Apparently it’s good form these days for European managers and/or politicians to travel to Silicon Valley to be “inspired”. When you get back, you say things like “I’ve just come back from a trip to Silicon Valley and it’s [insert any superlative here] impressive…”. We’ve known for a long time that Silicon Valley is “cool”….
Five years ago, when I had discussions with the management of companies with indirect sales channels, it was clear that “their” retailers were extremely important and a key pillar of their business strategy. Things are different today. It is still superficially true that retailers are important, but in reality nobody believes this anymore. That’s a…
The day before yesterday, DIE ZEIT interviewed Timotheus Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, on technological changes and the relationship to work. His statement on the unconditional basic income in particular provoked numerous reactions in comments and on Twitter. Since my article on the work of the future, I know that the subject of an unconditional…
Last week I was able to spend an interesting day at hub15. On a side stage, there was a panel entitled “How do we get more European Unicorns?”, which had a lot to say about the state of the European start-up scene. An assessment.
My article entitled “Disruption in every sector: When developers become superfluous” in T3N has triggered numerous comments and responses. And never before have I received so many direct e-mail responses to an article. Obviously many people felt addressed and obviously the topic is a red rag. But I am no stranger to these reactions. On…
2015 was something of a wake-up call in terms of digital transformation. Even for those who usually like to sleep longer. The conventional wisdom is that we are already in the middle of this digital transformation. But I believe we are only at the beginning.
Customer meeting in Basel with the management of an international company with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. We discuss various digital initiatives and tactics and come to the point where we discuss ball park budgets for the planned initiatives. What does that cost? We quote single-digit millions. A certain disillusionment sets in with the customer….
I read your article from this week with great interest. Your core message is that people praise new, supposedly environmentally friendly technologies to the skies and don’t look very closely at whether they are really environmentally friendly. And that any criticism of such concepts is blindly beaten to death. You compared Tesla to plastic bags…
When I had lunch with Michael à Porta a few months ago, he said the great sentence “It’s good to see how digital is increasingly penetrating the offline sector”. Michael and his team develop solutions for interactive shop windows and other touchpoint technology, among other things. We talked about how digital technology is slowly but…
Not a week goes by without me reading that digitalization is destroying jobs. What to do with all the people? Technology is making work obsolete and machines are taking over. That’s where things sometimes go haywire. Because the truth is that technology is not destroying human work at all. On the contrary. But it is…