Articles on AI, innovation, entrepreneurship and the future — from the stage and from the road.
Companies look for AI expertise in external experts – while their Digital Explorers are already sitting in the office. Why leadership's most important task today is recognizing them.
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Germany has 261 weekdays in 2026 — but only around 102 fall outside all 16 states' school holidays. Why the fragmented calendar is a hidden productivity problem.
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A humanoid robot loading an injection molding machine. The surprising insight: the robot hadn't adapted to the machine — the machine had started adapting to the robot.
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While Europe debates language models, China is embedding AI directly into everyday products. What AIoT means – and why the next revolution will be invisible.
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Employees are already using AI tools in their daily work — often without official approval. And perhaps that represents not only a risk, but also an overlooked opportunity for organizational learning.
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Leadership is changing right now – not because new tools exist, but because we need to engage with them differently. Why control alone isn't enough.
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I never learned to code. Yet I rebuilt my entire speaker website from scratch — alone, no designer, no developer, no classic programming. In three days.
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A few weeks ago, I found myself in a room with four soldiers discussing their projects. What struck me wasn't the content — it was the setting.
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A seemingly simple mission: fly to San Francisco, pick up seven Apple Vision Pros, and return to Germany in four days. What followed was anything but simple.
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Digital transformation is not a standalone project — it is an ongoing challenge. My closing keynote at the Production Systems Conference in Stuttgart.
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A workshop for German executives at Stanford University — inside Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem. What they found surprised them.
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Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT surpassed 100 million users in two months. At the Patente 2023 conference, it was clear: this is only the beginning.
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I've lived in Silicon Valley for over 10 years. People always ask what makes it special. Here are the four things no other ecosystem can truly replicate.
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I visited Nigeria and Kenya two years ago and found something I didn't expect — a continent with unstoppable entrepreneurial energy and a young population hungry for change.
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My answer: No. Failure is never an option. But falling — and getting back up — is everything. Here's why the framing matters.
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