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Digital change 21. March 2021

Digital self-organization for work that is flexible in terms of location and time

The current understanding of digitization encompasses more than the vision of a fully automated and technology-oriented development of the German corporate landscape. This guiding vision undoubtedly creates complexity in the implementation of such projects, because digitization is more than just working with an Internet connection. Rather, digitization is changing our entire working world at a rapid and unstoppable speed. It is evident that hierarchical organizations with supervisory bodies and managers are increasingly giving way to networked and project-oriented companies that are optimized for speed and innovation. Plan orientation, long-term thinking and homogeneous teams are a thing of the past, because methods such as Scrum and Co make our working world heterogeneous, fast and flexible. What is digital self-organization? A look into practice shows that digitality is increasingly leading to a traditional understanding of hierarchical organizational structures changing and legitimizing power being weakened or even reversed (cf.Signhardt). Examples, the CMS system…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Digital business leadership and digital business models

Digitization is changing people and markets. It causes disruptive upheavals in entire industries, creates new digital-centric companies and requires established companies to make considerable efforts to cope with the transformation activities associated with these digitization processes. New procedural models have to be learned, tried and tested thought patterns have to be broken and, last but not least, innovation activities have to be understood as continuous necessities. At the same time, there are significant opportunities in digital business to renew competitive advantages, improve existing process structures and realign your own products, services and business models (Source: Digital Business Leadership von Kreuzer et al.). In the aforementioned book: Digital Business Leadership, three very exciting questions were asked, which I would like to list here and which I would also like to try to answer in the course of the article: What distinguishes digital business leadership and how can this be achieved? But…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Digital change needs digital agility

Agility as a strategic and organizational principle is increasingly understood in the digitalized world as a success factor for companies of all types and sizes Innosabi’s blog . The agile way of thinking and acting, which is a matter of course for young startups, often develops in the opposite direction with increasing maturity and size of a company: flexibility becomes rigidity, speed is lost and planning replaces action. The digital change Competitive pressure is increasing in every industry. More and more new companies are entering the market, bursting with new ideas regarding the customer experience. Due to changing customer needs, digital change comes first. This is also shown by the figure that in addition to price and cost pressure, digital transformation is at the top of the list. The example of Kodak or Apple shows that digital change is fundamentally linked to corporate success. Kodak has had to painfully experience…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Complexity in management, agility and digital transformation

Management complexity has been around since digital transformation brought back into focus. How can companies deal with the increasing complexity and dynamism of markets? How can modern leadership and structure be established in companies and how can we reduce complexity with the help of special methods. According to the author Niels Pfläging, corporate structures should be just as lively as markets. But what does he mean exactly and how is complexity reduced in practice? Why is there complexity in management Why did it get so complex? What were the triggers and why wasn’t it like that “earlier”? For this I found the picture above. It seems that this dynamic has only slowly increased since 1970 and has peaked again in the past few years. The reasons for the high density and the increase in competition appear understandable. In addition, many authors mention the digital transformation, Industry 4.0 and Big data…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Digital transformation and agility

Digital transformation is one of, if not the greatest, challenge for companies in every industry. It is only a matter of time before this will find its way into every unit of business. Along with this trend, the dynamics and complexity will increase significantly. Expectations will change suddenly and companies will find themselves in a field of tension between traditional value creation and new digital business models. In order to master these challenges and overcome the hurdles, companies have to reinvent themselves. Above all, the necessary structural change in companies will be the greatest success factor in countering the challenges and the speed of digital transformation. Agility is becoming an increasingly important topic in the course of digital transformation and has long been a major feature in many areas, including outside of IT. Complexity and dynamics are counteracted with self-organization and resilience. Executives become servant leaders and companies act in…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Innovation in medium-sized companies – agile and digital?

“Innovation in medium-sized companies – do we have to worry? “asks Sebastian Grimm in his article and based his question on the results of a study: The market research department of the KFW banking group published its current results on all aspects of innovation among German medium-sized companies. The results can be briefly summarized under one sentence: Germany suffers from a lack of innovation. Is that now threatening or are or have the past few years only been characterized by a very high level of innovation that is now returning to normal? No wonder when you read headlines like: Many banks’ computer systems are complex. Unfortunately, they are often completely out of date and hardly anyone still understands them. At many banks, the retirees now have to answer ( WiWo ) or also in the WiWo : ” Old people in the executive suite make people tired of innovation “.…

Consulting 21. March 2021

Whitepaper: Consulting 4.0 – Mittelstand advises SMEs

Digitization as a megatrend continues to shape economic and social coexistence enormously and is increasingly found in almost all areas of a company (Kreutzer and Land 2013). In short, digitization is understood to mean the implementation of business models, from products and services to processes, to computer-based formats, which can then be further processed with computers (Kreutzer and Land 2013). This development results in new or at least changed business models for almost all branches of industry and company sizes (Bengler and Schmauder 2016). Medium-sized companies on the advance Management consulting is one of the industries that benefits greatly from digitization. Admittedly, management consulting is to be seen as one of the industries that sets up, directs and is involved in implementing a large number of projects for the digitization of companies from a wide variety of industries (Werth et al. 2016). But what potential does the consulting industry itself…

Consulting 21. March 2021

Consulting Y – agile IT service provider – agile consulting?

When you hire a service provider, you want them to be on hand with help and advice. Lately I’ve been reading articles a lot, but they criticize the fact that consulting often provides too much advice instead of action. Specifically, the criticism means that too much theory is sold at a high level and too little real advice takes place. This criticism hits IT service providers particularly hard. So shows Nicolas Kittner this in a quote on: The problem with most consultants is that they are only consultants. They are on a meta-level, everything is macro, nothing micro. It’s about trends in the market, about processes, about structures, about price models, about business plans and brand strategies. But consultants need to know the micro, they need to know how to turn an e-commerce strategy into a shop, how to build a prototype from an idea, how to develop a product…

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…

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…