Author: Andreas
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On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog – Wikipedia
Published July 5th, 1993 by The New Yorker, 25 years later this is still relevant. Source: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog – Wikipedia
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Economists worry we aren’t prepared for the fallout from automation – The Verge
Aus der Kategorie “Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt der Zukunft sind wir alle überflüssig” heute: Ökonomen sind alle beunruhigt, dass wir so als Gesellschaft auf die kommende Automatisierung und Machtübernahme durch Maschinen nicht richtig vorbereitet sind. So a robot takes your job — what next? Source: Economists worry we aren’t prepared for the fallout from automation –…
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While Trump fights over aluminum and steel, Silicon Valley braces for a real trade war
Some fear a broader clash with China over the theft of technologies that are driving the future of the global economy. Trump introducing tariffs on steel and aluminium has dominated the economic and political news in the past days. While consequences on global economy are undoubtable, the steel industry has been in a long…
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Security Planner – Improve your online safety with tools for your needs.
The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security. released “Security Planner” early last week. Security Planner is a tool that will guide…
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Innovation in Organisation
Digitalisierung ist als Schlagwort allgegenwärtig. Trotzdem bedeutet es nichts anderes als grundlegende, marktwirtschaftliche Kunden- bzw. Marktorientierung. Lediglich die Geschwindigkeit, die notwendig ist, als Marktteilnehmer mit sich ändernden Marktsituationen auseinanderzusetzen stellt besonders große Organisationen vor eine Herausforderung. Organisation wird in der Regel mit dem Ziel gebildet, um ein Produkt oder einen Service einer breiteren Kunden-Gruppe anbieten…
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#GoogleCloudSummit 2017 in Munich
While Amazon Web Services reported another record quarter with $4,53B in October 2017, and Microsoft reporting 93% growth of their cloud business, Google is the third major player in the market for cloud services. At the same time, Google is not (yet) explicitly reporting numbers on their cloud offering. However, “all other” businesses, including Play…
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Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast
“Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast” is a quote that is often attributed to Peter F. Drucker, but was apparently coined by Ford’s Mark Fields. Whoever said it, both have plenty of business acumen to take some credit for the thought behind it. There statement has lot of truth in it, looking into corporate structures. With the…
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Corporate Open Source
One concept that is under active discussion for the past decade or so but constantly being misunderstood. Open Source is often taken as a label for software downloaded from the internet, packages free of charge, components under a particular license filed under “Creative”. Often enough it’s misused for lower quality software, which reality has proven…
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Change.
Yesterday, a software engineer, also new to the organization, roughly told me the following. The way the organisation plans projects is so different to what he is used to as a software engineer. Planning projects with a horizon of 12 or even 24 months is something he says he just cannot wrap his head around.…
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Mix and Mingle
The past weekend I traveled internationally to work with colleagues on another continent. I’m a lucky volunteering member of IEEE, and so I reached out to the community before I jumped on my flight. Turns out I have friends in this city, and so I spent a whole afternoon learning about the city and the…