The shortage of skilled workers costs the German economy 49 billion euros per year. At the same time, AI and remote work are fundamentally changing the requirements for leadership. New Work & Leadership shows how CEOs and board members use people strategy, talent retention and organizational culture as strategic levers.
08.06.2026

Your organization can only handle two changes per year.

Jakob Bach

83 percent of executives are experiencing more profound change than ever before. Yet workforces can ...

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08.06.2026

20% of Companies Capture 74% of AI’s Return

Eva Mickler

Most companies are collecting AI pilots but seeing no measurable returns. A PwC study of 1,217 firms ...

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06.06.2026

The AI pilot is running, regular operations are not

Jakob Bach

41 percent of German companies now use AI - more than double the number from a year ago. Yet the same ...

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04.06.2026

Technical Debt: Why the Board Must Act Now

Eva Mickler

Technical debt doesn’t appear on any balance sheet, yet it costs every corporation dearly. According ...

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02.06.2026

Digitalization Without a Big Bang: A Step-by-Step Transformation

Jakob Bach

The big digital leap follows a predictable trajectory: a multi-year program, a double-digit million ...

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01.06.2026

Learning on the Job: What the Board of Directors Needs to Demand when 89% of the AI Strategy is

Benedikt Langer

89 percent of companies say their AI strategy follows a “learning on the go” approach. Meanwhile, ...

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30.05.2026

AI Budgets Before the Summer: What CIOs Must Now Demonstrate

Eva Mickler

Gartner raised its 2026 IT spending forecast to 13,5 percent growth on April 22. For DACH enterprise ...

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29.05.2026

Cloud sovereignty becomes a boardroom issue: What the EU tech sovereignty package means for DACH

Tobias Massow

The EU unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Package on 27 May. It proposes restricting the use of US cloud ...

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29.05.2026

Vision is no longer enough: Why boards demand defensibility from the CIO

Benedikt Langer

For years, CIOs sold IT budgets with a vision of transformation. That no longer works. After multiple ...

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26.05.2026

BlackRock and Morgan Stanley Evaluate AI Governance

Eva Mickler

Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have baked AI governance openly into their valuation logic as of spring ...

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