Jost Becker is founder and Managing Director of binaere bauten gmbh – a consulting company focused on software architecture and IT solutions. He earned his MSc in computer science from ChristianAlbrechts-Universität, Kiel, in 1997, having accumulated almost 10 years of professional experience at that point. He started as a developer of enterprise IT solutions in the finance sector, became a project manager and finally self-employed. He always emphasises simplicity as a sign of quality in engineering and likes to see the Bauhaus principles as role model even for emerging IT sciences.
Publications
Part 1
The rapid rate of digital change is one of the main reasons companies must swiftly deal with the challenges of digitalisation. Until the mid-eighteenth century, use of the term ‘innovation cycle’ was not widespread. The leisurely pace of innovation from today’s perspective allowed companies to use the same business model for decades. Inventions such as the steam engine, the telegraph, the widespread use of electric current, the internal combustion engine and the assembly line then laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution. Despite these innovations, professions were still clearly defined.
