"Modern tools are the foundation of ideation and innovation. How can you expect your employees to be nimble with their ideas, when their infrastructure is clunky? If employees aren’t allowed to use any top-notch digital products at work, how on earth should they know how to create them?" This is absolutely true and applies completely to the German work culture.
Not up-to-date tools and data silos are a huge topic in Germany and in fact all over the world. Companies use tools because they fullfil a certain, necessary task like CRM, ERP and others, but they don't care about the integration of the different systems at all. And so it turns out, that different employees in different departments use different tools - although working in the same company. We at https://zenkit.com are planning to change this, by integrating many different tools in one. With seemless switching and collaboration features, to enable employees to work together productively.