corporate culture

With the advent of digitalization, prevailing paradigms – such as product centricity, face-to-face collaboration and hierarchical structures – are giving way to the vision of data-driven business models, digital, collaborative ecosystems and an agile, holacratic way of working in flat hierarchies and self-managing teams. Collaboration is made possible through the use of software solutions. In addition to adapted management concepts, the digital space also requires a digital cultural understanding on part of the companies involved. Lean empowerment is a pioneering approach to collaboration based on cultural values. In expert workshops, ideas were developed to explore how these values can be lived in a digital culture and thus in terms of global digital collaboration. This article presents concrete solutions from which requirements for digital collaboration and for implementation within IT structures and software solutions in particular can be derived.

Auf Basis von 36 aktuellen Literaturquellen wurden zehn Erfolgskriterien für Innovationen ermittelt. Die am häufigsten genannten Erfolgsfaktoren sind dabei zum einen das Verständnis gelebter Innovation als fester Teil der Unternehmenskultur und deren feste Verankerung auf der strategischen, taktischen und operativen, sowie die gezielte Förderung von Kundenorientierung in allen Abteilungen. Mitarbeiter von sechs ausgewählten Unternehmen wurden in persönlichen Interviews befragt, inwieweit diese Kriterien erfüllt worden sind. Aus diesen Erkenntnissen werden Best-Practice-Ideen zur Entwicklung einer optimalen Innovationskultur im Unternehmen abgeleitet.

In recent years, numerous maturity models have been developed with the aim of providing a clear indication of the progress each company has made in terms of Industry 4.0 development. However, not all models include all aspects of Industry 4.0. The models are also not equally practical. This article offers an in-depth comparison and assessment of the comprehensiveness of the ten most important Industry 4.0 maturity models.