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In 2015, Sharyn Leaver (Forrester) published a widely acclaimed report on how a business organization could better align itself with the customer. The measures suggested there by no means have to be limited to entire companies. Do you have it in smaller ones? Some of the principles can certainly be applied to more specific „customer-supplier…

Very few people like to be tested. This is true for the new fiancé, for the student in the chemistry test and, of course, for the CIO. But those who get the hairs on the back of their necks when they think about it forget one thing: you learn a lot about yourself in such…

For a long time, SAP propagated the main advantages of the new S/4HANA product line in the underlying technology. There was a lot of talk, for example, about in-memory databases and the public cloud, which are essentially IT strategy topics but of only moderate interest to the business. Thus, initial discussions on the transition strategy…

.. is the man with the plan. Good when it’s that simple. It is not uncommon for German project managers in particular to fall into a popular linguistic trap by confusing the English „plan“ with the German „schedule“. Yet, even in German, planning, on closer inspection, encompasses much more than just the scheduling component. According…

How the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and how redirection succeeds. For quite a few project managers, the effort to keep the project baselines in check seems about as easy as nailing a pudding to the wall. If, to make matters worse, the beautiful new solution is not accepted, good advice is…