Over the years, I have become accustomed to being vigilant in the potpourri of business and technology. Because in the “digital transformation”, I’ve learned that drama and mess are always lurking around the next corner (after you, mind you). So here are six signals you can use to recognize when trouble is imminent. Expressly without…
Most people develop a model of perception of their environment in their youth, which determines their self-image. And then stick with it forever. A playdoyer for more personal, mental mobility and active self-transformation. Artikel auf Social Media teilen:
Time and again, voices are heard proclaiming that fintech or fintech start-ups are a phenomenon that is now slowly but surely disappearing. That fintech is “at an end”. Most recently, for example, the head of HSBC Germany, Carola von Schmettow. I think that’s complete nonsense. Quite glorified nonsense that is dangerous for the established finance…
I am naive. A “do-gooder” daydreamer. A trivializer. My somewhat too quick and direct answer after a presentation to the question of how I would assess the new right-wing populism got me a lot of flak. It felt like I got more emails and messages afterwards than there were people in the room that evening….
While the irrational seems to be increasingly taking over in general social life, I have the feeling that in business, people want to focus as much as possible on data. While I highly value objective discussions and decisions, I experience a “data chic” in everyday business life that is usually nothing more than “interpretation free…
Since I’ve become increasingly visible in the start-up scene, I’ve often been asked when the right time is to start a company. The expectation is always that I’ll probably give an age indication along the lines of: at 24.5 years old. But it’s not that simple. Artikel auf Social Media teilen:
I can still remember the endless discussions I had with customers about open source 15 years ago. Open source was insecure, unfinished, un-everything. The IT departments, at that time mainly responsible for eBusiness projects, could not and did not really want to imagine that software whose code was public and usually completely freely available could…
In the recent history of Western society, there have always been extensive generational projects. If more and more social challenges are shifting to the digital sphere, it is only logical to think that these generational projects will also become digital. But they do not exist. Artikel auf Social Media teilen:
Almost all established car manufacturers now have electric cars on offer. However, the range still means that studies and concepts are presented, but only a small number of production-ready vehicles are on the roads. Interested parties have long been asking whether the established manufacturers are unwilling or unable to sell electric cars. Artikel auf Social…
I don’t know how many times I’ve been asked in recent years what a software company needs to do to move away from the project business and convert its business model to a product. Apparently, this is a topic that concerns many software companies. Artikel auf Social Media teilen: