Detta kan du lära dig om framtiden mellan Centralen och Gamla Stan

Publicerat 14 November 2017

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Det tar kanske 7 minuters frisk luft att promenera från Centralen i Stockholm till Gamla Stan. Hittar du inte så knappa på Google eller utnyttja karttjänsterna tex Maps.

Om du inte tänkte Ubra billigt förstås. Firman som på mindre än nio år skramlat ihop 1 miljard taxiresor och värderas till långt över hundra miljarder. Sägs vara världens högst värderade tech-startup. Uber som just nu dessutom gör mycket reklam, på just centralen. Det där fenomen du redan nästan hört till leda om och därför troligen undviker. Promenera var det istället som sagt. Läs mer

Eric Giertz, grundare av KTH Executive School

Publicerat 10 November 2017

KTH Executive School har tackat av vår grundare och ordförande Eric Giertz som har gått i pension. Eric har under flera decennier legat i fronten gällande forskning och utveckling kopplat till teknik och affärsutveckling.

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Eric är professor emeritus i industriell ekonomi och organisation. Han är grundare av och tidigare ordförande i KTH Executive School. Hans forskning är inriktad på affärsutveckling i samband med strukturförändringar i näringslivet. Han har tidigare arbetat som affärsstrategisk konsult och har erfarenhet av styrelsearbete i ett flertal olika branscher.

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Where is technology taking the economy?

Publicerat 7 November 2017

Everybody interested in, and concerned about, the now ongoing digital revolution and its impact on business, on the economy and on society should read the article; Where is technology taking the economy? The article is written by Professor W. Brian Arthur and is published in the McKinsey Quarterly October 2017.

Skärmavbild 2017-10-27 kl. 09.23.49The credibility of the article is supported by how nicely it connects to “Part I – How
technology drives economic and social transformations”
in Robert D. Atkinson´s 2004 book “The Past and Future of America´s Economy / Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles ofGrowth”. A book that is instrumental in order to understand the mega impacts of disruptive technology systems in general and the digital revolution in particular. For this reason is that book since a decade required reading at the Executive Program in Industrial Management at KTH EXECUTIVE SCHOOL.

Despite the limited size of the article, Professor Arthur succeeds in vividly providing the reader with:

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Where is technology taking the economy?

Publicerat 7 November 2017

Everybody interested in, and concerned about, the now ongoing digital revolution and its impact on business, on the economy and on society should read the article; Where is technology taking the economy? The article is written by Professor W. Brian Arthur and is published in the McKinsey Quarterly October 2017.

Skärmavbild 2017-10-27 kl. 09.23.49The credibility of the article is supported by how nicely it connects to “Part I – How
technology drives economic and social transformations”
in Robert D. Atkinson´s 2004 book “The Past and Future of America´s Economy / Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles ofGrowth”. A book that is instrumental in order to understand the mega impacts of disruptive technology systems in general and the digital revolution in particular. For this reason is that book since a decade required reading at the Executive Program in Industrial Management at KTH EXECUTIVE SCHOOL.

Despite the limited size of the article, Professor Arthur succeeds in vividly providing the reader with:

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Lean start-up in mature companies

Publicerat 5 November 2017

New innovative idea starts with assumptions. But how do we move from assumptions to facts and business as fast as possible? Today we discuss Lean Start-up in mayor companies together with Andy Cars.

“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”

Jack Welch

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Director Christian Pleijel nominated to sustainability award

Publicerat 31 October 2017

Christian Pleijel, Director Sustainable Urban Systems at KTH Executive School has been invited to speak about his project on Greening the Island conference on Siciliy the 3rd of November. His project is nominated to their award.

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Ecological and social project outcomes

Freshwater is a strategic resource on islands, often scarce. Saving water means becoming more resilient and sustainable. The energy cost for procuring water to these 8 island societies varies from island to island, but given modern osmosis processes to produce desalinated water in general need 2 kWh/cubic meter, the energy saved can be estimated at 304,010 kWh/year and the reduction in CO2 emissions as 39.050 kg/year. Läs mer

Methods for strategic challenges help small islands save water

Publicerat 24 October 2017

Methodology for strategic challenges used to save water

KTH Executive School has developed a methodology to help our participants to solve strategic challenges. The same methodology was recently used together with eights small islands that all face the challenge to reduce their water footprints and save 25% of the fresh water.

