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Here you will regularly find informative articles and exciting insights into our activities as consultants as well as reports from our projects!

Current blog posts on the topics: ✓ Agility ✓ Digitalisation ✓ Project & process management ✓ Project insights

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blogpost: PI Planning

October 2024 by Johanna Specht & Sonja Neubauer

Team organisation is crucial to create clarity about goals and responsibilities and to enable effective collaboration. PI Planning supports this process by involving all team members and ensuring that everyone is working towards common goals. Find out more in this blog post.

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October 2024 by Anna Bründermann & Maria Ragaller

The modern working world is characterised by constant distractions that impair concentration and productivity. This blog post shows how the Kanban principle optimises work processes and enables focused collaboration.

innovation management approaches

September 2024 by Kerstin Kott

Innovation management ensures the long-term competitiveness of a company through the continuous development of new products, services and business models. In this blog post, we present innovation management approaches and provide you with creativity techniques.

project insight into quality management systems

September 2024 by Rieke Vredenborg & Sebastian Linder

A good quality management system is the basis for the efficiency and quality of a company's business processes. Integrated management systems and third-party audits are used to identify weaknesses, develop improvement measures and ensure compliance with quality standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 27001.

Blog post: Sustainable organisational development

July 2024 by Julia Fligge

Sustainable organisational development stands and falls with the organisational culture. In order to identify potential and fields of action, Kibun offers software that makes the mood in the company tangible and the success of organisational development measures measurable.

blogpost: project initiation

July 2024 by Antonia Stobrawe

This blog post explains the importance of the initiation and planning phase in projects and shows how a Project Management Office (PMO) contributes to success through systematic support.

Blog post: current challenges in inventory management

April 2024 by Luis Abzieher

Inventory management is a complex task that harbours many challenges, from correct inventory planning to avoiding losses. In this interview, Mauritius Geiger from fLUMINA emphasises the importance of flexibility, data accuracy and technology in the face of global crises and introduces the fLUMEN software, which enables companies to run efficient and profitable inventory processes.

Blog post: Living Agility

April 2024 by Katja-Supp Zesewitz and Nadia Achkar

Get to know our workshop ‘Experience and learn agility’, which creates a common understanding of agility and offers practical insights into agile methods. With the help of ‘Lego Serious Play®’, participants are introduced to agility in a playful way and motivated to integrate it into their day-to-day work.

Blog post: New Work

January 2024 by Melanie Keller

New Work describes a new era in the modern working world. This blog post offers you a comprehensive insight into this topic, highlights the necessary prerequisites and the added value that New Work brings with it.

Blog post: effective stakeholder management & stakeholder communication

July 2023 by Nora Rademacher

Learn how to build, maintain and strengthen relationships with your key stakeholders to make your project a success. Learn how to identify and address the needs and expectations of your stakeholders to create a long-term win-win situation.

Blog post: process mining definition

July 2023 by Melanie Schmid & Theresa Matern

From chaos to efficiency: how process mining can revolutionise your company. Discover in this blog post how process mining can bring the hidden treasures of your business processes to light. Visualise your processes and identify bottlenecks - for an optimised, productive future. Find out how process mining can take your performance to a new level and how you can utilise this for your success.

Blog post: the magic triangle of project management

July 2023 by Maria Ragaller

The magic triangle is an integral part of project management and plays a central role in project planning and project control. With its three corners (quality, time and costs), it represents the three parameters that are dependent on each other in a project. In the following blog post, you will learn more about this well-known method and how the magic triangle can be used in the course of a project.

Blog post: Job Shadowing

July 2023 by Katja Supp-Zesewitz, Sonja Neubauer & Julia Reichert

In a leadership role, you are constantly faced with challenges in organisation, delegation and communication. These challenges can take different forms and are not always easy to overcome. Fortunately, there are many methods for resolving such conflicts. One of these is the successful method of job shadowing. In this blog post, you can find out more about job shadowing, how it can help you and what experiences we have already had with it.

