increase in productivity

For ensuring their competitiveness, companies need to react flexible and appropriate to changing environmental requirements. Therefore they use process-improving and competence-increasing methods. The selection of the methods is usually based on intuition and experiences. Often the fact that employees need specific competences to implement the methods is neglected. Furthermore companies do not necessarily know if the chosen methods fit to the given context. For this reason a systematic needs to be developed which considers employee competences and company characteristics for an efficient selection of methods.

Companies are established, grow and prosper and also go bankrupt during the course of a lifetime. However, how can it be possible that a company selling the same products in the same market manufactured by the same employees shortly after coming very close to bankruptcy subsequently turns into a flagship company? Is it possibly that only very subtle differences combined with the attitude of those involved are the factors which make a difference? Firm goals and brilliant leadership are the keys to successful business reengineering. Leadership is much more than mere management. An example taken from the machine-building industry emphasizes the significance of leadership for success.