Sector Spotlights
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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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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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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 prime ministers of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and Lower Saxony, OEMs, suppliers (who are facing a tough change process since 2019), and employee representatives will be sitting at the table. In 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 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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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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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 Digitalisierung.
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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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Corporate Heritage in Change Initiatives
Corporate heritage is a company’s intangible legacy. It is its history. It is the sum of its employees’ stories, which reflect the company’s values and culture. Anyone planning a restructuring, a post-merger integration, a culture change, or other changes should conceptually incorporate corporate heritage from the very beginning. This is because it plays a key…
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Restructuring, Turnarounds, PMI in Aerospace
Restructuring is an important management tool. Those who plan it should also carefully prepare for its socio-psychological aspects. Particular attention must be paid to the organization’s collective memory and to ensuring that teams identify as strongly as possible with their company. With these aspects in mind, we examine the eventful restructuring of the German aerospace…
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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 the loss of around 40,000 jobs: Bosch announced in September 2025 that it would cut 22,000 jobs in Germany by 2030. At Continental, the total for 2024 and 2025 amounted…