Tell us about yourself and your path to Compare
That journey started with me going to university and further training to become a civil engineer. After graduating, I started working in the automotive industry in Gothenburg, as an engineer.
I’ve always had a great interest in technology and the opportunity to shape our future through smart solutions. For me, it’s not just about product development, but also about services and policies, as the tools to create a better tomorrow.
Early on in my career, I was fascinated by people and the importance of good contextual conditions that help ideas to flourish and materialise. This is probably what drew me to project management roles and later innovation management.
In search of a better work-life balance, and with the dream of a house with a big garden, my partner and I left Gothenburg for Karlstad. In connection with that, I explored the labour market in Värmland and after an eventful time at the Research Institute of Sweden (RISE), I joined Compare, a little more than two years ago.
What do you appreciate most about working at Compare?
The mix of intentions, missions and colleagues! Working with system innovation is complex and can be both rewarding and challenging. It suits me because I think I’ve always had an interest in problem solving, whether it’s advanced technical solutions or conflict management. Finding ways to get people working together to create a better world is what drives me, and if we can do that while adding a bit of technology – even better!
What kind of missions are you involved in?
I have just gone on parental leave and until now I have worked on several exciting innovation projects, including within the Vinnväxt programme DigitalWell Arena in the role of process manager and method developer with a focus on demand acceleration.
DigitalWell Arena is a 10-year investment in digital health innovation to enable more people to live a healthy life. Together with that team, I work to develop the public sector’s ability to drive innovation with procurement as a tool, which we call demand acceleration.
I am also part of the team that makes up the European digital innovation hub – Health Data Sweden. The vision of the Innovation Hub is to be a one-stop-shop for accelerating digital transformation in health data and I am one of many contributing to that work.
In addition, I am proud to be part of the team in the Smart & Safe project where we are using IoT, that is, the Internet of Things, to make society safer for young people.
I have also had the privilege of working with Region Värmland in the New Central Hospital Karlstad project, where they are exploring new ways of working and how these will affect the creation of new and remodelled hospital buildings in Karlstad. In that project, I am contributing as a digitalisation expert and trying to take into account some aspects of technology and innovation.
These are a few examples of what I do and the diversity of assignments related to technology and health.
What inspires you right now that you can share with others interested in your field?
The fact that problem solving has no limits and that triggers my interest! By that I mean that the solutions can be found in completely different areas than what I actually work with. When the scope of problem solving widens, sometimes you can find the best solutions in a different market or field.
For example, in the Smart & Safe project, which aims to make society safer for young people, we look at the technological developments taking place in the automotive industry. Not very traditional perhaps, but this kind of fusion of a solution in a new field of application can trigger new kinds of innovations in unexpected ways. The results can be ground-breaking, profitable and not to mention fun!
If you could share one positive memory from Compare, what would it be?
I have many great memories! Often they are about all of us working at Compare getting together and doing things together. And we do that quite often. We have something called “Learning Day” which I like very much. Once a month we get together in the office and learn things from each other or others. It could be about how we can utilise AI, give each other input on a recent project or a group exercise in building trust.
What do you do to relax after work?
I find gardening relaxing. Right now we are planning for a greenhouse that will be carefully constructed and contain more demanding plants like lemon, grapes and maybe kiwi.
If you could change one thing in our society for the better, what would it be?
It’s hard to choose just one, but I would like to see more collaboration on the societal problems that no one can solve alone. The dynamism and power of a team is essential for our society to flourish and to solve the problems that we humans have created. But if I could wish for one thing to disappear overnight, it would be injustice.
