Thank you, and welcome to our Bechtle Analyst Conference on the first quarter 2026. I am delighted by your interest. Ladies and gentlemen, today, we are reporting on a strong start to the year for Bechtle AG. We are showing top line and bottom line double-digit growth rates. This is all the more remarkable given that the operating environment remains challenging. Well, with regard to the IT market, I've often said, size matters, and we are seeing this again very clearly now. Bechtle is one of the largest an ...

Founder, President, CEO & Director Yes. I think our fiscal year 2026, which we just ended in April, I think, the start of the year was really about getting some of the momentum from the benefit of all of our payer contracts being in place. So we had worked for a couple of years to get all those contracts in place. Once those -- once we got to that sort of 70%-plus payer mix under contract, it really unlock the rest of the business model. So that was sort of the way we started the fiscal year. And then we sa ...

公司裁员与组织调整 - 领英在周三进行了裁员，营销团队未能幸免，首席营销和战略官杰西卡·詹森在邮件中表示，公司正在“整个团队”中削减岗位以降低成本 [1] - 裁员的具体人数未明确，公司发言人拒绝提供具体数字，仅表示正在实施“组织变革”以更好地为未来成功定位 [2] - 组织变革涉及三个领域：第一，加强财务聚焦，包括削减付费媒体和项目支出；第二，将投资集中在能推动高回报的领域；第三，为团队成功创造条件，包括整合从事类似工作的团队以及采用新的AI工具 [6][7][8] 成本控制与战略聚焦 - 公司决定削减营销部门的付费媒体支出，付费媒体通常指谷歌广告或其他平台的推广费用 [3] - 公司强调需要更专注于资源分配，在保持对高投资回报率领域投入的同时，为最能推动业务的工作创造资金空间 [6] - 公司将营销投资集中在美国和英国市场，并优先考虑最能直接推动用户参与和收入的消费者体验 [7] 人工智能的应用与影响 - 人工智能正在重塑工作方式，公司计划采用未具体说明的“AI工具和工作流程”以帮助员工更快地完成任务 [3] - 此次裁员使领英与众多科技公司保持一致，这些公司在减少员工数量的同时推动员工使用人工智能，例如思科宣布了影响约4000个岗位的AI驱动重组，Coinbase和Block等公司今年早些时候的裁员也提及了AI带来的生产力提升 [4] - 公司还在其他方面投资人工智能，例如推出了一个“AI劳动力市场”，让人们可以通过训练AI聊天机器人在编程、护理和金融等领域获得报酬 [5] 未来业务重点与投资方向 - 公司未来的投资将聚焦于能在2027财年推动增长和高投资回报率的领域，包括加速LMS增长、推进智能招聘解决方案、以及基于高级订阅和小型企业服务的强劲发展势头 [7] - 公司计划在继续加强产品的同时，保持在LSS市场的领导地位 [7] - 公司的产品组织也受到了裁员的影响，其运营发生了变化 [3]

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