System innovation & transformation
We help you understand the systems you are trying to influence and identify where change can become possible.
Explore this areaSystem innovation · Learning · Action
Change in complex systems takes more than a good plan.
We help organisations, programmes and innovation hubs understand complex systems, mobilise change and make learning part of delivery.
From practical delivery to international innovation policy.
Explore ALDAB System change
Systems do not change according to a project plan.
Many of today's challenges affect relationships, institutions and established ways of working across organisational boundaries. Yet change is often organised through projects with fixed end dates.
- 01How do we establish direction without oversimplifying complexity?
- 02How do we mobilise actors when no one owns the problem or the solution alone?
- 03How do we learn what works while change is still unfolding?
- 04How do we build capabilities that last beyond the end of a project?
What we do
Three perspectives on the same challenge of change.
Monitoring, evaluation & learning
Make experience and evidence useful while change is unfolding. Build learning into delivery.
Explore this areaInnovation ecosystems & policy
Develop relationships, roles and the capacity for collective action between organisations and across system boundaries.
Explore this areaTheory & practice
Theory to
understand practice.
Practice to
test theory.
Practice→Experience→Reflection→Theory→Renewed practice
A CONTINUOUS EXCHANGE
Research and analytical frameworks help us see patterns and understand systems. Experience of building companies, leading organisations and developing innovation hubs tests our assumptions against what can actually be done.
A formative experience
From industrial crisis to an innovation ecosystem.
As CEO of Norrköping Science Park, Jakob helped develop a shared business premises operation into a science park with a clear focus on incubation and cluster development.
An early practical laboratory for system innovation. An experience that continues to shape ALDAB's work.
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Visualisation
Connecting research, business and the development of the city.
Part of the foundation for
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TECHNOLOGY BECOMES AN ECOSYSTEM
Printed electronics
Bringing actors together around an emerging technology.
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Work & experience
System change
at multiple levels.
All work & experienceBuilding learning capacity in innovation ecosystems
Work with SISP (Swedish Incubators and Science Parks) and other innovation hubs: peer learning, development programmes and their roles in wider systems.
Assignments & collaboration
Learning in mission-driven system transformation
Analysis, a portfolio perspective and learning within a Swedish Impact Innovation programme.
Professional role
Jakob participates through his role at a partner organisation. This work is not a consultancy assignment delivered by ALDAB Innovation.
From practice to international innovation policy. And back.
Innovation ecosystems, transformative innovation policy and public demand as a driver of innovation.
International expert role
STI Parks as orchestrators of innovation ecosystems
Innovation hubs, capacity building and advisory work in developing countries and economies in transition.
International expert role
Innovation under real market conditions
From international business at Ericsson to the technology startup Secret Labs and innovation capability through Wide Ideas.
Business & entrepreneurship
How we work
Understand. Interpret. Test.
Learn. Adapt.
01
Understand
What is happening in the system, and why?
02
Interpret
What patterns, barriers and opportunities can we see?
03
Test
Which hypotheses and approaches can we put to the test?
04
Learn
What do experience, data and different perspectives tell us?
05
Adapt
What should continue, change or stop?
Analysis and learning become part of the work of change.
From projects to capacity
Projects can generate activity.
System change
requires capacity.
RelationshipsExpertiseInstitutional memoryCoordination capabilityLearning systems
How do we design projects and programmes to build capabilities that last beyond their end dates?
Insights
Reflections on systems,
learning and transformation.
All insightsSystem innovation
Project logic and system logic
What remains when a project ends? That question needs to be asked while the initiative is still being designed.
Read the reflection Monitoring, evaluation & learningLearning while change unfolds
Knowledge matters when it can influence the next decision. Learning therefore needs to be organised close to the work.
Read the reflection Innovation ecosystemsInnovation ecosystems need orchestration
Bringing actors together is only a beginning. Value grows when relationships, resources and needs connect.
Read the reflection
About ALDAB Innovation
Build. Lead.
Understand. Change.
I have built companies, led innovation hubs and worked with change from regional practice to international policy.
That exchange shapes ALDAB Innovation. Theory helps us understand what is happening. Practice shows what can be done, and which questions we need to ask next.
Jakob LindvallMSc in Engineering · Entrepreneur · Innovation adviser
More about Jakob and ALDABLet's talk
Working on a challenge that extends beyond a single organisation?
An innovation programme, a project portfolio or an ecosystem ready for its next step. Let's discuss the challenges you face.
jakob@aldab.se