27. September 2019

Leadership und Führungskraft

Heute Nacht bin ich auf Leadersnet auf folgenden Artikel gestossen: 


Da heisst es unten (mein Screenshot, meine Markierungen):





Naja; solange wir nicht gendern (Mitarbeiter*innen) und “betriebliche Altersvorsorge” ernsthaft als ”Bindungsprogramm” betrachten, gibt es noch viel zu tun.

Vielleicht ist das Wort “Führungskraft” auch ganz falsch. Die meisten administrieren ja und führen eben gerade nicht; und mit Kraft alleine lösen wir nur Probleme im mechanistischen Weltbild eines Newton, nicht aber menschenzentrierte Zukunftsthemen.

Übrigens: bei Bindung, egal ob Mitarbeiter*innen oder Kund*innen gebunden werden sollen, denk ich immer an Marterpfähle - ich weiss auch nicht wieso...

11. September 2019

App für Öffis

Heute hab ich das erste mal die App FAIRTQ für ein Strassenbahnticket in Linz verwendet. Einfach super: ein Swipe beim Einsteigen, ein Swipe beim Aussteigen. Fertig. Fairtq.
Ich hab sogar vergessen beim Aussteigen; die App hat mich erinnert und alles war gut.
Eigentlich für mich schon seit Jahren klar: das smartphone weiss die Zeit und den Ort. Damit kann die App feststellen wonich wann gefahren bin. 
Endlich gibts fas in Linz!

10. April 2019

Beruhigungsaktion?

Dieser Tage stand das Thema Elektromobilität bei einem grenzüberschreitenden Vernetzungstreffen zwischen Bayern und Oberösterreich im Mittelpunkt, wie Leadersnet am 1.4.2019 berichtete. Andreas Klugescheid, Vice President Governmental Affairs bei BMW München meinte dass der Verbrennungsmotor nicht abgelöst werde und dass es in Zukunft mehrere Antriebssysteme parallel geben werde.

Ich finde diese Aussage sehr mutig.

Sie dient wahrscheinlich zur Beruhigung für die Öffentlichkeit, für Politiker und für BMW MitarbeiterInnen, arbeiten doch i, oberösterreichischen Steyr, im "größten Motorenwerk und Dieselkompetenzzentrum des Automobilherstellers" ca 4500 von ihnen (siehe Wikipedia).

Aber wie muss das klingen für all die MitarbeiterInnen, die bei BMW an der Elektromobilität arbeiten? Dass das dann doch nicht ganz so wichtig ist? 

Wie anders muss das bei Tesla und anderen Elektroautoherstellern sein, die gemeinsam in Richtung Zukunft die Welt verändern wollen und neben dem Elektroantrieb auch gleich noch selbstfahrende Autos produzieren? Ach ja: Da tut sich BMW mit dem Slogan "Freude am Fahren" auch schwer.
Noch ist die Marke stark, aber das dachten auch Kodak und Nokia.

26. März 2019

#patternshift

Ich fange an diesen Blog weiterzuführen. Er ist aufgrund meiner vielen anderen Aktivitäten etwas unter die Räder gekommen, aber alle drei Teile des Namens: "holistic" "business" "development" sind aktieller denn je.

holistisch muss alles sein, das man tut. Es geht also um Technologie, Organisation und dem Umgang mit Menschen und das alles gleichzeitig und ganzheitlich eben!

business development: Durch Digitalisierung und Co wird die Geschäftsentwicklung immer dramatischer und wichtiger.

Mir fällt auf dass viele Manager Probleme mit der Digitalisierung haben. Und ich denke das liegt daran dass sie ihre Strukturen festhalten und damit die neuen Inhalte nicht verstehen (können). nur wenn wir bereit sind, neue Strukturen zu akzeptieren, machen die neuen Inhalte plötzlich Sinn.

Ich nenne dies #patternshift.

