Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World
We are not ready for AI: our organizations, our companies, our society. Thanks to AI, everyone is becoming more powerful. But at the same time,…
Prompt Engineering Is Requirements Engineering
Why does AI fail? Because: “Most problems simply aren’t defined well enough at the start, so you don’t have the information you need to build…
How to Design a Lean Data & AI Strategy
When some people hear the word “strategy,” they think of a PowerPoint presentation with +100 slides. Others claim that a strategy must fit on a…
Be ordinary, do extraordinary.
What are your thoughts on this? “The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary human beings to do extraordinary things.” —Peter Drucker
Signals for 2026: The tech trends we’re watching in the new year
Enough of AI quick shots, time for AI business strategy: “We anticipate that 2026 will be a year of increased accountability. Expect enterprises to shift focus…
Talk2Earth: Earth Intelligence for Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Everytime
Everyone is talking about Talk2Data. We have already developed and delivered it: Talk2Earth.com is a demo application for chatting, analyzing, and vis…
Today’s hype is tomorrow’s legacy.
Something to think about over the weekend: “AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be…
Getting AI Discovery Right
The Data & AI Business Design method has its origins in Analytics & AI Use Case Ideation, Validation, and Prioritization. Its focus is therefore on…
Newsletter January: New Year. New Strategy.
We hope you had a great start to the new year! For 2026, we wish you clean data and reliable AI. 😉 In other words:…
Your Choice
Food for thought for the weekend: “Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
Best of Books for Business 2025
Last year, I read many books so that you don’t have to read them. 😉 Those are my recommended Best of Books for Business from…
How the Right Operating Model Can Fix a Strategy That Falls Short
This conversation 👇 echoes our thoughts how the business model should implement the business strategy: 💡 “Different strategies require different operating models.” ➡️ Yes, “structure…
What Leaders Should Know About Measuring AI Project Value
Absolutely agree: “Most AI/machine learning projects report only on technical metrics that don’t tell leaders how much business value could be delivered. To prevent project…
The (Microsoft) Office
“PowerPoints are the Peacocks of the business world: all show, no meat.” —Dwight Schrute
Plant Your Trees
🪓🎄 Before Christmas, trees are traditionally cut down. At Datentreiber, we have been doing the exact opposite for several years now: we plant trees, or…
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Before Datentreiber, I worked for a company that used real-time text analytics to detect market-moving events in stock market news. The business idea originated from…
A Human-Centered Approach to Competitive Advantage
This article “A Human-Centered Approach to Competitive Advantage” by Kord Davis speaks to me/us from the heart and is not only a good read, but…
Newsletter December: Talk to Your Data
Three months ago, we came up with the idea for an AI app that would make Earth observation data easy-, ready- and free-to-use for everyone,…
