With their focus on hardware, Germans are oblivious to simpler changes hiding in plain sight.


"Until recently I worked for a British company. Once a month, I collated and uploaded my expense receipts, which were mostly PDFs or, if paper, became PDFs with a wave of my iPhone.

Now I am in a German company that proclaims Digitalisierung as a strategic goal. I print out my PDFs, sign forms in ink, and mail the papers in a pouch to another city for processing."

handelsblatt.com (Autor: Andreas Kluth)

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