The Human Side of the “Software-on-Wheels” Revolution
The mood is tense, and expectations are high: when Friedrich Merz invites guests to the automotive summit at the Chancellery this Thursday. Federal ministers, the…
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B2B Speed Dating with Aviation Valley in Poland
This week, Germany’s aerospace community is meeting at the 74th German Aerospace Congress of the German Aerospace Society (DGLR) in Augsburg. As part of this…
Navigating the Future of Change Management
The latest white paper from the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) describes five trends that are redefining the way companies deal with change. One…
Company Growth Without Breakdown
What works in a 10-person startup often fails in a 50-person company. Leadership becomes the art of enabling others to lead, communicate, and stay connected…
AI in Change Management Gets a Human Face
Starnberg, March 29, 2025 – With the launch of two custom-developed AI personas – “Content Carla” and “Research Randy” – Starnberg-based viadoo GmbH is turning…
»Adapt culture & organization to digital transformation«
The digital transformation challenges companies on many levels – but it is manageable if executives directly involve their employees from the very beginning. We at…
Overcoming Change Overload
According to Gartner Research, the average employee is faced with as many as ten enterprise-wide change initiatives per year. They can span from restructuring to…
Top 3 Change Leadership Trends 2025
At the end of 2023, we had predicted in our Top 5 Change Leadership Trends that in 2024 (1) the polycrisis would continue, (2) mental…
Empathy and Gender Mental Health Gap
In our experience, leaders are still primarily selected based on their technical expertise. However, to attract diverse, interdisciplinary and equally skilled teams to change initiatives,…
Who Moved My Cheese?
In the business world, change is inevitable. Market dynamics shift, consumer preferences evolve, and new technologies disrupt established business models and processes (see Digital Transformation…
How to make change work in large organizations
In large organizations, an average of 70 to 85 per cent of all change initiatives fail. According to our many years of experience, this is…
Psychological Safety in Change Initiatives
Highly functional and cohesive teams are crucial for economic success in our VUCA world. One of the most important elements in achieving this is psychological…
5 Tips for Effective Change Communications
Around 70 to 85 per cent of all change initiatives fail – and it is often Internal Communications (IC) that is (partly) blamed for this.…
Artificial Intelligence in Change Initiatives
Artificial intelligence (AI) in change management is crucial to meet today’s challenges of effective change leadership. As early AI in CM adopters, we are using…
26 Golden Rules for Prompt Engineering
At viadoo, we are early adopters in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in organisational change management. As a leading service provider for planning and…
Top 5 Change Leadership Trends 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI), appreciation of communication, self-reflection, employee’s mental health, and a persisting polycrisis will be our top 5 change leadership trends 2024.
Digital Transformation done right
The digitalisation or digital transformation of an organisation is one of the most common changes. At the same time, it’s one of the most difficult…
Never again is now!
Never again is now! That is why we clearly stand with Israel and with the Jews – especially in Germany. Our social responsibility as a…
Change Management in New Work Projects
New work projects are changes that require management. Like the construction of a new office building or the conversion of individual offices into open-plan offices.…
Internal Communications Check – 3 x 5 Questions
Internal communications (IC) is key to success of any transformation. Therefore, we at viadoo provide a IC change readiness check with 3 x 5 questions.…
5 Reasons Why Transformations Fail
Do micromanagement, overtaxing the middle management, wrong labelling of a change programme or delayed start of change management sound familiar to you? Then you are…
Social Leadership on an Aircraft Carrier
An aircraft carrier is a high-performance social system: up to 5,000 people often live and work in confined spaces for months on end. This extreme…
Corporate Newsroom rooted in past lessons
Corporate newsrooms are vital for effective change communications because they enable consistent, transparent, timely, and integrated communication across all stakeholder groups. By organizing communication around…
Volkswagen’s Corporate Newsroom “The Bridge”
A corporate newsroom has been regarded as an agile form of collaboration and integrated communication for years. It has been a tradition at our company…
Bauindustrie wird nachhaltiger und digitaler
Die Bauindustrie ist für 30% der weltweiten CO2-Emission verantwortlich und stark handwerklich geprägt. Auf der bauma 2022 präsentierte sie ihre Lösungen für mehr Nachhaltigkeit und…
How to achieve social & emotional motivation
Motivation wanted! Corporate communications departments are under constant pressure to change: they are expected to become more agile, to be structurally and procedurally transferred to…
Restrukturierung und PMI am laufenden Band
Die Restrukturierung ist ein wichtiges Managementinstrument. Wer sie plant, sollte auch ihre sozial-psychologische Dimension sorgfältig vorbereiten. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dem kollektiven Gedächtnis der Organisation sowie…
viadoo CEO on Newsroom in Handelsblatt magazine
The Virtual Change Newsroom is a newsroom without a room. First presented in Hamburg in 2012 as a temporary solution, we are now able to…
Automotive suppliers facing tough change process
The tough change in the German automotive supply industry has now been going on for over six years. The major players alone have recently announced…
What a Good Change Vision Looks Like
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood […], but teach them to long for the vast and endless…
Gamescom: Gaming treibt die digitale Transformation
Die Gamescom hat wieder gezeigt, dass sich die wahren Game-Changer in der Gaming-Branche tummeln. Sie entwickeln längst nicht mehr nur Spiele zur Freizeitgestaltung. Immer öfter…
Ready for Integrated Communication 4.0?
A German company unexpectedly finds itself in a reputation dilemma, while at the same time a promising contact from abroad is ignored. Why? Because communication…
A cutting-edge Newsroom Setup
Under the name “BR hoch drei” (BR to the power of three), the newly created “Strategy and Innovation Management” department at Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has…
