They are everywhere, the buzzwords of digital transformation: disruption, workplace 4.0, VUCA, AI, new work, digital twin, Internet of Things, cloud and cloud again. Industry 4.0, Digital Mindset and Industrial Revolution 3, 4 and 5. How good we have become at driving the same sow through the village over and over again. And, surprisingly, we…
I’ve spent most of my life in offices so far. If you like offices like I do, that was a great thing. Because I love the spaces and opportunities that offices offer – they have always been more of a creative workshop for me than anything else. Since the Covid measures, however, my colleagues’ relationship…
Meadowfoam, jay, field maple, rowan. Dormouse, viper’s bugloss, hollyhock, cuckoo flower. I can do them all. Why? Because I had to learn them at school. Why did I have to learn it? Yes, no one has been able to give me a conclusive answer to this question. And as a boy who was latently disenchanted…
If the 2010s were anything, then they were the years of “digital transformation”. Slowly at first, then ever faster, the certainty grew that digital technology and its application would change our proverbial daily lives. And that is exactly what has happened. Ten years later, it is difficult to find areas of life – let alone…
The world of work is currently undergoing an unprecedented change. More and more people want to work flexibly, manage their own time and decide for themselves how they contribute. This is a great opportunity for everyone in the business world – if you can break away from the framework conditions that have applied up to…
Over the last two years I have written several articles on the evolution of politics(Digital Politics – How digitalization will change politics & What if politics is the problem?) . There was a great response – probably also because of one or two controversial statements. In a society that is changing rapidly, the systems that…
Guest author Mattia Rüfenacht on an education system that is beginning to fall out of time. And what we need to do to move forward.
I always seem to hear people crying to me about how difficult it is to do the right thing in business today. This digitalization is a huge challenge, something really tricky. So much uncertainty. And anyway. You always want to shout at them: Wake up! Welcome to the here and now. In real life.
My kids have a game on at the moment, it goes like this: They say things like “I don’t like chocolate at all” or “We definitely don’t want to game today” or “When we’re in Spain, we never go in the pool”.
On July 10, 2018, I was able to give a presentation on the topic of digital culture at the digitalHUB Aachen on the occasion of the Digital Culture Day and continue the discussion in a small group with interested participants of the event. My insight from this is both exciting and frightening: corporate culture remains…