Systems Thinking on Romano Roth

AI Has No Brain. Engineers Do.

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI is everywhere, between hype, hope, and knee-jerk reactions. But engineering is more than output: responsibility, systems thinking, and decision quality matter.

What This Talk Covers
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In this talk, Romano Roth, Chief AI Officer at Zühlke, shows where AI already delivers reliable value in engineering today, where it fails, and what new skills and ways of working are emerging. With concrete examples from everyday practice.

The Cybernetic Enterprise: How Organizations Can Learn, Adapt, and Deliver in an AI-Native World

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:32:44 +0000

From Christoph Gulden

Welcome to Thought Leaders Talk, a podcast-style daily newsletter where bold minds meet real questions. In each episode, we talk with a guest who doesn’t just follow ideas, they shape them. No nonsense. No posturing. Just clear, original thinking on what truly matters.

The Cybernetic Enterprise: Why AI Alone Won’t Transform Industry

Sat, 17 May 2025 21:42:39 +0000

Keynote at the CTO Forum of the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille. Hosted by Zühlke, Munich

We Are Living in the AI Hype Era
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AI is dominating headlines. From natural language interfaces to automated code generation, the pace of development is relentless. But alongside this excitement, we are seeing inflated promises, rushed implementations, and disappointing returns.

DevOps: Thinking in Systems & Value Streams

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In today’s world, everybody wants to do DevOps. But why? What problems are we trying to solve?

Taking a Step Back
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Together, we will take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Instead of jumping straight into tools and practices, we examine the systems and value streams that underpin modern software delivery.

DevOps: Thinking in Systems and Value Streams

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In this conference talk, I discuss one of the most fundamental topics in DevOps: thinking in systems and value streams. When I work with companies on their DevOps transformations, I consistently see the same patterns. The business has bright ideas. They write them into Word documents and Jira tickets. They throw them over a wall of confusion to development. Development builds something and throws it to testing. Testing compares what was specified with what was built (never quite the same), tests something, and throws it to operations. Operations asks “How can we operate that?” and somehow, with great effort, they get it running. Then the customer sees it and says: “What is that? That is not what we ordered.”