About digital transformation, design, creativity and lifestyle in the Networked Society.
Innovation, design, and creativity are stimulated by diversity. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to be part of one of the most diverse teams in the whole company: Ericsson Experience Design (the team that created the award-winning Ericsson Design System)! Culture is a foundation of the new innovation game I recently wrote about innovation... Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago I published a new blogpost at Ericsson.com about the future workplace and how Kista is changing. I’ve been at Ericsson for 20 years this year, spending almost as many of them in Kista Science City, which is one of the five largest information technology clusters in the world and also the... Continue Reading →
Assuming your organization has a creative mindset, and beyond the possible implications of emerging technologies, a key challenge lies in pinning down what is required from an organizational perspective for innovation to take place. To a large extent, this is the key challenge in the business world today and something that many organizations, especially... Continue Reading →
What exactly is innovation? And how does it work in the business transformation context within ICT? At Ericsson, we have talked about the fundamental digital transformation that is taking place across our entire society for many years, with particular focus on the new opportunities and challenges it brings. This shift has matured recently: new businesses... Continue Reading →
In our model of lifestyle movements for the Networked Society in 2025, the last group, the Mobile, are difficult to pin down. To some extent they definitely want to see themselves as classless. Their overall motivation is to move between contexts without committing too heavily to one career path, one lifestyle, one life project, or... Continue Reading →
In 2025’s Networked Society, the Social are empowered and have momentum in society but do not belong to a traditional labor market. They have either chosen to leave or been forced out of the traditional labor market, because of the structural changes in society, and have instead taken matters into their own hands. Accordingly, they... Continue Reading →
The Anchored are the people steadily rooted in the middle class, which was once the result of the 20th century industrialization. In 2025, they are still living in the traditional industrial economic system. While they used to be employed in the manufacturing industry and related sectors, in the 21st century they have migrated increasingly to the service... Continue Reading →
My previous blog post was about the model you can use to understand movements in lifestyles in the Networked Society. If you missed that post you can find it here. In this post, let’s look closer at the Resourceful. The Resourceful employ the most attractive positions in society and are made up of business owners, entrepreneurs,... Continue Reading →
I wrote earlier about how creative people use tools and resources found on the web to realize their ideas. We call them the Game Changers, and we found out that they organize their work using ten different networked organizational forms (see image). These ways of organizing work is used within any field of creativity; from fashion... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 