In this interview, Werner Dorfmeister, a Vice President at DasLab and a former Global Sales Director at Karl Storz, reports on the current developments of digital technologies in the field of medical instruments and services. It is a sector where digitalization affects all processes within...

Digitalization as well as digital transformation, are phrases which have received considerable attention in the broad public recently. Nevertheless, in the business world digitalization has begun in the 1960s already. But only with the advent of the World Wide Web also SME could benefit from...

The developments of the digital economy will have an elementary impact on economic systems and how economic values will be created. The paper therefore discusses four basic characteristics of the digital economy. Understanding the emerging developments in this context form the foundation of the...

Without any doubt there is a sustainable transformation of our value creation systems towards a digital economy going on. In a digital economy value creation is based on digitalization of information and related information and communication infrastructures. Since more than three decades we...

he developments of the Digital Economy will have a fundamental impact on the structures and processes of economic systems. Within this new economy the importance of the creation and maintenance of a relationship between a customer and a supplier is increasing, but the way to handle this...

Successful changes in strategy, organisations, and processes require alteration in the thought and behaviour patterns of employees and management. Despite this realisation, many change projects fail due to a lack of acceptance on the part of the affected stakeholders, which the authors believe...