Quick summary of the IT event today

Just a small summary of the key messages from the IT event today. The opening speech was coming from Martin Schallbruch (https://www.esmt.org/martin-schallbruch) from the ESMT -  European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. Under the headline of "Who dominates who in the digitization?" he was making a difference between two key areas:

• Technological Drivers
  • Machine Learning
  • Virtualisation
  • Internet of Things (sensor, actuator, networking - realtime, autonomy, intelligence)
• Fluctuating basis
  • growing innovation speed
  • insufficient technical quality (e.g. software)
  • exponentially increasing complexity
  • cross-sectoral dependencies (e.g. Smart City)

Every company should be doing the following:

• concentrate on 3 key areas --> Workplace, Security and Hybrid IT (a combination of internal and external IT services) 
• have an understanding of their own digital business model
• have their digital sovereignty under contol (dependencies, security architecture, demand management)

Close to the end of the day the matrix42 (https://www.matrix42.com/en/) CEO Oliver Bendig gave a entertaining presentation about digital transformation. Some key statements below:

• The workplace is a mobile service that can change in real time
• You have to understand your customer
• Unified Endpoint Management and Unified Workspace Management
• A 360 degree view on the workplace is required to come from silos to a connected work environment
• The browser will be the new operating system
• From Science Fiction to Science Fact (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystdF6jN7hc&t=) 
• Alexa, Cortana and Siri will even enter the workplace
• A workspace chat bot (based on Skype for Business) is currently in beta testing 

 With respect to my yesterday post one more article:

• How To Make Mindfulness A Working Advantage (And Not Just Cuddly Nonsense)  https://www.fastcompany.com/40471927/how-to-turn-mindfulness-into-a-working-advantage-and-not-just-cuddly-nonsense?utm_source=Heleo+Newsletters&utm_campaign=22fb84f871-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_85eb2ca8d0-22fb84f871-216872909