelling locally is worth it, for a number of reasons: First of all, destinations near you are quick to reach. This means that you can visit such destinations more frequently. Also, travelling locally decreases carbon dioxide emissions by up to 90% compared to a holiday to Thailand, for example.
Can a group of experts communicate publicly in social media from the beginning so that anyone can listen in, provide comments and participate in the activities of the group?
In recent years, Finnish environmental exports have mainly focused on Asia, China in particular. There are huge prospects for cleantech exports in China provided that the efforts are successful and Finnish technology is actively purchased. But amidst all the hype about China, have opportunities on the other side of the world been forgotten? Why are virtually all eggs in the same Asia basket?
Participation seems to be encouraged by the misconception of the society having an immense amount of available capacity which is easy to utilise. At the same time, just my circle of friends has about ten people who have become exhausted in voluntary work.
I am often alienated by the discussion related to innovations. My argument is that innovations should primarily deal with creating new value for people.
