Offer

Our offer is three fold:

¡ Change - active management speeds up change and reduces the costs of it

¡ Learning - improvement of learning effectiveness and efficiency in business, academics and at school

¡ Information - implementation of user centric information systems

Just pick up the phone to give us a call and participate in a Change Survey. Within one or two weeks we visit your organization, collect data and discuss with you on the same day ways to speed up and improve effectiveness and efficiency of your change projects. Please contact us now!

Change

»If you want to build a ship, you should not tell your men to cut trees and to prepare tools, rather grow their desire to sail the endless sea.« (Saint-Exupery)

Change projects usually start enthusiastically. The goal is roughly defined and those who drive the project are keen to harvest the intended benefits. This sometimes blurs the view on unconscious fears, misunderstandings and additional effort to implement change.

Change Management means to take into account the valley of tears and to shorten the time spent in it considerably. During a chnage program you should be able to answer the following questions any time:

¡ Why do we need to change and why exactly the proposed way
¡ Who is affected by the change and should be involved
¡ What do we have to change
¡ How can we measure progress towards our change goals

Only clear answers to these questions will enable your project to succeed, to achieve its goals more quickly and at reduced cost. Often people believe that change management is about the feeling good. This is not what change management is about. Instead, change management determines whether your business will change to be successful or not change to be doomed.

We can help you to change more successfully by:

¡ Change planning and progress monitoring
¡ Communication planning and execution
¡ Mediation and coaching
¡ Training concepts and implementation

With many years of experience in implementing change in dozens of projects we would like to support you in:

¡ Turnaround management and cost reduction
¡ Fast growth and start up
¡ Executing a new strategic direction and reengineering
¡ Merger and acquisition
¡ Outsourcing and spin off
¡ Implementation of complex information systems

Learning

»Tell me and I will forget, teach me and I will remember, involve me and I will learn.«  (Benjamin Franklin)

Knowledge - acquiring knowledge and facts should happen most efficiently. Through (self) assessments the individually required knowledge items can be identified. Facts have to be delivered just in time, when the learner is ready for them. An overload with facts has to be avoided.

Skill - by simulations a realistic but risk free learning environment can be provided. Goal based scenarios allow to practice new skills in an environment close to everyday life while action learning even uses real life cases.

Understanding - the final step of learning goes beyond practicing, it is triggered by reflecting about own behavior. This can be supported by coaching either by professional coaches, line managers and peers who give feedback after watching the learner in a real life situation or helping him or her to reflect on a real life case.

We support your journey to become a learning organization by:

¡ Strategic alignment of your people development or corporate university

¡ Development and implementation of learning approaches and curricula
¡ Execution of simulations, action learning and goal based scenarios
¡ Self learning, e-learning and blended learning implementation
¡ Group based learning, i.e. open space, small group methods and work out
¡ Virtual courses
¡ Coaching
¡ Assessment of knowledge, behavior, business results and potential

Our coaches, trainers and consultants have experience in defining and implementing curricula in several content areas:

¡ Management

¡ Project- and Change Management

¡ Software engineering

¡ Sales

¡ Marketing

¡ Service Management

Information

»It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouse click away«  (Jakob Nielsen)

We put people into the center of information systems.

People...

... need to agree on requirements for information systems, we facilitate agreement (requirements management)
... operate information systems, we develop user centric systems
... build information systems, we support the software development process

Requirements Management
We facilitate the often lengthy and error prone process of defining requirements for new information systems. We combine the following elements:

¡ Business case and cost/benefit analysis

¡ Prioritization of system features

¡ Piloting, mock  ups and feasibility

¡ Risk management

¡ Vendor selection

User centric system development
We create user centric systems from the first sketch beyond going live:

¡ User centric system analysis

¡ Prototyping and testing scenarios identifying usability issues early
¡ Usability testing in the entire software development life cycle

Software development process
We optimize your software development lifecycle through:

¡ Portfolio management
¡ Program- and project management support based on standard methods like RUP and PMI

¡ Improvement of cooperation between globally distributed cross cultural teams
¡ We provide software development resources, specifically for SAP customizing
¡ Integration of offshore development teams