Dr. Dominic Lindner, Autor bei agile Companies

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

The last 5 years count – why specialists often rest on old successes

You are probably familiar with at least one of the following two situations: You are new to the company and one employee is highly praised for helping the company a lot 10 years ago. However, after getting to know each other, you notice that this employee is currently hardly worth any more and is more like a hype.You have an applicant who talks about numerous successful projects 10 years ago but the CV of the last 5 years is actually rather poor. “It used to be good” Many employees believe this sentence when they come across such employees. I often notice that old successes have a long-lasting effect on employees who have been with the company for 10-15 years and often such successes still carry great weight when changing jobs. But I see a danger: Such employees tend to solve today’s problems with yesterday’s methods! The last 5 years are…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Change management: blueprint for agile and digital maturity and strategy conception incl. Download

You know it when someone suggests changes and these are far from reality? The resistance is often massive and the implementation is often far too complex. Especially in an agile context, changes should be carried out directly from the classic organization to the cool start-up. But this alone is not an agile approach. The magic word is “small steps” to the goal and then gradually evaluate and improve. One way of doing this is through maturity models. A maturity model helps to evaluate and improve processes in the company. For this case, I would like to present an agile maturity model that I like to use. A company can often only assess the degree of maturity based on gut instinct. Dimensions of the agile maturity model First of all, let me introduce you to the first dimension: This is the actual degree of maturity of the organization. This has to…

Digital change 21. March 2021

How can I create a website for a company with minimal cost?

A website is now more than just information that exists on the Internet and is rarely accessed. Often companies even generate a large part of their sales with such a website. Another example are online shops that sell and sell products to end users exclusively via a website represent what is known as a digital business model . Such a website has become standard for companies and should not be missing in any company. On the one hand, it serves as an information channel for shops and bars, for example, on opening times and how to get there, as well as for companies with their own Products or services as a sales channel . Agencies are often expensive When you ask an agency the price of a website, they often get very high prices and you don’t understand why it is so expensive. An agency will work out requirements for…

digitalization 21. March 2021

Current studies on globalization in digitization

In this thesis, globalization in the context of companies is understood to mean cross-border or worldwide entrepreneurial activities. These location advantages should lead to competitive advantages. I examined these studies as part of my research. Study 1: Bertelsmann Foundation The first study was carried out by the Bertelsmann Foundation (2018). A globalization index is derived from statistics. In an international comparison, Germany ranks 18th (66.29 out of 100). The first three places are Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium. The index is based on data on economic, social and political globalization. The study shows that, especially in Germany, the gross domestic product depends to a large extent on the success of globalization. Global trade is decisive for Germany, especially as export to other countries. Study 2: Haufe 2017 For cooperation in the course of globalization over Crossing national borders, the virtual team of is particularly useful in knowledge work Meaning. In…

digitalization 21. March 2021

Current studies on innovations in digitization

I understand an innovation as a planned innovation that has economic success on the market. Digitization in particular offers numerous new possibilities. I would like to present two studies that I have highlighted in the course of my research. The first study examines possibilities for generating innovation in companies, the second study focuses on the financing of innovations in companies. Study 1: Lünendonk 2019 The first study was carried out by the consulting company Lünendonk (2019). It is an online survey of 70 senior executives from companies. According to the respondents, almost half of the companies have their own unit or staff unit for analyzing new technologies to generate innovations in the company. The other companies state that they develop innovations across all areas of the company. According to the study, the most important results of the innovation departments of the surveyed companies are: Generation of marketable products (43%),Process improvements…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Basics for change officers – my recommendations from science

You know that: You want a change in the company and the management appoints an employee to commission the change (without management power). If you see this change officer again after a few months, you recognize a stressed and sad person and the change in the company may have progressed by 5%. Maybe that’s even you? Change in the company is not easy and I often talk to blog readers on the phone who ask me for help with my own change project. There is good news and bad news. The bad thing is: You cannot overcome certain barriers in a company without power and you need a manager for help and the good thing is: I have put together great frameworks for everything else at the end of the article. Resistance and change Look at the picture below. You notice that we usually freeze in one state (comfort zone).…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Current status of sociocracy and holacracy in companies

Self-organization has many faces and can be implemented in a wide variety of ways in the company. Two possibilities are holacracy and sociocracy, which I want to highlight in this article. I get a lot of questions from entrepreneurs who ask me whether I know companies that still implement this. Of course, I know some startups that deal with it successfully, but I don’t know any traditional and established companies that still use it. In the following I would like to tell you why. What is Sociocracy and Holocracy? My own experience I myself was able to attend a holacracy in 2016 and the frameworks were discussed and tried out in my roundtables as part of my research. Unfortunately, my holacracy crashed after a few weeks. Especially egos in the company and employees who work according to regulations do not fit this framework. One often experiences a standstill when the…

Digital leadership 21. March 2021

When the chair of executives wobbles through inventory retention

Old Way – New Way – No Way! Change is ubiquitous, especially in the course of digitization, and often depends on the approval of a manager. But what if the manager would rather maintain the status quo and that in every area too! Some executives are inventory keepers A custodian is a manager who shows a very high degree of persistence in times of change. Unfortunately, many managers avoid changes that do not come from them. At the top of teams and companies there are often exceptional talents who are more efficient and more assertive than competitors. They are people who are extremely quick in absorbing, structuring, analyzing and processing information and who make decisive decisions. As a result, you have a high level of self-confidence and often only trust yourself in many decisions and thus avoid changes that do not come from you. Which is actually a misunderstanding, as…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Self-organization needs a sense of responsibility and how do you do it?

You probably know the adage: Self-organization needs leadership – surely you, as a specialist or manager, try to introduce this more and more into the company, but it really doesn’t want to spark. The employees keep asking for a boss and it doesn’t really work out. Situations like the one in the picture are unfortunately not uncommon. But why does it fail? Basically, based on my research, I can say that in every company a certain number of employees simply do not feel like organizing themselves. “Tell me what to do and I’ll do it between 9 am and 5 pm”. Most of the time, these employees are very hardworking and important to the company. In my experience, it even correlates with the Rogers theory in the picture. If you want to increase self-organization in the company, 2.5% of employees usually do this on their own and often infect 13.5%…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Current status of Corona in the IT industry

Corona is still ubiquitous. As of May 2020, 7.3 million people have been on short-time work and more than 40,000 new unemployed people have been registered as GDP has fallen by 2.2%. Especially in times of lockdown, 25% of German employees worked from home. Like in my new book ” Virtual teams and home office “this number has already fallen rapidly. Now it is only 10% of German employees and people return to the offices subject to certain conditions. The decreasing stress of families through homeschooling has also decreased significantly. So what is the situation after the lockdown in the IT industry? I would like to report from my experience. Return to the office So the return to the office has started since Corona. Large companies offer to come back to the office between 2 days and full time. Above all, companies like Siemens want to continue to work from…