blog – artiClES
In this section you will find our articles, case studies, book reviews and toolboxes.
BOOK REVIEW – Rethinking agility
In this short work, the author describes an agile transformation project in a company with a structured and comprehensible structure. The book by Klaus Leopold "Rethinking Agility. Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility", is published by Klaus...
Agility – beautiful new world
Is there already a discussion in your company about how to become more agile? Or have you already arrived - in an entirely agile organization? Either way, agility has been the megatrend in management consulting for several years now. We want to take you on a journey...
Continuous improvement of team cooperation
If I ask managers or project managers and members in the training how they ensure long-term quality in their cooperation, we very quickly come to the topic of regular flashbacks. As a rule, such reviews always take place at the end of a project, if at all, and usually...
Transformation threshold or in the eye of the tornado
Many organizations are currently struggling with the fact that goals can change rapidly. No sooner is a plan in place than it is no longer worth the paper it is written on. The need for coordination between the individual teams is becoming more and more pronounced,...
Agile for beginners, a field report
How can agility begin for a team in a large organization? Here is a field report. The first approaches for agile working in large organizations are often based on concrete methods. You may have heard a lot of good things about agile practices and therefore try to...
Digital transformation in 80 days – a travelogue
In mid-March, we have catapulted quite abruptly out of our ordinary world. We were forced to develop new forms of cooperation very quickly to cope with the changed external conditions. The nickname of the year 2020 is "social distancing" although not "social" distance...
Is more agility always the right solution?
Recently I had a conversation with a very experienced Agile Coach. After some time, we ended up with a topic that I had already discussed several times with experts. It was about whether problems with agile working in larger hierarchical organizations always must be...
The human resources department as a catalyst for transformation and agile work – a utopia?
Through my work as a consultant, I often come into contact with personnel departments, sometimes as the first point of contact in a company. What surprises me, again and again, is the importance of the HR department in many companies, especially when companies...
Is collaboration re-invented by agile teams?
In recent weeks, we have spoken with several HR developers and CEOs of agile companies. We have repeatedly circled the question of whether agile teams need something different than teams in classically structured organizations to work together successfully. The...
„Agility in the Nutshell“
In today's work context, both as an employee and as a manager, you are increasingly coming up against organizational limits. Cooperation becomes difficult because many people want to "have their say" and the interests of many sides must be taken into account. The...
Field report online training
Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, online training has experienced a boost. To be able to offer our customers training during curfew periods, we have converted the training designs for all our core topics to online formats. As a communication platform, we use...
“I’ve got it” – What golf and skill development have in common
Recently, I have had several conversations with managers where the terms know-how, skills and competences have been on the table and used with the same meaning. But what is now what... I played a round of golf last week, and my flight partner gave me some fascinating...
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