change-processes

The increasing turbulence in enterprises environment becomes apparent by rising variant diversity and continuously reducing product life cycles. These results cause immense and not resolvable adaption necessities for producing companies. The approach of network factories combines system immanent and network bounded potentials to increase adaption alternatives, reduce adaption risks, and optimize agility.

Organizational change-processes are usually carried out according to objective criteria; self-organizational aspects (as well as emotions and (basic-) needs as order parameter) are not taken into consideration. However, these aspects eventually decide on the success of innovative processes. Therefore, it is of importance to design organizational innovative processes in such a way that they enable and enhance self-organization. A technique designed to identify order parameters and to enhance self-organizational aspects (using adapted and relevant methods drawn from the field of Industrial Engineering) is introduced and discussed.