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

30. June 2026

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There are many causes of why innovative IT projects fail. Three reasons for where things frequently go wrong: a lack of understanding of complexity…

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Digital sins – Part 2: Messiness in digital management

4. February 2026

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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…

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The Digital Sins – Part 1: Focusing on Trivialities

Column EN, Transdisciplinary EN

30. December 2025

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IMD continually reports on Switzerland's great successes in digitalisation, yet reality feels quite different. And the vote on eID confirmed…

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Digital democracy research that we really need

Column EN, Digital Government EN

2. October 2025

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Liberal democracy is on the retreat worldwide. Only one small country is putting up resistance, Switzerland. For how much longer? Digitalisation…

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It started in Murten – the goal is a Swiss e-government architecture

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14. August 2025

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Switzerland wants an e-government architecture. This article explains why this project is so important. What it is about The organisational…

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Resource paradoxes of digital transformation (2) – the digital death of consensus

Column EN, Transdisciplinary EN

4. June 2024

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Digital technologies enable everyone to participate in shaping politics. With enough commitment, social outsiders can have a significant influence…