Digitalisierung und Innovation in Kanzleien – Sandra Thiel and I wrote about our notorious Innovation & Best Delivery Hub and our fantastic multidisciplinary teams working in interdisciplinary ways.
Say Their Names (2)
Heute vor zwei Jahren wurden keine fünf Kilometer Luftlinie von hier neun Bürger mit Migrationshintergrund in einem rassistischen und rechtsextremen Terrorakt von einem paranoiden Deutschen ermordet. Sein Name ist unwichtig.
Ihre Namen dürfen nicht vergessen werden: Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar und Kaloyan Velkov.
Impfen is Action
How I would love to write about our rebranding in Best Delivery: „Innovation is Action“ and what it is all about. Our super interesting projects with clients. Our progress in applying AI and automatically processing the insights gained. Real end-to-end processes.

Or cheering about the new federal government. I am a fan of Angela Merkel, but 16 years was enough. My children were shocked that men can also become Kanzlerin. A former colleague is the first female Interior Minister. And a doctor, health policy expert, and epidemiologist is the Minister of Health – many had wished for that, me included. The same number of female and male ministers.
But no, I still have to call for vaccination. Booster vaccinations are doing really well (17%) in Germany. Also the first and second vaccinations of 12 to 15-year-olds. I also think the STIKO recommendation for 5 to 11-year-olds is sensible and correct.
But the overall rate of being fully vaccinated has still not reached 70%. That is too little. Therefore, get vaccinated (and boostered) if you can! Washing your hands, keeping your distance, and meeting as few people as possible and bearable also helps.
#ZusammenGegenCorona
Hat tip goes to Oliver, another Sven and many others for initiating this.
P.S.: I am an #impfluencer
Working from Home (27)
Please excuse this rant. But I’m really annoyed. I’ve been on the road for the last three weeks. In Italy, my vaccination certificate was scanned at every opportunity. Most of the time they wanted to see my identity card as well. They also checked me in Switzerland, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. But here in Frankfurt and the surrounding area, almost no one cares whether you’ve been vaccinated, recovered, or tested. Only in two restaurants that opted for 2G were they looking for my certificate. In one rather unwillingly, in the other conscientiously. I can’t remember who last asked for my contact details or at least had a paper form available (apart from my favourite Italian restaurant and my hairdresser) – they all refer to QR codes to the Luca app. No sensible person with an IT background would go along with Luca.
Kids aren’t „supposed“ to wear masks in school anymore. Star football players, former left-wing icons, and philosopher-pop stars talk about long-term consequences and vaccine damage or that they would never vaccinate children (against Covid) because this would destroy their „natural“ immune system or because vaccination is only for their own protection.
That. Is. All. Wrong.
Folks: The incidences are shooting through the roof. Yes, even fully vaccinated people can infect others. That’s no surprise. If more were vaccinated, there would be fewer recipients. And fewer strong spreaders. And wearing a mask, washing your hands and being careful is still the order of the day. That’s not so hard after all.
One bright spot is the German Corona Warn app: My mother and child #1 were informed in the app that because of their age and vaccination date (mother) or vaccine (child) they should get a booster vaccination now.
Working from Home (26)
After the Bucerius Innovation Days on Monday and Tuesday, I met my CIO Paul Greenwood for real in Frankfurt on Wednesday, then on Thursday at the Hub/IT event with Worldcafés (mine was on the topic of cloud computing and platform economy), we have just sent my 20+ years colleague and former team member Bärbel off into her well-deserved retirement (the social part is about to begin).
I am really done.
Bucerius Innovation Day 2021
We – my Innovation Partner Sandra Thiel, my Regional Technology Director Christiane Müller-Haye and Daniel Wilkus from the ITSC – have been at the Bucerius Innovation Day in Hamburg.
All around Platform Economics – is it more of a chance or risk for the legal industry?
Sandra and I introduced the legal industry part with the general thought process of law firms around platform economics, our expectations and experiences.

Andrew Klein from Reynen Court touched on all the beauty of the platform, how it can drive business value and embrace technology within the legal community. Dierk Schindler from Bosch took us through the ride of DIKE, part of the Common Legal Plattform which will hopefully materialise with funding from the GAIA/X budgets.
Marcus Trapp and Claudia Nass from Fraunhofer IESE entertained us with their amazing presentation about chances and challenges of digital ecosystems and platform economy.
- We are good in aiming for more efficiency and cost savings but what about creating new values in a changing environment?!
- To create new values you will need new superheroes in the organisation who are free from „we have always done it like this“ to think and innovate.
- Innovation needs the acceptance that you might fail.
- If you looking to have a guaranteed ROI after 18 months consider not doing it
- GDPR does not prevent products. If GDPR is hindering the operation of your product, then it is not a viable idea anyway. From my point of view, GDPR is a competitive advantage.
The Road Ahead
Do you want to follow Christiane Müller-Haye and me on The Road Ahead? We have written an article for GoingDigital of DeutscherAnwaltSpiegel about the contemporary challenges of electronic data analysis – and, folks, it remains challenging. Times have changed since the Enron case…we are no longer just dealing with ludicrous 500,000 American English emails and their attachments.
Did you know that a zetabyte has 21 zeros? Have you ever suffered from the atomization of information? Do you already know what RegEx, ML, NLP, or OCR stands for? And what they are really good for?
Now you are curious as a cat (pun intended)!
Working from Home (25)
What a week!
On Monday I was delighted to attend the first 2G* in-person meeting in our notorious Innovation & Best Delivery Hub with non-Clifford Chance people. To be on the safe side we did tests on top.
On Tuesday I enjoyed my first business ride on a train since March 2020, followed by a nice 2G* networking dinner, including an overnight stay in a hotel.
PMN Innovation Day 2021
Working from Home (24)
I love it when child #3 comes home from school and kisses me while my video camera is on. And I never had negative feedback (until now).
It’s ok to be distracted for a moment.


