Issue
N° 11 / 2024
Step Off The Wheel
Reimagine value creation: Is the time-tested Lean model the pathway to the future? How can businesses achieve the goal of becoming zero-emission companies? And how can digital transformation be designed to successfully engage employees?
Dear Readers,
Holistic transformation is the key success factor for companies to ensure their future viability and competitiveness. We’re not talking about a technological upgrade in this context but about the highly complex interplay between dynamically oriented action fields that are elements of a continual process of transformation. Business as usual was yesterday. We need a rapid rethink – now. Stepping off the hamster wheel of traditional methods is the name of the new game. We need to reimagine value creation and finally release the strategic parking brake so that Germany as an economic and manufacturing location can assume a leading position again.
In the current issue of ingenics magazine, we take a close look at the Lean, Green and Digital action fields. We talked to experts and asked them how they deal with the challenges of constant transformation and how important the respective action fields are for them. Is the time-tested Lean model the pathway to the future? How can businesses achieve the goal of becoming zero-emission companies? And how can digital transformation be designed to successfully engage employees?
I hope you find this issue to be an enjoyable read and, above all, one that provides you with valuable inspiration encouraging lively exchanges with your colleagues, business partners, and with us as well. We look forward to your suggestions and feedback.
Holistic transformation is the key success factor for companies to ensure their future viability and competitiveness. We’re not talking about a technological upgrade in this context but about the highly complex interplay between dynamically oriented action fields that are elements of a continual process of transformation. Business as usual was yesterday. We need a rapid rethink – now. Stepping off the hamster wheel of traditional methods is the name of the new game. We need to reimagine value creation and finally release the strategic parking brake so that Germany as an economic and manufacturing location can assume a leading position again.
In the current issue of ingenics magazine, we take a close look at the Lean, Green and Digital action fields. We talked to experts and asked them how they deal with the challenges of constant transformation and how important the respective action fields are for them. Is the time-tested Lean model the pathway to the future? How can businesses achieve the goal of becoming zero-emission companies? And how can digital transformation be designed to successfully engage employees?
I hope you find this issue to be an enjoyable read and, above all, one that provides you with valuable inspiration encouraging lively exchanges with your colleagues, business partners, and with us as well. We look forward to your suggestions and feedback.
Our key themes in this issue
The Eleventh Hour
Value Creation at a Crossroads. A commentary by Andreas Hoberg, Managing Partner, Ingenics Consulting
Page
06
“Looking at the big picture is essential”
Stefan Flicke, Partner Ingenics Consulting, about the pathway to the zero-emission company
Page
26
“Rolling out AI as a shared process”
A guest article by Britta Daffner, Head of Data Strategy & Data Culture at O2 Telefónica
Page
48
The following articles may also be part of this issue
14
“The pathway to excellence is not a blueprint”
An interview with Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Lechner, CEO, Pöttinger Landtechnik GmbH, and Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Markus Petry, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
20
“Efficiency increase irrespective of transformation”
Dr. Wolfgang Walter, Production Manager and Site Manager Augsburg at MAN Energy Solutions, about efficiency increase and potential of employees
24
“The effort can only be managed by clearly enhancing efficiency”
A conversation with Dr. Marcus Bollig, Managing Director, Product and Value Creation at the Association of the German Automotive Industry (VDA)
30
“Looking at the big picture is essential”
A conversation with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter F. Tropschuh, Adjunct Professor at the Department for Vehicle Engineering at TU Munich
32
Harmonizing Costs and Carbon
How software from TSET coordinates cost targets and sustainability goals with each other
34
“Cost engineering is no longer feasible without software”
An interview with Michael Mayringer, Chief Service Officer at TSET, and Andreas Grundnig, Partner, Ingenics AG
36
The Circular Economy as a Location Advantage
An interview with Wilhelm Mauß, CEO of Lorenz GmbH & Co. KG
40
“The idea of efficiency is our driver”
Michael Meister, Chief Operating Officer at H-TEC SYSTEMS, about digitalization and process optimization
42
No-Code & Low-Code: Efficiently Digitalizing Processes Yourself
How employees can be enabled to technically implement processes themselves