The German energy market is unusual in one important respect: it is defined almost entirely by regulation. The direction of travel is set by the energy transition, but the timing and the mechanics are set by legislation, which means a company’s products can...
A municipal utility walks into a bank with an investment plan. Nothing unusual, that’s how most Stadtwerke finance their way, often through a local Sparkasse they’ve worked with for decades. But increasingly the answer isn’t the one they expected....
German automotive employment fell 5.8% to 691,500 in the first half of 2026, the largest decline of any major German industrial sector, and the lowest level since 2005. Parts suppliers were hit hardest, cutting 7.6% of their workforce. Since 2019, the sector has lost...
Christian Barte spent the first part of his career inside large companies: AT&T, Detecon, Orange, then as CFO at Wiha. Early on, he assumed that companies failed for structural reasons: bad markets, bad products, bad timing. What he didn’t expect was how...
Werner Wind has walked into more broken IT landscapes than most people see in a career. What he finds is rarely a technology problem. It’s a landscape that accumulated: an ERP here, a BI tool there, something Finance built in Excel, something Operations built...
