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Reconstructing a forgotten success engine: How Germany dominated the dye industry
Can we learn from past success in times of technological acceleration? If you zoom into the history of the German chemical dye industry between 1856 and 1914, you do not just see a handful of clever chemists and lucky patents. You see a machine. It is a dense web of feedback loops in which universities,…
Pattern Recognition
Parrots, Patterns, and the Politics of Novelty: Thinking with Machines in a World That Thinks Back Disclaimer: The paradox is seductive because it mirrors the very complexity it seeks to describe: On the one hand, those who are deep into complexity science celebrate pattern recognition as a way of sensing the morphing contours of situations…
1000 Days at BOSCH
A Public Reflection When I received a call from Daniel Grun in July 2022, I honestly thought it was a joke. I was on vacation and picked up the phone out of curiosity. But it turned out to be a serious request: to run VSM trainings for BOSCH – at a very decent daily rate.…
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