At the dawn of the third millennium, our world is characterised by the digitally global flows of good, services, people, finance, and data; by the ways in which geopolitical players shape the course of digitization in their images; and the way that data allocates globally.
The Great Firewall of China, Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies are all phenomena that must be analysed in the framework of digital globalisation.
Ralph Poettinger is a managing director at institutional investor Alpine Group with about € 100 million in assets under management. He also acts as a globally active advisor, author, and speaker on value-driving corporate development for strategically growing his clients' enterprises, and is a lecturer on corporate finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His ideas are directed at entrepreneurially-minded people who want to utilise change to earn freedom, security, success, and the respect of the world.