Blog post: sustainable supply chain

July 2023 by Florian Kröger & Richard Steiner

What is actually meant by a sustainable supply chain? What is its importance, benefits and the challenges associated with it? And how can you ensure a sustainable supply chain and procurement? We got to the bottom of these questions with the help of Richard Steiner and answer them in this article.

Blog post: success factors for a digitale transformation

June 2023 by Melanie Schmid & Marie Ott

The digital transformation is becoming increasingly important and is now a feature of many industries. In this article, we take you to our interview with Prof. Dr. Überall, in which he explains the importance and success factors of digital transformation.

Blog post: project insights

June 2023 by Romy Wefers

Supporting clients in developing their vision is one of our core competences. At the end of 2022, we supported the international company W.L. Gore & Associates in an iterative process to create a vision for the EMEA company site in Putzbrunn. In this experience report, you can read how we enabled our client to develop a motivating and inspiring vision with the help of a customised design thinking approach.

Blog post: self organisation in an agile team

May 2023 by Luisa Elsesser & Lara Peters

Self-organisation in agile teams enables autonomous decision-making and allows teams to react quickly to unforeseeable challenges in the VUCA world. In this blog post, you can read about the prerequisites for agile teams to take responsibility and the conditions that prevent teams from becoming self-organised.

Blog post: carbon accounting

May 2023 by Cordula Schneichel & Florian Kröger

Companies contribute significantly to the generation of greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. By calculating and reducing their carbon footprint, they take responsibility for their own emissions and contribute to global climate protection efforts. Creating a carbon footprint also enables companies to improve their energy and resource efficiency and strengthen their reputation in the market. In our blog post, we explain how you can create a carbon footprint in six simple steps.

Blog post: What does a PMO do all day?

May 2023 by Julia Hinze & Luise von Arnim & Laura Lohberger

What is actually meant by the elusive term project management office, or PMO for short? And what are the typical tasks of a successful PMO? Is there a difference between the terms PMO and PO, which are often used synonymously? These exciting questions are answered in this blog post.

Blog post: digitalisation in HR management

April 2023 by Laura Lohberger & Uta Deschonschen

The digital transformation has been occupying HR departments in many organisations for several years now. Since the coronavirus pandemic at the latest, it has become clear that the topic cannot be treated as a peripheral issue. It needs to move to the centre of HR activities. In this article, we explain the most important aspects relating to the digitalisation of HR processes. Read more about HR processes and the approach we recommend as a management consultancy for digitalisation here!

Blog post: Sustainablility

April 2023 by Mark Steiner & Theresa Matern & Cordula Schneichel

With our ‘Dictionary of Sustainability’, we provide you with a selection of the most important terms in the context of sustainability that we encounter time and again in our day-to-day work. Sustainability and environmental awareness are important to us as a company. Not only with regard to our consulting services for our customers, but also for our own actions and those of our employees. Read more here!

Blog post: Innovation Accelerator

April 2023 by Lisa Markmeyer

Sustainable innovation management should be a fundamental issue for every company, especially in a fast-moving and complex world such as this. We provide an exclusive insight into a project from our day-to-day consulting work, in which we set up a sustainable innovation management system for our client. Read on if you want to find out why your own employees play a very important role in this context.

Blog post: obligation to produce a sustainability report

February 2023 by Theresa Matern

The topic of sustainability is becoming increasingly explosive for companies, especially in the wake of the annual sustainability reporting obligation. This blog post explains exactly how sustainability is defined and which three dimensions are relevant. LEITWERK also wants to rise to the green challenge and establish sustainable thinking and action with our customers.

Blog post: Change Management Lessons Learned

January 2023 by Melanie Keller

Employees are confronted with many challenges in the context of change management. We have deepened our approaches to change management through our 10 years of experience and present these and our success-critical factors in this blog post.

