Hans Timmerman

A missile can destroy a data center. A war can disable an entire region. A cable can be cut. But perhaps none of these events should be capable of destroying our digital world.…

Creative destruction is rarely popular. Dismantling something that still works can feel like throwing money away. After all, there are many more attractive things we could spend…

The digital time bomb I wrote about in my previous blog is not a theoretical problem. Sometimes the information is in an old database. Sometimes it is in a backup. Sometimes it is…

Practical craftsmanship in trades and factories has largely disappeared through mechanisation, industrialisation and automation. And now AI agents and AI bots are doing the same…

Perhaps, then, we should take the term data-driven working a little less literally. Data should not drive us. Our goals should drive us. The outcomes we want to achieve. The…

It is no longer simply: “Is our IT secure?” The real question is: “Can we, as a board, demonstrate that we understand our digital risks, manage them, monitor them, and act…

Europe is growing older. That is a fact we cannot escape. But aging does not automatically mean economic decline. Higher productivity makes every worker more economically valuable…

The real innovation is therefore not replacing the employee with a machine. It is giving the employee a machine that enables them to accomplish five times as much. Not more people…

We see the paradox: cheap labour makes labour inexpensive and can therefore delay innovation. Scarce labour makes innovation necessary, but only if we also keep the technology,…

Not everything needs to be preserved, and not everything can simply be thrown away. But everything that still exists deserves a conscious decision at some point. That is why we…