For politicians, companies and town planners who are actively involved in transforming their own cities, it is essential to engage the people who actually live (or want to live) in their city. Just being a smart city is not sufficient to achieve sustainable improvements...
More and more large companies are establishing digilabs, innovation hubs or accelerators. The aim is to develop new future-oriented digital ideas and business models and to breathe more entrepreneurship and modernity into the company as a whole. But what are these digital labs actually...
In the morning, on the way to uni, quickly check Facebook and other social media. That’s part of everyday life for the majority of students. As is well known, the Facebook success story also began right there – at university. Nowadays, the social media...
Eric Migicovsky’s aim was to earn 10,000 dollars within 37 days. Instead, he earned 10,266,845 dollars – in the same time period. He had already amassed the ten thousand after two hours. Migicovsky, now aged 30, discovered the smartwatch long before Apple and the...
“Missing the target” – that’s Handelsblatt’s assessment of the speeches of the prominent politicians at the “Taking the plunge on more business” conference, which was run by entrepreneur associations DIE FAMILIENUNTERNEHMER and DIE JUNGEN UNTERNEHMER last week in Berlin. Alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel,...
Minister Ilse Aigner took to the stage at BMW Welt to great effect, namely in a self-driving car, to open the Bavarian Digital Congress 2017 in Munich. Many top representatives of the party from politics, business and academia joined the Economics Minister for Bavaria at...
everlean is the most recent startup in the etventure portfolio and offers a digital solution to support lean management activities. The idea behind it is that employees themselves are the best experts in their processes, as they deal with them on a day-to-day basis and...
For almost one year, etventure, together with the Haniel Group companies, has been developing new, digital business models in digital entity Schacht One, which was established especially for this purpose. Now a new product has been launched by KAISER+KRAFT ‒ the Test Planner, or in German...
In the last few weeks, the German Parliament adopted the CSR Directive Implementation Act. As a result, from the next financial year, around 550 German companies are obliged to publish a sustainability report. The problem is that many companies are not yet sufficiently prepared...
Last year, a study by etventure investigated how large German companies are getting to grips with the digital transformation. One year later, we now have the second status update on digitization, carried out jointly with GfK Nuremberg and YouGov USA. In addition to re-interviewing...
As of 2017, managers are past the question of whether digital transformation plays an important or a vital role in core business. The majority of top-level managers have already recognized the significance of digital transformation. Now the predominant questions are: “How do I prepare...
The days of impressing corporate clients with elaborate strategy decks are over. To remain relevant, consultants need to rethink their approach. In the current issue of Harvard Business Manager, Ingmar Höhmann and Michael Leitl describe their vision of how consulting might look like in the...
etventure founder and CEO Philipp Herrmann traveled to Silicon Valley last week at the invitation of Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer and – in addition to participating in an event at Stanford University – used the time to meet up with some old friends from...