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About Reinhard Riedl

Prof. Dr Reinhard Riedl is a lecturer at the Institute of Digital Technology Management at BFH Wirtschaft. He is involved in many organisations and is a member of the steering committee of TA-Swiss. He is also a board member of eJustice.ch, Praevenire - Verein zur Optimierung der solidarischen Gesundheitsversorgung (Austria) and All-acad.com, among others.

Entries by Reinhard Riedl

The Digital Sins – Part 4: The Missing Awareness of the General Nature of Digital Things

30. June 2026/in Column EN/by Reinhard Riedl

There are many causes of why innovative IT projects fail. Three reasons for where things frequently go wrong: a lack of understanding of complexity phenomena, the disregard for cultural aspects, and the naive, direct application of the experiences of analogue business life to the design of digital transformation. Part 3 dealt with the peculiarities of […]

Machine or Human – That Is the Question in Music

7. May 2026/in Event report EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Reinhard Riedl

A report on the symposium «AI as the Mozart of Our Time?» on 24 April 2026 in the Kleine Aula of the University of Zurich – organised by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the University of Zurich, and Bern University of Applied Sciences One AI event chases the next – and yet we know almost nothing […]

Digital sins – Part 2: Messiness in digital management

4. February 2026/in Column EN/by Reinhard Riedl

Part 1 of this series addressed on how we tend to focus too much on trivialities and fail to discuss how digital transformation can actually change the world for the better. Part 2 looks at the other side of the coin: when implementing digital transformation, we often ignore essential aspects because we consider them trivial. […]

The Digital Sins – Part 1: Focusing on Trivialities

30. December 2025/in Column EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Reinhard Riedl

IMD continually reports on Switzerland’s great successes in digitalisation, yet reality feels quite different. And the vote on eID confirmed doubts about the scientifically measured achievements. What is it that science fails to see? Yes! Yes! Yes! And: No! Yes, digitalisation is no cure-all – often it even creates new problems. Yes, it is blocked […]

Promoting Mental Health: The Potential of Social Robots in Schools

18. December 2025/in Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Reinhard Riedl

The mental health of students is a central component of successful learning and healthy social and emotional development. How can a social robot support this? What tasks and roles can it take on to assist teachers? A research team at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) is exploring these questions. Social robots are becoming increasingly […]

Digital democracy research that we really need

2. October 2025/in Column EN, Digital Government EN/by Reinhard Riedl

Liberal democracy is on the retreat worldwide. Only one small country is putting up resistance, Switzerland. For how much longer? Digitalisation is promoting the rise of autocracies, but can it also help the guardians of democracy? Recently, a former student, now responsible for digitalisation in her company, asked me the question: “Why do people accept […]