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

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Process analysis in change
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.
Transformation & Agility /
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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Professional feedback
Get to know our best practice for using feedback constructively and professionally in dialogue and thereby addressing further development potential in a targeted manner. we will guide you through practical strategies for incorporating feedback into everyday interactions, ensuring that it becomes a powerful tool for personal and professional growth.
Academy /
Self-Organisation
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Project insight: Acting quickly in a crisis
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. If you're curious about what we accomplished in this project and how we overcame the challenges, read on here.
Project Management
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The VUCA world
VUCA is a term that has become increasingly prevalent in today's rapidly changing world, and we are right in the middle of this VUCA environment—characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. As businesses and individuals face these challenges, understanding how to navigate them becomes crucial for success. In this article, we dive deeper into what VUCA means, its implications, and how to adapt to this ever-evolving landscape. If you want to know more, read here.
Transformation & Agility
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Approaches in innovation management
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 various innovation management approaches and share effective creativity techniques to help you break through innovation slumps and regain your competitive edge, ensuring long-term success and growth.
Project Management
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Video-supported process documentation
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. If you are interested in this topic, click here for more information.
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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Current challenges in inventory management
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.
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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The customer journey as a success factor in eCommerce
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. By understanding and optimizing each touchpoint along the way, businesses can create a seamless experience.
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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The in-service development format: job shadowing
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.
Self-Organisation
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Personal leadership model
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.
Self-Organisation
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Project insight into quality management systems
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.
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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Dealing with fear in times of change
Change projects within the company are often associated with fear, as employees may worry about job security, new expectations, or the unknown. This fear can significantly affect everyday working life, leading to decreased productivity, disengagement, and resistance to change. This blog post summarises the key messages for you and explains how you can conquer that fear.
Transformation & Agility /
Self-Organisation
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Change Management Lessons Learned
Employees are confronted with many challenges in the context of change management as adapting to new processes, systems, and organizational shifts often requires overcoming resistance, managing uncertainty, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. 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. If this topic piques your interest, click here to learn more.
Transformation & Agility /
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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Success factors for a digital transformation
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. Prof. Dr. Überall also shares valuable insights into the challenges companies face during the transformation process and how they can overcome them to stay competitive in the digital age.
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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Emotions in the course of a change
Change is an integral part of today's VUCA world. But what happens to employees during a change? In this article, we explore the emotional phases employees typically go through during a company-wide change, such as shock, resistance, exploration, and commitment. Understanding these emotional responses is crucial for leaders to provide the right support at each stage.
Transformation & Agility /
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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The magic triangle of project management
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.
Project Management
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Digitization in human resources management
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. Read more about HR processes and the approach we recommend as a management consultancy for digitalisation here!
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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New leadership in the age of digitalisation
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.
Transformation & Agility /
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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The Collective Mind Method
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. In this article, we’ll explore how you can apply this method effectively to enhance communication, encourage a unified goal-setting process, and ultimately increase the overall success of your project.
Academy /
Self-Organisation
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Process Mining Definition
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.
Process Consulting & Digitalization
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Help with meeting overload
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. If you want to know how you can prevent meeting overload, click here.
Project Management
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Successful project initiation and planning
Are you about to start a new project and wondering what to do next? Have the initiation phases of new projects so far been rather unstructured and unplanned? Can you no longer see the wood for the trees with the multitude of tasks that a new project entails, especially at the beginning? These questions are answered in this blog post.
Project Management
Blog Post
What does a PMO do all day?
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. So, click here to read more and dive deeper into the topic.
Project Management
Blog Post
The LEITWERK Innovation Accelerator
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.
Project Management
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Effective stakeholder management
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. This article covers everything you need to know about stakeholders.
Project Management
Blog Post
Sustainable organizational development
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. If you're interested in this topic, read on here.
Transformation & Agility /
Sustainability
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Conflict prevention and resolution in the corporate context
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. Additionally, we explore practical strategies for fostering a culture of open communication and early conflict identification to prevent escalation.
Other
Blog Post
7 steps to successful PI planning
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. Discover more about team organization and PI planning in this blog post.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Experience and learn agility
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. Click here to learn more.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Megatrend New Work
Working from home is no longer a novelty in today's working world. At the latest since the coronavirus pandemic, it has become a matter of course across all industries. However, everyday working life has not only changed significantly in this respect in recent years. If you’re interested in this topic, feel free to read more here.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
What is an agile mindset?
We come across the term ‘agile mindset’ more and more frequently. Often in combination with the buzzwords VUCA, Scrum or agile transformation. As organizations and teams strive for greater flexibility and responsiveness in today’s rapidly changing environment, the concept of an agile mindset has become increasingly important. In this blog post, we explain what is meant by an agile mindset and how an agile mindset can be achieved.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
More focus with the Kanban principle
The modern working world is characterised by constant distractions that impair concentration and productivity. By fostering a more organized and streamlined workflow, Kanban enables teams to collaborate more effectively. This blog post shows how the Kanban principle optimises work processes and enables focused collaboration.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Dictionary of Sustainability
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!
Sustainability
Blog Post
Sustainable procurement
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? With the help of Richard Steiner, we thoroughly explored these questions and provide detailed answers in this article.
Sustainability
Blog Post
Positive psychological capital
Why is it important to promote positive psychological capital? In this blog post 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. If you're looking to enhance your own psychological resilience or improve team dynamics, this article offers essential insights and actionable advice.
Other
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OKR Explained Simply
Many successful companies, such as Google and Netflix, rely on the tried-and-tested OKR management method to drive performance and align teams. OKR stands for ‘Objectives & Key Results,’ a framework that helps organizations set clear, measurable goals and track progress towards achieving them. In this blog post, you can find out exactly what excactly this means and how OKR affects the measurability of objectives and employee satisfaction.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Climate accounting
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. In our blog post, we explain how you can create a carbon footprint in six simple steps.
Sustainability
Blog Post
Retrospective meaning & template
What is a retrospective and why are retros so valuable? In this article, we summarize the most important aspects of retrospectives and provide you with a practical template to help you conduct your own. Whether you're new to retrospectives or looking to improve your existing process, this guide will offer the tools and insights needed to run successful, impactful sessions.
Academy
Blog Post
Develop agile habits with training plans
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Success factors of a transformation
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Refactoring Organizations / High Performing Company
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Vision development using the design thinking approach
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
What does a Product Owner do all day?
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
User feedback in an agile context
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Value Cycle Loop
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Servant Leadership
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Dimensions of a transformation
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
Mandatory sustainability reporting
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.
Sustainability
Blog Post
This is how hybrid working works!
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.
Transformation & Agility /
Other
Blog Post
Self-organisation in agile teams
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.
Transformation & Agility
Blog Post
With energy into the new year
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.
Other
Blog Post
What does a Scrum Master do all day?
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.
Transformation & Agility

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