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Buy, build or partner: there are only three answers
46% of Catalonia’s digital companies were founded in the last decade. With a market full of young companies, the question becomes how to get in.
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Switching off costs more than switching on
Spain took more than a decade to close its copper network. The lesson is about the real cost of keeping alive a technology that no longer serves.
Josep OlivetThe 19.5% that does not move
Women are 19.5% of ICT specialists in the EU and no country exceeds 30%. The absolute number has almost doubled. The percentage has not.
Meritxell BautistaWhen leaving stops being expensive: the end of data lock-in
The European Data Act has applied since September 2025 and turns switching provider into a right. Selling software now means retaining customers otherwise.
Josep OlivetFrom pilot to process: why 95% stops half-way
An MIT study concludes that 95% of corporate generative AI pilots produced no measurable effect on the bottom line. The problem is not the technology.
Meritxell BautistaThe exact point where a digital worker breaks
Systems that work autonomously inside a company do not fail because of the model. They fail on context that no one has ever written down.
Josep OlivetThe first quarter Catalonia’s tech sector stopped growing
ICT employment in Catalonia fell 13.3% in the first quarter of 2026, the first decline since 2022. Outside Barcelona, that changes the arithmetic.
Meritxell BautistaCopper is switched off: now comes the hard part
Spain closed its copper network in 2025 and 91% of broadband lines are now fibre. When the technical gap goes, owning a network stops being a feature.
Josep OlivetAI governance starts with a list of names
The AI literacy obligation has applied since February 2025. It raises an uncomfortable question: who answers for what a system decides.
Meritxell BautistaBuilding resilient companies: growing without depending on a trend
41.9% of Spanish companies born in 2018 were still trading five years later. What kills the rest is rarely change. It is the dependency nobody ever wrote down.
Josep OlivetAutomate without dehumanising: redesigning work in the age of artificial intelligence
If the world’s workforce were 100 people, 59 would need training before 2030 and eleven will not get it. That is not about technology. It is about work.
Meritxell BautistaCore Technology: why sharing capabilities lets you build better companies
More than half of European companies rent cloud infrastructure and only one in seven builds on top. That gap is what a shared technology core means.
Josep OlivetCorporate knowledge: from scattered resource to strategic infrastructure
70.89% of European companies that dropped artificial intelligence blamed a lack of expertise. Technology can be bought in an afternoon; know-how cannot.
Meritxell BautistaFrom experimentation to competitive advantage: the real challenge of integrating artificial intelligence
In 2025, 19.95% of European companies used artificial intelligence. That is an adoption figure: it counts who plugged something in, not who works differently.
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