AF Gruppen

About the client

AF Gruppen is a leading contracting and industrial group. The AF culture has been characterized by curiosity and a willingness to challenge the establishment. Their employees' ability to dare to pursue their ideas is what has contributed to AF Gruppen's present status as a leading industrial group that is often referred to as different and forward-looking.

The challenge

AF Gruppen saw that many employees came with ideas about new products, services or projects. It was tedious to compile emails with documents without a clear centralization. That´s why they decided to digitalize the information received and therefore facilitate the decision making about the viability of the process. Nyskaperen.no is AF's tool to bring good ideas to fruition.

An additional challenge was that the official browser of corporate use was an older version Internet Explorer. Using the right last technologies needed to be particularly looked into in order to avoid future problems.

The solution

In the first phase, taking advantage of the latest solutions in the field of digital product prototyping and Agile methodologies, we carried out rapid prototyping of the ideas submitted by Nyskaperen. Prototypes produced by this process were then evaluated by potential users.

In the second phase, we started developing the application using the Agile methodology.

The process took 4 months before customer's users started testing the product and giving feedback.

The result

Nyskaperen.no is AF Gruppen's portal to gather good ideas for innovation. With the portal, you are enabled to realize your idea. They are convinced that some of the ideas will lead to separate start-ups supported by AF Gruppen. It takes a while to complete the questionnaire, but we believe this work forms the best basis for the idea's way forward.

All serious contributions will be assessed in a structured manner. After the assessment, you may be told to continue working on the idea, or you may receive professional guidance and support.