We are now an “agile company” and we want to lead in a more agile manner! One hears this sentence very often from German managers. As Nowotny says in his book “agile companies – only what moves can improve”: We conjure up the spirit of Silicon Valley and break up the gray layers of clay in the company. A rethink should take place, away from philistinism. Everyone should get involved and the “German fear” should be taken away. But why are we doing this and are we doing the right thing at all? Companies move, because only what moves can change or what do you mean? Apparently this thesis is correct, because former startups such as Tesla, Amazon and Apple, which are now global corporations, make established corporations such as Daimler, VW, DHL and Rolex sweat (Nowotny 2016, p. 23ff). A vehicle development in just three hundred and sixty days…
Organizations are in constant change. A core task of the modern manager is to carry out changes together with employees and to actively involve…
Agility has long been a fundamental part of IT and there is actually no more non-agile software development. Agility is now also expanding outside…
Agility is widespread in software development. But how can the term “agility”, which is also described in business terms with flexibility, be transferred to…
Agility is now more than just a phenomenon in IT. Agility has long established itself outside of IT, in some cases even throughout the…
Production is “the process of the targeted combination of production factors (input) and their transformation into products (products, output)” (Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon). So far, so…
Agile methods such as Scrum create paradigm shifts in companies and thus revolutionize their own corporate culture. Own beliefs and behaviors, such as “…
In the context of rapid technological change, especially in the field of automation and information technology, as well as the ever increasing networking of…
Almost every German has a bank account. In the meantime, you can “almost” even (almost) delete it, since even homeless people are no longer…