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EBITDA – Environmental and circular Business Impacts from value-chains: Tools for profitability and Desirability Analyses
The EBITDA project examines how customer value is created from ecologically sustainable, industrial-scale solutions and focuses on helping Finnish companies generate export growth from these greener solutions by co-innovation activities. The project also has a wide result dissemination agenda. EBITDA’s focused research themes are:
- The customer value and profitability of environmental sustainability.
- Decision-making and mechanisms of sustainability impacts.
- Cooperative, environmentally friendly ecosystem strategies.
INBLANC – INdustrialisation of Building Lifecycle data Accumulation, Numeracy and Capitalisation
Buildings generate vast amounts of data, yet much remains scattered and underutilized. To fully capitalise upon this untapped resource, INBLANC will transform building data into actionable insights at every stage of its lifecycle, creating an open ecosystem which receives the benefit of economic value.
WorkWell – Enhancing Well-being and Productivity in Multilocational Digitalized Work
The WorkWell project aims to comprehensively reform working life through practice-based approaches, moving toward a model of sustainable work. In the project, well-being and productivity at work are seen as interconnected goals, achieving which requires a deeper understanding of the influencing factors and the bold development of practices that support them. In turn, the project focuses on a timely topic: expert work that is multi-locational and permeated by digitalization. The results of the WorkWell project will help Finnish companies:
- develop work practices and structures that enable work engagement and productivity, thereby enhancing organizational performance and growth,
- create work arrangements that support long-term well-being and work ability throughout the entire career,
- concretely support competitiveness driven by digitalization and multi-locational work, generating value for Finnish companies globally.
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NewBI5 – New competitiveness and Business Impact from Intelligence, Intuition, Integration and Interaction
What if 25-30% of managerial work were automatized in the future? How could we recognize the managerial activities replaceable by artificial intelligence (AI), and understand, evaluate and manage the related business potentials for savings, value, and impact? Our vision is that Finnish companies will be in the forefront of realizing the related business potentials from solutions that automatize parts of managerial work.
The NewBI5 project examines how, why and where managerial work and managerial processes would change with the help of automation, AI and advanced analytics.
ToKi – Suppliers’ competitiveness
The project aims to renew management in selected industrial companies. In the short term, this renewal is an opportunity for creating value for the companies’ existing customers. Hence, the project contributes to increasing export sales from Finland. In the long term, the project aims to enable international growth in the partnering companies.
The goals of the project are:
To implement more demanding quality control systems.
To strengthen customer-supplier relationships particularly to large clients operating in Finland.
Increase the competitiveness of the partnering companies in terms of quality and cost-efficiency to improve their possibilities of acquiring new customers.
Improve the financial control and management of the partnering companies, and thereby improve their profitability.
Strengthen the basis for internationalization in the partnering companies.
MASI – Managing service impact: engaging facts and feelings
The MASI project resolves what the interaction between facts and feelings means for managing customer value and profitability, and how such interaction can be established.
The MASI project studies facts and feelings in interventionist case studies and interviews, in close cooperation with companies: the project conducts research in five innovative business networks (Molok, Finla, Evondos, Koja, Gasum).