17. Mai 2016

Let's overcome barriers

have you ever thought about barriers?

they are everywhere:

  • national barriers: I understand that for historical reasons there are nations. But I do not want that to be a reason for not helping each other when coming from different countries. And I do not accept that legal systems have to be so complicated and different. Come on: we are all humans!
  • cultural barriers: people do not understand each other because they think they are so much different from each other. I respect each culture. If I do not understand, I want to learn! If I understand everything, I am dead: That's my definition of my personal death: To have understood everything. That means for me, that many people are already dead; they are zombies.
  • language barriers: we are used to different languages. So, we do not understand when talking. But there are other options: love and music, just to give examples. These are common 'languages'
  • organisational barriers: I am now more than 50 years on this earth and I do not understand why there are so many templates, formulas, restrictions, procedures, organisations, processes without any freedom to follow. For me this is the opposite of dynamics. 
  • brain barriers: I understand that each individual is unique. And I understand that we all have our limits to think and understand. But that is no reason to fight against each other!
  • technology barriers: the best example i 'love' is roaming. Why should I pay much more if we just crossed a national border? Try to explain that to children. They would not understand. And they are right! 

The next evolution of mankind is to understand that barriers and borders are tools and methods to prohibit development, to neglect human rights, to hinder innovation.
So, let's help together to overcome this!


21. März 2013

Lost in social media?

Are you are power networker using all upcoming apps and services as beta user trying to find out if it will be useful to you? Why should you do that? I don't know, but I can tell you why I am doing exactly this!

I am using several services to get information, to follow people, to get into contact with others. The main reason for me is curiosity. So, I really liked by foursquare badge I got when visiting the computer history museum in Mountain View, California the other day.

But there is another reason why I am doing this. I believe that transparency because of using many services and link them together will lead to better understanding of each other and to a better world in a long run.

The third reason why I am using many apps and services is because I try with my startups to come up with something new. This means I have to know what is already there.

So, I am using many apps and services since many months. Because I am using keepass for all of my passwords I know that I am registered at about 2800 sites. And thanks to Facebook I found out that over time I have connected 450 apps to my facebook account. Because there is a trend to interconnect apps and services there are more and more APIs and mashups. To get an impression you should look at ProgrammableWeb.

So, you and many others out there are helping me to not get lost in social media. You give feedback whenever something went wrong. Thx for sharing!

12. März 2013

What is Innovation?

The question seems clear, the answer is not.

Is Innovation a extrapolation of what we already know? Something that is better, higher, lower, reduced or enriched?

Is Innovation something I can learn?

Who understands that an Innovation is an Innovation?

When everybody understands the Innovation, can you still call it an Innovation?

If only the Innovator understands his / her Innovation, what then?

What is the difference between Innovation, Invention, Creation?

Crowdfunding 101

Tonight I was in an workshop with Ian MacKenzie at Parisoma in San Francisco. Ian was brilliant in going through thoughts, actions, and critical success factors pre launching, during launch and post launch a crowd funding campaign. If you are interested in crowdfunding check out this picture und get into contact with ian.

 Owly Images

If you want to check out different crowdfunding platforms, go to ian's list!


6. März 2013

xScited in silicon valley

+Josef Schodl and I had a fantastic first week in silicon valley. We have an appartment in sunnyvale thanks to everbill, meetings and discussions with interesting people. With skype our team in austria and buenos aires is connected working in a 24 hour mode hard to get xScited out of the box. We learned from blackbox and the launch event how to focus more on xScited's value proposition, how to work on an awesome user experience, how to design our entry strategy. We will incorporate soon here in US to have our headquarter here. This will be the second of my startups to go to US after wappwolf with the iBeam service. So, stay tuned and spread the word!

Chris

10. Januar 2013

Relaunch my life for 2013

It has been very silent on my blog. But that does not mean that i stopped working and living :-)
So, i decided to start 2013 with new messages and a clear structure: here i will post my thoughts, in parallel i will write for other companies i have co-founded. So, stay tuned. It will be an exciting year!

