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Information Technology

Information Technology

The umbilical cord of the global economy

Information Technology (IT) encompasses all technical resources used to generate, store, archive, and use digital information. This also includes the transmission of information through communications technology.

Information Technology is the essential foundation for the growth of the global economy. In companies, IT is an integral part of service delivery.

Information Technology: an enabler for innovation

By using IT, companies today try to gain competitive advantages. Today, IT is an enabler for new business models and processes; on the other hand, IT can help companies handle their existing processes faster and more efficiently.

IT plays a central role in all industries today, as they work intensively with digital information. Contracts, account transactions, and the like are stored or transmitted in digital form. Security, availability, and confidentiality of Information Technology are crucial. On the one hand, sensitive customer data is stored or processed. On the other hand, failures can lead to immense losses in unfavorable cases. In this context, it must also be ensured that information systems meet the requirements in terms of audit security and other regulations and laws.

Increasing digitization has dramatically changed the cost structures of companies in recent decades. Therefore, companies are investing in their infrastructure to use Information Technology to achieve goals such as standardization and consolidation on the one hand and innovation on the other. In addition to reducing operating costs, improving customer loyalty and bringing companies up to the standards of the relevant competition also play a role.

Given this central importance for the economy and growth, the security of IT is more important to companies than ever before. However, in many places, it is still too much neglected. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been renewed pressure on companies and employees to act dynamically within the framework of IT systems and to implement resilient structures and secure IT processes.

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How ABO psychologists may help if the boss is the problem

How ABO psychologists may help if the boss is the problem

Unlike psychotherapists, ABO psychologists are not clinicians but analyze an organization and its actors at all hierarchical levels from a socio-psychological perspective. The job of an ABO psychologist is to look behind the façade of a company and analyze social relationships and interactions.

Posted on 10. September 20192. December 2021 by Iris Dohmen

New cybersecurity certification to increase safety of industrial plants

New cybersecurity certification to increase safety of industrial plants

TÜV Rheinland has developed the "Certified Operational Technology Cybersecurity Professional (TÜV)" certification program, which helps companies identify and improve competencies within the team and thus increase the overall cybersecurity of industrial and operational technology facilities.

Posted on 17. May 20192. December 2021 by Nigel Stanley

Culture of prevention: How does it succeed?

Culture of prevention: How does it succeed?

 Prof. Dr. med. Joachim E. Fischer in an interview with tr-academy.com: The Director of the Mannheim Institute for Public Health at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg sees in the "FreuSinn" - joy at work - a central factor for a healthy and motivating Leadership 4.0. In his opinion, the thesis that prevention is better than cure - is more relevant than ever.

Posted on 8. November 20185. January 2022 by Norbert Wieneke

Employability via skills revolution?

Employability via skills revolution?

The companies that can combine the right combination of people, skills and technology are the ones that will win. Take a look at your company structure: Who can do what and how far have you implemented new technical solutions?

Posted on 29. October 201810. January 2022 by Markus Dohm

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