White paper12 chapters · 17 minutes
Chemical industry: changing course in rough seas
How mid-sized chemical companies can cut costs, invest and realign their business when difficult market conditions are here to stay. A white paper.
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43 publications on strategy, organisation, leadership, culture and people. Each is available in full online: without registration and without download.
White paper
White paper9 chapters · 12 minutes
Strategy development for the core business: Future Forum
The Future Forum is a compact strategy format that helps leadership teams secure or realign their core business in three to six months. A white paper.
Read moreWhite paper10 chapters · 15 minutes
Strategy under uncertainty: setting future direction
How companies stay able to decide under uncertainty: new basic assumptions, a shared vision of the future and a regular strategy review. A white paper.
Read moreWhite paper13 chapters · 17 minutes
Organisational transformation: changing at the core
How profound organisational transformation succeeds: third-order change, genotypic transformation and foresighted self-renewal. A white paper by transformis.
Read moreWhite paper9 chapters · 12 minutes
Sustainability transformation for companies
What sustainability means for a company, what ESG regulation and the financial markets require, and how the transformation to a sustainable business succeeds.
Read moreWhite paper13 chapters · 18 minutes
Sustainability strategy map for corporate development
The Strategy Map with Purpose, Planet, People and Profit: six perspectives, guiding questions, key questions and the steps of systemic strategy work.
Read moreWhite paper8 chapters · 9 minutes
Strategy review: testing positioning and implementation
A strategy review tests your strategic positioning against current market requirements and shows how far the strategy has been implemented. A white paper.
Read moreWhite paper7 chapters · 10 minutes
Organisational ambidexterity and agility explained
Organisational ambidexterity and agility: when agile working makes sense and how leadership manages the balance between exploitation and exploration.
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Systemic Culture Compass: corporate culture development
What corporate culture means from a systemic view, how the Systemic Culture Compass makes it measurable and how culture development runs in three phases.
Read moreWhite paper7 chapters · 9 minutes
Culture change: systemic corporate culture development
Why corporate culture matters, how to measure it, and how to develop it deliberately with eight orientation points and eleven success factors.
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Employer branding: developing the brand systemically
Employer branding as identity and organisational development: the employee value proposition, five steps, five elements and the key success factors.
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New Work: principles, areas for action and leadership
What New Work means, the five principles behind it, and how strategy, leadership, culture and organisation turn it into areas for action. A white paper.
Read moreWhite paper6 chapters · 8 minutes
Systems theory in practice: leading in dynamic times
Why a systems-thinking mindset helps leaders in dynamic times: blind spots, second-order observation, working with hypotheses and handling complexity.
Read moreWhite paper8 chapters · 10 minutes
Customer orientation programme: Keys to the future
How a programme of three tools makes customer and service orientation something you can work on, and paves the way for a customer-focused culture.
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Hintergrundinformationen
Hintergrundinformation3 chapters · 6 minutes
Systemic change management: key success factors
Systemic change management: why change initiatives fail and the four success factors managers need to keep in mind when leading change in their organisation.
Read moreHintergrundinformation9 chapters · 13 minutes
Breakthrough strategies: making new routines stick
Breakthrough strategies interrupt organisations’ self-referential loops: a breakthrough goal, a team, an event, 30 days of follow-up and an evaluation.
Read moreHintergrundinformation5 chapters · 8 minutes
Executive coaching: the premier one-to-one consulting
Executive coaching for senior leaders: self-reflection, handling your own limits, contracting, stakeholder analysis and a 100-day programme. A background paper.
Read moreHintergrundinformation7 chapters · 10 minutes
Family businesses: family, company and shareholders
Family businesses have to manage the family, the company and the shareholders at the same time: transitions, governance, shareholder skills and succession.
Read moreHintergrundinformation8 chapters · 10 minutes
Leadership assessment with 360° feedback
Leadership assessment and development with 360° feedback: competency model, facilitated feedback meeting, development plan and 100-day programme at a glance.
Read moreHintergrundinformation7 chapters · 9 minutes
Family business succession: managing generational change
Succession in a family business needs long preparation: the guiding questions of the succession process and ten prerequisites for an orderly handover.
Read moreHintergrundinformation9 chapters · 10 minutes
Organisational immunity: why warning signals fade
Why organisations make wrong decisions even when the information is available: operational closure, autopoiesis and structural coupling explained.
Read moreHintergrundinformation7 chapters · 7 minutes
Job profiles with validated personality profiles
How job profiles with validated personality profiles support recruitment and selection: requirements profile, validation and matching with candidates.
