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The Impact of Self-Driving Cars

Posted by Matthias Orgler | Mar 22, 2017 | Energy, Transportation |

The trend towards self-driving cars is no secret anymore. But the impact this will have on other industries is vastly underestimated by companies today! Depending on who you’re talking to, fully autonomous (self-driving) cars will be the majority of cars on the road in 5-15 years. It is very likely, that by 2025 or 2030 at the latest, human driving will be forbidden, because it is too dangerous. But what does all that mean for the world around us? Will only the car industry change or will autonomous cars have an effect on other industries as well? Let’s look...

New Urbanity and the End of Malls

Posted by Matthias Orgler | Mar 20, 2017 | Real Estate, Retail |

Dan Bell’s videos are a testament to a change in the retail market around the world. While European cities still have lively urban centers with small cafés and boutique shops, many cities in other parts of the world (all and foremost the US) don’t have such a long history of town centers stemming from the Middle Ages. Even in Europe a lot of malls sprouted after WW II. For more than half a century, malls seemed to be the pinnacle of retail business. And they worked for several decades. But today, more and more malls are abandoned or don’t...

Moving Off the Grid

Posted by Matthias Orgler | Mar 19, 2017 | Energy |

A growing trend is to move off the grid. Markets once owned by large corporations slowly begin to dwindle. Disconnecting from centralized structures is a trend for companies and households as well. The biggest impact of this movement will be the energy market. With production prices for small to medium power generation facilities coming down, it makes economic sense for companies and households to produce their own power. Be it solar panels on the roof, a private wind turbine or a shared biogas facility. The energy corporations of today need to adapt to this change. They can’t rely on offering power, which...

Virtual Companies

Posted by Matthias Orgler | Mar 19, 2017 | Work |

Virtual companies are the next step in the evolution of businesses. It is already happening in parts. What a company is, will change dramatically over the next couple of years! Employment We all know that the times when an employee stayed with a company for most of his life are over. In many places you also see, that “employment” in the traditional sense does not describe, how humans produce value for a company anymore. Everything from freelancers over time employees to crowdsourcing shows that the world is changing. Although many companies still rely on payroll employees, these people often already work...