In my very first blog article in December 2019, I already wrote about the strategic inflection point. Since then, I have worked with many mostly smaller to mid-sized IT companies and several of them have been exactly at this strategic inflection point. Some for the first time, some for the […]
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Since the beginning of 2020, one serious crisis has followed another. In many areas, we had to and still have to separate from old habits. As things look like in September 2022, there are still some more serious changes ahead of us. These will affect everyone: the whole country, companies
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In February 2020 I wrote a blog entitled “Innovation in Germany” in which I expressed my concerns and also criticism about how Germany is falling further behind in terms of innovation and new technologies. The real technological innovations continue to come mostly from Silicon Valley or for example from countries
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Recently the news hit home that Pat Gelsinger, former CEO of VMware, will become CEO of Intel, the company he worked for already between 1979 and 2009. He himself even called it “coming home to Intel”. This reminded me that I left Intel nearly exactly 15 years ago after having
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In the last weeks I very often heard the following statement: “It will never be the same again”. Most of the time, I noticed a lot of melancholy, doubt and even sadness in the voice and the face of the person rather than confidence or any spirit of optimism. I
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Germany is still often referred to as the “land of poets and thinkers”. The fact that, according to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, there are over seven million so-called functional illiterates in this country somehow doesn’t really fit the picture. But the Germans themselves still prefer to call
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Between 1990 and 1998 during my employment at Intel Corporation I had the chance to work under Andy Grove as CEO. Andy was certainly not an easy character and very demanding too. But aren’t all successful company leaders, who have continuously moved their companies forward, like this? One of Andy’s
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