Do you want to quickly understand if you're culture is agile or not? If yes - the Agile Culture Check (ACC) might be something for you. What is the Agile Culture Check? The ACC is a derivative of my doctoral thesis in the field of "Culture Transformation to increase agility" and refers to my Framework … Weiterlesen Agile Culture Check: Gain a quick insight into the agility of your organization
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Easy-to-use methodology that ensures impactful culture transformation in no time
I'm usually overly differentiated. In this article I deviate from this habit because the goal is nothing less than the change of how culture transformation has been done so far. I have to disenchant a myth that is passed around in practice as if it were law. No, culture transformation does not take long. We're … Weiterlesen Easy-to-use methodology that ensures impactful culture transformation in no time
How digital skills can be developed holistically in organizations
I have already published several articles on digital skills development in this blog. And with each article I want to share new experiences that I have gained either in practice or through research. In this article I would like to bring my 3-level model (cf. Krapf, 2017) of digital competences into an overall context, so … Weiterlesen How digital skills can be developed holistically in organizations
Future competence project management: How we become more impactful
The World Cup is a great time. It is the time when people eat, drink and talk to good friends in good weather - and of course watch some soccer. Recently I had an exciting exchange with a colleague who travels a lot on business during a not so interesting game. As an internal auditor, … Weiterlesen Future competence project management: How we become more impactful
An effective method to solve complex problems
In my doctoral thesis I asked myself how the agility in organizations can be fostered. A rather complex problem, since organizations are social systems with interdependent effects. In addition, agility was at that time mostly coined from the IT environment. My dissertation, which I was able to submit for final review these days, is unlikely … Weiterlesen An effective method to solve complex problems
An experiment aimed at fostering a learning culture
How would we work if we were completely free to choose? How can individual autonomy and team collaboration be aligned in the best possible way? Do we need rules and guidelines to install new ways of working or are mutual respect and situational communication strong enough as mediators? That’s exactly the question that the initiators … Weiterlesen An experiment aimed at fostering a learning culture
Agile Structure – an use case
This winter I had the opportunity to interview Claudia Kaiser (Head People & Organization Development) as well as Hanneke Gerritsen (Head Organizational Development) regarding their new implemented organizational structure. The interview can be read here
What is digital transformation
What is digital transformation? The following presentation is intended to help all those who have not been involved with digital transformation as for now. To this purpose, the buzzword Industry 4.0 is introduced first, which for many is synonymous with digital transformation. Afterwards, an emerging technology is presented on each slide in a few sentences and simply … Weiterlesen What is digital transformation
Blockchain simply explained – for all those who still can’t quite understand it.
Blockchain is currently on everyone's lips. And if you are as concerned as I am, the large number of articles on this subject does not help you to really understand how this technology actually works. I needed a very pictorial explanation from a colleague to understand the principle. I would now like to pass on … Weiterlesen Blockchain simply explained – for all those who still can’t quite understand it.
Enabling a culture of innovation
Innovation is a prerequisite for entrepreneurial success. There is therefore hardly any company that does not want to be innovative. In practice, however, there are few organisations that can claim to cultivate a collective innovation culture. Such a culture would be the basis for sustainable innovation that is not dependent on individual visionaries or lucky … Weiterlesen Enabling a culture of innovation
Joël Krapf 