Philipp Depiereux December 24, 2017 etventure News etventure 2017: The Year of Digital Pioneers! etventure has already left a footprint in the digital landscape. Directly at the start of 2017, Harvard Business Manager wrote in recognition of etventure as the digital pioneers in its cover story “Consulting 4.0”. Since October, etventure is now officially part of the auditing...
Brigitte Galiger October 20, 2017 etventure News “We are catapulting etventure into a new orbit” Now it’s official: etventure has become part of the EY Group (Ernst & Young). Founder and CEO of etventure, Philipp Herrmann, explains here how the digital pioneer and Big Four firm fit together. Philipp, when you look back at the past seven years –...
Christian van Alphen August 17, 2017 etventure News Wüstenrot & Württembergische kicks off the next stage of digitization In digitization, a company ideally always starts in the protected space. Only in a digital unit of this kind, protected from a certain Luddite tendency which exists in every company, can new ways of working and new digital business models by tested and rolled...
Doris Bärtle August 03, 2017 etventure News News from the Far East: Projects in Asia, meetups in India and an office in Hong Kong If topic of digitization arises, Silicon Valley usually first comes to mind. The tech giants from the Valley – Facebook, Google, Tesla, etc. – often cause one to forget that innovation is also being taking place in other parts of the world. For example,...
Doris Bärtle August 03, 2017 etventure News, Viewpoints This is what the digital future looks like at VW – Johann Jungwirth at the etventure Fireside Chat Hardly any other German company had more negative press coverage in recent years than VW. Europe’s largest car maker is still struggling with the effects of the Diesel scandal. At the same time, the automotive titan still needs to face an entirely different challenge:...
Doris Bärtle June 30, 2017 etventure News Outstanding (team)work! SPIEGEL article on etventure and SMG group The hard work really paid off here. Eight journalists and authors are rightly very pleased with themselves and their journalistic work. Last week they were awarded the prestigious Herbert Quandt Media Award. SPIEGEL editor Ann-Kathrin Nezik received the Award for her article “Pain Points...
Doris Bärtle June 23, 2017 etventure News W&W Digital is one of Germany’s best innovation labs 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...
Susanna Nagy June 13, 2017 etventure News Successful startups – etventure shows students how to do it 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...
Susanna Nagy June 01, 2017 etventure News, Tools & Methods, Trends Dream job founder – author and entrepreneur Felix Plötz on the Generation Y success factor 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...
Susanna Nagy May 19, 2017 etventure News Taking the plunge on more business? Take the plunge on being more entrepreneurial! “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,...
Susanna Nagy May 02, 2017 etventure News “Don’t always talk about obstacles, just get on with it” 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...
Doris Bärtle April 06, 2017 etventure News, Trends Digital Lean Management with everlean 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...
Doris Bärtle March 27, 2017 etventure News Storage becomes digital – KAISER+KRAFT, Schacht One and etventure launch the Test Planner 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...
Doris Bärtle March 16, 2017 etventure News, Tools & Methods CSR report: from free choice to obligation 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...