Digital Business and Finance
How can businesses leverage digital technologies to improve their efficiencies, create new froms of value, and transform whole markets and industries? How do digital plattforms impact our businesses and the economy as a whole?
These are examples for the questions we strive to answer in this section of SocietyByte. We will present the results of own cutting-edge research, augmented with contributions from leading experts in industry and academia. Together, we want to shape future leaders that know how to effectively leverage digital innovation fro the benefit of their organizations and the economy as a whole, all the while being conscious about their role to foster a sustainable and responsible digital future for us all.
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Decision Intelligence: The Bridge Beween AI Investment and Impact, Part 1
Augmented Intelligence EN, Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution EN/
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Decision Intelligence is exploding. Despite massive investment in AI and data, 70-80% of projects fail to deliver results. Algorithms generate…

TWINT Was Just the Beginning: Toward a Scalable, Privacy-Respecting Digital Receipt Infrastructure for Switzerland
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENSwitzerland has launched digital revolutions: TWINT reshaped mobile payments, and QR-bill invoicing redefined how the nation pays its bills.…

Corporate Affiliations – A Guarantee of Success or the First Step into Dependency?
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENIn a new study [1], we examine whether corporate affiliations truly help young founders or whether they instead become a 'business spouse'—one…

Where does the Pig Health Platform stand today?
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENThe Pig Health Info System (PHIS) was launched a year ago and monitors the health of Swiss pigs. 40 veterinary practices have now used the app…

Why Companies Want to Harvest Digital Traces of Design Work
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENThe design community is concerned that companies like Figma are using their users' design resources stored in the cloud to train AI models, often…

How smart decisions reduce our ecological footprint
Digital Business & Finance EN, Podcast EN, Transdisciplinary ENHow can digital technologies be made more sustainable? Jan Bieser, Assistant Professor of Digitalisation and Sustainability at the Institute…

From IT boom to sustainability: India’s new challenges
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENThe IT Boom of the early 2000s was a major technological and economic event that transformed India and the world. It filled the world’s need…

How sustainable innovations create a breakthrough
Digital Business & Finance EN, Podcast EN, Transdisciplinary ENSustainable innovations are in vogue and are conquering many industries. But only a few make it into the mainstream. Nicola Blum, an expert in…

Digital change in the Gulf region: Swiss exporters must adapt
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENThe Arabian Gulf region has arrived in the digital age with impressive speed. Fast internet even in the most remote deserts, the playful use…

Shadow IT and Accidental Servitization
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENIn the labyrinth of modern business shadow IT and accidental servitization lurk like shape-shifting monsters, transforming helpful tools into…

How digitalisation is affecting local taxi companies
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENThe taxi industry has been particularly affected by digitalisation in recent years. Whereas previously you had to look for free taxis on the…

From technology to farm management – how smart is Swiss agriculture, part 1
Digital Business & Finance EN, Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENApps and digital business models have also long been used in agriculture. Although not everything is running smoothly, Switzerland is still in…