{"id":13381,"date":"2026-03-09T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/the-schnitzel-paradox-in-digitalization\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:34:11","slug":"the-schnitzel-paradox-in-digitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/the-schnitzel-paradox-in-digitalization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Schnitzel Paradox in Digitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/christoph-gross\/embed\/episodes\/Das-Schnitzel-Paradoxon-in-der-Digitalisierung-e3g5lg4\" height=\"180px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:180px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The provided sources address the <strong>&#8220;Schnitzel Paradox,&#8221;<\/strong> which describes the irrational decision-making behavior of executives in <strong>digitalization projects<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>While people remain skeptical in their private lives even over small amounts, they often rely blindly on <strong>unverified assumptions<\/strong> for multi-million dollar IT investments instead of demanding hard facts. <\/p>\n<p>This risky attitude manifests itself particularly in the uncritical adoption of <strong>reference solutions<\/strong>, copying competitors, or placing blind trust in <strong>external consultants<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it warns that many years of <strong>professional experience<\/strong> in a dynamic technological environment often merely represents a clinging to outdated habits. <\/p>\n<p>Without <strong>constructive skepticism<\/strong> and a detailed examination of the individual company&#8217;s reality, projects risk either expensive rework or <strong>total failure<\/strong>. Ultimately, the sources advocate for building genuine <strong>judgmental power<\/strong> through sound industry knowledge and proven methods to avoid the risk trap. <\/p>\n<p>The basis is this blog post at the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/das-schnitzel-paradoxon-in-der-digitalisierung\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/das-schnitzel-paradoxon-in-der-digitalisierung\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The provided sources address the &#8220;Schnitzel Paradox,&#8221; which describes the irrational decision-making behavior of executives in digitalization projects. While people remain skeptical in their private lives even over small amounts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13381","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\/13381","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=13381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13383,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions\/13383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der-digitalisierungsberater.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}