Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Automating defined processes
If your company is completely , another step towards AI can be the digitalization and automation of existing, defined processes (Robotic Process Automation, RPA). This takes advantage of the fact that machines can perform more logical computing operations than humans. This does not yet involve self-learning applications, but rather rule-based applications that are hard-coded. Their …
Analysis with Business Intelligence (BI)
In digitalized processes, large volumes of data can be analyzed using business intelligence methods. Exponentially increasing available data and exponentially increasing computing power make evaluations possible that were not possible before. A necessary prerequisite is both high data quality and meaningful data extraction, transformation and loading of data sets into a BI application (ETL process). …
Artificial Intelligence (AI) as problem solver
If you are looking for applications that can judge, solve problems and learn, you are entering the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial intelligence from machines is superior to human abilities in some respects, for example when it comes to grasping and simulating complex systems and processes, such as in neural networks. In this context, …
Training for Digitalization
In addition to the technical steps for an AI transformation, empowering employees and the organization as a whole in media and IT skills is an important success factor on the road to digitalization. Digitally supported work steps and processes will not run themselves; without the necessary know-how at precisely this point, any of your investments …
Criteria for data and system security
Definition: What does data and system security mean? “Data and system security” is understood to mean that information-processing, -storing and -transmitting systems are protected from damage and that data are protected. Three criteria are applied for this: Goals of data and system security The objectives of measures to ensure data and system security are to …
Availability, Integrity and Confidentiality of Information Systems
IT information security is a part of comprehensive information security, which also includes non-digital information. A company’s IT information security is assessed against the requirements of the ISO/IEC 27000 standard, which describes the procedure for ensuring basic IT protection. Companies can have the conformity of their information security management system (ISMS) with this . The …
Protection of Personal Data
The demand for the protection of personal data is based on people’s right to information self-determination. Privacy and personality data must be kept anonymous. You must ensure that third parties cannot access personal data from your systems. In Germany, the requirements for the protection of personal data are defined in the Federal Data Protection Act …
Organisational structures for companies
What is an organisational structure: A simple explanation The organisational structure is important for companies because it defines the formal ‘reporting lines’. For employees, the organisational chart shows where they are in the organisation. The organisational structure also shows which issues and which functions are important for companies. Companies in the same sector are sometimes …
Potential of line organisation
A clear form of organization is the line organization. The line organization derives its advantages from the fact that it is the clearest and most uncomplicated of all organizational forms. However, this is also its limitation. A line organization also makes companies quite immobile. Line organizations date back to the time of industrialization. At that …
Bundling competences through matrix organisation
Groups of companies with several operationally active line organizations tend to bundle their functional competencies without relinquishing location responsibility. One such possibility is offered by the form of matrix organization that came into vogue in the 1990s. Properly implemented, a matrix organization can bring business groups together and unlock benefits. But matrix organizations can also …