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  • Strategic Transformation in Southeast Asian Wealth Management: The Case for Open Architecture

    Southeast Asia’s wealth pool is expanding at around 9% annually, creating strong momentum for regional Wealth Management and Private Banking players. Yet scale alone is no longer a competitive advantage. Many institutions remain constrained by legacy segmentation, product silos, and internally driven “One Bank” models, limiting Strategic Transformation and Digital Transformation efforts. Banks adopting genuine Open Architecture – enabling relationship managers to select best-in-class solutions regardless of origin – are gaining relevance with increasingly sophisticated clients. The evidence is clear: client segments are converging, balance-sheet integration does not automatically create client value, and technology partnerships only succeed when the end-to-end client journey takes precedence over internal politics and Corporate Culture barriers. Institutions pulling ahead combine clear positioning, credible WealthTech partnerships, and the willingness to redesign operating models. Growth is real; execution remains the differentiator.

    Banking & Financial ServicesUrs Bolt15 minutes

  • The AI Promise Problem

    The “AI promise problem”: how overhyped AI and robotic solutions blur the line between vision and reality - and why trust is the new currency in AI.

    AI & Machine LearningBritta Daffner5 minutes

  • NIS2 explained in detail for small and medium-sized enterprises

    The NIS2 Directive will affect around 29,500 companies in Germany from 2026, including many SMEs. In future, management will bear personal responsibility for information security, risk management, and business continuity. Fines can be up to €10 million or 2 percent of turnover. Core obligations include the introduction of an ISMS (e.g., ISO 27001 or VdS 10000), the systematic anchoring of risk management and business continuity, and compliance with incident reporting requirements (24 hours, 72 hours, 1 month). In addition, companies must take into account overlaps with the GDPR, the Supply Chain Act, and the Cyber Resilience Act. Conclusion: NIS2 is not purely an IT issue, but a matter for top management. Acting early strengthens security, resilience, and trust in the supply chain.

    IT-Security & Cyber SecurityChristopher Schroer13 minutes

  • AI in marketing requires new evaluation standards

    This article argues for a paradigm shift in the use of AI in marketing: Efficiency should not be the primary goal of AI deployment. Instead, it should be quality. The quality of the customer journey. The quality of the customer experience. The quality of the product. The quality of the service. When it comes to brand experiences, the starting point should always be “strategy first” or “brand strategy first,” not “AI first.”

    MarketingKai Bösterling16 minutes

  • Compulsory insurance for natural disasters – does Germany need a new protection concept against natural hazards?

    The flood disaster in the Ahr Valley in 2021 made it clear that Germany is inadequately prepared for extreme weather events. While the risk posed by climate change is increasing, only around 50 percent of German homeowners have natural disaster insurance—compared to 98 percent in France. Is compulsory insurance based on the French model the right way forward for Germany, or are there more convincing alternatives?

    InsuranceMaterna Group6 minutes

  • Transparency is the new currency for brand trust

    David Ogilvy coined the following statement: “Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.” Meaning: Overpromising cannot make up for underdelivering. Savvy! Smart man. But today, this beautiful statement no longer seems to apply. We are realizing that brands want to improve their products with all their might through automation and AI, even with deep fakes and so-called greenwashing and bluewashing. Today, we can learn more about products and companies than ever before. We can research online. We can read other people's product experiences in communities or on review platforms. But at the same time, there has never been so much misinformation. This unsettles consumers. We are losing trust. We have obviously already lost trust in politics. Trust in brands is also suffering greatly at the moment. This article describes the new currency in marketing: transparency. And how brands can successfully regain the trust and loyalty of their customers.

    MarketingKai Bösterling12 minutes

  • Independence from the cloud, M365 and co. - how to take the right steps now

    Dissolved governments, presidential elections, military conflicts. Somehow the world seems to be falling apart at the seams - even though it was already complicated five years ago, when the coronavirus crisis and the abolition of the EU-US Privacy Shield had just turned the world upside down. Almost everyone suddenly had to be able to work flexibly and remotely, while the legal basis for using US cloud providers and solutions collapsed before our eyes. What did the professionals do right - and what can we all learn for our own resilience?

    CloudPhilipp Schneidenbach13 minutes