About digital transformation, design, creativity and lifestyle in the Networked Society.
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 →
Most innovation is directly or indirectly driven by new technology – even business model innovation and changed consumer behaviors – and the way new technology transforms our world and various markets. In this way then, an understanding of new technology and its impact is a prerequisite to be able to innovate, and to do it... Continue Reading →
If innovation is about developing something new that impacts the market and creates value for users – what is required to make that happen? Innovation is a question of mindset, and creating that mindset precedes everything else. In my opinion, it’s the innovation mindset that overrides the aspects of human nature that are often holding... 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 →
Blue Mountain Village. Photo by: Jeff S. PhotoArt at HDCanvas.ca Nu är det mindre än en vecka kvar till starten på OCRWC, Obstacle Cource Racing World Championship 2017 i Blue Mountain, Ontario Kanada. OCR, eller som det hette när jag var liten hinderbana. Det har funnits ganska få möjligheter att träna och springa hinderbana utanför det... Continue Reading →
10 Year ago, we (Fredrik Öhrfelt, Mikael E Björling, Erik Kruse) submitted a paper "Converging Technology - Diverging Families" to ESOMAR. The paper was nominated to the ESOMAR award ”best research paper of the year”. The research we did 2006 was about technology usage in middleclass families in US, Sweden, and Spain. Well, is an... Continue Reading →
I developed this IP telephony concept during the autumn 2000 for Ericsson Business Corporation. The work included doing the interaction design, graphical design, prototype development and usability testing. This was three years before the first version of Skype was launched 2003. The sound quality in the application was incredible good at the time. This at a time... Continue Reading →
These design sketches are from about year 2000. Mobile phone screens still had black and green screens and this is seven years before the first Apple iPhone was launched. I still have my R380 in a box together with most other phones I have used. I did these screen designs in a project where we... Continue Reading →
Wind, en prisbelönt kortfilm om hur levande system påverkas av sin miljö och hur det måste ändras när miljön ändras. Arbetslivet (ett levande system) påverkas i högsta grad av sin miljö (samhällsstruktur, marknad, ekonomi, etc.) Detta är en utmaning för de flesta när vi nu lämnar industrialismens miljö till det uppkopplade samhällets miljö. Mer animeringar av Robert Loebel... Continue Reading →
Efter att ha följt nyhetsrapporteringen veckan som gått efter terrorattacken på Drottninggatan är intrycket att de flesta skötte sig utmärkt, gjorde sitt jobb och handlade rådigt. Detta gäller både allmänhet, räddningstjänst, polis och press. Med det är också något allvarligt fel när bilder på en sargad 11-årings kropp delas och sprids på internet. Vi har läst om det många... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 