adesso Blog

In view of adesso’s internationalisation endeavours, it is certainly interesting to look at the percentage of women in IT from country to country. What do other countries do differently than Germany and how can the fluctuating numbers between individual countries be explained? This is exactly what I would like to shed light on in this blog post.

How can an insurance provider use open insurance to further develop its own business model and strengthen its competitiveness and future relevance? What opportunities and risks does open insurance hold for the insurance industry? In this blog post, you will learn what the idea behind open insurance is and where this concept can be applied.

Large companies are not the only ones using CRM systems. Smaller and medium-sized companies are already using them as well. But who are the big players when it comes to CRM system providers, and which hidden champions are the competition? This blog post will compare these big players and hidden champions and show which alternatives may be worthwhile for which companies.

In part one of the blog post, my colleague Isabelle Meiller laid out how you can use marketing automation to acquire new customers. Maybe you are already seeing results with the first new order or purchase from one of your new customers. You now have to take the next step in order not to lose them. What can you do to ensure that your newly acquired customers remain loyal to your company or your brand and that they will continue to purchase or use the products and services you offer? I will show you how in part two of our blog post.

If machines fail because of faults, the consequences are stress, increased maintenance effort, additional costs for special logistics to meet deadlines, or dissatisfied customers. Remote troubleshooting helps to quickly master this situation. I explain how this works and what advantages this approach offers in this blog post.

The German Civil Status Act (Personenstandsgesetz, PStG) was rewritten with effect from 1 January 2019. People who identify as non-binary must not be subjected to discrimination, and companies are obliged to implement the legal requirements set out in the legislation. As an outsider, you would think that this would not be a problem – especially in regard to IT. In this blog post, I will explain what exactly these legal requirements are, and which questions companies should be looking to answer.

Building an employer brand is mission-critical, especially when the job market is tight. In this blog post, I explain what you need to consider when it comes to employer branding and how a (fast-growing) company can take measures to remain competitive.

We have learned from a wide range of projects that in agile transformations the question always arises as to the state of an organisation’s agile efforts. In order to be able to answer this and many other questions concerning the topic of agility in a company together with our customers, a working group from adesso’s ‘Agile’ Community of Practice has developed an interactive format for tracking agile teams and organisations – adesso’s Agile Assessment. In my blog post, I will highlight this format’s added value and the approach it takes as well as provide an outlook on how the agile transformation can be supported in organised way.

Finding patterns in data is a task that keeps data scientists as well as domain experts busy. For companies, data is a critical business asset that adds value. To this end, store floor connectivity plays an essential role. I explain what this is all about in my blog post using a (fictional) example.