Hey! I’m Erlend T. Hovgaard, an Oslo-based strategic designer, innovation manager and speaker.
I help ambitious companies solve fuzzy problems and design services the world needs. I do projects, courses and corporate startups. I’m a Partner at Reodor, an innovation studio.
Work
Course: Innovation by design for Videocation
Together with my good colleague Emilie Strømmen Olsen, I made an online course for Videocation about innovation through human-centred design. The aim was to make the foundational principles of design thinking accessible to anyone.
Project: Crafting a more sustainable future for credit
For a major Norwegian bank, I lead a team of strategic designers through an intensive process to design a new credit card service and business model with a goal of making it more sustainable and attuned to new customer behaviours.
Project: Designing and scaling a circular SaaS startup
Reodor teamed up with DNV to accelerate circularity in the wind industry through a new corporate venture we are designing and growing. Their Software as a Service helps wind farms with decommissioning and recycling wind turbines so they don’t end up in landfills.
Need a speaker for an event?
I do many kinds of inspirational and educational talks about design, innovation and business development.
Webinar: Sustainable Business Model Innovation
I recently did an online lecture for Service Design College about why and how we should innovate business models for sustainability. Check out the (unedited) recording of it, as well as the deck and some do-it-yourself tools —>
Got an idea?
Let’s talk about it!
Reach out
erlend@hovgaard.no
erlend@reodor.io
+99353989