We share insights, analyses, and real-world experiences on topics such as leadership in uncertain times, restructuring, merger integration, and the unique challenges facing specific industries. We address the issues organizations are facing today. Read about how viadoo analyzes complex situations and what that could mean for your organization.
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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 through change. The Growth Model by Larry E. Greiner describes six phases that organizations typically go through. Each separated by a crisis which are make-or-break moments. They require transformation leadership.…
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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 a new page in the story of digital transformation and of AI in change management. In a market often unsettled by opaque AI applications, viadoo has taken a bold step…
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»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 viadoo Change Guides are convinced of this and act accordingly for our customers. Our founder Dr Dominik Faust gave an interview to the editors of the Würzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Commerce and…
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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 achieve efficiencies, from a culture change to new work or a new IT system. Yet, even positive, well-intentioned changes can overwhelm employees when the volume or pace of projects is…
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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 health would become more important, (3) the need for self-reflection among young leaders would increase, (4) internal communication will be better understood as a success factor for successful change at…
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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, social skills are more important. One of the most important skills for effective change leadership is empathy. And it is more than just being nice. It’s about deeply understanding the…
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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 done right). As a leader, the challenge is not just recognising change, but managing it in a way that your team embraces it rather than resists it. A revealing guide…
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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 particularly due to a lack of social and emotional aspects like insufficient empathy and motivation skills of executives (in addition to other reasons why transformations fail). We recently had the…
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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 safety. This term was introduced by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson in the 1990s. She defined psychological safety as a state in which the work environment is safe from interpersonal risks.…
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