years ago, the buzzword and digitalisation project “Industry .” first emerged with nothing less in mind than the intention of unleashing a fourth industrial revolution. Revolution as a term and metaphor is, of course, nonsense. Anyone with the slightest sense in the matter knows that digitalisation is rather like a marathon with many intermediate stages and does not come overnight to a company as a result of a management decree. Read more

Recently I was looking for a very particular music track. It is a song from the anime adaptation of “Ghost in the Shell” with Scarlett Johansson. More precisely: the official trailer music, which was not included in the sound score and therefore cannot be found in any of the mainstream music stores. Read more

Even measured by Microsoft’s own standards, the half-life of promises is astonishing. Since it has been said that Windows no longer follows the classic licensing and version scheme. Windows is the “last Windows”. Six years later, everything has changed. That roughly corresponds to the lifespan of a PC office desktop. Read more

There is an unwritten law in software development and IT operations. An anti-pattern for effective problem solving and complexity reduction. No one is crazy enough to adopt it. No customer on earth willing to pay for it. But they exist, the bright moments in the life cycle of a company, where this law can be applied. Read more