9. Oktober 2011

Silicon Valley

I have been in Silicon Valley last week and will stay another week. I am with xScited, a platform for matching resources to demands of research projects. xScited is part of the Go Silicon Valley program of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. We are based in Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale
In the first week we had a course on several topics: how to pitch, pitching ourselves, juridical topics, some discussions how the venture capital market is functioning, etc. If you are new, this is really Silicon Valley in a nutshell, if you are experienced then this is already clear to you.
One major activity is networking. It is really great to get into contact with many people very easy, they are used to give you hints and help you on your way.
I also did some preparation before i was coming to Silicon Valley. I let my networks know that i am here. So, I met a guy I never met before. we were only linked at linkedIn. And he brought another guy with him. Really great.
Next week we will have additional meetings.
How do we know from such meetings? We check out eventbrite, plancast and meetup. There are also apps available, by the way. And of course Michael Lipper from Wappwolf, who is already here since beginning of September has already established excellent contacts including contacts to Mozilla, German American Business Association and others.
When Josef Schodl of xScited is coming next week he will take over and become part of our network, too.

22. April 2011

Europen Venture Market

Jetzt muss ich wieder einmal was schreiben - und zwar in deutsch. und weil ich da schon 2x mit startups von mir dabei war und es immer toll war!

Am 10. und 11. Mai findet in Berlin der mittlerweile 15. European Venture Market statt. Unterstützt wird das Matchmaking Event durch Corporate Finance Partners CFP, einem renommierten Beratungsunternehmen für M&A und Venture Capital in Frankfurt. Neben Investoren aus der DACH-Region werden auch wieder internationale Investoren aus Israel, Belgien und England erwartet.

Der Fokus der Veranstaltung liegt auf Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (ICT). Darüber hinaus werden Konzepte aus den Bereichen Cleantech & Hightech (New Materials/ Nanotech) besondere Aufmerksamkeit finden.

Bis Mitte April haben Unternehmen die Gelegenheit sich für die Teilnahme an einem Pitch zu bewerben. Das Bewerbungsformular ist vollständig auszufüllen und gemeinsam mit einem Executive Summary einzureichen. Die Anzahl der Pitches ist auf 70 limitiert.

Beim letzten European Venture Market haben übrigens vier präsentierende Unternehmen ihre Investoren gefunden. Details können gerne beim Veranstalter erfragt werden.

Die Teilnahme am European Venture Market kostet für Unternehmen 180 Euro zzgl. MwSt. Melden Sie sich dazu unter register an. Interessierte Investoren können sich einen Preisvorteil von 20% auf alle Pakete sichern. Bitte geben Sie dazu folgenden Promotioncode ein: EVM1HOLI

Veranstaltungsort ist das zentral gelegene Park Inn-Hotel am Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte. Weitere Informationen und Updates finden Sie online unter EVM oder auf Facebook.

Save the Date: 10. & 11. Mai 2011

28. Februar 2011

Seedlounge

To all supporters of startups out there!

You know that startups always have problems to get money.
  • they have not enough money themselve
  • they already invested fff-money (family, friends, and fools)
  • they are discussing with banks - all the time - OK. no comment on that
  • they try to get support from government - OK. very formal. very complicated. very late.
So, what else?
  • business angels - OK. I am one of them, but i do not have enough money, either.
  • venture capitalists - well, you have to go to US or to London, but forget (at the moment) Central Europe
Really???

OK. One option is valid: crowd funding. LIVE crowd funding.

go for it! this week! in Germany: www.seedlounge.com.

it's time to support our future!

thx
chris

7. Dezember 2010

Was man nicht kennt, vermisst man nicht

Stellen sie sich vor, sie leben in einer Welt ohne Flugzeug.
Flugzeuge würden ihnen nicht abgehen.
Sie würden alles ohne Flugzeug schaffen. Sogar wenn sie nach Anforderungen für die Zukunft gefragt werden, würden sie diese so formulieren, dass sie ohne Flugzeug zu schaffen sind. Sie wollen doch nicht als Phantast oder Verrückter gelten.

In einer Welt ohne Flugzeuge gehen Flugzeuge nicht ab.

Wenn es nun so wäre dass Entrepreneur mit ausgefallenen Businessideen in den deutschsprachigen Ländern Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz keine Aufmerksamkeit bekämen, sodass niemandem auffällt, dass viele deswegen scheitern und ihre Businessidee nie umsetzen oder andere nach London oder in die USA gehen müssen, dann würde es ebenfalls niemandem auffallen – richtig?

In einer Welt ohne Entrepreneure gehen Entrepreneure nicht ab.

