Digital Business and Finance

How can businesses leverage digital technologies to improve their efficiencies, create new froms of value, and transform whole markets and industries? How do digital plattforms impact our businesses and the economy as a whole?

These are examples for the questions we strive to answer in this section of SocietyByte. We will present the results of own cutting-edge research, augmented with contributions from leading experts in industry and academia. Together, we want to shape future leaders that know how to effectively leverage digital innovation fro the benefit of their organizations and the economy as a whole, all the while being conscious about their role to foster a sustainable and responsible digital future for us all.

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Where does the Pig Health Platform stand today?

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The Pig Health Info System (PHIS) was launched a year ago and monitors the health of Swiss pigs. 40 veterinary practices have now used the app…
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Why Companies Want to Harvest Digital Traces of Design Work

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The design community is concerned that companies like Figma are using their users' design resources stored in the cloud to train AI models, often…
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How smart decisions reduce our ecological footprint

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How can digital technologies be made more sustainable? Jan Bieser, Assistant Professor of Digitalisation and Sustainability at the Institute…

From IT boom to sustainability: India’s new challenges

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The IT Boom of the early 2000s was a major technological and economic event that transformed India and the world. It filled the world’s need…
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How sustainable innovations create a breakthrough

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Sustainable innovations are in vogue and are conquering many industries. But only a few make it into the mainstream. Nicola Blum, an expert in…
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Digital change in the Gulf region: Swiss exporters must adapt

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The Arabian Gulf region has arrived in the digital age with impressive speed. Fast internet even in the most remote deserts, the playful use…
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Shadow IT and Accidental Servitization

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In the labyrinth of modern business shadow IT and accidental servitization lurk like shape-shifting monsters, transforming helpful tools into…

How digitalisation is affecting local taxi companies

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The taxi industry has been particularly affected by digitalisation in recent years. Whereas previously you had to look for free taxis on the…
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From technology to farm management – how smart is Swiss agriculture, part 1

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Apps and digital business models have also long been used in agriculture. Although not everything is running smoothly, Switzerland is still in…

Why start-ups benefit from experience and diversity – a podcast episode

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Start-ups drive innovation. Start-up expert Martin Murmann from BFH Wirtschaft analyses why older founders often pursue more risk-taking ideas…

A platform for the health of pigs

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How healthy are Swiss pigs? The "Pig Health Info System" (PHIS) application has been providing information on this since 1 May. It enables data-supported…

Open Source Business Potential: A Look at Odoo’s Open Core Model

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Open source software (OSS) has long been a cornerstone of the IT industry. But how can money be made with freely available software? This article…