Blog post: meeting participation

January 2023 by Luise von Arnim

Especially in complex project contexts, it can be difficult to determine the right meeting participants. The Meeting Participation Matrix we have developed helps to prevent meeting overload as well as increase productivity and efficiency in day-to-day work.

Blog post: new year

January 2023 by Sonja Neubauer

The beginning of the year is an ideal time for many teams and companies to formulate common goals. A well-formulated vision provides employees with orientation and increases their motivation. It also creates a sense of belonging within the team. Such a vision can be formulated and consolidated in just five steps.

Blog post: OKR simply explained

December 2022 by Svenja Maucher

Many successful companies such as Google and Netflix rely on the tried-and-tested OKR management method. OKR stands for ‘Objectives & Key Results’ - but in this blog post, you can find out exactly what this means and how OKR affects the measurability of objectives and employee satisfaction.

Blog post: customer journey as success factor in eCommerce

October 2022 by Melanie Schmid

As the majority of people shop online these days, it is essential for companies to know exactly what their customers want. This blog post explains how this can be achieved in just a few steps and how important a well-designed customer journey is for this.

Blog post: conflict prevention in companies

September 2022 by Kai Lisa Eck

Serious conflicts can arise if not enough emphasis is placed on effective conflict prevention within the company. The resulting effects, different types of conflict and mediation as a suitable conflict resolution method are discussed in this blog post.

Blog post: - Making Hybrid Work Successful

August 2022 by Uli Harnacke

Many companies have shown enormous flexibility in the last two and a half years. Teams and individuals have adapted to hybrid working at great speed. It is becoming clear that this working model will be with us for the long term and that it is also beneficial and sensible despite the pandemic. In our blog post, we show you what you need to bear in mind to make hybrid working a success in your company.

Blog post: personal persönliches leadership principles

August 2022 by Katja Supp-Zesewitz

The demands placed on managers are very diverse and sometimes contradictory. In this blog post, we describe what we understand by a personal leadership model based on our experience as consultants and provide you with a template that can help you to develop your own leadership model and thus deal with your understanding of leadership.

Blog post: managing the fear of change

July 2022 by Katja Supp-Zesewitz

Change projects within the company are often associated with fear. How does fear affect everyday working life? And what measures are there to counteract different forms of anxiety? This blog post summarises the key messages for you.

Blog post: agile mindset

July 2022 by Romy Wefers

We come across the term ‘agile mindset’ more and more frequently. Often in combination with the buzzwords VUCA, Scrum or agile transformation. In this blog post, we explain what is meant by an agile mindset and how an agile mindset can be achieved.

Blog post: feedback in a agile context

March 2022 by Ronja Schick

LEITWERK Consulting has been represented on the Meetup platform with the digital discussion series ‘Let's talk agile!’ since May 2021. We are kicking off the 2022 Meetup year with UX expert Markus Kugler and the topic of user feedback in an agile context. The blog post summarises the key messages for you.

Blog post: emotions during change

March 2022 by Mercedes Meindl

Change is an integral part of today's VUCA world. But what happens to employees during a change? In this article, we show you which emotional phases employees go through during a change in the company and which measures can be used to support them.

Blog post: dimensions of a transformation

February 2022 by Lara Peters

The introduction of a framework is just one aspect of agile transformation. We have made the other dimensions that need to be considered tangible in our Quick Check: Maturity Assessment. Find out in our article how the quick check can help you and your transformation team to define results-orientated measures.

Blog post: prozess analysis

January 2022 by Lara Peters & Sonja Neubauer

Making change projects more successful with a process analysis? Regardless of whether you are in the middle of an agile transformation or you want to increase efficiency in your environment: Professional process analysis enables organisations to uncover affected processes and identify the most important levers for optimisation.

Blog post: Servant Leadership

December 2021 by Yasmina Adjoudani

When leadership is understood as a helping hand and the manager wants to help the team to organise itself, this is known as servant leadership. This type of leadership differs from traditional autocratic leadership and offers new opportunities for organisations and their employees. More information can be found in this blog post.

