The Silicon Valley Challenge: A Wake-Up Call for Europe

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An Insider Report from the Centre of the Digital Universe

Silicon Valley shook the European economy to its core. American technology companies are the big winners of digitization. With the capacity to reach billions of people, they are aggressively making inroads into traditional industries. Digital Disruption poses a major threat to European industries such as: automotive, retail, logistics, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, banks, insurance companies and chemicals. No sector is spared from the onslaught of Silicon Valley - with dramatic consequences for workers in Europe. Who is behind Silicon Valley’s enormous success? How do the founders and investors think? Where does all the money come from? Why are their universities so successful? In short: How does Silicon Valley function? Christoph Keese, a Berlin-based author and top executive of Axel Springer, the highly digitalized publishing house, lived and worked in Silicon Valley for half a year on behalf of his company. He wrote an account of his experiences in this book. It is a gripping narrative written from the epicenter of the 21st Century: vivid, memorable and well-informed. His book has become a bestseller in Germany. It is now available in English for the first time.
An Insider Report from the Centre of the Digital Universe Silicon Valley shook the European economy to its core. American technology companies are the big winners of digitization. With the capacity to reach billions of people, they are aggressively making inroads into traditional industries. Dig...

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December 20, 2019
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Christoph Keese ist Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Unternehmensberatung hy und begleitet namhafte Unternehmen und Regierungsinstitutionen bei Fragen der digitalen Transformation und technologischen Innovation. Der Publizist, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Verlagsmanager, Investor und Bestsellerautor arbeitet seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre an der Digitalisierung von Geschäftsmodellen und ist einer der führenden Beobachter von Innovation und Erneuerung. Er gehört zu den Mitgründern der »Financial Times Deutschland«, leitete als Chefredakteur die »Welt am Sonntag« und »Welt Online« und trieb, zuletzt als Executive Vice President, die Digitalisierung bei Axel Springer voran. Christoph Keese ist Autor zahlreicher Bestseller, darunter »Silicon Valley«, »Silicon Germany« und zuletzt »Disrupt Yourself«. Für »Silicon Germany« wurde er mit dem Deutschen Wirtschaftsbuchpreis 2016 ausgezeichnet.

Christoph Keese ist Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Unternehmensberatung hy und begleitet namhafte Unternehmen und Regierungsinstitutionen bei Fragen der digitalen Transformation und technologischen Innovation. Der Publizist, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Verlagsmanager, Investor und Bestsell...

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