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Katharina Schache has been a PhD student at CC Ecosystems since August 2019, where she is researching digital maturity and resilience in the field of Agile Transformation. She has a comprehensive education in the areas of banking, consulting and change management, starting with her bachelor studies in business administration with a focus on banking at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University. She completed the practical part of her studies at Commerzbank, where she switched to internal consulting shortly afterwards. Her work there motivated her to specialize in consulting and change management as part of a master's program at Università Bocconi and the Smith School of Business at Queen's University. She now brings her accumulated experience to the consortia research of the Competence Center.

Agile Mindset – What Exactly Is an Agile Mindset and Why Is It so Important?

Posted on 22.07.2022 By Katharina Schache

The success of agile teams or even entire agile companies is not exclusively due to the application of agile techniques, practices and methods, but above all to a certain attitude, way of thinking and behavior of both the individual and the entire team – the so-called “agile mindset”. And the agile mindset is an essential success factor in an agile transformation. In this post, I’d like to explain in more detail why this is so.

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Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Agile Management: How OKRs Can Support Agile Leadership

Posted on 15.07.2022 By Katharina Schache

The abbreviation OKR, which stands for objectives and key results, is a method that pursues the goal of promoting transparency, clarity and communication of goals and justifying the prioritization of activities. In February, Fabian Lehner already wrote about the basics and the potential of OKRs in the blog post “OKR – The Key to a Successful Company”. After all, many fast-growing companies such as Google, Spotify, LinkedIn or Amazon use this method. Building on this blog post, today we would like to explore the question of how OKRs support agile management and how agile leadership with OKRs actually works.

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Agility – How the Achievement of Corporate Goals Can Be Supported by Using the Agile Method Scrum

Posted on 06.04.2022 By Katharina Schache

Today, markets are characterized by constant change. To cope with this, many companies are applying agile methods. This article investigates how agile methods potentially affect the achievement of corporate goals in general and those in the financial industry in particular, taking the most widely used agile method, Scrum, as an example.

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Why Spotify Did Not Use the Spotify Model

Posted on 30.03.2022 By Katharina Schache

The agile organizational model of the Swedish music and video streaming service Spotify has been the talk of the town for some time now. Many banks, including Commerzbank and ING, are basing their organizational structure on the Spotify model. But what actually distinguishes the model? And what is the truth behind the statement that Spotify itself has not used the model at all?

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20 Years Agile Manifesto – An Overview of the Values & Principles

Posted on 30.04.2021 By Katharina Schache

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto, I would like to take another look at the central concepts of the document. Because even after this long time, the values and principles contained represent the basic tenets of the agile working method and can be found in many different agile methods, such as Scrum, Kanban or SAFe.

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Agile Corporate Culture – What’ s It All About? (Part 2)

Posted on 11.12.2020 By Katharina Schache

The culture of a company is the beliefs, values and behaviors that shape the social and psychological environment of the organization. As a 2017 Capgemini change management study shows, the companies that transform most successfully are also those that involve their employees in the transformation process from start to finish and thus actively promote a change in corporate culture. Many studies from science and practice also make it clear that the path to an agile culture is not an easy one. In a recent article, the consulting firm McKinsey has published four lessons learned from its experience with clients around the world that offer a good approach to how companies can foster the development of an agile culture.

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Agile Corporate Culture – What’ s It All About? (Part 1)

Posted on 04.12.2020 By Katharina Schache

The ever-increasing digitalization confronts companies with dynamically changing environmental conditions requiring them to regularly adapt their product and service portfolios and business models to changing circumstances. In order to meet this requirement, an agile organizational culture is indispensable.

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The Relevance of Organizational Resilience in Times of Crisis and Beyond

Posted on 03.11.2020 By Katharina Schache

Multinational companies have extensive and complex supply chains to operate as efficiently as possible. Within these production networks there is little room for error and preventive stress tests are rarely carried out. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how fragile such structures can be and what consequences can arise if too little attention is paid to risk exposure (Sneader & Lund, 2020).

But how could companies have better prepared for an unexpected event like the COVID-19 pandemic? And how relevant is organizational agility and resilience in this context?

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Technostress – The Dark Side of the Increasing Use of Information and Communication Technologies

Posted on 13.08.2020 By Katharina Schache

The economy and society in general have benefited greatly from increasing digitization and access to ICT. However, this development also has its downsides. In recent years, both scientific studies and practical reports have increasingly pointed out that the use of ICT in both private and organizational contexts can lead to strong stress perceptions among the respective users. This specific form of stress is called technostress. This blog post explains the causes and effects of technostress and suggests measures companies can take to minimize technostress for their employees.

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