Karl-Heinz Land

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Karl-Heinz Land (2018)

Karl-Heinz Land (born January 24, 1962 in Hennef ) is a German speaker, author and investor.

Professional background

After finishing school, Karl-Heinz Land was an early employee of Oracle in Germany in the mid-1980s and managed international sales for major customers for the software company until 1994. After that, Land became a serial entrepreneur and investor in around 50 companies and supported them with IPOs and internationalization. In addition, he took on functions as a supervisory board and partner. In addition, Land held management positions at international companies such as Business Objects , which were acquired by SAP in 2007 , and MicroStrategy .

In 2001, Land founded VoiceObjects, which was acquired by Voxeo in 2008 and has been part of Aspect Software since July 2013 . As Managing Director of VoiceObjects AG, Land was named a Technology Pioneer by Time magazine and the World Economic Forum in 2006.

In 2014, Land founded the digital and strategy consultancy neuland, which was consistently recognized by Brand eins as the best consultant in the field of digitization four times in a row from 2016 to 2019 .

Several publications on the digital future have emerged from his collaboration with business economist and marketing professor Ralf Kreutzer . With Earth 5.0 - provoking the future , Land published his first book as a single author in 2018.

Thematic focus

Land sees digitization and technological progress as the only way to solve world problems from hunger and climate change to overpopulation. In particular, he sees technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain as an opportunity to create a new democratic infrastructure for access to information, capital and added value, and to achieve sustainable environmental protection and efficient water and food supplies with the help of the circular economy and sharing economy could.

Land predicts that digitalization will result in dematerialization that will make a large part of the value chain superfluous. In the long term, almost all physical products would become software and application software and thus dematerialized. Land postulates that everything that can be digitized will be digitized. Everything that can be networked will be networked. And everything that can be automated will be automated.

Land advocates the thesis that in 15 to 20 years either every second person will be free from work or the majority will only work 20 hours a week. He is an advocate of the unconditional basic income and advocates that the state grant an unconditional basic income and finance meaningful work on a large scale itself. Land proposes financing through a robot tax, which is to be borne by companies that make profits thanks to their software.

In education, Land is a supporter of Montessori pedagogy and calls for a rethink in educational policy . Land is convinced that the transfer of knowledge will become less important and that the development of social and methodological skills as well as self-determined and lifelong learning will gain in importance through digitization.

He is invited to lectures and workshops on his theses by companies, associations, universities and cross-party local and federal politics .

Works

  • Ralf T. Kreutzer, Karl-Heinz Land: Digital Darwinism: The silent attack on your business model and your brand. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01260-1 .
  • Ralf T. Kreutzer, Karl-Heinz Land: Dematerialization - The redistribution of the world in times of digital Darwinism. FUTURE VISION PRESS (self-published), 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817268-0-0 .
  • Ralf T. Kreutzer, Karl-Heinz Land: Digital Brand Management - Digital Branding in the Age of Digital Darwinism. Springer Gabler-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-08546-9 .
  • Karl-Heinz Land: Earth 5.0 - provoking the future. FUTURE VISION PRESS (self-published), 2018, ISBN 978-3-9817268-4-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Karl-Heinz Land The visionary from the Rhenish province. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
  2. ↑ VoiceObjects in the English language Wikipedia
  3. ↑ Technology Pioneers 2006. ( Memento of December 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Time
  4. ↑ brand eins: brand eins Topic: Consulting The best consultants in Germany
  5. ↑ a b c d world: "Everything that can be digitized will be digitized"
  6. ↑ The catastrophe as catharsis. In: Frankfurter Rundschau.
  7. ↑ t3n: What the German economy can learn from the rise of Wirecard
  8. ↑ World: Does digitization threaten the end of every second job?
  9. ↑ a b Artificial Intelligence: When Robots Become Colleagues. In: Spiegel online.
  10. ^ Stifterverband: Karl-Heinz Land: Learning and Working of the Future
personal data
SURNAME Country, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hennef