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Today, more and more companies – from the manufacturing sector to the engineering industry – are starting to use such technology to optimise products, refine processes and predict possible failures.

IoT has been changing the mindset of the entire sports industry for years now. The IoT market does have an upward trend and the top leagues and teams will be a significant part of it. IoT can not only provide useful data when developing one’s performance but also influence the team strategies, boost fan experience, and help referees make the game fairer. ERNI engineers and keen sports enthusiasts Robert Cluet and Toni de la Torre discussed the key areas that the sports industry focuses on nowadays and offered their opinions from multiple perspectives.

At the very beginning, we find the most important question. What does a brand stand for? And where is the brand heading to? People are irrational and so are their choices. This reflects itself in many decisions they make. While that’s perfectly fine in private life, it can be challenging for a company. In each brand, each company and in every design aspect there is the potential to touch the people around. And a strong brand and appealing design generate business value. You can control and optimise the emotions of your brand based on data.

Only when a brand impresses the consumer, stands out from the competition, enthuses, captivates and surprises is the consumer prepared to buy, change supplier or try something new. This is exactly what brand experience design aims to do.

Healthcare is facing numerous challenges. As our population ages and the cost of care increases, the healthcare industry must find innovative ways to solve operational, clinical, and financial challenges. Technology allows these devices to generate, collect, analyse and transmit data, creating the Internet of Medical Things: a connected infrastructure of health systems and services.

We all know it, Covid-19 killed human interactions. But there are two different contexts our ERNIans are living nowadays

In our second episode of the interviews with three Agile experts at ERNI, we deal with the transformation to agile itself. What does it bring along and are there any tips for doing it right? What pitfalls are there?

If your company is able to deliver a positive experience for your customers, it not only raises their willingness to buy but also their loyalty to your brand. To find out, if your company is able to do so, you can start by taking an unbiased look through your customer’s eyes. Would you be happy with the experience?

At ERNI Germany we as a team want to stay connected throughout the Corona crisis.

There are plenty of project management methodologies, so what makes Scrum so special and how can we compare it to traditional project management frameworks?

Agile is functioning well, remotely just as good as in person which is especially important in the time of the Corona crisis now. Having expertise with working in distributed teams, our experts Christian Glück, Tanja Neuenschwander and Joffrey Zehnder answer some of the principal questions about the methodology in our series of 2 episodes.

Design thinking, Lean and Agile are mainly based on in-person workshops, yet the reality of most teams is that they are global and thus not able to meet in person on an every-day basis.

Are you killed by overreporting? Are you overloaded with meetings, reports?

Due to the recent pandemic situation worldwide, we did our first fully remote design thinking and innovation workshop for a customer in Switzerland. The prospects are that this will ongoingly be a remote design thinking process also for the future.

Electronic records, faster and more precise diagnostics, new technologies helping people get better. There is no doubt that the future of hospitals is digital.

Welcoming a new employee in times of Corona and home office: Sandra Hohl started on 1 April 2020 as a Junior UX Engineer / Consultant and gives us an insight into how she experienced her remote onboarding process.

Working from home offices, ordering food from online shops, telemedicine via video – the global corona crisis has brought digital business models into the daily life of many people in record time. The current crisis shows us how important digital business models are these days.

These days we are confronted with a crisis of unprecedented proportions. Within a very short period of time, many social norms have been turned upside down, and we have to cope with challenges in our everyday lives that we have hardly known before.

Simply asking your colleagues something across the desk is less of a hurdle than writing an email and then waiting a long time for an answer. But even if a team member is on the other side of the world, you can still work efficiently. Learn some basics on how to keep the distance short despite the actual distance.

“He who does not move with the times, will be removed over time.” What the German poet, philosopher and playwright Friedrich Schiller prophesied more than 200 years ago on the subject of progress is also true today for the digital transformation.

Within the current situation related to measurements in regard to the Covid-19, remote work is becoming a crucial part of business continuity. What are the factors influencing its effectiveness? As a partner with experience in working with geographically dispersed teams we know the key factors to focus on.

