Breakfast seminars this fall

Publicerat 5 June 2018

We know the summer have just started, but before you head out on vacation we just want to give you a heads up on what will happen this fall – so you are aware of all the great things you are coming back to after the summer. We are continuing with our popular breakfast seminars and below you can see the themes for the fall.

3 huvudfrågor om AI

Publicerat 5 June 2018

Alla pratar om AI. Men pratar vi om AI på rätt sätt? Det första steget för att förstå vad/om er organisation ska göra med AI är inte att läsa fler artiklar om att AI tar över världen utan att besvara dessa tre frågor:
1) Vad kan AI göra idag?
2) Vad kan AI göra snart?
3) Vad skulle ett första mindre AI-case kunna vara i vår organisation för att skapa intern kunskap och insikter om/hur vi kan gå vidare med AI?

Om du inte sett detta klipp där Googles AI ringer upp en hårsalong för att boka en tid, gör det för att förstå hur långt AI har kommit gällande röstigenkänning och förståelse för enklare öppna frågor.

KTH Executive School take next step in supporting sustainable business development within infrastructure

Publicerat 28 May 2018

KTH Executive school are honored to announce that the program director Christian Pleijel has been elected to the Greening the Islands Observatory. The Observatory will have a systematic and scientific approach to island sustainability across key sectors like energy, water and mobility. With his broad experience  within technology, infrastructure, business development and leadership, Christian can contribute with the perspective of how companies can contribute to sustainable change.

Christian Pleijel, KTH Executive school, and Gianni Chianetta, president of Greening the Islands. Photo: David Arquimbau​.

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What AI can and can’t do (yet) for your business

Publicerat 22 May 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. We experience it at home and on our phones. Before we know it—if entrepreneurs and business innovators are to be believed—AI will be in just about every product and service we buy and use. In addition, its application to business problem solving is growing in leaps and bounds. AI’s challenges and limitations are creating a “moving target” problem for leaders: It is hard to reach a leading edge that’s always advancing.

 

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Hans Holmström in the Executive Program in Industrial Management 2018

Publicerat 18 May 2018

Hans Holmström, CEO Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB, will lecture in the Executive Program in Industrial Management 2018.

Hans has kindly accepted the invitation to come back and lecture in our Executive Program in Industrial Management 2018. His lecture will be about “Technology shifts and change of technology: The case of Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB”. Understanding technology shifts in general is crucial in order to understand the currently ongoing technology shifts as e.g. digitalization!

Hans is also an alumni from the program in 2004 and has since then sent many participants to this program.

Read more about the program here.

 

Breakfast Seminar About The Crucial Corporate Culture Challenge

Publicerat 4 May 2018

The automotive business is already there. And the rest of us are going in that direction. The direction of to our established physical product offerings, adding new digital high value service offerings. Service offerings based on sensor technologies and on cheap, high quality; storage, transmission, computing and analyzing of data – the new oil.

In the breakfast seminar we will learn about the differences between the business culture and mindset in a traditional product-centric business and a genuinely service-centric business.

Read more about the seminar and register here.

Increased hacking of municipal and other systems across the United States

Publicerat 24 April 2018

Baltimore’s 911 dispatch system was hacked over the weekend, causing the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system to be down for over 17 hours.

Had to work in “manual mode” due to hack

City personnel “identified a limited breach” of the CAD system, which supports the city’s 911 and 311 services, about 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Frank Johnson, chief information officer in the Mayor’s Office of Information Technology, said in a statement.

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Increased hacking of municipal and other systems across the United States

Publicerat 24 April 2018

Baltimore’s 911 dispatch system was hacked over the weekend, causing the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system to be down for over 17 hours.

Had to work in “manual mode” due to hack

City personnel “identified a limited breach” of the CAD system, which supports the city’s 911 and 311 services, about 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Frank Johnson, chief information officer in the Mayor’s Office of Information Technology, said in a statement.

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How data can be made more human

Publicerat 23 April 2018

To make the right decisions data can be of help. But data have to be transformed into information to be able to help us in our decision making. One way of analyzing data is to visualize it to be able to see and understand patterns. One person that has been taking this to the next level is Jer Thorp. In this TED talk he discuss how data can be made more human.

Entreprenörers vanligaste misstag när det kommer till att sälja

Publicerat 19 April 2018

Säljexperten Anders Ångström berättar vad som är entreprenörers vanligaste misstag när det kommer till försäljning och ger sitt bästa tips på hur man istället ska göra.

You need to slow things down in order to speed things up