Glenn Svanberg

But what does an Innovation Advocate do, you might wonder then? Glenn benched it out for us:

“The best thing about my job is that I get to be creative and realize ideas. For example, I organized a hackathon recently where we built a new colleague - a talking teddy bear with integrated AI named Chucky. Chucky is a good yardstick for what an Innovation Advocate Manager does — realize great ideas.”

“I usually say that in my role as Innovation Advocate, I act as a sounding board for ideas. My colleagues can see me as a little sticky wall that they can throw ideas on and then I make sure that together we create really awesome solutions that make a difference for our customers.”

The culture and the employees

At Fiwe, we aim to create a collaborative and creative working environment. Here you should be able to feel the open atmosphere and the many possibilities.

“The entire corporate culture revolves around creativity. At Fiwe it's high and low with different ideas, and the great thing is that we really get the opportunity to test, experiment and realize these ideas.”

“To go from an idea to finished product, well then you need a whole team of innovative minds.”

How do we keep creativity flowing in our teams?

“We are working towards creating an epic everyday life where we have fun while creating value for our customers. One of the biggest advantages at Fiwe is that we have a good balance between play and seriousness. Here is the opportunity to switch from playful chats to being serious when needed.”

What is the dynamic in the group?

“Everyone can talk to everyone. It's easy to ask around and the employees are very helpful, we really work as a team where everyone is collectively helped. Everyone at Fiwe gets really excited by solving problems together. And the best part is that we have fun while we do it.”

A place to grow

We love pampering our employees with generous benefit packages and lovely Friday breakfasts. At the same time, we know that personal development is one of the most important benefits an employer can offer. Therefore, we want to ensure that our employees have the best conditions to grow, both as individuals and as a team. We'll let Glenn tell you a little more about how it works in practice:

“Once a month, all PIM developers meet in our developer forum called Gleinart and exchange ideas. We present cool things we built and share our lessons learned. This is really a highlight of the month where together we improve as a team.”

“Every Thursday we have something we call “top of mind.” This means fifteen minutes where we fill a whiteboard with thoughts and ideas based on a specific theme. It is an open forum where everyone gets a chance to come up with new ideas about how we work, problems we have had or thoughts about new services we can develop.”

In a closing note, Glenn would like to leave with a few words for our future colleague:

“Join us at Fiwe so that we together can brainstorm ideas and build cool stuff for real!”

Welcome to a workplace that values your creativity and commitment — for real.