With a clear through line and a strong focus on details, Tomas Gustavsson describes the key elements of the agile approach.
The statement from the jury emphasises your simple and clear manner of describing the agile approach.
Today, the Swedish Innovation Index 2020 is released, and Ikea is - for the third year in a row – ranked as Sweden's most innovative company. Systembolaget has advanced the most in innovation capacity.
Karlstad Business School is renowned for its education and research in agile projects. John Johansson, lecturer in project management at Karlstad Business School, has trained staff at Uddeholm in agile projects and it has started to yield results.
- We want to be as LEAN as possible and be smart about our resources, says Anna Hedberg, project manager at Uddeholm. We cannot promise materials development on demand and on schedule.
Responsible, sustainable and close collaboration with business are values, which Karlstad Business School shares with Institute Mines - Telecom Business School - a new partner in Information Systems and Business.
From Autumn 2021, Karlstad Business School students will be able to apply for a semester abroad in Paris.
Project work has been positively booming in recent years. Karlstad Business School now has global classrooms where students have influence over their education.
In 2021, project management is no longer associated exclusively with IT projects where engineers are at the helm. A lot of work is done in project form on a regional, national, and municipal level and the private sector is hungry for well-prepared students.
Johanna Frykberger and Sofie Bäck from the Law Programme won second place at the national final, held at the Supreme Court.
On 5 May, the national final of the Swedish Legal Championship was held at the Supreme Court.
We asked the International Office at Karlstad University how they identify new partners for student exchanges.
Carina Eriksson, who develops new exchange agreements with universities outside Europe explains, that during previous International Exchange Days we asked students, where do you want to go on exchange?
- We use this feedback directly from students to formulate a plan of where to start new agreements.
Mats, welcome to Karlstad Business School. Please tell us about your background
- Thank you. I am originally from Finland but I have lived in Sweden since 2018 and got my undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of Edinburgh. I completed my doctoral studies at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki and have a degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of Chicago.
Mia Larson’s research is in the borderlands between organization and marketing and her focus has been on tourism, events and sustainable development for a long time. Today, her focus is on digital services and personal integrity, and she was recently promoted to professor of Business Administration at Karlstad University.
Mia's current research focuses on digital services and personal integrity.
The agreement gives Karlstad Business School students the opportunity to apply for exchange studies at National Taipei University, an institution specialised in law, business, the social sciences, and the humanities.
To achieve better effects in healthcare, new technological innovations should be implemented alongside structural changes.
We often associate the word “innovation” with the roll-out of a new product, the success or failure of which is determined by market forces.
.. after more than 20 years in working life, you are now taking on a new challenge as an industrial PhD student. How does it feel, and what will your research focus on?
"I have wished for an opportunity to connect my practical experiences with research for a long time, and I am very happy for the opportunity to work as an industrial PhD student at Karlstad Business School, and CTF, in the coming years. My research will focus on entrepreneurship.
Surveys from several parts of the country indicate that the pandemic has accelerated digitisation for Swedish companies. The vision for the CriseIT 2 project is well matched with this rapid digitisation.
That is the question Sara Davoudi has looked into in her doctoral thesis, “What happened with the leviathan of the Public Sector? The challenges of vertical coordination in regional public organizations and its effect on public value”.
Sara Davoudi, PhD in Business Administration, tell us about your research.
- My research is about vertical coordination, which is best described as the communication between public sector actors and the challenges associated with that.
We are happy to welcome Ingo Karpen, Professor of Business Administration with a focus on Business and Service Design, to CTF, Service Research Center, and Karlstad Business School at Karlstad University.
"As a research-intensive academic focused on rigorous knowledge generation with practical relevance, I am looking forward to joining the research culture at Karlstad Business School and CTF," says Ingo Karpen.
Ingo Karpen is an internationally renowned researcher and ed
We are happy to welcome yet another PhD student to CTF and Karlstad Business School. Pritam Padhi is a new PhD student in Business Administration, and will study innovation management, service performance and service offerings within organizations.
Pritam Padhi has a Master’s degree in Management and Economics of Innovation from Chalmers University of Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in India.
Karlstad Business School has a good reputation when it comes to courses and research in agile project management. John Johansson has just completed a course with the steel company Uddeholm.
- Uddeholm wanted to train a number of their research project managers in agile project management, says John Johansson, lecturer in project management at Karlstad Business School.
Uddeholm is a world leader in the manufacturing and development of high-performance tool steel.