Read moreHintergrundinformation8 chapters · 11 minutes
Competency model: how to introduce one, step by step
How to build a company-specific competency model: aims and benefits, basic factors, key jobs, core and specialist competencies, profiles and embedding.
Read moreHintergrundinformation7 chapters · 11 minutes
Customer segmentation and value proposition design
Customer segmentation by needs and behaviour: five basic strategies, three steps to a value proposition and seven benefit criteria. A background paper.
Read moreHintergrundinformation9 chapters · 14 minutes
Leadership and witchcraft: leadership as fence riding
Leadership and witchcraft: why organisations need fence riders at the boundary of inside and outside, and why leadership is a core organisational capability.
Read moreHintergrundinformation5 chapters · 6 minutes
Learning architectures: linking organisation and people
Learning architectures link organisational development and people development in a single process: starting points, the linking structure and reflection.
Read moreHintergrundinformation8 chapters · 10 minutes
Next Generation Leadership: new demands on leaders
Next Generation Leadership combines modern systems theory and neuroscience with learning architectures for individual and organisational learning.
Read moreHintergrundinformation14 chapters · 20 minutes
Organisations as complex social systems: a systemic view
Organisations as complex social systems: from the image of the trivial machine to decisions, decision premises and leadership as an organisational function.
Read moreHintergrundinformation8 chapters · 12 minutes
Performance Simulator: measure and develop competencies
The Performance Simulator as a media-based training tool: learning concept, scientific foundations, how it is built, blended learning and its benefits.
Read moreHintergrundinformation6 chapters · 8 minutes
People development audit: assessing effectiveness
The people development audit assesses L&D against ten success factors and makes its benefit measurable for senior management. A transformis background paper.
Read moreHintergrundinformation6 chapters · 8 minutes
Smart Decision Culture: deciding well in organisations
How organisations make smart decisions under uncertainty: the Smart Decision Culture concept combines systems theory and neuroscience. A transformis paper.
Read moreHintergrundinformation11 chapters · 16 minutes
Municipal utilities: managing the paradoxes
Municipal utilities sit between business and politics: why paradoxes are part of this type of organisation, and how leadership and strategy reviews handle them.
Read moreHintergrundinformation10 chapters · 15 minutes
Strategy development and review as a leadership task
Strategy development and strategy review as a shared leadership task: the elements, six steps and benefits of the strategy process. A transformis white paper.
Read moreHintergrundinformation8 chapters · 13 minutes
System lock-in and customer bonding: the Delta Model
System lock-in and customer bonding with Hax’s Delta Model: three basic options, eight strategic positionings and four strategic tasks. A background paper.
Read moreHintergrundinformation13 chapters · 21 minutes
Value of Investment: managing L&D by its benefits
Herbert J. Kellner’s Value of Investment system: elements, six phases, Goal Navigator, goal alignment, and the people development audit as the starting point.
Read moreHintergrundinformation13 chapters · 25 minutes
ValueFinder: 60 sources of value in people development
The ValueFinder in the Value of Investment system: twelve benefit categories with 60 individual benefits for the company, its management and its employees.
Read moreHintergrundinformation6 chapters · 8 minutes
Forward-looking KPI systems: spotting blind spots
Forward-looking KPI systems give early warning signals instead of hindsight: self-reference, the blind spot and a three-step KPI review. A background paper.
Read moreHintergrundinformation7 chapters · 8 minutes
Foresighted self-renewal: organisational renewal
How organisations recognise early signals and secure their competitiveness ahead of time through variation, selection and re-stabilisation. A background paper.
Read moreHintergrundinformation8 chapters · 5 minutes
Strategy models compared: Porter, Treacy/Wiersema, Hax
Three classic strategy models compared, and the basic strategies they suggest for customer segments: goals, processes, people, organisation and culture.
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Expert articles
Fachbeitrag9 chapters · 19 minutes
Transformation process: emerging stronger from crisis
Transformation as second-order change: preconditions, success factors, the six phases of the transformation wave and the key role of management.
Read moreFachbeitrag13 chapters · 30 minutes
Strategy development: shaping an uncertain future
How companies make decisions about the future under uncertainty: strategy development as a shared leadership task for the management team. An expert article.
Read moreFachbeitrag15 chapters · 77 minutes
Our consulting DNA: organisational capacity for renewal
The transformis consulting approach, version 3.0: transformation as the path to continuous strategic self-renewal, across eight fields of action.
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Studien
Studie12 chapters · 21 minutes
Study: employability of Chinese graduates
A study of 218 German companies in China: which skills they expect from Chinese graduates, and where the biggest gaps between expectation and reality lie.
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