Stockholm school of economics

Yesterday we were at the stockholm school of economics. Two guys from
this great school did two workshops with us. The first was about the
GLOBE research on cultural differences between nations. It gave some
great insights in the swedish ways of doing things. The natural
extension of this subject was viking management. General consensus is
that viking management is a great way to manage knowledge intensive
companies. The focus is on teamcollaboration to make this happen and
setting goals and creating a good environment for work. The second
workshop was about innovation. We discussed some factors in making
innovation a companywide attention point and the cultural web. The
cultural web is al great way to dusscribe the actual behavior to make
innovation happen. Using the web we looked at IDEO, a very well known
innovation company. Every aspect of this company is aimed at
innovation. Open management, no jobtitles, open spaces, freedom and
trust to act and discuss about everything.