A few years ago, I had the task of carrying out an evaluation of various ERP systems with a focus on the financial sector. It was not the first time I had done this. I had quickly put together a good list of requirements, talked to various people who were much more deeply involved in…
Two years ago, I wrote an article with the lurid title “Dear Banks, it’s so over”. In it, I predicted that it would be very difficult for traditional retail banks in the future. This has come true so far, but what I secretly expected was that there would be a landslide change. This has not…
The week before last, Léa Miggiano, co-founder of the start-up Carvolution, visited me at Parashift. The result was a conversation about cars on subscription, electric vehicles and start-ups.
What began as “something as a service” in the software sector is now increasingly finding its way into areas in which we could not have imagined using products on a subscription basis just a few years ago. There are many indications that we are at the beginning of a paradigm shift in the consumption model.
The debate surrounding electric cars is heating up. A veritable front is building up against the new technology. Hundreds of arguments and opinions are being put forward as to why electric cars should be rejected. I see this as an extremely good sign for electromobility: the topic is reaching more and more people, so the…
For a few years now, more and more people have been focusing on “New Work”. What the future of work will look like, what motivation people have to choose a job and how much they enjoy doing it has become a central point in the debate, to say the least. What we have seen at…
Don’t worry, this won’t be a typical “the real Christmas” article. Not a call for more modesty or more inner peace. Nor a call for more charity. No. Even though I’m not a fan of Christmas, I advise everyone to celebrate as much as they can. And for heaven’s sake: Store properly.
In November 2018, I had the opportunity to give a presentation on digitalization in mobility at the “ioki Mobility Network Symposium” in Berlin. It was a great event that brought many different stakeholders from the mobility industry together and engaged them in discussion. As one of the few people from outside the industry, I was…
The crypto hype is over. Nobody flies to the moon anymore. The “Lambos” are parked in front of the deep red crypto depots. And the very stupid are heavily in debt. And as is so often the case, many people are repeating the same mistake they made a year ago. Simply in the opposite direction.
I’m slowly but surely losing my enthusiasm for the transformation of the automotive industry. Initially, I thought we would see an almost classic technology-driven transformation from combustion to electric and then, more or less simultaneously, from owner-operated, self-driven to autonomous vehicles that can be rented on an hourly basis. Far from it. A commentary.