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Digital Transformation – Part Two: Educating Leaders

Imagine yourself working for a thriving small to medium-sized enterprise or a compact corporation operating in fiercely competitive markets. Now, picture yourself in a dynamic brainstorming workshop, joined by fifteen top-level managers. The workshop commences with a free-flowing brainstorming session,

Werner Heisenberg on a German Stamp

Digital Transformation (1): Getting Participation Right

Digital transformation is very similar to analogue transformation, that is to those analogue transformations that imply fundamental cultural changes because individuals must adapt their practices and communities must adapt their narratives. Therefore, we can learn from the great transformations in

Person setting a trust dial to “high”

The Trust Shifts

Everyone seems to agree that digital transformation has a trust problem, but few try to look behind the curtain: What is the nature of the problem? Trust is one of those concepts that can endlessly be discussed without any conclusions

Readers Column Key Image

How to Deploy Big Data and AI in Business

Quick wins, substantial wins, and big wins in big data and AI deployment follow different patterns of identification and implementation. Knowing these patterns makes it easier to perform a proper expectation management. Quick wins Quick wins with big data and/or

Two Key Learnings from the Health Crisis

Covid-19 is strongly entangled with digital transformation, both in positive and negative ways. On the one hand, Covid-19 has boosted online formats in business, healthcare, education and even in government. On the other hand, Covid-19 has highlighted the missing capabilities

A Look into the Future

This article covers present issues around the ICT professions. Paradigms of the past are compared to those emerging at present and the road forward is described as one that involves letting go of former and well supported beliefs and embracing

SI News Graphic

SI In Review: A Report

The Swiss Informatics Society (SI) faced several challenges in the past year. Some of them were mastered very successfully; while others remain a burden to the future. All though the Covid-19 crisis and the certification business provided SI with real

SI News Graphic

Every Crisis is a Chance

Dear Members We hope this letter finds you and your family well and  SI would also like to assure all of our members that SI has taken measures so that the association continues with its duties towards its members and is

Economy 2.0 Winter Image

Applying ICT knowledge to ICT business

Software engineering practices have changed the way we look at organisations. It has become widely accepted that agile practices improve the speed of change. It has been partly understood that teams are more important than processes, as they reduce the

SI News Graphic

Happy Digital Transformation in 2019!!

Alle reden mit, wenn es um die digitale Transformation geht! Nur von den IT-Ingenieuren, Wirtschaftsinformatikern und IT-Fachspezialisten hört man recht wenig. Manch eine/einer von uns muss gar den Tiefschlag erlebean gerade deshalb als unglaubwürdig abgetan zu werden, weil sie/er IT-Fachexpertise

Economy 2. 0 Fall Image

Très faciunt collegium: How digital business works

  Quoting from a private communication with a Swiss executive: “The executive boards already understand digitalization, but the boards of directors don’t.” This is indeed widely true in Switzerland. However, it is only part of the truth, because members of

SI News Graphic

Technology ≠ Digital Transformation

Viele leiten aus der Ungleichung “Technologie ≠ digitale Transformation” ab, dass wir weniger über Technologie reden sollten, weil es im Wesentlichen um Transformationsprozesse geht. Diese Schlussfolgerung scheint logisch zu sein – und trotzdem ist sie das Gegenteil der Wahrheit. Das

Economy 2.0 Summer Edition

Technology Replaces Organizations

Everyone has heard about platform economy and its branch, sharing economy. But what does it imply for an existing company? How do blockchains get into the picture? What should management boards care about? What is the challenge for legislators? Why

Economy 2.0 Summer Edition

Identity in Cyberspace

I have a colleague – and this not me myself – who has recently become victim of several identity thefts in a row. The goal of the thefts was to severely damage his life and to get into his footsteps,

Economy 2.0 Winter Image

Big Data ≧ Data +++++

Big Data ≧ Data + Questions + Algorithmic Knowledge + Commitment + Collaboration. Many big data activities fail to establish the necessary preconditions for success. In science the main challenges are the access to data and the collaboration across disciplines. For

Digital Single Market – Fiction or Vision?

