For Skedsmo municipality, the goals were clear ‑ more refugees employed on a permanent basis through a successful introduction programme. An introduction programme that provides everything from language skills to housing, integration activities, job training or preparation for education.
Mindshift conducted an assessment of the municipality's introduction programme, including its content, process efficiency and IT system support, with a particular eye on improved effectiveness of the programme for the refugees. The report pin‑pointed 11 specific barriers to better performance.
Using principles from «design thinking», Mindshift designed an improved introduction programme to remove the barriers and mapped out an action plan for execution, all of which received much acclaim from both political and administrative leadership in Skedsmo.