“The future is agile: A rapid technological change, a constantly increasing rate of change as well as far-reaching social changes require dynamic robustness, flexibility and liquid structures – in one word: agility. Agility is the survival paradigm of the knowledge society.” ( Mark Wagner With these words, Mark Wagner opens his whitepaper on creative spaces. This topic is just one of the many subtopics of the hashtag: futurework. Everyone works with! The trend has been going in one direction for years: A. ll should participate in the company and so far companies have always managed to do better. Driven primarily by digital technologies. When people talked about the “interactive web” in Web 2.0, apps and the Internet of Things made it much more interactive. Now there are numerous other possibilities through, among others, CloudServices. The goal of Futurework is now to adapt the workplace and work to this “hands-on culture”.…
Recently (2019) Xing asked over 17,000 of its members about salaries and one of the primary results is that every tenth XING user would change jobs for more meaningful work. According to the study, Generation Y in particular places more value on meaning in their job than on the “pure paycheck at the end of the month”. This is just one of many surveys that consider the purpose of work to be very important. Under a similar aspect, in 2019 I conducted workshops on the search for meaning and team vision with 9 teams and I noticed that not everyone needs meaning and that it is often difficult to find, especially in routine tasks. But the topic of meaning is currently such a big topic in the minds of many managers that a veritable search for meaning is kicked off in some companies. Reading tip: Team workshop to search for…
“Society is constantly changing and is experiencing fundamental changes in ever shorter periods. What was unthinkable not so long ago is now a reality or is imminent – from internet-enabled smartphones to self-driving cars to refrigerators that provide replenishment itself. Artificial intelligence is finding its way into our everyday lives and is changing the way we work and live. “so the Otto Group in the invitation to a blog parade . I would like to participate and see how digitization could change our working world. Roundtable on Work 4.0 In order to better understand the world of work 4.0, I gathered several experts and debated this topic for 4 hours. In the following I would like to show the results and support them with quotes from the participants. More about the roundtable can be found here . The participants can be found in the following table. Companies position Number of…
Nutrition is the be-all and end-all for a person’s productivity. Sitting for long periods in particular and working in front of the PC is actually not exactly the best thing you can do. Numerous fitness magazines provide help and recommendations for action for a healthy diet. However, it is often the case that in addition to everyday office life and all the agile work, there is no time to implement these extensive recipes. That’s why I would like to give you a few tips for agile nutrition in everyday office life. Eat like an emperor in the morning, like a king at noon, like a beggar in the evening (unknown). Tips for agile nutrition in everyday office life My recommendation is never to give the body more than 500 calories at a time. Of course, the cheat day, i.e. a day on which you eat as much as you like,…
“On the one hand, digitization can be expected to give project management a boost, because it is primarily driven by projects. Will the project manager become a control center due to the growing complexity, the increasingly distributed and interdisciplinary teams, often from different organizations, networked as a generalist? “Asks Project magazine in a blog parade to project manager2030. I would like to participate in this in this context. The project manager today! What about the project manager today? A keyword is probably the technical management of employees in the matrix organization. A kind of toothless tiger who has to get people to work on his project in addition to their day-to-day business. It is seldom that you are assigned full-time staff, because even if you do, the employee is often still on 5 other projects. At least that’s my impression. The project manager has to motivate and bring the various…
The current understanding of Industry 4.0 encompasses more than the vision of a fully automated and technology-oriented development in German industry. The so-called fourth industrial revolution is characterized by the increasing networking of people, materials and machines.This guiding vision undoubtedly creates complexity, because Industry 4.0 is more than just working with an Internet connection. It should change the world of work at a rapid and unstoppable speed. Digitization in the context of Industry 4.0 shows that organizations are changing and work is becoming faster and more virtual.But what does that mean in concrete terms? What is Industry 4.0? This article is intended to collect definitions and at the end give an overview of what Industry 4.0 could mean and possible concrete examples of what Industry 4.0 is and what is not. What is Industry 4.0 There are numerous definitions of Industry 4.0 and I also ask myself: What is Industry…
The current understanding of Industry 4.0 encompasses more than the vision of a fully automated and technology-oriented development in German industry. The so-called fourth industrial revolution is characterized by the increasing networking of people, materials and machines. This guiding vision undoubtedly creates complexity, because Industry 4.0 is more than just working with an Internet connection. It should change the world of work at a rapid and unstoppable speed. Digitization in the context of Industry 4.0 shows that organizations are changing and work is becoming faster and more virtual. But what does that mean in concrete terms? What is Industry 4.0? This article is intended to collect definitions and at the end give an overview of what Industry 4.0 could mean and possible concrete examples of what Industry 4.0 is and what is not. What is Industry 4.0 There are numerous definitions of Industry 4.0 and I also ask myself: What…
Speed, flexibility of location and working at a distance are the current effects and opportunities of digitization in the workplace. In this article, based on the statements of my round table, the phenomenon of technostress is discussed. I’ll show those of mine Participants in the round table discussed possible risks in the course of change in the workplace. What is technostress? Wikipedia says: Technostress is a specific sub-category of the stress phenomenon. Technostress is caused in everyday situations in which the user is overwhelmed by new technical devices or systems. Technostress is a reaction of the body to the strong psychological stress that can be caused by technology. In many ways, it represents resistance to changes that newly introduced technologies bring with them. Why is there technostress? All participants of my Round tables state that their companies use a high proportion of tools and new technologies. Along with this, the…
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…
Mobile work and home office are on everyone’s lips, but there are increasing voices that agility and spatial distance are not optimal in the long run. This reasoning is based on the fact that cooperation requires a certain amount of trust. The agile coach says in my roundtable: Trust develops from person to person, not from screen to screen. “For this reason, numerous office concepts in the form of new buildings are currently being tested by corporations and medium-sized companies. In the following I would like to introduce the concepts of my roundtable participants and show initial findings in their daily work with them. If you need some prior knowledge, you can read these articles: Declaration of NewWork What is work 4.0 Roundtable on Work 4.0 NewWork using the example of an IT group The creation of software is a process that involves a high degree of division of labor.…