The greatest potential for progress and change
lies in adapting the systems we work in
My purpose is to help shape environments in which customer
values are created by the intrinsic motivation of people
I advise organisations on the challenges of digital transformation, project & programme management and the ongoing optimisation of working methods
The Challenge
Digitisation is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left behind…One banking CEO, says the industry is in the midst of a transition that occurs once every 100 years ...— Strategic principles for competing in the digital age, McKinsey Quarterly, May 2014
We live now in the age of customer capitalism. The era of shareholder capitalism, i.e. pushing products and services at customers, of tweaking the supply chain, of parsing and manufacturing demand, with the single-minded goal of making money of shareholders, is over ...— Measuring What Matters, Steve Denning, Forbes, Feb. 2011
Digitisation
Many companies today have at least already started to digitalise their business processes. For most of those involved, the whole process seems rather slow. There is a perceived lack of cross-departmental focus. The Pareto rule says that 20% of your initiatives will produce 80% of your outcome. Let's find out together what we can leave out ...
Being not doing
Are you an organisation that is in the middle of a "transformation" or planning one? It is often difficult to determine whether the transformation will create added value for you. Perhaps one approach is to stop your waterfall initiative of "doing agile". Start "being" agile and become an organisation that plays at the top when it comes to who learns best and adapts the fastest in terms of evolution ...
Stop starting, start finishing
Are you an organisation that still starts all your initiatives at the same time at the beginning of your fiscal year and for some time now not much has really been completed in terms of achieving your necessary time, budget and quality requirements? You are probably running at full steam and everyone is working to capacity. You are highly efficient. But are you also effective? How about an alternative approach that takes you from efficiency to effectiveness ...
Filling The Gap
It's the outcome that counts
not the output
Focus
on what matters
Act in a systematic way
by adapting your system as a whole
Tear down borders
and interact on customer value streams
Repivot Now
Manage Holistically Empower Your People
Become a pilot
use flight levels to
manage your portfolio
Work together by identifying value streams and optimize your process organization
Dissolve your silos and act in the network
finally be/stay a
learning
continuously improving
"customer obsessed"
organisation
Some References
What My Customers & Partners Say
Fashionette Testimonial
… During my time as Managing Director of Fashionette GmbH, Sandro was always available to support any agile process-related and corporate culture aspects, and we could rely 100% on the delivery of our Scrum teams. We always knew the continuous improvement process was in good hands. … [read more]
Ronald Reschke
(Gründer & Geschäftsführer medicruiter GmbH)
SyroCon Consulting GmbH
... Using agile methods, Mr. Thiemann succeeded in improving the regular exchange of information between all participants, including strategic coordination, both in the area of team management as well as on the requestor and stakeholder side ... [read more]
Florian Pfütze
(Head of Business Development)
Single Iduna Group Testimonial
... As a true Subject Matter Expert, I would like to acknowledge Sandro as a valuable sparring partner in the role of the lead architect for the company-wide agile work, or “Agile Operating System,” and as a guide by my side as the Head of Agile Coaching. … [read more]
Danny Holtschke
(Product Manager | Agile Coach | Podcast—AgilerSenf.de)
Bundesliga
... Together we succeeded in raising the platform to a more modern and future-oriented level in a Life Cycle Management – parallel to the ongoing operation. Today, this basis created at that time serves us as the basis for the continuous changes and further developments that we have to face constantly ... [read more]
Christoph Forster
(Head of German Football Archive)