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About Thomas Gees

Dr Thomas Gees is a lecturer at the Institute Public Sector Transformation at BFH Wirtschaft. The historian heads the specialist group "Public Sector Innovation", which supports the public sector in strategic issues of digitalisation and organisational change as well as digital skills.

Entries by Thomas Gees

What skills the employees of a digital administration need

Digital services for citizens and more efficient processes – these are two of the goals of an administration of the future. In order for this transformation to pick up speed and be implemented quickly, people are needed to make it happen. Understanding technology is not even that important. Our author describes the skills they need […]

A communicative Experiment on Digital Democracy

TA-SWISS , the Foundation for Technology Assessment, has entered into a communicative experiment: it is seeking public discussion space before the results of the Digital Democracy study are available. In the Politforum Käfigturm, one can participate in the workshop process – SocietyByte visited the analogue part of the exhibition. “Digital Democracy – An Interactive Journey […]

What is the state of digitalisation in your company?

27. April 2021/in Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Thomas Gees

Is it possible to measure digital fitness? The Bern University of Applied Sciences of Economics has developed a questionnaire for SMEs. Using the example of the Bern Building Insurance (GVB), Thomas von Gunten from the Bern Building Insurance explains that external support can contribute significantly to agile progress in digitalisation projects. Thomas von Gunten, Head […]

Digital fitness can be measured: How digital are Bernese SMEs?

23. September 2020/in Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Thomas Gees

Digitalisation projects are innovations that are successful when scarce resources can be saved with technology and data. The example of EWB shows the success criteria for process digitalisation. Fault management for lighting in public spaces was quickly digitised thanks to agile project methods. Dominik Hanisch, Innovation Manager at EWB, accompanied the project. Where previously a […]

October-November issue: Digitalisation – Vision of fair participation for all

7. October 2019/in Transdisciplinary EN/by Thomas Gees

In 2011, the US social theorist and economist Jeremy Rifkin drew a positive vision of a “collaborative age” in his book “The Third Industrial Revolution”. Busyness was in the past, but in the future it will be replaced by the “spirit of cooperation”. At the transition between these eras, we at the BFH Centre Digital […]

Digitaltag 2019: BFH Wirtschaft is there with Smartvote and a data experiment

30. August 2019/in Big und Open Data EN, Event report EN/by Thomas Gees

The third edition of the nationwide Digitaltag is also taking place in the federal city for the first time – and the Bern University of Applied Sciences of Economics is taking part. In their new “Digital Lab”, visitors will experience a virtual data evaluation using the music industry as an example. In addition, the creators […]