About digital transformation, design, creativity and lifestyle in the Networked Society.
There is a rising amount of data generated every day – pieces of information generated from basically every human interaction. As we carry our smartphones, tablets, laptops and fitness trackers, among other connected devices, with us, all the transactions, purchases, searches, page visits and app usage generate huge volumes of data. We generate data when... Continue Reading →
Anything that can benefit from a connection will have one in the Networked Society. About seven years ago, our former CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg stated that there would be 50 billion connected devices by 2020. That was mind-blowing at that time. What would all these devices do? Since then, a lot has happened, and we have... Continue Reading →
Den senaste tiden har det varit presentationer och mediaövningar i Moskva och Stockholm kring Networked Society och hur arbetslivet förändras. Open Innovation - Moscow 1/11 paneldiskussion om "Smart devices and portable gadgets: How the Internet of things is changing the world" med en riktigt bra sammansättning i panelen: Ralph Simon modererade och vi som samtalade var Qaizar Hassonjee,... Continue Reading →
I slutet på maj kommer jag föreläsa på temat "Nätverksamhället – om uppkopplade individer och en förändrad värld" Vilka är trenderna som formar det framväxande nätverkssamhället? Hur kommer företag och organisationer påverkas? Vilka möjligheter erbjuder det nya nätverkssamhället?
You might love your devices, your smartphone, tablet, TV or laptop. But it’s no longer the love to the device itself that is that strongest love. As the services we are using become networked, the cloud becomes our love. Services used to be implemented locally in the mobile phone and phones used to contain a... Continue Reading →
The Swedish American Life Science Summit, held August 21 – 23, had many interesting presentations and discussions about various topics across the life science sector, such as Innovative Healthcare Delivery Models and Creating a Digital Health System. At the event, I presented Ericsson’s vision of the Networked Society and some of the concepts that could be realized... Continue Reading →
Back home after a great week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Tired but satisfied! Barcelona is great this part of the year with lovely weather and good business! I spent five days at the MWC talking about Ericsson's vision about the Networked Society and how the society is transforming. We used a large... Continue Reading →
Enabling anything that can be connected to be connected, the Internet of Things is the hero of this story. Read this post at: http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/the-networked-society-blog/2011/12/05/ka-pow-its-the-internet-of-things/
This year Gartner added the Internet of Things to their hype curve, along with other hyped words such as ’big data’, ‘gamification’ and ‘customization’. According to Gartner Research, the word Internet of Things is “on the rise.” This is the stage before the mass media hype begins. I think this analysis is spot on. The vision of Internet of... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 