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Hartmut Hübner at the kybun Joya session of the VR-Symposium 2026 in Zurich

Leadership & AI

kybun Joya: Operational involvement as an innovation engine

Why kybun Joya's board members stay involved in daily operations, and how that choice shaped a radical digitalisation initiative.

9 September 2026Read
Four robust AI decisions arranged around an uncertain path

AI & Innovation

Four AI decisions that do not require a forecast

AI forecasts disagree on speed, jobs and abundance. An SME can still make four decisions that remain useful across several possible futures.

4 September 2026Read
Hartmut Hübner and Construction Ride founder Alar Jost during the Baldegg ride

Leadership & Work

Cycling is the new golf — when movement changes the conversation

A Construction Ride through the Seetal showed why conversations can become more open when people move together — and what makes activity-based networking work.

31 August 2026Read
Hartmut Hübner with three members of the Dockyard Ventures team after the AI workshop in South Tyrol

AI & Innovation

What an SME can build with AI in one day

In our final workshop with Dockyard Ventures in Bolzano, the team built four reusable AI skills and two clickable prototypes. The real achievement was turning its own process knowledge into tools it can test and improve.

28 August 2026Read
A structured decision space with options, evidence, challenge, and human judgement

Strategy & Decisions

Better decisions with AI: widen the options, keep the judgement

AI can expand the range of strategic options, keep market models current, and challenge assumptions. The advantage does not come from delegating decisions, but from designing a better decision process.

24 August 2026Read
Participants at the AI Café in Schaan on 20 August 2026

AI & Innovation

What the AI Café revealed about AI in recruitment and compliance

At the AI Café in Schaan, people from HR, legal, compliance, and fiduciary services examined two working systems: RheinTalent and controlled AI workflows for compliance. In both cases, AI prepares the work and people make the decisions.

23 August 2026Read
Cover of the AI in Compliance 2026 whitepaper

AI & Innovation

AI in compliance: from manual bottleneck to controlled workflow

The AI Compliance Survey 2026 shows where valuable specialist time is tied up in research, document retrieval, and reporting. The new whitepaper explains how that work can become a bounded and reviewable AI workflow.

16 August 2026Read
RheinTalent: Purpose matching as a conversation, not a verdict

AI & Innovation

RheinTalent: Purpose matching as a conversation, not a verdict

RheinTalent connects a cross-border labour market through anonymous profiles, confirmed skills, and purpose matching. AI prepares the conversation. It does not decide who belongs together.

24 July 2026Read
Hartmut Hübner speaking about communication and organisational change

Leadership & AI

Rethinking Communication in 2026: A CEO Guide for Leading with AI

AI can carry more of the information load. Leaders still have to create clarity, make decisions, work through disagreement, and give change a direction.

23 July 2026Read
Kimi K3: What Longer Context and Parallel Agents Mean for SMEs

AI & Innovation

Kimi K3: What Longer Context and Parallel Agents Mean for SMEs

Kimi K3 is an unusually large model with native vision and a one-million-token context window. Its practical value will depend on the working system around it.

20 July 2026Read
AI Agents Need Context Before They Need Autonomy

Agentic Engineering

AI Agents Need Context Before They Need Autonomy

The first useful lesson from building FlowBoard, AI skill teams, and research workflows: agents become valuable when they inherit context, not when they pretend to be independent.

1 July 2026Read