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Digital Reality 2031: Orientation for Swiss Companies
Whitepaper #01 of PROMODOS DIGITAL, the dialogue forum of the Hightech Zentrum Aargau. What changes …
Out of the AI Lock-in: Companies Should Bet on Vendor Independence Now
Tying your AI strategy to a single vendor is an unnecessary risk. A guest article on token costs, AI …
How Do Companies Keep Control over AI Agents?
AI software now acts faster than a human can approve it. Can AI be controlled at all? A commentary …
NZZ: Is the AI Layoff Wave Reaching Large Corporations?
Quoted in NZZ am Sonntag on the job cuts at Sunrise, on AI washing, and on why AI efficiency only …
How to Survive Game of Thrones
Conflict, politics and power plays look alike from the outside and need different answers. Written …
NZZ: AI Fluency Is Now Career-Relevant at UBS
Quoted in NZZ am Sonntag on how companies test AI fluency, and the three questions I use to check it
Lean Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture out of the ivory tower. Written with Dietmar Wettach: EA as a leadership …
blue News: Swiss Companies Cut Jobs Because of AI
Quoted by blue News on whether job cuts at Swiss companies like Lastminute and DocMorris are really …
Handelsblatt: AI Suddenly Gets Expensive
Quoted in Handelsblatt on the shift to usage-based pricing for AI models, rising token costs, and …
FRANKFURT FUTURE TALKS: AI as a Colleague?
Quoted in the recap of the 10th FRANKFURT FUTURE TALKS, a panel discussion by Wirtschaftsinitiative, …
IT-Markt: When a Local AI Infrastructure Pays Off
Panel interview in IT-Markt on digital sovereignty, when running AI on-premises makes sense, and …
AI 2026: Trends and Guidelines for Deployment
Expectations for AI have rarely been so high, and decision-makers' patience rarely so thin. In 2026, …
NZZ: The Great Flight Forward into AI Agents
Quoted in NZZ article about tech giants investing billions in AI agents after massive spending on …
How Companies Become a Cybernetic Enterprise
The Cybernetic Enterprise transforms organizations into learning systems that adapt faster than …
AI Oracle 2026: The Most Important Trends for Decision-Makers
What decision-makers need to know and do now so that AI evolves from experiment to true partner. The …
NZZ: Aleph Alpha and the European Cloud Opportunity
Quoted in NZZ article about Aleph Alpha's strategic shift and Europe's cloud sovereignty
Between Tool and Gamechanger: How AI Drives the Cybernetic Enterprise
AI is everywhere, but lasting business value often remains elusive. Organizations that embed AI as a …
The AI future is "cybernetic"
Agility and AI pilots won’t save companies running on an outdated operating system. If you simply …
How industrial companies can become “AI-ready” and future-proof
When people, machines, and algorithms work as a team, a learning and resilient factory emerges. …
NZZ: Workslop, When AI Destroys Productivity
Quoted in NZZ article about how sloppy AI use undermines workplace productivity
Human-machine cooperation in Industry 5.0
Industry 5.0 goes beyond automation: people, sustainability, and resilience take center stage. …
Digitalization was Yesterday: How to Achieve “Cybernetic Transformation”
Digitalization unlocked efficiency, but it often stopped at isolated optimizations. In an AI-driven …
From Humans and Machines: The Organization of the Future
Artificial Intelligence is evolving from a tool into an active team member. In the Cybernetic …
The Cybernetic Enterprise
An operating system for organizations that sense, decide and adapt continuously, with feedback loops …
Foundations of The Cybernetic Enterprise
A reference volume on the eight fields the Cybernetic Enterprise stands on: cybernetics, systems …
The Cybernetic Enterprise Assessment
A structured maturity check across people, process, technology and data, built to be run in a real …
The Cybernetic Enterprise CTO Playbook
The same model seen from the technology organization: architect for simplicity, make autonomy …
DevOps in Switzerland 2025: Scaling DevOps with Platforms and AI
DevOps in Switzerland has evolved from practice to platform-enabled and AI-augmented delivery. The …
Coding Without Coders?
AI is transforming software development, but the lone coder isn't obsolete, the role is evolving. …
Riding the AI Wave: How Industrial Companies Can Harness It Purposefully
AI alone won't fix broken processes. Industrial companies must build a Cybernetic Enterprise, a …
DevEx: A Strategic Imperative for Business Success
Developer Experience is no longer optional, it's a strategic necessity. Organizations investing in …
Flip the Switch on Modern Software Development with Feature Flags
How feature flags separate deployment from release, and why that separation is the first practical …
Modern Development Practices in Banking: A Playbook
A modernization roadmap for banks: feature flags, CI/CD, platform engineering and the governance a …
Golem.de Interview: "When we talk about DevOps, we need to talk about people"
Romano Roth explains why DevOps is not bullshit, how transformation succeeds in companies, and what …
Machines, Code, People
A Zühlke anthology of 50 short pieces. Romano Roth contributed the chapter on documenting …