Rainer Tolksdorf, Digital Innovation Engineer · Innovation Mentor · Founder and Owner of Tolksdorf.digital
Orientation in complex digital situations and working together to achieve what matters - even in the age of AI.
Personal Introduction
For over 30 years, I have been bringing together business, technology, organization, and people to make digitalization, innovation, and AI practical and usable.
I help companies
- to provide guidance,
- To reveal dependencies,
- Building ability to act
- Effectively implementing digitalization and innovation under real-world conditions.
Working at the intersection of people, technology, and business
I work in areas where digitalization, innovation, business, technology, and people must all be taken into account at the same time—and where standard solutions no longer suffice.
The most difficult problems are rarely purely technical.
Often missing:
- Orientation
- Common Language
- Connection between disciplines (interdisciplinary coordination)
- regaining the ability to make complex situations manageable in practice.
That is exactly where my focus is.
My Approach
Every project has its own context.
That is why I take a pragmatic, technology-neutral, and highly communication- and context-oriented approach—from the initial assessment through to practical implementation.
My work brings together:
- Business
- Technology
- Organisation
- Communication
- People
- and AI
The goal is not “more digitalization” or “more AI,” but rather greater practical effectiveness.
AI, Context & digital Orientation
Many companies today are investing in digitalization and AI without this automatically leading to a clear direction, acceptance, or measurable effectiveness.
I am therefore exploring the question:
How can companies use AI effectively without creating new complexity?
To that end, I work with, among others:
- AI Agents
- Human-AI Collaboration
- Semantic knowledge structures
- Open Source
- Automation Platforms
- AI Operating Models
- DBRS (Digital Business Relevance Suite)
Goal is:
- Organizing Knowledge
- Establishing orientation
- Highlighting Connections and Dependencies
- Fostering competency growth
- Relieving and empowering teams
- Making innovation practical and usable
Publicly known Projects and Methods
Experience Innovation™
An approach to introducing and gaining acceptance for new solutions in everyday business operations.
More about Experience Innovation
DBRS – Digital Business Relevance Suite
An approach to relevance in the digital space for structuring knowledge, context, and digital orientation for people and AI.
More information about Digital Relevance for Human and AI
Samy
An AI-powered innovation mentor for digital guidance and collaboration between people, organizations, and AI.
Chat with Samy chatten - for example about Rainer and Tolksdorf.digital
CAISE – Collaborative AI Supported Engineering
An approach to collaborative work between humans and AI.
Learn more about Collaborative AI Supported Engineering
Experience and Personal Context
- Born in 1964 in Biberach/Riß, a Swiss and German citizen who lives and works in the Lake Constance Euregio.
- Completed engineering degree in physical technology at the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences.
- Since 1990 in responsible positions in manufacturing and IT companies.
- Transformation / Innovation / Digital / Systems Engineering, Project Management, Owner Tolksdorf.digital
- Many years of SME experience in corporate development, change management, projects with teams, digital innovation and digital business.
- Private studies on digitization led to the founding of Tolksdorf.digital.
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