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Accelerate your product development!

Accelerate your product development!
We first tackled Cost of Delay on our blog last September. This factor enables you to calculate how much delaying a product’s market entry costs per month, making it particularly important for the prioritisation of ongoing projects. However, a key obstacle to swift product development is the fact that the most important decisions can frequently...

04 Aug 2017 by Adrian von Orelli

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How do we resolve conflicts as a self-organised team?

How do we resolve conflicts as a self-organised team?

Our company has a competence hierarchy, rather than a power hierarchy: whoever has most expertise on a specific topic can decide the course of action, for which the relevant team members must be consulted. In self-organised teams, however, there is a second major challenge alongside decision-making: conflict resolution.
First, resolve conflicts within yourself

05 Jul 2017 by Mischa Ramseyer

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From business model to product and from product to business model

From business model to product and from product to business model
Lean Innovation and Design Thinking are currently hot topics. Both frameworks produce the same results – it's only the methods that differ. Design Thinking – what is it? The concept of Design Thinking isn’t new. It arose from industrial design and aims to develop innovative services targeted at customer needs. It therefore focuses on the different...

24 May 2017 by Adrian von Orelli

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Lateral thinking on Lake Constance

Lateral thinking on Lake Constance
In April, I was invited to the sold-out Grenzdenken 2017 conference to give an account of my quest for the perfect company with pragmatic solutions gmbh. So I asked myself, 'How do modern companies in the 21st century prepare themselves for the future?' I told the audience about my very personal journey over the...

12 May 2017 by Mischa Ramseyer

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Decision making in an agile team – There is no right or wrong

Decision making in an agile team – There is no right or wrong
In our last blog post, we examined decision making in an agile team. Here’s what we found: decisions have to be taken, even in agile teams. And, of course, people don't always agree with each other. I suggested consultative individual decisions as a potential solution. In practice, this means that a team member is chosen...

05 May 2017 by Mischa Ramseyer

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Decision-making in an agile team – Who decides?

Decision-making in an agile team – Who decides?
As agile coaches, we feel it is especially important to live out agile values ourselves. Anyone who knows us knows that we are committed to the agile mindset. We derive our principles from our values, which means that we face a continual succession of new challenges. There is one in particular that I would like...

28 Apr 2017 by Mischa Ramseyer

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Standing room only at Agile Breakfast in Zurich

Standing room only at Agile Breakfast in Zurich
Interest in agile transformation skyrockets! Stefano Trentini and I were pleased to find ourselves amongst a thronging crowd at the SwissICT Agile Breakfast that took place on 1 March 2017 in Zurich. Around 20 people usually show up for the Agile Breakfast events, which are held regularly in Zurich. This time, though, there...

26 Apr 2017 by Mischa Ramseyer

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Change your conditions, not your people

Change your conditions, not your people
A company’s culture is the product of its management system. Employees generally behave as the system dictates. Most companies use a traditional reward and punishment system to motivate their employees to achieve more: work well and you get a bonus; make mistakes and you get criticised. At the same time, managers want to increase collaboration...

15 Mar 2017 by Fredi Schmidli

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Day-to-day appreciation suits us better than Merit Money

Day-to-day appreciation suits us better than Merit Money
We place great importance on transparency. We value openness, courage and team spirit, and treat each other as equals. This also means that we expect our employees to think and act in a bold, entrepreneurial manner. To encourage this, last year we ran an experiment called ‘Merit Money’. How we used Merit Money: Merit Money is based...

17 Jan 2017 by Fredi Schmidli

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Companies need more individual responsibility!

Companies need more individual responsibility!
We celebrated our 10th birthday on November 14! Time has flown by thanks to all the exciting projects with our customers. We wouldn’t be where we are today without our standing customers – that’s why we invited them to a stand-up dinner and knowledge sharing event on the topic of ‘Self-organisation and leadership’ at our...

15 Dec 2016 by Norbert Zeller

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