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Open your mind to the future

If you could choose the future of your company, what would it look like? We talked to Sitra’s Mikko Dufva about how to think about challenges, changes, and paths to the future.

Keeping your customer promise is the key to lasting customer relationships

While many factors play a role in building lasting customer relationships, serving the customer well and earning their trust will continue to be the most important aspect of a successful customer relationship. We interviewed our long-term but now retired Executive Team member, Jari Vähäpesola, to hear his insights and experiences about how to prove your worth and build commitment.

Disruptive co-innovation

The green transition creates sustainability challenges for the fiber-related industry. How can we use co-innovation to tackle these challenges?

Decarbonizing with breakthrough technologies

Increasing energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions have been long-term targets for the forest industry. However, the rising energy prices and the ever more stringent need to stop climate change are boosting companies in finding even more efficient solutions. This is where technological innovations have a key role.

No time to waste - textile industry’s new dawn is here

Novel cellulose-based textile fibers are changing the game for textiles.

Sharpen your soft skills – the future is human

The era of information has made us all information professionals, and our value as an employee is based on our capability to manage information. Soon, however, technology will be so advanced that we are no longer needed to manage information – machines will do it better. According to futurist Perttu Pölönen, it is high time that we start focusing on skills that no machine can learn – the human elements.

Five important parameters for pulp cleaner control

Expert insight into the variables that impact runnability

Information age calls for empathic leaders

In the era of rapid digitalization and emerging new technologies, one may think that they would be at the center of learning efforts. But no. Focus should instead be put on the leaders’ capacity for reflective leadership and on fostering empathy, humility and audacity.

Predicting the future using data

Instead of typical production planning and control, data-driven applications incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) help us take a more holistic view of the entire chain of production by utilizing data from several sources. While Industrial Internet applications can be used to instantly optimize processes, they also allow us to predict what’s around the corner.

Positive experiences of working life are significant for young people

Promoting employment among young people is important for society and an investment in the future. The path to working life is not always easy for young people. Offering opportunities to learn working life skills and gain experience is one way to help, and Valmet decided to provide such opportunities.