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?

Step Off The Wheel
Step Off The Wheel
Prof. Oliver Herkommer
Prof. Oliver Herkommer
Managing PartnerIngenics Consulting
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.

Our key themes in this issue

The Eleventh Hour
Page 06
“Looking at the big picture is essential”
Page 26
“Rolling out AI as a shared process”
Page 48

The following articles may also be part of this issue

14
“The pathway to excellence is not a blueprint”
20
“Efficiency increase irrespective of transformation”
24
“The effort can only be managed by clearly enhancing efficiency”
30
“Looking at the big picture is essential”
32
Harmonizing Costs and Carbon
34
“Cost engineering is no longer feasible without software”
36
The Circular Economy as a Location Advantage
40
“The idea of efficiency is our driver”
42
No-Code & Low-Code: Efficiently Digitalizing Processes Yourself

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