René Haßfeld, Chairman Managing Director toom Baumarkt GmbH worked for many years as a District Manager and later Managing Director at Lidl GmbH and moved to OBI GmbH as Regional Managing Director East in 2008. In 2012, the graduate industrial engineer joined toom Baumarkt as Managing Director and was responsible...
DIGITAL MANUFACTURING IS DRIVING A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: IS EUROPE FALLING BEHIND?
The world of manufacturing is undergoing a fundamental transformation, quietly, and almost unnoticed. The result, however, will be dramatic. The way we design and produce physical objects will change more in the next 15 years than in the 100 years since the Industrial Revolution. In this article, I am arguing...
SHARESUITE COLLABORATION IS THE NEW NORMAL.
With increasing connectivity, collaborative tools are becoming more and more important for companies. The year 2020 has shown us that digital collaboration must work regardless of location. One comprehensive collaboration and project management software is sharesuite. We spoke with Benjamin Hellmann, managing partner at sharesuite GmbH, about this. Q1. Currently,...
HOW DATA AND THE IOT ARE CHANGING SPORT IT ALL STARTED WITH FORMULA 1 IN THE LATE ’70S
Formula 1 is largely, a data-driven business This late ’70s photo shows a Formula 1 car (a Tyrrell F1) equipped with a cassette recorder. Of course, we can say that the cassette was not intended to play the driver’s favourite songs during his race but had many other purposes, useful...
THERMAL SPONGE CITIES NEW TRENDS TO COOL EUROPEAN CITIES
Abstract: Urban areas are both contributors to and the main victims of the effects of climate change and will be confronted with drastic changes in terms of heat supply (heating and cooling) and urban climate in the years to come. Moreover, conventional technologies for heat supply are future-proof only to...
SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Sustainability is an incredibly broad and popular term in our modern, developed society that encompasses everything from people to nature and, generally, rethinking the way we approach current procedures. It is somewhat difficult to pinpoint where to begin, what to look for and how to navigate through the various complexities...
FIVE CONVINCING REASONS FOR YOUR COMPANY TO PROTECT THE CLIMATE
No other topic - including COVID-19 - has so much destructive power and polarises so many public and private debates as climate change. Often, half-knowledge and emotions dominate the discussion, while concrete and implementable ideas about what companies can do regarding the duopoly of ecology and economy are often missing....
THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL & SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS GROWTH
From the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has been influencing our lives, forcing the whole world to rethink and reset many aspects of the global economy and society. The World Economic forum speaks of the so-called ‘Great Reset’; which comes about five decades after the publication of ‘Limits to...
STARS4MEDIA: EUROPEAN BRIDGE BETWEEN THE MEDIA & THE TECH SECTOR
European news media today face an unprecedented crisis. It is, first of all, a crisis of identity: ever since digital platforms have entered the media field as new gatekeepers, traditional news media have struggled to re-position themselves in a digital-first media landscape. It is also an economic and societal crisis:...
VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) BUT REAL IMPACT
Q1. What is Virtual Reality? 1. Definitions and principles There are various definitions of what Virtual Reality (VR) is. Different sources indicate that “Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world”. That definition clearly hints that VR is not...