Entries by Reinhard Riedl

Business Transformation in the Covid 19 Crisis (2): How to Change

Companies can use the health crisis to optimise their business models. But they can also develop new business models that address newly emerging needs or benefit from the increased acceptance of online solutions Part 1 outlined why the economy will change significantly as a result of the health crisis. There is a high degree of […]

Corporate transformation in the Covid 19 crisis (1): What happens when you don’t change

The problem with digital transformation is transformation. The current health crisis brings this home to us in a frighteningly unmistakable way. Many organisations have quickly managed the short-term transformation of the essentials, but are making no progress in adapting their processes in the medium term. This creates the potential for disruptive innovations. In many areas, […]

Digital Sport in the Covid 19 Crisis (2): Transferring the Emotions to Digital

The sports industry has been hit hard by the health crisis. How it can find its way out of the crisis and continue to rely on the emotional relationship with fans is explained by BFH researcher Martin Rumo and Reinhard Riedl, head of the BFH Centre Digital Society. Already in 2008, it was more affected […]

Digital Sport in the Covid 19 Crisis (1) – Different Approaches to Crisis Management

Sport can only develop economic and social charisma if it brings people together and moves them emotionally. That’s exactly where Covid-19 hit sport. Digitalisation has only partially mitigated this, but it has sharpened the focus on the economic foundations of sport. Review – Digitisation and sport As part of PwC’s Sport Survey 2016 [1], a […]

Discretisation of politics (Part 1)

A few days ago, I was surprised by the thesis that digitalisation is changing politics by making compromise more difficult. What may seem obvious to many readers, I did not understand at first. The analogy between the format of representation in computers and the result of human action was spontaneously incomprehensible to me. Why should […]

“Our entire world will be driven by AI in 2050” – an interview with Marcel Salathé

Image recognition, language understanding, and decision-making: deep learning has made impressive breakthroughs. That’s why machine learning will have more and more impact on our everyday tasks. Therefore, mastering computational and data skills will be essential for everyone in the near future, says Dr Marcel Salathé from the EPFL in Lausanne in this interview* with Prof […]