PwC Legal Switzerland has joined the Accord Project to contribute towards the development of a global, open source implementation for smart legal contracts. The Accord Project counts over 50 global law firms, standards bodies and trade associations among its members and collaborators.
The Federal Office for National Economic Supply (FONES) has today published the ICT minimum standard for the protection against cyber risks.
PwC Legal Switzerland announced plans to join the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium. PwC Legal Switzerland joins more than 80 other law firms, legal technology vendors, and service providers participating in the GLBC.
Robotic process automation (RPA) technologies are a cost-effective and non-invasive way of automating repetitive business processes. Apart from achieving process automation, RPA also digitises manual processes in the organisation and captures valuable process data.
The subject of cryptocurrencies is new and wild, and its effects on the economy and society are largely unknown. It is nevertheless important to get to grips with the basics in a business context. We show you how. And why.
As part of our ongoing involvement engagement with the leading FinTech space F10 Incubator & Accelerator, we are delighted to showcase five promising start-ups.
Digital transformation is the most critical challenge for industrial companies worldwide. PwC’s new study “How to Be a Digital Operations Champion – Global Industry 4.0 Study 2018” shows that as far as Swiss companies are concerned, they have not quite exploited their full potential yet.
What links spies, hackers, cookies and a grey Aston Martin DBS? The answer can be found in the indictment against four suspects that the U.S. Department of Justice published last week. The four individuals are accused of breaching into the networks of a large telecommunication company in 2014 and of stealing large amounts of client data. Despite the legal jargon (albeit with a few sparks of technical details), the reading of the document reveals some interesting aspects in regard to cyber security.
Neue Technologien und Mitbewerber wie junge Insurtech-Unternehmen stellen bewährte Geschäftsmodelle der Versicherungsbranche in Frage. PwC Schweiz hat zu diesen Trends fünf Thesen entwickelt.
Blockchain’s potential to transform business is already manifesting itself in industries such as insurance. But what could the technology do for HR? We brought together some blockchain experts with HR leaders to explore its possible impacts.
In the past, managing change has all too often been equated with (belated) project communications and training. More recently, however, experts have concurred that digital transformation, and ultimately its success, hinges on both the organisation and the people involved. Despite this, robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives in particular still tend to focus very much on the technology, paying little heed to how the organisation is going to keep pace. But if you want to harness the full potential of transformation in terms of saving costs and upgrading the work your people do, you have to make changes affecting your business model, organisation, culture and individual people early on.
Chatbots – digital programs that conduct conversations via auditory or textual methods – are disrupting forms of customer engagement as they effectively meet customers’ needs for enhanced user experience through artificial intelligence.
This report focuses on findings from Switzerland compared to the rest of the world.
WikiLeaks, the platform that has in the past released thousands of classified US diplomatic cables and, more recently, emails from the Democratic National Committee, has now published leaked documents which it claims came from the CIA. The documents detail tools the intelligence agency uses for surveillance. This includes notably kits to penetrate computers (from Windows to OS X), mobile phones (iOS, Android) and many other devices.
Angesichts des enormen Potenzials, das der digitale Wandel den Unternehmen bietet, werden diese auch auf die Cybersicherheit aufmerksam. Sie schützen Ihre wichtigsten Daten, indem Sie Bedrohungen identifizieren, darauf reagieren und sie aufheben.
Die zukünftige strategische Positionierung und die Umsetzung von Wachstumsstrategien sind wichtige Themen. Die Anzahl der Vermögensbanken in der Schweiz und im Fürstentum Liechtenstein wird sich auch in den kommenden Jahren verringern.
