Dr. Dominic Lindner, Autor bei agile Companies

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Agile HR work – agile career?

“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?” – Well .. I would like to be the boss … This or something like that probably runs through a lot of thoughts that employees have. The vertical career carries a lot of prestige and is often associated with great success and income. But in times of agility and flat hierarchies there are far fewer management positions and so agile HR work is established, which has to establish an agile career in the company. But what is it? Agile career What actually is a horizontal career and is it also an agile career? Career bible says: “The horizontal career or Specialist career is characterized by the subject-specific development. ” The problem is in the Computer week clear: Not everyone wants to be a manager and has an interest in spending his time on budgets, appraisal appraisals, and corporate policy skirmishes. In the…

Digital leadership 21. March 2021

Situational leadership – digital or agile leadership?

What does the employee need and what does the respective situation require? If you want to achieve goals, you have to be able to control people flexibly, she says Computer week. Because not only are the employees very different, but also the tasks that have to be mastered in everyday company life. The behavior of executives in managing their areas and employees must be correspondingly flexible, the magazine continues. The more flexible the boss, the better the employees This is the title of an article in of the world , which says: Managers are more successful, the more flexibly they react in day-to-day operations. Sometimes it is important to praise employees, sometimes to blame them. Sometimes active support is right, sometimes the manager has to consciously withdraw. The magazine also says: In day-to-day operations, leadership is often reduced to giving instructions and giving feedback. The targeted development of employees falls…

Digital change 21. March 2021

The dangers of digitization in the world of work – # Office factory #LeanOffice

“Office work in German corporations is now organized like factory work. Monotony in the service of efficiency “, according to Brand Eins in the issue” New job “. The “Lean Office” has found its way into Germany, the magazine continues. I did extensive research about this new #office factory, looked at what is hidden behind this term and wondered whether these really are the dangers of the “digitization of the world of work”. Digitization of the world of work – the #office factory In addition to many opportunities, the digitization of the world of work also harbors risks. In the following, I would like to present a few examples that show that the office can become a small factory with the highest level of efficiency. The Lean Office … Already the IG metal says: The new wave is taking hold of the office world. Lean office is the magic word…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Digitization in the workplace – opportunities and risks

Digitization will change working life considerably in the coming years – in almost all areas. If you don’t prepare, you will have a problem, one of those Articles from the world. The digital change is therefore increasingly changing our professional life. Without computers and the Internet, work stands still in many companies today. Craftsmen manufacture furniture or car parts with digital help, architects create construction plans in no time at all, where they had to make elaborate drawings beforehand. Employees are connected to one another via social networks, digital programs facilitate work processes and agreements with one another. Employees can concentrate on essential tasks and are no longer overloaded with administrative tasks, for example (source: Education experts ). Digitization in the workplace: Home offices are usually better equipped than the office In the Study by WiWo on digitization in the workplace can be summarized as follows: ” Digitization is more…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

The opportunities of the digital working world – NewWork

The digitization and networking of the economy with the use of new technologies, with new automation processes and new business models also has consequences for the world of work. Office work as we currently know it could change and bring opportunities and risks with it. This text deals with the opportunities offered by digitization. Work-life balance Home office and mobile work stand for free time management, a lack of commuting, greater personal responsibility and the compatibility of work and family. Demotivating the need to control and distrust. Anyone who sits in the home office can work more independently or at least feels that way says that Magazine CIO . The magazine also says: Many employees who work long days complain that they “get nothing else”. I mean shopping, washing clothes, repairing the bike. All of this has to take place on the weekend because between Monday and Friday the person…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

What is work 4.0 – definition?

The future of work in the context of the digitization of many areas of life is summarized under the term “Work 4.0”. Sounds simple, but in practice it is highly complicated: The buzzword “Work 4.0” conceals a plethora of unresolved labor law issues for employers, managers and employees Manager magazine . This article should therefore summarize the idea and selected concepts behind the term work 4.0. The basic question of the article is therefore: What is work 4.0 and is there a definition? Overview of the terms First I would like to give an overview of the many terms. I define work 4.0 as an umbrella term for the influence of digitization on work. In my opinion, other terms describe certain aspects of this new digital work. The table is from the source (Lindner 2019). WHAT IS WORK 4.0 As a term, “Work 4.0” deals with the future of work…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Digital transformation: better at home than at work?

Already in 2016 the following line was found in the WiWo: “Digitization at the workplace: home office usually better equipped than office”. The hosting service provider Host Europe carried out a survey of 1,000 knowledge workers and came to the conclusion that there was a large discrepancy between digitization in the home office and takes place in the workplace. I would like to get to the bottom of this thesis. You are welcome to say in advance Articles on the digital workplace and the Definition of the digital transformation read. Digital transformation Workplace vs. home office Already on mine Round tables the representatives of the union have shown that home office has already established itself in most German corporations and that virtually every knowledge worker can work at home at least one day a week. I am also allowed to work from home on a regular basis and, like many…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

How can you actually scale Scrum?

Having already been in the Article on scaling agility have made an initial assessment with experts for agile frameworks and also in the Dialogue with Boris Gloger the frameworks have been criticized, I set out to collect the frameworks and describe them. In the following you will find an overview of methods that deal with the question: How can you actually scale Scrum? Scaling Scrum with frameworks Scrum is widely used among agile development frameworks. The challenge here: Scrum is based on the work of a small team and does not initially provide any solutions for use in a large organization with a large number of teams. As a result of this need, various approaches to scaling agile procedures have emerged in recent years. In the following you will find an overview of the relevant frameworks, as well as an assessment of the measures and costs. To make the assessment…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

White paper: Agility in the management of small and medium-sized companies

The digital transformation is one, if not the biggest, challenge for companies in every industry (Laïfi & Josserand 2014). It is only a matter of time before it will find its way into every unit of companies (Lyytinen et al. 2016). Furthermore, trends such as big data and the fourth industrial revolution are being taken up by companies and, together with the digital transformation, pose further challenges for companies (Kaufmann 2015) such as greater complexity and dynamism in markets and companies (Pfläging & Hermann 2015). One approach to mastering this could be the “structural change” of companies (Gloger & Margetich 2014; Laloux 2015; Robertson 2015). The exact implementation of this “change” is currently a controversial topic. Several approaches for a “structural change” emerge in the literature. The basis of the considerations are the theoretical considerations of Laloux (2015), who interprets “evolutionary” structures as sustainable. Anderson & Uhlig (2015) and Nowotny…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

What about the digital world of work?

The Working world is going digital and changing! But what significance will human work performance still have in the future? Does knowledge work abolish knowledge work? asks herself FAZ in an article . Also BPB notes the following: Are we witnessing a digital revolution that will soon turn our working world upside down? We cannot say for sure what our working world of tomorrow will look like, but the change is here. No one can currently say whether this change is good or bad. The world sums up the negative consequences: Digitization forces many people to work faster and brings them to the edge of exhaustion. Concern about the job is also increasing. Paradox: Nonetheless, most people think change is good. Because it also has a lot of positives like the thinkers determine: The flexibility in terms of location and time makes it easier for employees in general: commuters can,…