Usually you do not return to lecture halls a lot after finishing your university degree, but sometimes it can be very worthwhile. Yesterday I attended an open lecture by Klaus Illigmann, who is responsible for strategic city development at the city of Munich and who presented his current take on smart cities and the digitization … Continue reading Smart & the City – Munich’s city development
Last week I traveled to Seoul to present the last paper of my dissertation at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The title of my research paper is "Disentangling the Fuzzy Front End of Digital Transformation" and me an my co-author Andrea Back analyzed typical activities in the fuzzy front end of digital transformation. … Continue reading “Disentangling the Fuzzy Front End of Digital Transformation” at ICIS 2017
Michael Lorenz, den ich noch aus meiner Studienzeit an der Universität Hildesheim kenne, hat mich in seinen Podcast "Miteinander Reden" eingeladen. Sein Herzensthema ist Kommunikation und ihn interessierte besonders, wie digitale Technologien die Kommunikation zwischen Menschen, besonders auf beruflicher Ebene verändert. Ich durfte im Interview ein wenig von den Ergebnissen unserer Digital Maturity & Transformation … Continue reading Im Interview zu Digitaler Transformation, Kollaboration und Erfolgsfaktoren im “Miteinander Reden” Podcast
With one client I recently collaborated on a branding workshop for a start-up product. Branding is not really part of my usual work as UX designer but has an immense impact on the strategy, communication, and design work resulting from it. Therefore, I thought I'd compile some helpful resources, tools, and exercises for branding sessions. … Continue reading Resources for a branding workshop
Mornings are actually a great time to get some inspiration. That's why I love the idea of Creative Mornings and I totally signed up for the IXDS Pre-Work Talks. Last Thursday the topic was "Human-Robot Relations" and since I love everything HCI-related but did not have the chance to work on a machine-learning or AI … Continue reading Designing User Experiences for Artificial Intelligence | IXDS Pre-Work Talk Munich
Last weekend I participated in the Rails Girls event at ImpactHub Zurich. Rails Girls is a global movement of Ruby on Rails workshops for women. The goal of the workshop series is to teach more women how code can be used in their everyday lives and ultimately get more women into professional coding. In Zurich, a … Continue reading Coding = Superhero Powers! My Weekend at Rails Girls Zurich
One of the directors I used to worked with often compared the leadership system in the organization to a group of lions. Senior lions are responsible to teach the junior lions everything they need to know. Junior lions are given certain tasks they can contribute. Senior lions lead by demonstration. Junior lions watch and learn. … Continue reading Don’t be a lion! Some thoughts on leadership styles
As a researcher, I have been in a pretty comfortable situation so far. My main driver is my curiosity and over the past three years I have been observing how managers more or less successfully initiated the digital transformation of their business models, strategy, and organizations. One aspect that I often heard and repeated is … Continue reading Monday thoughts: Transformation is tough
Last week I submitted my thesis. This is why it has been a little quiet recently on this blog. Funny, how such a long project that I have been working on for the past 3.5 years has suddenly come to an end. For the last years I thought that the moment when I walk into … Continue reading And then this happened…
For the third year in a row, I have lead our study on digital maturity & transformation. This study is based on our digital maturity model and this year we received even more responses: In total, 662 people participated in our online-survey. I am really happy with the finished results and that the report is … Continue reading Reflection on digital maturity & transformation
Sabine Berghaus 