About the organisation
Inission is a full-service provider of customised manufacturing services and products in advanced industrial electronics and mechanics. Inission has started a long-term improvement journey in which the Involve conference has been launched as an annual forum where employees, customers and suppliers are involved in order to succeed.
During the day we saw extensive involvement from the 100 participants, who contributed more than 2,200 interactions in the Vocean platform. It was fantastic to see how everyone could exchange experiences and actively co-create solutions to promote inclusion, equality and sustainability in such a simple and time-saving way.
Fredrik BerghelCEO, InissionChallenge
Inission faced a challenge when planning the “Involve” conference. They saw the need to increase participant engagement during the conference, since the focus is often on the speakers while the audience listens passively. The aim of the conference was to create a place where around 100 managers and decision-makers in industry could share their experiences of how to promote inclusion, equality and sustainability. Inission also wanted to collect tips and experiences from the public to enrich the conference with more perspectives. The challenge was to create a conference that not only inspires the participants during the day, but also generates solutions they can take with them and initiate in their own organisation.
Solution
Inission has successfully increased participant engagement before, during and after its “Involve” event by using the Vocean platform. Vocean provides process support for idea generation, collaboration and shared understanding/consensus building, where new perspectives and solutions are discussed and handled in an efficient and time-saving way.
Before the conference, Inission collected input from the public on LinkedIn, linking to a Vocean activity where people could contribute tips and experiences on how to promote inclusion, equality and diversity. The conference opened with a summary of the 50 contributions that had come in, to inspire further discussion.
All speakers asked the audience quick exploratory questions during their presentations to capture the participants’ current perspectives. It made a difference when the speakers asked the audience questions, since it is usually only the audience that asks the speakers questions. The results were presented in real time in various charts.
All speakers also started group discussions after their presentations using the Vocean platform. First, each participant thought about the question on their own and entered their thoughts and ideas on their phone. Then the group discussed and enriched the proposals and finished by individually liking the three best solutions in the group on their phones. The results were then shown directly on the big screen through Vocean’s word clouds and lists of all the groups’ contributions. Each main speaker of the day could therefore immediately lead a dialogue about the overall result, but also click through to see what each table had come up with as its top solutions/proposals and ask them to develop their thinking further. In this way, Inission achieved a deeper exchange of experience both at each table and between the tables, where all participants had equal opportunity to share their thoughts.
Inission impressed as a role model for involvement and innovation during the event, and its use of the Vocean platform paved the way for a more engaging and rewarding conference experience for all participants.
Benefits
When the conference started, 50 thoughts and tips with experiences from the public had already been collected. In total, 875 ideas were collected during the day (through 18 activities), which the participants co-created around and enriched in group discussions. Together, the speakers also received a total of 716 responses to their direct questions to the participants. The ideas were prioritised through a total of 595 “likes” during the day in the group exercises. A summary of each group’s three jointly top-ranked solutions was shown to all participants directly after each discussion.
In brief
Challenges
More involvement and more exchange of experience Being able to arrive at new solutions that can be initiated in their own organisation
Benefits
From ideas to co-creation to prioritised solutions, in a short time. High participation brings new thoughts and solutions to take home from the event.
