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• Sourcing readiness: revival of a millennium theme

  It is still all about the best solution, the best provider and sharply calculated prices. Where 15 years ago standardization projects decided on future viability and cost-based benchmarking decided on contract extensions, today solution providers and interested customers from midsize companies, corporations and small businesses are driving each other forward through regulatory complexity. How were sourcing projects successful in 2005, what has become obsolete, what is still valid today and what needs to be done now?

  Procurement•Philipp Schneidenbach•7 Apr 2022•8 minutes

  

• What is Industry 4.0? - Basics explained

  The next industrial revolution is also called Industry 4.0. It is often mentioned in articles and news and discussed in many companies. What it actually means and which areas it covers, we explain to you here in this article.

  Markets & Industry•Benjamin Talin•6 Apr 2022•4 minutes

  

• Drive Digitization - Social Tools in Business and Marketing

  Social tools in the company? You don't have to replace the Internet, you can also start in individual areas. Networks and tools for marketing are just as much a part of this as project management tools that help with daily work.

  Digital Marketing•Markus Ketterer•6 Apr 2022•4 minutes

  

• EU taxonomy - set of rules for sustainable classification and the relevance for the health and social economy

  As part of the Green Deal, a central building block was presented in 2020: the EU Taxonomy Regulation. Since the beginning of 2022, the "Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth" has taken effect and also has implications for the health and social economy.

  Environment & Social Affairs•Evangelische Bank eG•30 Mar 2022•7 minutes

  

• Profession or vocation to the New Work Way

  "If you quit today, we'll pay you for the time you worked and offer you a $1,000 bonus." Unusual approaches like these have been shaping the new culture in our understanding of New Work, and not just since today.

  Culture•Heike Bauer•28 Mar 2022•7 minutes

  

• Working World 4.0 in the New Work Context - Part 1: Workplace or Places

  In a time in which we are moving at an almost absurd speed due to the technical possibilities, 4 generations with different prerequisites and needs are coming together. For the companies, it is now time to finally "get going" and initiate a rethink, because the dusty "top-down" structures, insofar as they still function at all, will no longer be effective in the long term in terms of the economy and the labor market.

  Organization•Heike Bauer•28 Mar 2022•6 minutes

  

• Design systems: Making design and code reusable, scalable and consistent

  Design systems enable teams to design and develop better digital products faster. Why? Because reusing well-defined styles applied to components and patterns provides scalability and consistency. However, the main value of a design system is in supporting close teamwork and spreading the company's values and principles across the team, which also translates into clear benefits for the user.

  User Experience Design•Keen Design•18 Mar 2022•5 minutes

  

• Digitization project in danger of failing? - 5 simple steps for a turnaround

  Digitization projects have a tremendous complexity that wants to be managed. No technology or data models can manage this complexity as well as people themselves. But for this to happen, people have to function well in a team. In this article, you will learn what usually causes digitization projects to fail, how you can recognize failure early on, and how you can take five simple steps to ensure that you don't have to abandon your project.

  Project Managment•Francesco Fusaro•11 Mar 2022•8 minutes

  

• Unconditional basic income - An example with blockchain

  Digitalization and modern technologies can make an unconditional basic income possible. This is explained here using an example that also shows companies how to break new ground with digitization and implement new models convincingly and profitably.

  Advanced•Priska Burkard•8 Mar 2022•4 minutes

  

• Era of great transformation - We are only at the beginning

  This is the first article in a series of articles dealing with the topic of the great transformation we are at the beginning of. The subject is complex, and the tasks to be solved are large and challenging. Not only because we are facing multiple changes that affect all areas of our lives. But also because there are so many of them (accumulation), which are coming at us at the same time, which have to be mastered under time pressure, and which are also closely related to one another (complexity). Digital transformation can support us in many ways in coping with the tasks ahead, but it is ultimately only one part of a larger and more comprehensive set of issues. As a first step, this article aims to show why this is the case and thus lay the foundation for further articles that propose concrete ways and approaches on how we can best prepare ourselves for the future that is not yet clearly defined. The path will ultimately be to not only anticipate our future as best we can, but also to actively help shape it based on this - as individuals, as companies and as a society.

  Culture•Andreas R. Belvedere•7 Mar 2022•12 minutes

  

• Strengthening trust with optimized information flow

  Information flows are like blood in the veins: it must flow and adhere to the most important messengers. Visualize with a map where you can improve your flows and implement these optimized nodes immediately.

  Leadership & Management•Dr.Ursula Meyerhofer Fahlbusch•3 Mar 2022•3 minutes

  

• 10 of the trendiest jobs 2022

  There is a palpable desire for meaningful jobs that will still exist, emerge, develop and be in demand in the working world of the future. Many conversations and interviews with (trend) scouts from the world of work and with futurologists have resulted in this list of ten trend jobs of the immediate future, which is of course not exhaustive:

  Trends•Joël Ch. Wuethrich•1 Mar 2022•6 minutes