Defence Industry
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Growth Readiness: Can Your Organization Keep up with Growth?
Growth is typically reflected in new customers, new products, additional capacity, new business models, acquisitions, international expansion, or entry into new industries. Each of these goals also changes the organization that must implement them. This means more people must work together. Responsibilities shift across functions. New interfaces emerge. More stakeholders are involved in decision-making. Existing…
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Transformation of the Army: Why Learning Speed Is Ultimately Decisive
“Zeitenwende” remains just another buzzword if, in addition to weapons systems, armed forces do not adapt their learning speed. A team of authors from Subdivision G7 of the German Army Command (responsible for training, exercises, and the “Lessons Learned” process) sums up this challenge in a recent article for Defence Network: Modern battlefield is virtually…
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When Leadership Decisions Stall: How Executive Coaching Creates Clarity
Following a reorganization, several teams—which had previously operated largely independently—are supposed to work more closely together. But even after several months, this isn’t working. On the contrary! Decisions are taking longer and longer, conflicts are on the rise, and the team leaders are blaming each other for the difficulties. The division manager in charge has…
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Leadership in uncertainty and in times of poly crisis
The German leadership debate thrives on contrasts. For years, organizations considered the empathetic, approachable, and coaching-oriented leader the ideal. Now the pendulum seems to be swinging back: In the face of economic stagnation, geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption, and painful restructuring, there is suddenly talk of a “new toughness.” So do Germany’s companies now need tougher…
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Can German Defense Industry handle Ramp-up?
The debate on Germany’s defense ramp-up often sounds simple. Can industry deliver the required volume, or not? Recent reporting framed the issue as a potential supply gap. One model suggested Germany could face a defense production shortfall by 2035. Closing that gap would require annual growth rates of up to 28 percent. The Federation of…
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Getting Stalled Projects Back on Track
At first, everything sounds logical: a new ERP system like SAP S/4HANA, AI integration, a new planning model, a digital shop floor or supply chain solution. Everything brings benefits, and potential risks seem manageable. A few months later, however, the “all green, two yellow” reports come to an end. Instead, there are no solid success…
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Multi-project management as DefTech key competence
The German security and defense industry is experiencing a historic turning point. In many companies, the operational question is no longer “if,” but “how quickly and how reliably” capabilities can be scaled up. At the same time, it is becoming clear that the bottleneck is rarely just manufacturing. It lies in supply chains, governance, decision-making…
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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 event, the Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade organized a B2B speed dating event, to which it also invited viadoo GmbH. Since 2004, our experts have been developing and implementing change…
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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 close to some evident answers to the question why transformations fail.
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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 situation reveals how leadership deals with group processes and human dynamics. The captain is at the center of a system that would quickly become dysfunctional without targeted social leadership. CEOs…
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Revival of Defense Industry
Just a few weeks ago, banks and insurance companies weren’t willing to invest a single penny in the defense industry. That’s because the European Commission plans to place these companies on a blacklist of socially harmful and therefore unsustainable businesses. But Putin’s campaign against Ukraine has turned the tide. Institutional investors are once again showing…
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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 entstehen dort in Zusammenarbeit mit branchenfremden Playern innovative Produkte, die den digitalen Wandel vorantreiben.