New Ventures

Digitalization, technological innovation, co-creation, mobility, urbanization and many other forces are chaning our world and society today. It changes our customers and it also changes our business. As part of meeting these challenges, we have formed the group New Ventures in 2016.

New Venture's objective is to work with the business area of new markets within SMHI's Professional Services. The aim is to find tomorrow's big businesses with focus on scalability, automation and international potential. New Ventures is part of how we work with innovation and is an activity with a strong focus on entrepreneurial spirit.

The group uses Lean Startup as a method of business development, a well-known agile method for developing new business. We apply these principles in order to create maximum value in our products for our customers. The method requires close dialogue with users and the market.

Objective:

A close relationship with users and actively analyzing new behaviors and trends.
Finding and developing tomorrow's big businesses and thereby moving our position forward into new areas.
Developing businesses outside of the current product portfolio.
New products based on application of our cutting edge competencies: meteorology, hydrology, climatology and oceanography.
Creating true value in our products is important and we always strive to work in active dialogue with users and customers.

How do we succeed?

We develop new businesses to strengthen SMHIs professional services but do not work with private venture capital. To succeed, we believe in partnerships with companies that possess unique skills. As part of this we have cooperated with the incubator Lead.

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Areas of interest

In order to focus and work structured, we define New Ventures into three areas:

Forest
Climate
Health

SMHI Timbr

SMHI Timbr is a digital service (planning tool) designed for the production manager, which helps to understand conditions so that the ground in each area will be able to carry forestry without causing a driving injury. The product aims to streamline harvesting and spare the woodland.

SMHI Timbr

Contact information

Alexandra Birger-Röör, Manager New Ventures

Phone:+46 (0)11-495 86 50

Send email to Alexandra Birger-Röör

Erik Ernerudh, Product Manager New Ventures

Phone:+46 (0)11-495 82 19

Send email to Erik Ernerudh

Christian Rönnebring, Development Manager New Ventures

Phone:+46 (0)11-495 86 36

Send email to Christian Rönnebring

Objective:

A close relationship with users and actively analyzing new behaviors and trends.
Finding and developing tomorrow's big businesses and thereby moving our position forward into new areas.
Developing businesses outside of the current product portfolio.
New products based on application of our cutting edge competencies: meteorology, hydrology, climatology and oceanography.
Creating true value in our products is important and we always strive to work in active dialogue with users and customers.