Most midsize companies use established digital technologies, only a few AI. Almost two thirds of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Heilbronn-Franken region have not yet developed a strategy for the digital transformation. More than half of them have no plans to develop such a strategy in the future. This was revealed in a major survey conducted by researchers at the TUM Campus Heilbronn. The biggest obstacles mentioned by the companies in this sector - known as the Mittelstand - were an inadequate digital infrastructure, skills shortages and too much bureaucracy. The region is seen as typical of the German Mittelstand.
The Mittelstand is often seen as the backbone of the German economy. ...
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