Transformation: The wholesale business unit of a medium-sized media company supplied around 250 public libraries with books. It also ran its own public library with several thousand regular users. Unfortunately, the unit had been making losses for years. Therefore, the Executive Board hired a viadoo team member as interim manager. His task was to set…
Transformation: The spin-off of a medium-sized company (+1.500) was developing software and hardware systems for the aviation and automotive industries. However, it had run into severe financial trouble. Due to the related challenges, the new managing director and his team had hardly any time to design the necessary business transformation on their own. Therefore, he…
Transformation: The executive board of a hierarchical organisation with over 2,000 employees wanted to dissolve the silo structure of a business unit and to change the corporate culture. The reason for the reorganisation was the low effectiveness and efficiency of the division due to, among other things, duplicate structures. In addition, the board intended to…
Transformation: The executive board of an automotive OEM with more than 120,000 employees worldwide (turnover: +100 billion EUR) wanted to shorten a core process by about 30 percent as part of a group-wide transformation. In the past, such efforts had regularly failed due to the resistance of the function units (mindset: „That’s not possible because…
Transformation: A non-commercial organisation had well over half a million members to communicate with. The related teams (+70 members) were not only distributed across multiple floors and buildings, so that they remained physically separated in their silos. In addition they used different channels to communicate with the organisation’s stakeholders. On top of that, there was…
Transformation: The executive board of a supplier with a long metalworking tradition and over 150,000 employees at 230 sites (turnover: +30 billion EUR) wanted to transform the company into a technology group with its own software and hardware development. At the same time, the company had to react to a declining profit situation. Among the…
