Disruptive change due to changing markets, changing values or modern, automated and cost-effective manufacturing processes require an agile readiness for change. Together with you, we shape this flexibility for a strong performance as well as distinctive innovation capability of your organization. Our holistic support on the level of structures, processes and working methods as well as in the area of culture and competencies enables a holistic transformation for your performance and future capability.
New normality - what does that mean for your company? Staying competitive requires an adaptable, agile interplay of service portfolio, mindset and structure. Our process aims at sustainable anchoring, because those who continuously work on the company are 21 times more likely to succeed.
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To start, our client wanted alignment within its core processes, which were already digitized through various tools and software solutions. What he lacked was an overall strategy, vision and integration into the organizational design. First and foremost, decisions for tools or applications were always purchased based on the principle of the quick solution. This ultimately led to isolated solutions, lack of transparency and networking within the company.
Requirements
After taking stock of the situation, we presented the customer with two possible paths. The customer chose the holistic approach to integrate the exact organizational model in a future-oriented way, which supports both the vision and the company's purpose, but also serves as a framework for self-responsibility, value orientation and new ways of working.
Solution
We intensified the analysis of the status quo. To do this, various stakeholders shared their experiences, aspirations, success stories and failures, so that a picture emerged of where the company currently stands and what makes it tick. From this, we can draw the identity, a value construct, and success factors that are critical to creating the overall organization's target picture. This was then used to create a change project architecture that serves as a framework for implementation. In the first phase, a pilot team was also put together, which on the one hand gathered initial experience as future shapers and on the other acted as multipliers within the company. Particularly important for us in any project is the appropriate communication, because we design with language as much as with structures. There were also various workshops and additional training sessions for managers and employees. These included, for example, resilience in the home office, value change in the company, non-violent communication and much more.
Result
In addition to the future shapers, several teams have already gone through the implementation phase today. In a rolling system, more and more teams are added to help establish remote work in the company, optimize it and design it in terms of processes across national borders. Despite difficult circumstances caused by the crisis, the company's growth was maintained, new colleagues were recruited, and a uniform IT landscape was integrated, replacing previous isolated applications with networked holistic systems.
What will the organization of the future look like?
Social and cultural developments have been shaping corporate models for several decades now. The planned economy requires an authoritarian led and hierarchically organized system to function. Today, dealing with complexity, uncertainty is characterized by fast-moving, flexible responses from agile and adaptable companies. Companies such as Amazon or Google are leading the way, but even they are reaching their limits. In addition to agility, the topics of sustainability, sense orientation and co-determination are increasingly on the wish lists of future generations of professionals. From all these aspects, we work with you to design exactly the organization that suits you, your employees and your company's purpose. We see it as a development process in which many things are still to be found. With the help of various methods, we tickle exactly that out of you, your employees and future top performers.
How does ARTS assess the current developments regarding new work models?
Employees increasingly value the development of potential, flexibility and a sense of purpose in the workplace. It is the task of companies to take this into account in order to remain attractive as an employer. New, flexible working models such as the four-day week, the 5-hour day or job sharing are gaining ground. The current trend toward remote work and mobile working can already be a first step that contributes to more flexibility for your employees. In addition, it is the topics of values, culture and meaningfulness that will attract top performers in the future and contribute to the work culture.
Organizational consulting, change management consulting or consulting on the organization of the future - What do I really need?
Our organizational consulting fields differ in terms of their complexity, the intervention in your organization and the time frame of the project. Through our non-binding initial consultation, we clarify exactly these points, which are necessary to select a possible or appropriate approach for you.
The distinction between organizational consulting, change management and organization of the future is outlined again in this table:
| Organisational consulting | Change Management | Organisation of the future | |
| Transformation understanding | First specific starting point | Evolutionary change with a specific thematic focus | Holistic evolutionary change of the organization |
| Scope | Partial, delimitable subject area | Organization-wide | |
| Project implementation | Both classic and agile project management possible | Recommended to be carried out in the form of agile project management | |
| Target | Optimization or redesign, e.g., in terms of efficiency or effectiveness in a specific area or process. | Overarching change in a component of work design with a change in work culture | Transformation towards a future-oriented form of organization |
The future is still uncertain and you don't yet know where exactly the road will lead. However, you know that you want to help shape the future. To do this, you would like to bring a new form of work into your company, then let's look together at where you are right now and whether our impetus for change from the outside is exactly the push you need.
