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.
