  Digital ethics is being discussed worldwide as a necessity to create more
reliable IT systems. This discussion, fueled by the fear of uncontrollable
artificial intelligence (AI) has moved many institutions and scientists to
demand a value-based system engineering. This article presents how
organizations can build responsible and ethically founded systems with the
'Value-based Engineering' (VBE) approach that was standardized in the IEEE
7000TM standard. VBE is a transparent, clearly-structured, step-by-step
methodology combining innovation management, risk management, system and
software engineering in one process framework. It embeds a robust value
ontology and terminology. It has been tested in various case studies. This
article introduces readers to the most important steps and contributions of the
approach.
