Articles on the topics of excellence, unconscious biases and personality development
Mind your business focuses on the topic of excellence in decision making and decision support.
This can be applied in numerous areas. In this section you will find thoughts, ideas & articles to read in more detail.
The articles are based, among other things, on conversations. questions or impulses over the years > feel free to contact us for further suggestions!
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Most recent articles
Irrationality in financial controlling
How rational are professions whose main task is objectivity and neutrality? Digitalisation is often seen as key means to guarantee rationality - rightfully so?
Images of leadership
Which image do we have in our mind when we think of the "typical leader?
What prevents more diversity in companies?
FOBO, decision weakness and the role of Finance
What does the Fear of Better Options mean for the work in Finance & Controlling and how can we counter this phenomenon?
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B2B Online Europe 2019
I had the pleasure of chairing this year's B2B Online Europe Conference in
Barcelona on the second day.
Well-known companies such as Microsoft, Siemens
or ABB presented their paths in various digital topics such as eCommerce,
Customer Experience or digital strategies.
B2B Online Europe 2019
I had the pleasure of chairing this year's B2B Online Europe Conference in
Barcelona on the second day.
Well-known companies such as Microsoft, Siemens
or ABB presented their paths in various digital topics such as eCommerce,
Customer Experience or digital strategies.
[In der Blog-Übersicht wird hier ein Weiterlesen-Link angezeigt]
I took the following three points with me as
the most important:
- Focus on individual customer needs as a success
factor
- Using data effectively and responsibly at the same time
- Human"
topics such as change management (also internally!), overcoming organizational
silos and the right competencies in the organization are at least as important
as pure technology.
My keynote was mainly about the third point and had the titel "Customer centricity and analogue implications". It was an outlook what digitalisation means to the "analogue" devices of human beings. There are massive changes ahead of us, consequently the question is which competences are needed to deal with them.
Essentially I expect three field of necessary change:
- Digital competencies - rather straightforward to name, less clear what exactly needs to be done
- Leadership competences - digitalisation means that the ecosystem in companies is changing. Conference participants saw organisational silos as main problem.
- Cognitive & social competences - less straightforward but key as shown in recent studies. Challenge here is that these competences are not as clearly visible as technical skills for needed in order to make individuals fit for the future.
The detailed considerations are summarised in a separate document - if you are interested, just click to download the extended version of my speech.