New Work

New Work and Requirements for Contemporary Leadership

New Work and Requirements for Contemporary Leadership The Corona pandemic has led to an openness towards more flexible working models that offer employees more freedom, whilst also demanding more personal responsibility. Many organizations are embracing core elements of New Work. Is this a temporary trend or a significant necessity in an increasingly volatile business environment?…

Successful transformation

Interview: Cooperation at eye level

Interview mit Robert A. SedlákCEO S&P Consulting | Guest Professor at the ECNU, Shanghai“Far-reaching change requires cooperation at eye level“ Since August 2018, SEDLÁK&PARTNER has been accompanying the Duisburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (DVV) in the future program DVVision. Within the framework of DVVision, employees from all companies of the DVV Group, departments, and hierarchical…

leadership

Leadership – an organizational function

The traditional understanding of leadership has become obsolete. The days of the heroic self-concept of leaders, according to which they themselves are the most important lever for maintaining order and efficiency in the organization, are over. Today’s working world and the increasing complexity of markets require a different form of leadership. The traditional understanding of…

Strategy Development: System Intelligence as a Key Success Factor

The organizational environment is characterized by uncertain and dynamic conditions. A viable strategy makes it possible that the necessary focus is ensured allowing to make far-reaching decisions despite uncertainty – and thus to maintain the organizational ability to act. Mobilizing existing system intelligence opens up new options in strategy development. The organizational environment is characterized…

CURRENTA Strategy Process – Interview with Dr. Günter Hilken

Interview with Dr. Günter HilkenMember of the Supervisory Board of CURRENTA, former Chairman of the CURRENTA Executive Board (2011 – 2020) “With FOKUS and FOKUS+, we have completely redefined the concept of strategy.” CURRENTA, which originated as a spin-off of Bayer AG, decided to take the next step after a successful restructuring and optimization phase…

Ambidextry

Ambidexterity – managing innovation and core business simultaneously

Organizations need to constantly renew and update their product and service portfolio. This is nothing new. What is new, however, is the speed at which this needs to happen – because digitalization, complex dynamics, and the increasing opacity of markets have greatly accelerated innovation cycles in recent years. Organizations are challenged to develop new and…