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2021-01-28
Some are talking about it, some are making good progress, and some are at the forefront. Different forms of digitalisation are at the top of the agenda, especially now in connection with the pandemic.
2021-01-27
We are happy to welcome yet another PhD student to CTF and Karlstad Business School. Pritam Padhi is a new PhD student in Business Administration, and will study innovation management, service performance and service offerings within organizations. Pritam Padhi has a Master’s degree in Management and Economics of Innovation from Chalmers University of Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in India.
2021-01-26
Didem, welcome to Karlstad university and Geomedia. Tell us about your background. - Thank you. I research and write about emerging digital technologies and their societal implications, in particular, mobile and locative media, location technologies, mobilities, data, algorithms, machine learning, and memory.
2021-01-26
Didem, welcome to Karlstad university and Geomedia. Tell us about your background. - Thank you. I research and write about emerging digital technologies and their societal implications, in particular, mobile and locative media, location technologies, mobilities, data, algorithms, machine learning, and memory.
2021-01-20
Over the next two years, researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, will investigate how the Internet of Things, IoT, can be used in creating a better school environment and improving student health. The project will be carried out together with a number of actors and is based on a secondary school in Arvika Municipality, Sweden. The focus of the project is to find out how IoT can measure children’s and young people’s health at school.
2021-01-20
Over the next two years, researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, will investigate how the Internet of Things, IoT, can be used in creating a better school environment and improving student health. The project will be carried out together with a number of actors and is based on a secondary school in Arvika Municipality, Sweden. The focus of the project is to find out how IoT can measure children’s and young people’s health at school.
2021-01-19
Is it possible to be climate-smart, save money and feel better? Actually, yes! Here are a few tips on what to think about, and some steps that are worth trying out at the dawn of the new year. Climate-smart, do this mean that I have to give up everything that is fun? I enjoy my steak and spending my vacation in the sun, and the car is very handy to manage everyday logistics.
2021-01-19
Is it possible to be climate-smart, save money and feel better? Actually, yes! Here are a few tips on what to think about, and some steps that are worth trying out at the dawn of the new year. Climate-smart, do this mean that I have to give up everything that is fun? I enjoy my steak and spending my vacation in the sun, and the car is very handy to manage everyday logistics.
2021-01-18
Karlstad Business School has a good reputation when it comes to courses and research in agile project management. John Johansson has just completed a course with the steel company Uddeholm. - Uddeholm wanted to train a number of their research project managers in agile project management, says John Johansson, lecturer in project management at Karlstad Business School. Uddeholm is a world leader in the manufacturing and development of high-performance tool steel.
2021-01-18
Karlstad Business School has a good reputation when it comes to courses and research in agile project management. John Johansson has just completed a course with the steel company Uddeholm. - Uddeholm wanted to train a number of their research project managers in agile project management, says John Johansson, lecturer in project management at Karlstad Business School. Uddeholm is a world leader in the manufacturing and development of high-performance tool steel.
2021-01-18
Karlstad Business School has a good reputation when it comes to courses and research in agile project management. John Johansson has just completed a course with the steel company Uddeholm. - Uddeholm wanted to train a number of their research project managers in agile project management, says John Johansson, lecturer in project management at Karlstad Business School. Uddeholm is a world leader in the manufacturing and development of high-performance tool steel.
2021-01-15
... you are conducting research on idea management and innovation processes - how ideas are refined and further developed at an early stage in the innovation process. Why is this interesting? "Innovation is important for a sustainable societal development. Innovation begins with ideas that must be developed in order to be realized. That is why I chose to focus on ideas.
2021-01-15
... you are conducting research on idea management and innovation processes - how ideas are refined and further developed at an early stage in the innovation process. Why is this interesting? "Innovation is important for a sustainable societal development. Innovation begins with ideas that must be developed in order to be realized. That is why I chose to focus on ideas.
2021-01-13
The development of the food industry is of great importance for the planet and the survival of our civilization. Many people are unaware that our food consumption and our farming methods are some of the biggest threats to the environment worldwide.
2021-01-13
The development of the food industry is of great importance for the planet and the survival of our civilization. Many people are unaware that our food consumption and our farming methods are some of the biggest threats to the environment worldwide.
2021-01-11
Janna Dervisic is a new PhD student in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School. She is placed at CTF, Service Research Center, and part of the Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology, MIT. Her research will focus on innovation, services and digital technology. Janna Dervisic has a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Karlstad University, and has been working in the construction industry the past year.
2021-01-11
Janna Dervisic is a new PhD student in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School. She is placed at CTF, Service Research Center, and part of the Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology, MIT. Her research will focus on innovation, services and digital technology. Janna Dervisic has a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Karlstad University, and has been working in the construction industry the past year.
2020-12-17
The Christmas and New Year Holidays are approaching and we have a successful, but also challenging year behind us. Now, we look forward to a new eventful and hopefully less pandemic-affected year. We had a great start in 2020 with a Phd defence in business administration, we welcomed several new doctoral students and senior lecturers, and started several new research initiatives.