Anna-Karin Lindblom is Director Accelerated Innovation at Husqvarna Group where she is developing lean start-up methods in the corporate environment for driving innovation and creating new business opportunities. She is responsible for driving ideation, accelerated concept development, and incubation within and beyond the current Husqvarna Group business domains in collaboration with the brand divisions and external partners, as a continued step in spearheading the group into new innovation territories. Her main priorities are to lead innovation projects in areas such as sustainability, next-generation robotics, automation, IoT, digital services, and new business models testing viability with customers and partners.