Also: Lasst uns in weiterhin ohne Flugzeuge und ohne Entrepreneure leben! Ist gemütlicher!

Aber dann kommen sie: die Flugzeuge. Massenweise. Am Himmel. Aber wir sehen sie nicht, weil wir keine Vorstellung von Flugzeugen haben. Weil wir kein Bild haben. Weil wir gar nicht in den Himmel schauen. Was soll dort oben auch schon sein?

Aber dann kommen sie. Die Entrepreneure mit ihren verrückten Businessideen, meist aus USA. Aber wir sehen sie nicht, weil wir keine Vorstellung haben von diesen Businessideen.

Und dann lernen wir: Es gibt Flugzeuge, es gibt Entrepreneure mit verrückten Businessideen. Und sie fliegen beide. Erfolgreich. Und wir müssen erkennen, dass wir schon wieder nicht dabei waren.

22. November 2010

seed lounge 26.1.2011

I am working all the time with startups in a very early stage. And now it is time to find new ways to get money for them. So, check this out: seedlounge 26.1.2011 munich.
It is the first live crowd funding event.

16. September 2010

Wappwolf in Silicon Valley Sucessful

I am writing this blog still being in Santa Clara where yesterday and the day before the DEMO conference took place. It was a really great event with about 60 companies pitching in just 6 minutes each, with a pavilion full of booths of those companies.
The media coverage and the talks with interesting people was really awesome.

I was 'running with the wolf pack' of wappwolf. Mike Eisler, CEO of wappwolf (he now calls himself 'iSler') did a professional presentation. wappwolf launched the product and showed how easy it is to generate workflows for document handling. You can see some results on JohnnyTheDoc's facebook site: After taken a picture this document was dropped to the workflow where wappwolf's logo was stamped by the first application. The second application put the text 'DEMO Fall 2010' in the middle of the picture and the third application put it to JohnnyTheDoc's facebook site. This is just an example. Many others will follow in the next weeks and months.
Harald Weiss, CFO of wappwolf did also a great job with assisting on the stage, with preparation work and with social media activities. Look at twitter and you will see!
When we come home to Austria we will think over the next steps to go, will try to contact all the companies to join the DEMO network and hand over our experience to other start ups.

If you want to get some more impressions you also can look at my site on facebook and on my twitter stream.

2. September 2010

Wappwolf - A new startup ready to start up

As you know I am working with startups in the seed phase focussing on disruptive business models using state-of-the-art technology with my personal aim to make them huge and worldwide successful.

So, it is really a pleasure to be part of the wappwolf team, responsible for vision and helping with social media activities and my personal network.

Wappwolf will launch at demo conference in Silicon Valley and start its business worldwide. By the way, Wappwolf is the only startup from Austria this time.

So, if you are an application developer out there, make sure to become part of this new wave of connecting apps to a flow. You can earn real money with your app, and the sooner you are on wappwolf the better it is for you.

If you are a user of applications in your company you maybe are struggling with software tools from several providers. It would make sense to check out wappwolf from time to time if there is a solution for you. And of course, you should tell your software providers about wappwolf. They will be happy about that.

If you are a private user, wappwolf can be useful, too. You will be able to use many apps free of charge.

So, stay tuned. Follow wappwolf on twitter and become fan on facebook.
And also have a look at the videos on youtube, like the recent one.

16. August 2010

Twitter’s “Followed By” And “You Both Follow” More Useful Than “Mutual Friends”


On Friday Twitter launched a mass roll out of the "Followed By" and "You Both Follow" features, which we previously covered last month (It seems as though Tlists, a feature which allows users to see what Twitter lists you are on, have yet to hit critical mass). While Facebook and Foursquare have had "friends in common" social graph features for awhile, it's a little more difficult to directly convert these concepts to Twitter because the concept of "friend" v.s "follower"/"followed" is hard to parse. After playing with the features for a couple of days, they have proven to be incredibly useful, as or if not more useful (and definitely more grammatically correct) than “Who To Follow, and especially more useful than Facebook’s "Mutual Friends," despite the fact that Twitter allows for one-way relationships whereas Facebook is by design two-way, where both parties have to agree on the relationship to connect.

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