Handelskraft is the corporate blog of the e-commerce agency dotSource. It is not just shop development that takes place at our premises in Jena, the city of light. Whether we get to welcome our 100th employee or introduce a new team: articles on events at dotSource are tagged with »Internal« and we are happy to share some insights with our readers. In-house white papers or the popular Handelskraft Trend Book are also presented in the »Internal« category.
If you ask colleagues for their opinion on working from home, there is certainly no consensus. While some people take full advantage of their new-found freedoms, such as sitting in meetings in sweatpants and cranking up their favourite music, others miss the everyday office gossip and are annoyed by parcel deliverers, network problems and noisy … Continue reading "Hybrid Office: How Colleagues Stay in Touch Despite Physical Separation [5 Reading Tips]"
The beginning of January is not just the beginning of a new year. For us, this also means – *drumroll* – the kick-off for the first parties of the year: Handelskraft anniversary, trend book release AND dotSource birthday. Normally. But although there can’t be any parties as we know them (yet), we’re celebrating 15 years … Continue reading "Happy Happy and Big Up to Our Team: dotSource Celebrates Its 15th Birthday!"
It’s that time of the year again. A new year full of exciting articles, topics and anniversaries lies ahead. After all, it’s not only dotSource that’s celebrating its birthday, but also our Handelskraft blog – its 14th birthday to be exact. Read this article to find out how the last year went and what topics … Continue reading "Happy Birthday, Handelskraft! 14 Years of Blog History"
Yes, data scientist is an official professional title. Data science can be studied and, as today’s interview guest Christoph shows, it is certainly a wise choice to do so. After all, data scientist is not only the sexiest job of the 21st century according to Harvard Business Review, but also something that every company that … Continue reading "Tech Talk with a Data Scientist: Tech-telmechtel with BI [Interview]"
It is a dull late autumn afternoon in November. People working from home have already switched on their desk lamps. Today’s Tech-telmechtel interview guest is Christoph, digital consultant at dotSource. Together with his colleagues, he supports clients in the selection, implementation, use and further development of CRM solutions.
New month. New series of articles. Welcome to our new Handelskraft format: Tech-telmechtel (a blended word consisting of »tech« and the German word »Techtelmechtel«, meaning a short relationship/flirt). From now on, there will be plenty of first-hand tech insights every week That would already be too many buzzwords for Mirco, but he took part in … Continue reading "Tech Talk Instead of Buzzword Bingo: Tech-telmechtel with Microservices [Interview]"
We are »Company of the Year«! Whoop whoop! The jury of the International Business Awards has chosen dotSource as the winner in the »Internet/New Media« category. We are incredibly proud that we have been able to bring one of the world’s biggest and most renowned business awards to Jena – especially in turbulent times like … Continue reading "International Business Awards: dotSource Is »Company of the Year«! [On Our Own Behalf]"
Online? No problem. MVP? No problem. Last week, we proved with the debut of the Handelskraft Conference 2020 Online Edition that we are able to pull this off under enormous time pressure and extreme conditions. Up to the day of the conference, we experienced 16 exciting days between »Oh my God«, corona master plan and … Continue reading "Online MVP #HK20STR – We Made It! [Recap]"
New decade, leap year, the benchmark for several forecasts: 2020 is something quite special – even for us although the new 20s have barely started. We just started into the new year, celebrated the agency birthday and now it is already March again. The month of Handelskraft. Incredible. Not only the conference anniversary in Stuttgart … Continue reading "Together Is Better – A Story of dotSource’s 300th!!! Employee"
Work hard, party hard(er). Those who achieve great things deserve great parties. This is what happened on the 17th of January. Together with many guests, former, current & new employees, friends, families, industry colleagues, partners and representatives from society, economy and politics, we toasted to 14 years of dotSource – great speeches, conversations, presents and … Continue reading "Journey to Jupiter: dotSource Rings in the New Twenties with a Big Party and Even Bigger Goals [Video]"
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