Breaking the silos with an organizational culture that drives innovation
Overview
Duration:
2 Years
Sector:
Chemical Industry
Focus:
Cultural Transformation
Purpose
- Shortening innovation cycles in a highly competitive market
- Cultural development from top-down hierarchical (tearing down silo walls) to cross-functional and agile
- Replacing ineffective, rigid patterns with flexible, customer-centric forms of collaboration
- Multi-perspectivity in innovation management
- Evolution of the leadership mindset: Empowerment of employees and improved use of resources. Change competence and moderation of sustainable development processes
What habe we achieved?
- Intensified cooperation between regions and functions
- Implementation of Otto Scharmer's theory U as an innovation and problem solving process
- Increased leadership at the level of customer-centric innovation and problem-solving
- Introduction of new, more effective forms of cooperation across regions and functional boundaries
- Shifting the expert culture towards a culture of joint design and solution orientation
1 Contact
First meeting with the project owner and the HR of the client.
2 Co-Creation
Management of the consulting team, which goes into contract clarification with the project owner and develops architectures, designs and methods.
3 Contract
Management of the consulting team. Implementation of multi-level organizational development. Inclusion of 300 executives starting from the Board of Directors. Staffing: International consulting team for Germany and China.
4 Co-Evolution
2-year joint development process with workshops and large group events in Germany and China, case work and Theory U by Otto Scharmer. Continuous coordination with the client, evaluation and adaptation of the methods.