Dr. Dominic Lindner, Autor bei agile Companies

Digital change 21. March 2021

Digital minds – Booksmart or Streetsmart? #digitalheads

The digital transformation is coming and brings with it numerous challenges. Complexity and dynamism are increasing rapidly and people and companies are constantly being challenged to “reinvent themselves”. Since then, one often reads job advertisements that are looking for digital heads. But what are these #digitalheads actually? For this I came across the terms Streetsmart and Booksmart. Both terms are not defined uniformly and that’s why I tried to get information from current articles in the context of digital transformation. In the end, I try to evaluate which type we need more in a digital future. STREETSMART A streetsmart is a person who has extensive practical knowledge. So this person knows “how the world is going”! The term comes from street fighting, which has no logical rules and in some way redefines its own rules over and over again. So it can only be successfully passed through experience. In jargon…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

What is a #digitalfactory or a #digitalLab

When I got the current edition of the Handelsblatt opened, I saw the headline: “Deutsche Bank: Digital factory with 400 experts starts 2016 in Frankfurt”. At that moment, my first thoughts that crossed my mind were: What actually is a digital factory? The article itself provided the first approaches: the bank’s own research and development as well as investments of 750 million euros for digitization in private and corporate customer business by 2020. Digital factory = digital factory? At first I investigated whether there was a connection between these terms and actually couldn’t come up with a common denominator. A digital factory is: Generic term for a comprehensive network of digital models and methods, including simulation and 3D visualization. Its purpose is the holistic planning, implementation, control and continuous improvement of all essential factory processes and resources in connection with the product (Wikipedia). In the interests of the Deutsche Bank,…

Digital change 21. March 2021

The change to a digital company calls for a digital strategy

“In order to survive and assert itself against competitors, every company must become a digital company. Technology is the determining differentiating factor today – in retail, in the financial sector, in manufacturing, in public administration and even in the pharmaceutical industry. Every company must go digital. This is the only way to get better and more innovative. However, innovation means more than just investing in new technologies. ” so Salesforce in a news article . Digital companies seem to be “dangerous” to traditional companies and are radically changing customer behavior. But what is such a digital company and how can this be determined? For example, is a company with its own app already a digital company? Would you like a copy? The magazine T3N Back in 2015, thought about whether the ideas of digital companies could also be applied to the hairdresser next door or the bakery around the corner.…

Digital leadership 21. March 2021

What is digital management?

The megatrends of our time are called loud Heap Complexity, Globalization and Demographics. Never has the market demanded innovations, solutions and methods so quickly, never has the need for skilled workers been higher and never has work been carried out so closely across borders and time limits. This presents managers with new challenges. Furthermore, the magazine sees the backgrounds of these trends as diverse. On the one hand, the digital transformation ensures a high speed and complexity and makes events hardly predictable. On the other hand, the war for talents ensures high fluctuation in companies and great difficulty in getting skilled workers into the company. But what does digital transformation change in the context of management? Success factors of the future – digital management Networking, openness, agility and participation are loud another article by Haufe the success factors for digital management. The complexity of digital transformation requires information to be…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Dynaxity: dynamic and complex

Dynaxity describes an artificial word that is made up of the terms dynamics and complexity. Let’s look at the Duden so complexity stands for “multi-layered and that in one another of many characteristics”. If we turn back a little, we find the Duden under dynamics: “Force directed towards change”. The aim of the made-up word is to combine both of these terms. The term was apparently first mentioned in publications in the 1980s and has been revisited from time to time since then. The background to the term is the research field: Management in complex and dynamic systems. The 4 zones of Dynaxity The picture shows the 4 zones of Dynaxity. Zone 1 (static) describes simple, fixed rules and the same structures. So one could speak of a small business that has been secured for generations. Zone 2 (dynamic) describes the classic company according to some literature. Growth and changes…

Digital leadership 21. March 2021

Digital leadership in technological change

What influence does it have digital (r) evolution performance? Subject of an article of the Hannover tradefair was the influence of precisely that change. So it says in the invitation text: Experience shows that companies are innovative and tradition-conscious at the same time. In many areas, these companies are not technological first movers, but rather observe some trends and developments with some reluctance. In the context of digitization, it is important to find a balance between required innovation and desired tradition. Customers, companies, management and your own role are affected. This article aims to focus on the topic of digital leadership – how does it change our collaboration? – be focused. Challenge: leadership in the digital age Flat hierarchy, new ways of working, dealing with opinion leaders in organizations … The new challenges for managers are diverse. These are shown in more detail in the illustration. It turns out that…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Agile HR management – more than just Scrum?

Digital transformation , Agility , Work 4.0 , NewWork , Futurework , … If you look at current HR magazines, you will quickly notice that the field of HR is currently anything but boring. Managing flat hierarchies, meaningful work, horizontal careers and agile teams are the daily tasks of a modern HR manager. So there seems to be a change and the vision of human resource management seems to be changing? We want to revolutionize management in order to build extraordinary companies of the future with self-reliant employees and executives who can adapt extremely quickly in times of (digital) change (Andre Häusling – HR Pioneers ) Paradigm shift in HR Currently leading HR experts define a change in personnel management from hierarchy and silo thinking to network and interdisciplinarity. Profit maximization to benefit maximization, external control and top-down decisions on personal responsibility and human expertise. HR is also required to…