On Monday, at the UnternehmerTUM Forum, there were many inspiring discussions. Of course, most of them were about entrepreneurs and IT. One of the people I talked to told me that the means of communication “email” is now on the way down and will soon belong to the past.

In a way, he is correct. There are times when the email flood literally kills me – especially on my business account. And the need to delete them all the time is really annoying. Mind you, it happens regardless of the excellent SPAM filter letting (almost) nothing pass at our office.

But there are two things that I find particularly disagreeable:

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During the last week, we at InterFace AG had to finish our balance sheet for the business year 2009. Being an “open corporation”, we have to be careful about quite a few formalities as written down by the law. For instance, we have to hand in a report on the state of affairs as part of the balance sheet.
The report on the state of affairs must contain various items of information around the enterprise, such as the development during the last year and the expected development during the next year or the type of risk management we practice. A report on the externality (external effect) of the enterprise is also part of the state of affairs.

As I read on, I came across a sentence that, even though sounding correct to me, is of huge consequence in my way of thinking:

The enterprise always adhered to the environmental obligations as required by the law. This is true both for the disposal of former waste and, for example, the recommended use of environment-friendly transportation.
(From the state of affairs section of the InterFace balance sheet of 2009).

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On Tuesday, February, 9th, 2010, I attended a presentation by Meike Leopold (see picture) at a 7-IT event. She is a Cirquent PR manager and journalist and talked about:

“Blog, Twitter & Co. – Is it Worth the Effort?”

It was an excellent presentation about an interesting theme. I was quite impressed to hear what pains even big enterprises like the Cirquent GmbH take in order to present both themselves and their employees authentically to their external and internal stakeholders. Cirquent does it through Second World (there, too, with increasing contacts), but also with their Corporate Blog. All employees can play an active role in the blog.

Thus, I would like to express my huge appreciation to our competitor. I am sure nobody will hold this log against me. After all, I also spent a few years of my life at Cirquent. That was almost 30 years ago and at the time, the enterprise was still called Softlab GmbH.

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The InterFace AG has a new subcompany: the IF-TRAINING GmbH. It was founded by Jens-Christian Lang. Naturally, the logo of the new subcompany also contains our IF with the familiar face.

IF training offers its services to enterprises, government agencies and associations wishing to further consolidate their market position due to its excellent councelling.

Here is how Jens-Christian himself says it:

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This is a question we were asked by a female professor at the MIT. I forgot her name. We were listening to her as a keynote speaker when we attended an HP event in Hannover.

It was all a long time ago. Those were good times. Hewlett Packard celebrated the “Wind of Change”, the victory of the UNIX servers against mainframes. And in the evening, shortly before they flew to Tokyo, the Scorpions played.
But first, the professor presented a wonderful oratory on “management and enterprise culture”; including a short story I remembered when I attended theWorkshop at Rise.

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Here they are: story, question and answer.

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An experiment …

… with excellent results. We had more than 70 participants who were all fascinated. More than 20 topics were discussed. The meeting was an all-round success for “our future at InterFace”.
I presume that most of you agree that this kind of event is the most suitable for people working at InterFace. Everybody can contribute with ideas of his or her own, everybody decides by him- or herself what he or she is interested in and where to get active. Now we are all eager to see which of the ideas will benefit most from the initial momentum.

Many thanks to all who participated and I wish us all lots of fun for our common future activities!

CS
(Translated by EG)

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