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Energy Highlights 2026

Despite their motivation and creativity, municipal utilities and suppliers are coming under increasing pressure due to growing bureaucratic obligations, a shortage of skilled workers and scarce resources. Filling vacant positions requires flexible working models, fast application processes and greater openness to international skilled workers and career changers.

Arms boom instead of car crisis? Berlin’s industrial fantasy shattered by reality

Arms boom instead of car crisis? Berlin’s industrial fantasy shattered by reality

Germany’s industry is caught in a downward spiral: car manufacturers in crisis, crumbling supply chains, thousands of jobs hanging in the balance. But there is also this: full order books at arms manufacturers, because billions from new debts taken on by the federal government are ending up here. So can the special arms programme save the industry from further decline?

The Due Diligence Private Equity Still Gets Wrong: Human Capital

The Due Diligence Private Equity Still Gets Wrong: Human Capital

Most due diligences can slice the numbers a thousand ways. Markets, models, margins – all dissected surgical precision. But the one factor that decides whether any of it turns into performance — the people expected to deliver — is still often checked last, or lightly, or not at all.

Here’s the quiet contradiction in private equity: Financial DD predicts potential. Human Capital DD predicts reality. And the gap between the two is where value is most often lost.

The due diligence that private equity still underestimates: human capital

The due diligence that private equity still underestimates: human capital

In private equity, financial and commercial due diligence primarily analyse potential. However, whether this potential is realised is decided solely by the organisation that is to implement it. Human capital due diligence reveals whether leadership, roles and culture are actually capable of delivering value enhancement plans – or whether this is precisely where the latest and most expensive loss of value occurs.

Japan meets Berlin-Brandenburg

Japan meets Berlin-Brandenburg

The “Japan meets Berlin-Brandenburg” network demonstrates how active exchange between Germany and Japan functions. In conversation, Anne Pomsel, Marko Gretzschel, and Daniel Norpoth explain how the DJW promotes economic cooperation, cultural understanding, and sustainable relationships. A look behind the scenes of a network that builds bridges where others see boundaries.

Der teuerste Fehler im Private Equity: Digitalisierung wie ein IT-Projekt zu behandeln

Der teuerste Fehler im Private Equity: Digitalisierung wie ein IT-Projekt zu behandeln

Digitalisierung scheitert selten an Technologie – sondern an Führung. Viele Private-Equity-Häuser behandeln digitale Transformation noch immer wie ein IT-Upgrade und übersehen, dass wahre Skalierung aus Entscheidungsfähigkeit, Datenkultur und klarer Führung entsteht. Die teuersten Wertverluste entstehen nicht durch fehlende Tools, sondern durch Organisationen, die zu langsam entscheiden, zu wenig Transparenz zulassen und kulturell nicht bereit sind für echtes digitales Momentum.

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