About digital transformation, design, creativity and lifestyle in the Networked Society.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to visit Detroit. It is a fascinating city facing many challenges getting on its feet again, which makes it a really interesting place to visit if you want to study entrepreneurship and creativity. My reason for being there was to study the progress of a city... Continue Reading →
In my previous post I wrote about how connectivity is driving transformation in the transport business and how it’s now being built-in everything from cars and trucks to roads and parking spaces. The next phase in this transformation will be about cooperation between all these new connected transport assets. This cooperation will span across all transport means,... Continue Reading →
Today about 50 percent of the world’s population lives in cities. Most people need transport every day – to and from work, to pick the kids up at school, to go to an evening course or to meet some friends. People spend on average 2 hours and 20 minutes commuting every day in big cities like... Continue Reading →
Right now I am sitting at the co-working space, Impact Hub in downtown Seattle preparing for a workshop I will lead tomorrow. I could of course have stayed in my hotel room but I prefer to get a flavor of the local entrepreneurial scene and be a bit social as well (beyond the borders of my computer).... Continue Reading →
There will be many differences between the Industrial Society logic we are now leaving and the logic of the Networked Society that is now emerging. One of the differences is how we look at customers – whether they are consumers or clients and where we find them in the value chain. In the Industrial Era... Continue Reading →
An average day on the planet Earth comprises a lot of activities, and many of those are about to change. Some 7 billion people wake up every morning to start a new day and 450,000 of the newly awakened are more than 100 years old . These experienced individuals have an incredible knowledge of change... Continue Reading →
I wrote earlier about the game changers and how creative people no longer practice their hobbies in the private sphere but rather in networks and communities. The ‘maker culture’ is growing stronger and we see a growing ‘do-culture’ covering more and more areas in society. Easy access to information about almost anything is fundamentally changing our possibilities... 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 →
Lately, I have written a number of posts about creative individuals whose product, talent and service innovations are turning the traditional market logic upside down. Previously, homegrown innovators and artists never reached beyond their friends and family. Today, however, they are competing with corporation heavyweights and entertainment superstars by simply being recommended and pushed forward by social... Continue Reading →
In a post I published last week, I wrote about the game changers – the innovative individuals who are creating their own products and services, and placing them online. Consumers that embrace social innovation and entrepreneurship are now taking the lead in determining what is interesting and what is not when it comes to the latest goods... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 