4. • Established in 1986
• Excellent group at Karlstad
University
• Involved in research, undergraduate
and graduate education in
cooperation with companies and
other organizations
• Over 50 researchers and Ph D
students in business administration,
working life science, sociology,
economics, psychology and
sociology of religion
• International visiting professors
Facts & figures
5. Researc
hCTF's efforts to develop
groundbreaking theoretical
knowledge has resulted in
multidisciplinary research
themes: Service Management,
Service Innovation and
Service Experience.
Based on these themes we
now develop a crosscutting
theme on Transformative
Service Research.
6. Examples of Academic
Cooperation• BI, Norwegian School of Management, Norway
• Hanken School of Economics, Finland
• MIT, Forskarskolan Management och IT, Sweden
• NHH, Norwegian School of Economics and Business
Administration
• NUS, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business,
USA
• W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University,
USA
• Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
7. Example of research partners
• Ericsson
• IKEA
• Nobina
• Landstinget i Värmland
• SL
• Trafikverket
• Volvo
• Valmet
• ICA
• Löfbergs
• Region Värmland
• Skatteverket
• Försäkringskassan
• Telia
• SP, Sveriges tekniska forskningsinstitut
• Västtrafik
9. Purpose of the course
• to prepare participants for analytical and practical work
related to idea management by introducing useful methods
and theories.
• connect business professionals through engaging
conversations around current research on the topic of idea
management.
10. Two courses in one
Do you want to learn more about idea management?
Credit bearing
distance course
Open networked
learning course
Course hompage:
hhk3.kau.se/im
17. Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
• give an account of theories on idea management.
• apply methods for idea generation, idea development and idea
evaluation.
• reflect on the different stages in the idea development process.
• analyse the idea development process of an organisation and
assess possible areas of improvement.
19. Theoretical background to
Idea Management
Module 1
Coordinators: Johan Netz, Peter Magnusson, Lars Olsson, Alexandre Sukhov, Jana Hu
20. Assignments in module 1
Everyone:
Active participation (Webinar and Tweetchat)
Credit bearing course:
Describe in a post on the course webpage how your
current or previous employer (or a freely chosen
organization) works with Idea Management.
This post will only be visible to fellow course participants
22. Assignments in module 2
Everyone:
Active participation (Webinar,Tweetchat and Practical work)
Credit bearing course:
Write a post on the course webpage where you
reflect on idea generation.
This post will only be visible to fellow course participants
24. Assignments in module 3
Everyone:
Active participation (Webinar,Tweetchat and Practical work)
Credit bearing course:
Write a post on the course webpage where you reflect on
idea refinement.
This post will only be visible to fellow course participants
26. Assignments in module 4
Everyone:
Active participation (Webinar,Tweetchat and Practical work)
Credit bearing course:
Write a post on the course webpage where you reflect on
idea evaluation.
This post will only be visible to fellow course participants
28. Project work
Credit bearing course:
Write a final reflection where you analyse an
organisation´s idea development process, and
propose areas of improvement, based on your
theoretical and practical experiences from
the course.
The project work will be uploaded to the ITS learning platform
and thus only be available for the course organizers.
29. Next step
1. Go to the course webpage and create a user account
https://hhk3.kau.se/im/module-1-introduction-and-theoretical-background-to-idea-management-im74/
2. Create a Twitter account
Twitter.com
