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The Impact of Technology

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EIT Digital

The Impact of Technology

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In this course you will learn how to use theories and methods to make predictions of the potential impact of new technology – in general, as well as for a specific application. This will prepare you for the changes that we are facing in society, and also help you take advantage of transformations which are driven by technology. The course takes a broad approach, including social and economic factors. You will study historical examples and learn to recognize recurring patterns and cycles. The curriculum includes general innovation theories, foresight methodology, value chain disruption and strategy. The general process is as follows. First you to learn how to draw a map of the potential future business landscape. After that, you get to identify interesting future business roles in emerging value networks. Finally, we find a path from where we are today to a desired end state. You will analyze how an industry or market may change if the technology which is available today is fully implemented in a 10 to 20 year perspective. In addition, you will identify barriers to such a development and make estimates regarding the timing. The course includes a number of assignments to facilitate your learning – some of them compulsory. The largest assignment is about the introduction of self-driving cars (hence the course icon; source and credit to Google). We all know that the future can’t be fully predicted in detail. However, the methods presented in this course will help you identify potential consequences. In this way, you will get a toolbox for decision making in the areas of technology, investments, career path, research & development or portfolio management.

从本节课中

Welcome to The Impact of Technology

Welcome to the course! We start with a short introduction module where you will get a general introduction, a description of the overall process we will follow, a historical example and an assignment. You will after this module have a good general overview of the course and knowledge about what you will learn and what to expect.

Course introduction5:33

与讲师见面

Martin Vendel
Dr
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Industrial Economics and Management

[MUSIC]

Welcome to the course, The Impact of Technology.

Really happy to see you here today, and welcome to the first video of the course.

Here we see the rocket.

This is a locomotive developed by Stevenson in 1829.

And this is one good example of a technology that

had a huge impact on the development of our society, the steam engine.

And in this particular case this locomotive

is the first one that was used in public transport.

But this is not a course about old trains but we will still bring you on a journey.

We'll bring you on a journey into the future looking at what the future may look

like if we fully utilize the potential of the technology we already have today.

Myself, I've been many working with telecoms and IT and televisions,

with marketing strategy, product management in my career.

And in my different roles, I've had to try to predict the future.

So I've used a lot of the kind of foresighting techniques and

some of those that we will use in this course as well.

So why are you looking at this?

Why are you signing up for this course?

Well, I can just guess,

but it may be so that you have some really important questions for you.

That may be what is the potential value of the technology I work with?

Or it may be a very specific question like how will Internet of Things

influence the travel industry?

Or how will the mining industry handle the digital transformation?

You may be an investor or an engineer or researcher, or

maybe working with business development or strategy.

But those questions, they are not easy to answer.

And the reason is that we only have data about the past, but

we would like to know what will happen in the future.

To quote Clayton Christensen, the only way you can look into the future,

since there is no data, is to have a very good theory or a model.

And that is exactly what we will do in this course.

We will do that theory or model for the future.

How do we do that?

Well, this is not a course in science fiction.

We will not do some predictions that are kind of

rather fluffy and very far into the future and

we will not write a book like this one by Jules Verne.

What we're going to do is to look In a time frame of kind of 10 to

20 years into the future, and look what that may look like

if we just utilize the technology that already exists.

So we will try to draw a map of the future.

What will the future, what can the future look like if we take all these things

into account.

Once we have that map we will see what may be interesting destinations on that map.

Destinations in this sense is another word for business roles in a value network.

We will also look at and compare those destinations, or

business roles, and look at which ones may be most interesting for you.

That, of course, depends on your situation and your capabilities.

Once we have drawn the map, seen the destinations and

find one that may be interesting, we can also try to figure out how do we

move from where we are today to that desired destination in the future.

The way we have structured this course is in six main modules and

there are number of quizzes.

Also we have quite a few assignments throughout the course, small ones and

large ones,

because you need to practice how to do this and we also have a final exam.

We estimate that you need about five hours a week to do this,

to do all the required assignments and quizzes and so on.

But as you know, just taking this course will not make you into an expert.

You need of course also to practice this and

gain some experience within this field to master this topic.

In the following videos we will go through the overall process,

we will look at also one historical example and by the end of this

introduction, you yourself will do an assignment where you analyze

a historical development, a specific technology in specific market.

So once again, welcome to this course on this exciting topic.

And I'm sure you will find this course really valuable, thank you.

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