Digital talents are needed almost everywhere. In order to tackle this challenge, I embarked on a new adventure – and co-founded a new company.
Curious? Take a look: www.turn2talents.de
News
Germany’s digital skills
In the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2023 Germany ranks 23rd out of 64 countries with its overall performance (down from rank 17 in 2019). Although this is definitely not a promising result for one of the world’s largest economies, it gets even worse when digital/technological skills of the countries are ranked: Germany’s rank is 58 (out of 64)!
More than ever, we need to work on advancing our digital skills. Besides the rather obvious technological skills, the skills for a digital business and a digital economy need to be developed further. As we keep reiterating here, digitization may start with technology, the important part of any digital business, however, is its business model.
Advising the State Secretary of Commerce
I am honored to be part of the Advisory Board of the Secretary of Commerce of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia (http://www.digitalewirtschaft.nrw.de/beirat/). The objective is to advance digital business in the state.
Master Digital Business Management approved
The new Master program Digital Business Management which I will be heading at my university has finally been approved. It will clearly focus on digital businesses and their management. See RFH website for further details.
Musings on media, management and more
Here you will subsequently find our musings on media, management and more. For some thoughts on Internet business models please see the working paper in the Papers section.
Objective of site
This website will become a science-oriented site of Prof. Dr. Ralf Wagner, Köln (Germany). It would like to foster the advancement of the knowledge society by presenting, sharing and developing knowledge – hence the name of the site.