Dr. Dominic Lindner, Autor bei agile Companies

Bachelor thesis / master thesis 21. March 2021

Thesis: Help! I cannot find any literature for my context / industry!

Are you writing a thesis and should you write it in the special context of your company or an industry or do you have a special context for SMEs or associations? You will often find a lot of general literature and probably little literature specific to your field. This is quite normal as many researchers prefer to do broader research. Tip: If you cannot find any literature in general, then read my article: Help, I can’t find any literature! However, the fact that you are researching a specific niche is often of value in practice, as many results are not transferable to any industry. I have e.g. Researched SMEs and often heard about general results: this only applies to corporations or it is too expensive for us, … There are also almost no studies on agility in SMEs. It is therefore important that you work out the specific framework conditions…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Trend analysis: how agile and digital do companies become? #AgileDeadOrAlive

I often take part in expert interviews on the blog and thus help students and other researchers. I am often asked about my assessment of the following question: How agile / digital do companies become? The question is often aimed at 5 or even 15 years. On the other hand, I am also asked the question in another form: Will only agile companies survive?Do all companies have to become agile? Furthermore, the Andre Häusling’s blog parade with the question: “Is agility an obsolete model or a future model?” and the hashtag AgileDeadOrAlive to this article. I would therefore like to write a blog article with my assessment. I will go into this a little further and give a specific answer. However, this is only my personal opinion. 2 theses on agility and digitization of companies In my PhD I have a roundtable carried out. This brought together 12 board members…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Work 4.0 – Living concepts for a new work design (The Brucklyn Erlangen)

Work 4.0 is currently the most important catchphrase in the modern world of work. There are also numerous concepts such as home workplaces, remote teams or flexible flexitime models. A novelty is that professional and private life as well as the boundaries between work, leisure and home are merging more and more. One embodiment of such a new work 4.0 is the Brucklyn in Erlangen, which I visited a few days ago. This article is intended to present my impressions and thus the Brucklyn in Erlangen. The concept was described to me as a kind of hub for creative young residencials. On the one hand, an innovative living concept as well as co-working spaces should be included in the concept. In the course of the opening, I was invited to Erlangen and I would like to give my impressions of the event in this blog article. The Brucklyn in Erlangen…

Bachelor thesis / master thesis 21. March 2021

How do I classify my research scientifically?

At the beginning of their thesis, many students look for a scientific classification of the research. That sounds complicated at first, but after a lot of work it is actually not at all. I would like to present a model for this and also three scientific views. Method portfolio of business informatics Each of you will use different quantitative and qualitative methods to answer the research question. Quantitative research is the standardized and structured collection of data. So it represents real-world problems in a numerical representation. Qualitative research collects soft data that needs to be interpreted and therefore can be used dynamically for multiple contexts. Master theses often use both types. This is what is known as a mixed method approach. In a bachelor thesis, one of the two approaches is sufficient for me. Reading tip: More about both types of research There are also constructive and behavioral approaches. Constructive…

Digital leadership 21. March 2021

Tips for working in a virtual team #digifit

For some time now I have been working completely virtually with a team in Berlin and customers all over Germany. Some of my blog readers have already asked for tips on working in a virtual team. After that there is also a Blog parade at Bugasi I would like to share my tips with a focus on our software tools below. Organization of the team In the first step I would like to say something about our team. We are at three locations and have divided our four customers into the team. In addition, it was important to us that each customer has their own dedicated contact person and that this person is represented by various other employees. In general communication, these were mostly used for mails, for example in cc. In particular, the distribution of roles and tasks is very important to us in the team. Software tools for…

Digital transformation 21. March 2021

On the shoulders of giants – How to find your professional topic!

Do you want to develop yourself further and either become an expert professionally or realize yourself as a blogger or even as an author / speaker? But you have a problem: which topic should I work on and what could be my workhorse? Every topic is somehow exciting and you would like to do everything, right? Or are you even unable to concentrate on a specific topic because of your job, for example because agility is not yet an issue in your company or because management is not introducing cloud computing due to high costs? You can write an infinite number of lines on these questions, but I believe that it is often not the environment, but the people themselves. I have the following master tip: Successful people stand on the shoulders of giants! So you need to find those shoulders. By the way, this is an academic farmer’s wisdom…

IT organization 21. March 2021

Shadow IT in companies – what does that mean?

Many companies are increasingly facing a major obstacle in the context of digitization. Although employees are provided with all the IT resources they need to carry out their work, many employees use their own systems instead. These are already better known to them or simply more convenient. Such technologies are often clouds or online-based IT systems such as Dropbox or AWS. And the big problem is already there: a shadow IT arises, which entails a lot of risks and security traps. What does the term “shadow IT” mean exactly? Shadow IT is the unauthorized use of off-duty secondary systems that are used by employees in addition to or even instead of the company’s internal IT solutions. Employees can quickly be dazzled by the simple handling or a pretty design. At the same time, they forget to consider the associated risks. What the workforce is often not aware of: Unofficial apps…

Digital leadership 21. March 2021

Tools for virtual teams – this is necessary!

Virtual teams have long since become an integral part of the corporate organization in many organizations. Mobile working and home office are often the basis for teams to work together efficiently even without physical proximity. But which other tools can positively influence the performance and quality of work of virtual teams? What does it take so that companies can also benefit from cross-border and cross-national teams? Benefits of virtual teams Virtual teams do not only have many advantages for companies , but also for their employees. While companies can often fall back on a much larger range of experts, also from the international area, by eliminating location-based workplaces, you are simultaneously promoting the reduction of costs and time intervals and increasing customer benefits in your workforce. This is achieved by teams holding online meetings instead of traditional meetings and working together on projects, orders and processes in digital space in…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

What is the Spotify model and how agile is it?

The streaming service Spotify was founded in 2006, today has sales of over 4 billion euros and has 3,000 employees. This success story can be traced back to a wide variety of factors. One of them is the agile organizational form of Spotify, which is now taken as a model by numerous companies. Reading tip: Spotify model in traditional companies Spotify model – how does it look in practice? If you open current magazines, you will find the following headline: ” ING – a bank on speed “. ING DIBA is aiming for an agile change based on the Spotify model with the help of a major restructuring. Furthermore, squads, tribes and chapters from the Spotify model can also be found in the IT of Deutsche Telekom. Telekom currently has around 15 squads, which are distributed over four tribes. Quote from an agile coach at Telekom is to: “We have…

Digital transformation 21. March 2021

Specialist book: SMEs in digital change available (doctoral thesis)

I finished my PhD after 4 years and will soon (April 2020) tackle the defense. Since I always had a high degree of orientation towards the practice, this is now also online as a specialist book. The scientific content is summarized and the focus is also on the results, which are supported by practical examples. The book has been available and ordered since 02/02/2019. If you have any questions about the PDF version, please write to me! Address: promotion@agile-unternehmen.de Link Amazon: LINKLink to Springer: LINKReading sample: LINK My advice: Read that too Interview about the book on Saatkorn . If you want a compact overview of my studies and practical articles, then click here. PS: My current book: The way to the cloud – a guide for companies and decision-makers has also been available at Springer for a few days! PPS: You can also download my book ” Decision-making based…