To Understand and Mitigate the New Risks in the New Opportunities.
The seminar is free of charge but you have to register to the event. There is a limited amount of seats. Read more about the seminar and register here.
Breakfast seminars this fall
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.
- Staying Ahead in the Digital Transformation – 22nd of August.
- Understanding AI – How Does It Matter – 11th of September.
- From Porter to Platforms – 9th of October.
- How To Capture Opportunities by Collaborating With Start-ups – 13th of November.
- The Need for Ambidexterity in Changing Business Landscapes – 11th of December.
3 huvudfrågor om AI
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
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.
What AI can and can’t do (yet) for your business
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.
Hans Holmström in the Executive Program in Industrial Management 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
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
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.
Young Professionals and their thoughts about their future career
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?
Security of our public IT-systems: ransomware cyberattack and city shut down in the city of Atlanta
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.
