Autor: André Ullrich

The digital cross-linking of production environments is proceeding. Within this, the qualification requirements for the employees increase. Companies and employees can cope with this by creating and applying customized vocational training concepts. Goal of this article is to introduce an approach and a corresponding procedure model to capture framework conditions as well to configure and design context-sensitive qualification measures within a company.

Risks in a company’s environment are a significant factor of uncertainty for long-term corporate success. In many cases, the main challenge is that decision makers are not aware of the influencing factors, their interdependencies and effects on outcomes. This article introduces an approach to efficiently identify risks within complex, e.g. seasonal, environments. This involves setting up cause-effect relationships to determine risks based on environmental factors, their interdependencies and effects. The approach is illustrated using the case of a company in the luxury food industry.