Recently, there needed to be more time to blog. However, today, I found one passage in the audiobook “The Creative Art” by Rick Rubin, so impressive that I want to share the following slightly edited snippet: Coöperation is a practice. Individual actors and perspectives come together to create a new vision. Each actor adds their own original point of view. Each can solo or layout, as best serves the work. Each time we coöperate,
According to BCG, Business model innovation is the art of enhancing advantage and value creation by making simultaneous—and mutually supportive—changes both to an organization’s value proposition to customers and its underlying operating model. Professors Girotra and Netessine, economists of Cornell and Wharton universities, have presented a framework for identifying opportunities and becoming systematic about the process of taking business model innovation to the level of a reliable and improvable discipline. Since business model
Having worked for more than 5 years on Blockchain solutions and products with my company Datarella, it makes me feel quite confident that either Blockchain is one of the most disrupting technologies of our times and that Datarella has done a tremendous job in developing that space. At the center of our work always have been practical benefits for clients and partners. With our latest project M‑ZONE, we are moving forward to
Ideas are cheap — most of them not worth a second thought. Approaching a short Easter break in times of Coronavirus — what could be better than brainstorming on some ideas lying around. That said, I invite you to collaborate and comment on this brain fodder:
There are lots of recommendations about when starting a business. Mostly, we are advised to start-up when times are good and we can afford to invest some time and money in building our own self-employed careers. Since I’ve discussed that several times over the last weeks, and, as so often, my view does not fit into the prevailing view, here are my 2 cents: The best time to start with something new
If the blind spot of today‘s economic, social, and environmental management can be reduced to one single word, it is consciousness. Highly specialized actors in different domains focus on optimizing their respective fields of interest, neglecting interdependencies, and not comprising reality as a whole but rather as many independent realities. Bridging the gap between different disciplines through cross-sectoral coöperation and collaboration is one of today’s most important scientific, political, economic, and
It is said that a brain‘s size positively correlates with its host‘s level of intelligence. The ability of human beings to use tools in very elaborate ways, to create art or to invent and tell stories to each other people, seems to prove certain supremacy over other creatures. As long as we won‘t have discovered supernatural life, humans regard themselves as being the pride of creation. Alas, we should start with
Yesterday over lunch, we discussed the libertarian notion of essentially getting rid of legacy complexity, such as legislation, regulation, etc. Some of the early proponents and creators of cryptocurrencies have expressed libertarian world views by trying to leave the monetary system of central banks and hand over the power of money creation to the people. Extreme views like this might seem promising, but I prefer crossing the chasm and building bridges
At school, I was never good at maths. At the university, I was interested in statistics, but only marginally. Honestly, I started to learn about the beauty of maths many years later, when working with more intelligent people than me who understand computers and data, in general. After I started working on Blockchain in 2014, I began to realize that some aspects of maths, such as game theory or category theory, play together with other fields
A change agent is a person from inside or outside the organization who helps an organization transform itself by focusing on such matters as organizational effectiveness, improvement, and development. This is, what the dictionary says. For me, change agents are everywhere, and always behind the next corner. Being aware of change agents — decide for the better. My behavior could be defined as my actions based on several given different preconditions,
From the early days of capitalism, when from 1633 the Hollandische Mercurius referred to capitalists as the owners of capital, on to David Ricardo who, in his Principles of Political Economy and Taxation is seen as the one who actually coined the term capitalism, until today: the structure and behavior of the enterprise as the main capitalist entity, hasn’t changed that much. With the advent of blockchain technology, the evolution of
If I want to drink something, I do it. If I want to go to bed, I do it. If I want to listen to music, I do it. If I want to go out for dinner, I do it. if I want to see my friends, I do it. If I want to play a backhand topspin, I do it. If I want to launch a new website, I do it. If I want to start a new company, I do it. If I want to avoid insolvency, I do