In times of dynamic change, when everybody is talking about being or becoming agile, it got me thinking about the difference between agility and elasticity: Agility for many organizations means reacting swiftly to a changing environment. This is jumping from one task to the next, change requirements, being able to change scope and adapt to … Continue reading Agility vs. elasticity in organizations
-Randy Pausch's last lecture is a couple of years old, but never gets old. I re-watched it this week - in the course of the "excellent teaching on film" movie series - and I think it is one of the most inspiring things you can find on youtube. If you haven't seen it (or haven't … Continue reading Monday inspiration: Achieving your childhood dreams (Randy Pausch)
At the St.Gallen Open Air a couple of weeks ago I witnessed a funnily odd scene: Two girls were jumping through the mud, while another girl was taking their picture. However, after ten seconds they stopped dancing, ran up to their friend, checked the picture taken, and then returned to their spot and started dancing again. … Continue reading Memory in a digital age
After the Mobile Business Forum on June 1 was over, I started to calm down a bit. June and July are traditionally the calmest months, when I can take things a bit easier and start to re-focus on my thesis. I have been to Stuttgart to visit some friends, participated in the Zurich fencing marathon, … Continue reading One second everyday – June 2016
Last week I was at the Bled eConference in Slovenia for the second time and presented my latest research paper there. The conference in Bled is fantastic for multiple reasons - interesting people, a friendly atmosphere, stunning location and great food. Again, we were pretty lucky with the weather, so it could not have been better. My … Continue reading My paper at eBled 2016 – Fuzzy Front-End of Digital Transformation
Yesterday I participated in the yearly fencing marathon tournament at the academic fencing club in Zurich. The competition is mainly directed towards leisure fencers, even tough there are some pretty successful fencers there, most of the participants do not regularly take part in competitions. I was there for the past three years. When I participated … Continue reading On winning
May was filled with preparations for our Mobile Business Forum on 1 June and I was finishing a conference paper on the results our digital maturity survey. Luckily the beginning of May was sunny and we could bike and hang at the 3 Weieren and we had my brother and his girlfriend over for a … Continue reading Days like these – May 2016
Every year in early summer the chair of Prof. Dr. Andrea Back is organizing the St.Gallen Mobile Business Forum. For me it is the third Forum that I am involved in and every year it is a quite challenging task to compile an interesting and inspiring program. This year we put our focus on the … Continue reading What I look forward to at #mbforum16
When I was little, I was playing magician for a while, learning how to draw the attention to one thing which gives you the opportunity to perform a trick on another. I remember being pretty proud about a trick, where I "smashed" a glass through a table without breaking it. That's why I loved this … Continue reading Monday inspiration: What to learn from magicians
I have to admit - every day I am living in St.Gallen I love it more and more. Over the past two and a half years it has become my home. I noticed that when I travel and people ask me where I am from, my immediate answer is: "from Switzerland". Even though, Munich is … Continue reading 100heart.ch
Sabine Berghaus 