Almost four months after their start at ERNI, the fresh colleagues summarise their impressions.

Digital Business Transformation is an umbrella term that is made up of many individual elements – which can include, for example, the digitalization of internal processes, customer experiences or business models. This is what makes the topic so complicated.

At ERNI Slovakia, we have a nice habit of having Breakfast at the office bi-monthly.

ERNI «Snow ‘nd Fun» started at the beginning of 2000 under the name «Snow Xtreme» organised by a former colleague. Typically two to four hard guys attended this event on the first Friday of March in Engelberg. Nothing but powder snow they were looking for.

Artificial intelligence is conquering the business world. But how do you actually teach devices to think for themselves? ERNI developer Marek Linka explains.

The first ERNI Development Day of 2020 was the first EDD I was attending just as an attendee since I joined the organisation team about two and a half years ago.

How artificial intelligence and machine learning can make everyday work in the automotive aftermarket easier.

Building software has never been this painless before. We now have powerful tools at our disposal such as version controls, greatly improved IDEs, the cloud, and many more. As these instruments enable us to build complex applications, the intricateness of the software architecture in our applications also evolves along the way.

It’s WomenHack at Facebook in Zurich. Again, our energetic ERNI Recruiting Team was participating at the beloved speed dating event.

In the European healthcare industry, software solutions are needed that are specially tailored to the respective care landscape in each country and can be rolled out nationwide.

In ERNI Romania we started a long-term collaboration with Babes Bolyai, one of the main universities in Cluj Napoca, with over 3,500 graduates each year in Mathematics and Informatics.

Teodor Vasile joined ERNI at its site in Munich in 2019 working as a Professional Consultant in the area of MedTech. How did he spend his first year at the company? Read the following lines and find out yourself. We are happy to have you on board, Doru!

What does the Blue Pen that has been in use at ERNI for years mean? Is there any philosophy behind it? Daniel Hartmeier as a long-year employee tells us.

Further within our Typical at ERNI Series, our colleague Braňo Pavelka from ERNI Slovakia explains why people on this site are used to have lunch at 11.

The fear that the machine will make people superfluous or even dominate them is old. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), these and other fears are more relevant than ever. For this reason, ethics is increasingly being discussed in this context.

Compared to large companies, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are generally lagging behind in the digital transformation.

According to a study by management consultants Roland Berger, the market for digital products and services in the healthcare sector in Europe is progressing faster than previously assumed: By 2025, the European-wide market volume is expected to be around EUR 155 billion. According to the forecast, digital healthcare offerings will then account for around eight percent of total spending in the healthcare sector.

At ERNI Spain, we have introduced a nice habit 3 years ago, which is called the Breakfast with Diamonds.

New, flexible strategies and agile working methods are necessary to modernize the IT of the financial services industry in Europe. This also applies to software programming.

Having a compelling mission, culture and values are critical for attracting and retaining top talent in a competitive job market.

After lots of challenges being encountered all throughout the year, ERNIans in the Philippines and Singapore celebrated its 2019 Year-end Party last December 06, 2019, which was held at Ace Hotel and Suites, a hotel near the EPH office.

It has become a lovely tradition already that the ERNI Slovakia employees participate in helping children in orphanages, crisis centers, children in foster families, or children in need every year before Christmas.

Margrethe Vestager has many plans. As Executive Vice President and Commissioner for Digital Policy of the new EU Commission, she is responsible for digitisation for a few weeks now. In order to score points in global competition with the US and China, for example, she wants to set binding targets for the introduction of digital citizen services, as there is still “considerable catching up to be done” in most countries. The same applies to infrastructure.

Computer programs today are anything but error-free – and they can only ever make decisions as well and as ethically as the person who developed them.

At ERNI Philippines – and generally, in the Philippines – we love karaoke. Life is smoother and happier with singing.

Today, we are starting a new series of articles dedicated to the typical things we have at ERNI. Let our colleagues tell you what is of habit in our company life.