Anders-Christoforos
Anders Nordström, Stockholms Universitet och Christoforos Perakis, CRES

One part of the methodology was “Six Thinking Hats”

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Improve sales by thinking like a customer – acting like an owner

Publicerat 24 October 2017

“Think like a customer – act like an owner.”

Sales and pricing are two of the most important questions in a business. Anders Rehnberg our “sales professor” explains how this can revolutionize your offering and pricing.

Anders Rehnberg from Privilegium Group in London, is a pricing and sales expert that revolutionize many peoples views on sales and pricing. He has gotten Chines companies to stop reducing prices and often receives  the comment such as “The best training I have ever attended” from the participants. He provides new tools and increase your courage to take your company to the next level and open up opportunities.

Most companies are great at developing their product or services, but rarely develop their pricing strategy.

Four critical issues that drive the need and urgency to improve your pricing strategy:

  1. How much money do we lose due to outdated pricing principles?
  2. How can we get out of the cost-plusprice-per-unit way of thinking?
  3. How can we get paid for the additional value we deliver?
  4. How do we design the offerings, the revenue models andthe pricing when we integrate forward and start to deliver services, often based on the installed base and with applications of embedded systems, sensors, M2M, IoT, Big Data, and the internet?

What you need to learn:

  • Formulate unique offerings and value propositions
  • Developing prices – an unconventional take on how to change the price levels customers are willing to pay
  • Identifying value: improve both margins and customer satisfaction
  • Target customer profiles to improve hit-rates and reduce quotation/sales costs
  • The business process and how to ‘marry’ product development and sales
  • Marketing and communicating your value message, including quotations
  • Negotiation and contracts – commercial best practises

Läs mer

Methods for strategic challenges help small islands save water

Publicerat 24 October 2017

Methodology for strategic challenges used to save water

KTH Executive School has developed a methodology to help our participants to solve strategic challenges. The same methodology was recently used together with eights small islands that all face the challenge to reduce their water footprints and save 25% of the fresh water.

Anders-Christoforos
Anders Nordström, Stockholms Universitet och Christoforos Perakis, CRES

One part of the methodology was “Six Thinking Hats”

Läs mer

Improve sales by thinking like a customer – acting like an owner

Publicerat 20 October 2017

“Think like a customer – act like an owner.”

Sales and pricing are two of the most important questions in a business. Anders Rehnberg our “sales professor” explains how this can revolutionize your offering and pricing.

Anders Rehnberg from Privilegium Group in London, is a pricing and sales expert that revolutionize many peoples views on sales and pricing. He has gotten Chines companies to stop reducing prices and often receives  the comment such as “The best training I have ever attended” from the participants. He provides new tools and increase your courage to take your company to the next level and open up opportunities.

Most companies are great at developing their product or services, but rarely develop their pricing strategy.

Four critical issues that drive the need and urgency to improve your pricing strategy:

  1. How much money do we lose due to outdated pricing principles?
  2. How can we get out of the cost-plusprice-per-unit way of thinking?
  3. How can we get paid for the additional value we deliver?
  4. How do we design the offerings, the revenue models andthe pricing when we integrate forward and start to deliver services, often based on the installed base and with applications of embedded systems, sensors, M2M, IoT, Big Data, and the internet?

What you need to learn:

  • Formulate unique offerings and value propositions
  • Developing prices – an unconventional take on how to change the price levels customers are willing to pay
  • Identifying value: improve both margins and customer satisfaction
  • Target customer profiles to improve hit-rates and reduce quotation/sales costs
  • The business process and how to ‘marry’ product development and sales
  • Marketing and communicating your value message, including quotations
  • Negotiation and contracts – commercial best practises

Läs mer