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Sjöviken is a studio focused on craftmanship and restoring natural beauty to old buildings. Run by a carpenter from the northern Sweden and based right at the shoreline in the Swedish archipelago. Looking out over endless blue skies and waters.

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My work is based around the concept of Design Thinking. Providing simple frameworks for understanding where to focus innovation efforts and how to structure these efforts for the highest likelihood of success. Through the years I have found many advantages that this design approach brings to entrepreneurial efforts, both within startups and major multinationals. In many peoples’ minds, design amount to an aesthetic exercise. And yes, design can have an aesthetic impact but for me that is neither its primary objective nor its greatest value. If applied strategically, design can deliver many forms of return on investment to a business. Strategic design thinking can help us capture new market opportunities faster, to extend our reach across current markets and into new ones, to deepen relationships with customers. It can even be used to develop and foster internal innovation capabilities and to capture disruptive new market opportunities.

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