Author: Karen Wendt

Karen ist Präsidentin der SwissFinTechLadies, Serienunternehmerin, Wissenschaftlerin und Herausgeberin von Sustainable Finance. Sie berät Unternehmen in der digitalen Transformation, die Nachhaltigkeit in ihrer DNA beinhaltet. Sie wurde von Prestige Awards als „Investment Bankerin“ des Jahres 2020 ausgezeichnet. Ihre neueste Publikation gemeinsam mit Katharina Miller The Fourth Industrial Revolution erscheint in Kürze bei Springer Palgrave MacMillan.

Corona has changed the world. Topics like value creation, liquidity and humanity have changed. Karen Wendt and Petra Streit appeal to all managers act more agile and promote a participatory corporate culture. The Corona crisis has unexpectedly hit the majority of Swiss companies. For example, in the five sequels about the digital transformation, Digital Switzerland writes that Covid was a digital stress test for the companies. At Digital Switzerland it sounds like this: in addition to the digital infrastructure, we need a space of ideas, a digital knowledge society and new relationships. Many companies are waiting for the crisis to…

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We are living in times of change and the winds of change are clearly blowing. And we have to decide, do we want to build walls or windmills? Karen Wendt on digitization, digital assets, blockchain and tokenization. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity appear to be the new normal in our lives. The American military calls this VUCA environments. Will it be possible in a VUCA environment to go on with a linear thinking (the future will be as the past was)? “Welcome to the slowest day of the rest of your life.” – Ian Goldin frequently says during his talks.…

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Antrifragility is more than just resilience the ability to recover from mistakes. It anticipates possible undesirable developments and creates business models that are crisis-proof and lucrative. This article below is written by Karen Wendt and discusses the lack of a female representation in technology, blockchain and finance. Jacky Lam wrote for Forbes in 2019: “Crypto currency and blockchain are becoming one of the world’s largest disruptive technologies.” As expected, the sector has seen tremendous start-up growth and investor interest. However, as we continue to see success in fundraising and application growth in blockchain technology, there is also a worrying trend:…

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