ABSTRACT: The European Union heads for the establishment of a digital single market among its members. This article discusses whether Switzerland should ignore this or look for possibilities that will allow Swiss companies and Swiss citizens to participate in this

Digital Transformation Illustration

Digital Transformation – Part Two: Educating Leaders

Imagine yourself working for a thriving small to medium-sized enterprise or a compact corporation operating in fiercely competitive markets. Now, picture yourself in a dynamic brainstorming workshop, joined by fifteen top-level managers. The workshop commences with a free-flowing brainstorming session,

Werner Heisenberg on a German Stamp

Digital Transformation (1): Getting Participation Right

Digital transformation is very similar to analogue transformation, that is to those analogue transformations that imply fundamental cultural changes because individuals must adapt their practices and communities must adapt their narratives. Therefore, we can learn from the great transformations in

Person setting a trust dial to “high”

The Trust Shifts

Everyone seems to agree that digital transformation has a trust problem, but few try to look behind the curtain: What is the nature of the problem? Trust is one of those concepts that can endlessly be discussed without any conclusions

Readers Column Key Image

How to Deploy Big Data and AI in Business

Quick wins, substantial wins, and big wins in big data and AI deployment follow different patterns of identification and implementation. Knowing these patterns makes it easier to perform a proper expectation management. Quick wins Quick wins with big data and/or

Two Key Learnings from the Health Crisis

Covid-19 is strongly entangled with digital transformation, both in positive and negative ways. On the one hand, Covid-19 has boosted online formats in business, healthcare, education and even in government. On the other hand, Covid-19 has highlighted the missing capabilities

A Look into the Future

This article covers present issues around the ICT professions. Paradigms of the past are compared to those emerging at present and the road forward is described as one that involves letting go of former and well supported beliefs and embracing

SI News Graphic

SI In Review: A Report

The Swiss Informatics Society (SI) faced several challenges in the past year. Some of them were mastered very successfully; while others remain a burden to the future. All though the Covid-19 crisis and the certification business provided SI with real

SI News Graphic

Every Crisis is a Chance

Dear Members We hope this letter finds you and your family well and  SI would also like to assure all of our members that SI has taken measures so that the association continues with its duties towards its members and is

Economy 2.0 Winter Image

Applying ICT knowledge to ICT business

Software engineering practices have changed the way we look at organisations. It has become widely accepted that agile practices improve the speed of change. It has been partly understood that teams are more important than processes, as they reduce the

SI News Graphic

Happy Digital Transformation in 2019!!

Alle reden mit, wenn es um die digitale Transformation geht! Nur von den IT-Ingenieuren, Wirtschaftsinformatikern und IT-Fachspezialisten hört man recht wenig. Manch eine/einer von uns muss gar den Tiefschlag erlebean gerade deshalb als unglaubwürdig abgetan zu werden, weil sie/er IT-Fachexpertise

Economy 2. 0 Fall Image

Très faciunt collegium: How digital business works

  Quoting from a private communication with a Swiss executive: “The executive boards already understand digitalization, but the boards of directors don’t.” This is indeed widely true in Switzerland. However, it is only part of the truth, because members of

SI News Graphic

Technology ≠ Digital Transformation

Viele leiten aus der Ungleichung “Technologie ≠ digitale Transformation” ab, dass wir weniger über Technologie reden sollten, weil es im Wesentlichen um Transformationsprozesse geht. Diese Schlussfolgerung scheint logisch zu sein – und trotzdem ist sie das Gegenteil der Wahrheit. Das

Economy 2.0 Summer Edition

Technology Replaces Organizations

Everyone has heard about platform economy and its branch, sharing economy. But what does it imply for an existing company? How do blockchains get into the picture? What should management boards care about? What is the challenge for legislators? Why

Economy 2.0 Summer Edition

Identity in Cyberspace

I have a colleague – and this not me myself – who has recently become victim of several identity thefts in a row. The goal of the thefts was to severely damage his life and to get into his footsteps,

Economy 2.0 Winter Image

Big Data ≧ Data +++++

Big Data ≧ Data + Questions + Algorithmic Knowledge + Commitment + Collaboration. Many big data activities fail to establish the necessary preconditions for success. In science the main challenges are the access to data and the collaboration across disciplines. For

Digital Single Market – Fiction or Vision?

ABSTRACT: The European Union heads for the establishment of a digital single market among its members. This article discusses whether Switzerland should ignore this or look for possibilities that will allow Swiss companies and Swiss citizens to participate in this

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The Swiss Informatics Society SI is the association of Informatics professionals in Switzerland.

Die Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft SI ist der Verband der Informatikfachleute in der Schweiz.

La Société Suisse d’Informatique SI est l’association des professionnels de l’informatique en Suisse.

La Società Svizzera di Informatica SI è l’associazione dei professionisti dell’informatica in Svizzera.