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I follow the discussions around the power of the crowd with big interest. The emerging start-ups dealing with crowdsourcing alone are a source of inspiration. Some university professors even call it “the Future of Digital Work”. I truly follow their perceptions that the new options to reach out to a global mass of highly creative people to generate new ideas or to solve problems in real time and at low cost are offering tremendous opportunities.

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In a recent discussion by CIOs

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 In our last blog “Key Criteria of SMEs to Select IT-Consultants or Service Providers” we mentioned the role of soft skills when selecting IT-Service providers. Although hard criteria (like skills or price) play a vital role, especially for small of mediums sized companies (SMEs) soft factors play a significant role as well. We think it´s worth looking deeper into this topic and found that it has not been discussed very often or in depth so far.

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Fachkräftemangel ist ein häufig diskutiertes Thema – bis 2030 soll in Deutschland laut zuverlässigen Prognosen ein Mangel an fünf Millionen Fachkräften herrschen. www.prognos.com

Den Innovationsreichtum Deutschlands beizubehalten wird somit immer schwieriger, was sowohl Unternehmen wie auch die Volkswirtschaft gefährdet. Besonders eklatant ist das Thema Fachkräftemangel in der IT, hierzu gibt es zahlreiche Untersuchungen und Befragungen.

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Recently we found an interesting working paper dealing with selection criteria of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) when trying to find a suitable consultant in the area of IT (www.sml.zhaw.ch). Although this paper had a slightly different focus by positioning universities as alternative option for IT-consultants we found it of value to SMEs in general.