Technologie: Training

In volatile markets firms must be able to develop products faster and streamline production. Processes of reorganization to renew resources and routines are relevant, especially processes of knowledge generation, absorption and exploitation. Therefore this article develops wellestablished approaches to organizational learning and knowledge management. The foundations and commonalities of these approaches are presented and practical implications are discussed.

The rising demand and availability of knowledge contributes to the change away from an industrial society towards a more knowledge oriented society. This article focuses on knowledge work in small enterprises. The article describes the importance and the potential of know-ledge work in small enterprises and demonstrates the difficulties in the implementation. The small structured building industry with its change towards a more and more knowledge intensive branch of business over the last years was chosen as an example to explain this approach. In a systems-theoretical model the authors describe an approach to make the application of knowledge work in small enterprises of the building sector possible.

A serious problem in the current phase of development of Russia, which is heading for a fundamental modernization by promoting and implementing innovative technologies, is the acute shortage of qualified personnel, existing in many sectors of the economy. The causes of this problem vary and are determined by historical, political, economic and social factors.

The rise of the complexity of products and the product development process in addition to shorter development cycles and the customers’ high demands on quality, increase the pressure on producing as accurately and economically as possible. Hence, it is necessary to avoid errors in the early phases of development instead of fixing them at a later stage, which can be costly. This article uses the product configuration of milling robot units to show an innovative solution for the early development phase. This approach uses established technologies from the area of semantic technologies and problem solving methods. It also shows how to improve the reliability of product configuration by making use of the expertise from later phases in the development.

Innovation is a central determinant of the competitiveness of a company. The discovery, development and realization of innovative ideas are, however, bound up with challenges and risks. Against this backdrop, new paths and resources must be demonstrated, particularly for small and mid-sized enterprises (SME). This article is concerned with the open-innovation approach in the pharmaceutical industry and describes the interaction between research and practice to open the existing innovation processes in three SME.

Flexibility becomes increasingly the crucial success factor. This is the result of a current survey on small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany. More than a quarter of the participants indicated that flexibility was their most important business goal. What this result means for the personnel policy of a company and in the end for its employees is the focus of this article. The here presented survey is part of the BMBF project “FlexPro” that investigates different strategies of internal flexibilization as well as determinants of using external workers, especially temporary agency workers.

Sustainability in lean production systems arises when the relevant lean principles are addressed by preferably all stakeholders in the context of permanent improvement processes. For this purpose a skills development of all employees is necessary, even for managers, as they convey the CIP position by their people skills and set an example. If this succeeds, improvement processes will develop into a sustainable learning process, which in turn serves as a self-reinforcing factor for the further development of staff skills. An approach to skills development and to the corresponding leadership system for improvement processes is presented and supported by preliminary results of an empirical study.

Getting qualified and motivated employees and high potentials for companies and keeping them is going to be an important issue in leadership in the years to come. Employees achieve the most if they have a clear understanding of their working tasks and claims by using their talents and resources to their best. Not following these in house policies will lead to a high fluctuation, high status of employee´s illness and burn out. Implementing those resourceful strategies will lead to higher strength and better use of talents in business.

It is expected that employment will increase in the next 5 years. Furthermore, several surveys examining the training needs state that there is a large need for improving the qualification of employees working at all different positions within the supply chain. The need for qualified persons cannot only be fulfilled by motivating the employees in continuous learning. This article shows an approach used for vocational training in the field of Intelligent Cargo.

Knowledge management around projects has been supported for a long time by a host of software applications. But still the knowledge exchange between organisation and projects is weak throughout the project cycle: from project inception where company knowledge is ignored to transfer of results to the dump of collective company data. Social media bring about a sense of communication which may help to solve some of these problems - if it can be successfully implemented. We explore how SharePoint can be employed to enhance the knowledge transfer between organisations and their projects.