Monographie Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

SERVICES IN TRANSITION – DIGITALISATION AS AN OPPORTUNITY
The Bonn/Rhein-Sieg service location is growing and
flourishing. Providers of innovative and high-quality
services not only pave the way for own growth potentials
but at the same time also help their customers to increase
their productivity and innovation – and this applies more
than ever in the digital era.
Bit by bit, digitalisation has been changing life and day-today
business. In the course of the digital transformation, new
opportunities are arising for the providers of businessrelated
services. Already today these are so closely linked to
industrial value creation that they are a key success factor
for the production sector. The two multinational DAX enterprises,
Deutsche Post DHL and Telekom, which are located
in Bonn, have long since attained this. Logistics as a service
is characterised by rapid growth. According to the Deutsche
Post CEO, Frank Appel, the main drivers for growing pro -
ductivity are the increasing deployment of digital tech -
nology. It is in particular the parcel business, domestically
and abroad, that is continuing to display rapid growth,
driven by dynamic online trade, and this also holds true with
the business of the express division, with punctual inter -
national shipments (TDI). Telekom has also set the course
for the future and provides the linked world of labour with
state-of-the-art component mounting technology and an
IP-based Telekom connection. Until 2018, all standard
and universal connections will be changed to the new
IP technology, by means of which the entire network infrastructure
will become significantly more efficient and
future-proof.
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Die Digitalisierung führt in der deutschen Wirtschaft zu grundlegenden
Veränderungen der Marktbedingungen.
In the German economy, digitalisation is leading to fundamental
changes in the market conditions.