Leadership and Collaboration

In the context of digital transformation, we often focus on the digitization of processes, digital products and business models. But that is only one side of the coin.

The prerequisites and consequences of successful digitization are: 

• Collaboration: The transparent, cross-disciplinary and agile collaboration of autonomous teams that are aligned with the company's value streams.
• A digital mindset: an open-minded, interested attitude on the part of those involved towards the changes that digital transformation brings.
• Change management: The active involvement of stakeholders and the management of change towards the goal, for example through communication measures, workshops and conflict moderation.
• Digital leadership: An understanding of leadership that enables the aforementioned aspects, develops clear visions for the digital organization and implements them with the stakeholders. These leaders focus on the success factors: networking, openness, participation and agility.

Digital transformation demands a lot from employees, teams and managers. Managers in particular are expected to calmly and confidently steer the organization through the often troubled waters of digital change. The change for employees to think in cross-functional teams instead of in departments, as is usually the case, is also often overwhelming.

As coaches, we not only develop target images for you, but also actively support you through these phases and jointly develop the skills you need for the transformed organization.

Whether Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Team Topologies or unFIX – many companies hope that introducing such approaches will solve the challenges mentioned above. However, disillusionment often sets in quickly because the promised benefits fail to materialize. What happened?

Frameworks like these are static – they help to develop a target image, but say little about how you can actually achieve this goal. They should be supplemented with dynamic means as part of a digital transformation. In our coaching, we therefore consider your transformation dynamically and on three levels:

• We improve day-to-day operations through agile methodology, for example, by introducing or strengthening Scrum and Kanban.
• We optimize organizational structures based on your digitalization strategy, for example, by introducing cross-functional teams tailored to your value streams.
• We design and support you on the path to your goal, through communication work, training, workshops and coaching at all hierarchical levels – from team to management.

As a digital partner, we support customers holistically on their individual path to digital transformation.

Marc Riedinger has summarized his expertise from years of coaching experience and written a book. However, this is not a classic field report, but a workbook that accompanies the workshop process step by step. He also makes his resources and workshop tools available free of charge so that everyone can benefit from his expertise.