How does culture correlate with the bottom line?
In general, corporate culture is understood to be a system of shared patterns of thinking, feeling and acting as well as the norms, values and symbols that convey them within a company. […]
Experience makes the difference
Cause-and-effect relationships are helpful when it comes to understanding relationships in a company and getting a grip on complexity with the help of key influencing factors. With all the variety that can be there; an “axis” is stable: A compelling place to work (employee focus) – a compelling place to shop (customer focus) – a [...]
C-Suite-Challenge 2021
The Conference Board C-Suite Challenge™ 2021 examines the issues business leaders say are keeping them up at night in 2021. CEOs cite the COVID-19 virus, vaccine availability, and changing consumer buying behaviors as the key potential game changers in 2021. Despite some good news — including modest growth expectations for the global economy — they [...]
BCG study “The Serial Innovation Imperative”
The BCG consultants Ringel, Baeza, Panandiker and Harnoss published the study "The Serial Innovation Imperative. The most innovative companies 2020". Facing turbulent and fast-changing markets, innovators need a well-tuned innovation system that can spot emerging product, service, and business model opportunities—and then rapidly develop and successfully scale them—over and over again. Successful serial innovators get [...]
Artificial Intelligence: blessing or curse?
Our society is changing incessantly and at increasing speed, and the corona pandemic does not change that. Our life is difficult to imagine without technology and artificial intelligence, and those who refuse to do so may miss the boat. But where are the technical achievements really taking us, and with what purpose are they being [...]
HR Management: Review 2020 and Outlook 2021
Shortly before the beginning of 2020, I dealt with the question: When will strategic HR come and close the evidence gap? A few weeks later, Covid 19 overshadowed (almost) everything. Nevertheless, there is increasing pressure on human resources to develop from an operational, administrative function to a strategic, transformational function in the company. [...]
Strategy Execution: Review 2020 and Outlook 2021
In the middle of Advent 2020 – the corona pandemic still has us fully under control, Christmas shopping is mainly at Amazon – the review of the year that is ending also begins. In this post I look back on projects in large and medium-sized companies, industry experiences – mainly services, energy, industry, as well [...]
Kienbaum study on People Analytics
On November 25, 2020, Kienbaum published the new market study "Winning with People Analytics: German companies on the way to data-supported HR work". The focus was on the following key questions: How will algorithms and big data change the HR work of German companies? How far are German companies on the way to data- and [...]
What distinguishes “wise innovators” when analyzing company and personal data?
The past few months have not made the spread or deepening of the topic of workforce analytics (WFA) – or people analytics – any easier, although the alignment of resources is currently very important and of immense importance for future competitiveness. Why is that? Is there too little data? Do we lack sufficient expertise in [...]
Organisational Development: more than employee participation and change (2/2)
Organisational Development (OD) should be implemented on all three levels of the St. Galler Management House − normative, strategic and operative. There is no either-or but only an as-well-as. From this perspective − in accordance with the title of this post − OD is much more than employee participation and change! […]