Family businesses have a great future - if they succeed in mastering the social, economic and technological challenges. This book offers a kit from which family entrepreneurs can create their individual future model - their f.cube. In order to develop the f.cube, the reader is presented with key challenges for companies that can be put together like a construction kit to form an individual overall picture. The individual elements have been developed by renowned experts from business and science in discussion rounds. Contents: - Family businesses in transition - Opportunities of the platform economy - Development of new business models - Big data and AI as a challenge - Smart Cities vs. Progressive Province - New Work - fashion or future? - Responsibility, rules and tradition - Family as Investor - Opportunities of Financialization - Data and intellectual property protection - Modern representation of interests

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Dr. Dominik von Au is a Partner and Family Governance Leader at PwC Germany and the Managing Director of the INTES Family Business Academy. He helps business-owning families structure their succession plans and draft family constitutions and participates in major initiatives for family businesses, He's also a member of the Commission on the Governance Code for Family Businesses.