{"id":13369,"date":"2026-02-02T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/digitize-automate-or-die-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:34:00","slug":"digitize-automate-or-die-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/digitize-automate-or-die-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitize, automate, or die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/christoph-gross\/embed\/episodes\/Digitalisieren-Automatisieren-oder-Sterben-e3for7i\" height=\"180px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:180px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This analysis issues a stark warning: companies that fail to consistently pursue <strong>digitalization and automation<\/strong> will not be viable in the long term. <\/p>\n<p>The author criticizes the widespread <strong>ignorance of inefficient processes<\/strong> and points out that superficial software solutions alone cannot offset the growing <strong>staff shortages and high sickness rates<\/strong>. Instead of hoping for an external rescue, businesses must relieve their existing workforce through technical support and systematically eliminate <strong>manual workflows<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>A key aspect is creating a <strong>strategic master plan<\/strong> to avoid aimless investments and measurably increase efficiency. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the choice between proactive <strong>modernization or economic decline<\/strong> is presented as unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the blog post: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/automatisieren-digitalisieren-oder-sterben\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/automatisieren-digitalisieren-oder-sterben\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This analysis issues a stark warning: companies that fail to consistently pursue digitalization and automation will not be viable in the long term. The author criticizes the widespread ignorance of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13371,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions\/13371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}