Blog post: product owner

December 2021 by Sonja Neubauer

What does the working day of a Product Owner look like? We have compared our experiences with the available role descriptions and created a poster for you that summarises the relevant tasks of the agile role of ‘Product Owner’ at a glance. You can find more information and download the poster in this article.

Blog post: value cycle loop

November 2021 by Ronja Schick

Since May 2021, LEITWERK Consulting has been represented on the Meetup platform with the digital discussion series ‘Let's talk agile!’. In our last Meetup this year, we will be discussing the topic of the Value Cycle Loop together with our guest speaker Klaus Wybranietz. The blog post summarises the key messages for you.

Blog post: Scrum Master

October 2021 by Sonja Neubauer

What does the working day of a Scrum Master look like? We have compared our experiences with the available role descriptions and created a poster for you that summarises the relevant tasks of the agile role of ‘Scrum Master’ at a glance. You can find more information and download the poster in this article.

Blog post: success factors in a company wide transformation

October 2021 by Lisa Markmeyer

How does a successful company transformation work? In a best practice case study, we show the central role that people play in a change project and the importance of progressive management with a guiding vision. We provide you with three success factors that will steer your company transformation in the right direction.

Blog post: agile habits

September 2021 by Ronja Schick

We are in the third round of our digital discussion series ‘Let's talk agile!’ on the Meetup platform. In September, Daniel Funk talked to us about developing agile habits through training plans in general as well as in a corporate context. Couldn't be there? Here you can read Daniel's key messages again or watch the recording of the discussion.

Blog post: leadership in the digital age

July 2021 by Ronja Schick

Our digital discussion series ‘Let's talk agile!’ on the Meetup platform went into the next round. The second Meetup was all about new leadership in the digital age. Our guest speaker Dr Marcus Raitner talked to us about agile transformation and the associated leadership principles. We have summarised everything for you and recorded the event for you.

Blog post: High Performing Company

June 2021 by Ronja Schick & Romy Wefers

Since May 2021, LEITWERK Consulting has been represented on the Meetup platform with the digital discussion series ‘Let's talk agile!’. Our guest speaker Bastian Wilhelms kicked things off. Among other things, he talked to us about the characteristics of high-performance companies and decentralised organisation. You can also watch the recording of the event here.

Blog post: positive psychological capital

May 2021 by Yasmina Adjoudani

Why is it important to promote positive psychological capital? We outline the four resources of the construct, look at it in the context of leadership and willingness to change and provide exercises and tips that can help to strengthen your PsyCap.

Blog post - VUCA - origin and definition

March 2021 by Sophia Sakel

VUCA is on everyone's lips and we are right in the middle of the VUCA world. In this article, we summarise the most important information and facts about the term VUCA and provide an outlook on how to deal with the VUCA world.

Blog post: Retro

February 2021 by Romy Wefers

What is a retrospective and why are retros so valuable? We summarise the most important points for you and provide you with a template for your own retrospective.

Blog post: professionel feedback

December 2020 by Gesa Müller & Philipp Hassel

Get to know our best practice for using feedback constructively and professionally in dialogue and thereby addressing further development potential in a targeted manner.

Blog post: collective mind

August 2020 by Sonja Neubauer & Romy Wefers

Find out how you can use the Collective Mind Method to consciously shape soft factors in the project and guide the employees in your project to a collective target image via a shared level of communication.

blog post: documentation

July 2020 by Katja-Supp Zesewitz

Professional video-supported process documentation contributes to quality assurance, increases learning success, minimises the error rate, ensures that employees can be deployed flexibly and thus contributes to the successful transformation to Industry 4.0.

Blog post: Leitwerk project insights

June 2020 by Juliane Warbus

Our client was faced with the challenge of ensuring rapid and structured action by all parties involved in the management of storm events with major damage in the forest in order to avoid uncertainties and delays in crisis management.

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