Slow things down to speed things up

Publicerat 17 April 2018

“Just det som är viktigt för en entreprenör – att älska sin produkt, kan bli kontraproduktivt när det gäller att sälja. Det gäller att slow things down to speed things up, det vill säga lära känna kunden och dess problem innan man presenterar sin lösning”.

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Learning from other industries: How to Build a Professional Team

Publicerat 16 April 2018

At KTH Executive School we have several times seen the strength when companies from different sectors, but with similar problems, meet and learn from each other. Inspiration on new ways to define and work with a problem can lead to wonderful results – and you don’t have to be afraid to discuss openly about your challenges since you don’t compete with each other.

A growing (and very successful) industri in Sweden is the gaming industry. This text is the first in a series about success factors and learnings from that industry. The insights are based on a report produced by researchers from KTH.

Do you want to meet executives from other industries in order to develop you company? Read more about our group formats.

How to Build a Professional Team

Sustained success takes more than one really good game. With professional teams studios have good chances for repeated success by launching a series of profitable games over time to sustain and grow the business. This research project has yet to uncover the details of how team development is achieved, but some patterns have been observed.

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Vi vill alla hitta den bästa personalen, är det GRIT vi söker?

Publicerat 13 April 2018

Vad är det som gör att vissa människor lyckas, medan andra ger upp på vägen? Den frågan har drivit Angela Duckworth ända sedan hon var lärare och studerade sina elever.

Under 2017 flög begreppet GRIT upp på listorna över hetaste nya begreppet. Grit är ett karaktärsdrag som kombinerar uthållighet, inre driv och förmåga att inte ge upp vid motgångar. Det har visat sig vara en avgörande faktor för att nå framgång både i skolan och i yrkeslivet.

Att identifiera personer med GRIT kan vara avgörande när vi bygger och utvecklar våra bolag och frågan är hur vi hittar dem samt hur vi kan stötta människor att få mer Grit. Läs mer

Young Professionals and their thoughts about their future career

Publicerat 11 April 2018

To choose your boss instead of choosing your position? To be able to combine working with both sales and delivery to customers from day one? To have a higher purpose with what you are doing?

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Young Professionals and their thoughts about their future career

Publicerat 11 April 2018

To choose your boss instead of choosing your position? To be able to combine working with both sales and delivery to customers from day one? To have a higher purpose with what you are doing?

These are examples of some of the questions discussed in the breakfast seminar “The war for talent is over – talet won” this week.

Universum informed us about the latest investigations about the preferences of engineer students when choosing where to work. “Meaningful purpose” is one of the things that has increased most in importance the latest years.

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AI och affärer – två fundamentala frågor

Publicerat 9 April 2018

Två fundamentala frågeställningar

  1. Vilka affärskonsekvenser tror du AI kommer att ha för er?
  2. Har ni bestämt er för hur ni ska agera?

Lär dig mer om AI och vad det kan betyda för dig och för Er. Läs mer om vår kurs på kthexecutiveschool.se.

Security of our public IT-systems: ransomware cyberattack and city shut down in the city of Atlanta

Publicerat 2 April 2018

The digitalized world has increased our vulnerability, and it will keep on increasing. We can’t stop develop our operations but we need to understand how we shall think regarding securing our data, systems and infrastructure.

It has shown that our essential IT-systems are surprisingly and worrisome insecure.

Pontus Johanson Professor KTH Cyber security.

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Security of our public IT-systems: ransomware cyberattack and city shut down in the City of Atlanta

Publicerat 2 April 2018

The digitalized world has increased our vulnerability, and it will keep on increasing. We can’t stop develop our operations but we need to understand how we shall think regarding securing our data, systems and infrastructure.

It has shown that our essential IT-systems are surprisingly and worrisome insecure.

Pontus Johanson Professor KTH Cyber security.

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Learn from other industries: Making Really Good Games

Publicerat 2 April 2018

At KTH Executive School we have several times seen the strength when companies from different sectors, but with similar problems, meet and learn from each other. Inspiration on new ways to define and work with a problem can lead to wonderful results – and you don’t have to be afraid to discuss openly about your challenges since you don’t compete with each other.

A growing (and very successful) industri in Sweden is the gaming industry. This text is the first in a series about success factors and learnings from that industry. The insights are based on a report produced by researchers from KTH.

Do you want to meet executives from other industries in order to develop you company? Read more about our group formats.

Making really good games

“The success of the industry … depend on the successes of individual companies, and those successes will depend on the creation of video games that consumers want to play.” (Wolf, 2015, Video Games Around the World, p5)

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Att förstå och undvika de nya hoten

Publicerat 2 April 2018

En allt mer digitaliserad miljö påverkar vår sårbarhet, och det bara fortsätter, vårt behov av ytterligare digital utveckling och exponering ökar sårbarheten ytterligare.  Vi kan inte sluta utveckla våra verksamheter utan behöver därför förstå hur och på vilket sätt vi ska tänka kring Cybersäkerhet.

Genom att ta del av några av de senaste attackerna mot exempelvis USAs val, energisystemet i Ukraina, Federal Reservs i USA och centralbanken Bangladesh kan vi förstå omfattning och skapa kunskap hur vi kan agera förekommande. Många hot kan förebyggas andra är viktiga att förstå hur de kan uppkomma för att minska effekten av eventuella incidenter.

Hur hittar vi rätt balans mellan utveckling och säkerhet?

Lär dig mer på vårt frukostseminarium om Cybersäkerhet eller fördjupa dig genom vår kurs.