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.

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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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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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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In most companies, innovation capability will determine growth rates and success throughout the coming years and we can even see a whole new category of professionals in corporations focusing on the development of new products, services or processes. Professional titles like Innovation Manager, Innovation Leader and Chief Innovation Officer are popping up everywhere.

In this breakfast seminar on Innovation Leadership we will highlight the very important role of the new corporate change agents – the Innovation Manager – and talk about how it is to lead innovation initiatives.

Join us on a breakfast seminar and learn from real examples on how innovation initiatives successfully transform organizations. If you can´t attend the seminar or want to dive deeper into the topic, welcome to our course Leading Innovation – 29-30 May and 14 June 2018.

Despite the current nationalistic tendencies in global politics, business will still be more and more global and intercultural business interaction will rather increase and be the norm than the contrary. We all work in multicultural dispersed teams whose members have different values, behaviour and ways of communicating.

That could make us all ask ourselves three questions:

• How much money do we lose through lack of sensitivity to cultural issues?
• How often do we work in culturally dispersed teams whose members have different values, behaviour and ways of communicating?
• Do we really understand our own personal cultural profile and how our behaviour can be perceived by people from another cultural context? Not addressing that is by the way the most common trap to fall in.

Welcome to a lunch seminar where we will address the topic of how we can ensure best possible business results in a globalized world! If you can´t attend the lunch seminar or want to dive deeper, welcome to our two-day course Intercultural Skills in Business of Technology – May 23-24, 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.

Reaching through the noise

No matter how great a game is, it can’t have commercial success unless customers become aware of it. This is an increasingly difficult problem as more and more games are released every day, the amount of market noise is higher than ever before. According to respondents, the release rate is now so high that the average revenue per game is decreasing despite a steady growth of demand. So what options do developers have to get market’s attention? A number of different approaches was observed:

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The ability to hire and engage young professionals are key questions for many of our customers. Times are changing fast. But how fast and what is needed to motivate the new engineers that are now entering the market?

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AI was one of the most hyped topics of 2017. But where is AI really today? We have previously discussed AI and what it can achieve and today we want to talk some about the highlights from The 2017 AI Index Report that discuss the development of AI in research, education, startups and the general improvement of AI technology and algorithms.

We are essentially “flying blind” in our conversations and decision-making related to Artificial Intelligence.

From The 2017 AI Index Report

In this article we talk about AI in research, education and startups. Which milestones it have reached and how good it is compares to humans. If you want to deepen your knowledge about AI, read more bout our course.

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China is here now and we need to understand China in order to make better business decisions

Frédéric Cho, professional strategic advisor on China

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