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Your organization has undergone a strategy process and found a new way forward. Now the time has come to make structural changes and transform the organization hands-on: new teams, clearer roles, different ways of working together. The plan is sound. But between the org chart and the living reality of how work actually happens lies … Read more

The digital layer of our world is rapidly expanding, and even more so today due to disruptive technologies such as generative AI. The latter is especially driving record-breaking adoption rates for digital tools and services (McKinsey, 2023). In the meantime, this has become a commonplace. Something we tend to pay less attention to, however, is … Read more

We’ve been writing about regenerative business models for some time now. To cut a long story short: The time is high for ecological change, and policies have been laid out to make it happen, at least in the European Union. ESG reporting (standing for ecological/social/governance) has become a significant transition in our organizations, especially mid-sized … Read more

The Medical University of Graz’s new strategic profile has emerged as a model of how academic institutions can lead the way in the convergence of medical education, research, and entrepreneurship. It is an area in which many academic institutions are still lagging behind. However, the Medical University of Graz developed a vision of how technology … Read more

In Europe, we face a huge gap of untouched intellectual potential. On one side of the gap, we have highly competitive, research-intensive universities. This is particularly true of biomedical research. On the other side, we have investors ready to exploit these results. However, on one side, we have young, highly talented, and motivated students and … Read more

Today, the proliferation of information is out of control. A driving force behind this is the emergence of accessible AI tools for content generation. What used to be a costly, resource-intensive exercise, such as generating news that closely resembles credible media content, is now an overly simple, easy-to-perform task with tools like ChatGPT. It only … Read more

With the holidays nearing, you might finally find time to sit down with a good book. We have compiled our reading list to help you pick one for the long winter evenings. We asked our colleagues to recommend inspirational books for leaders and to explain their choice shortly. Let the selection below expand your mind … Read more

Change management has a bad reputation. And rightly so, since it quite often fails. Again and again, new methods and instruments are developed and applied to deal with this. Why does change management fail nonetheless? The answer to this is that something essential is missing, especially when dealing with the challenges we face in the … Read more

Recently, our co-founder Markus F. Peschl gave an interview for the Becoming a Sustainable Leader podcast with Anna Jurgaś. They talked about the most important leadership qualities for the 21st century and how managers can put them into practice. In this blog post, we summarize the key points of their conversation. You can listen to … Read more

Through this article, we are starting a series of interviews with our clients and partners. In them, we will together explore the insights and experiences from our previous projects. Let’s start with a quick overview of our first project in the series. Afterwards, we will continue to the interview itself. What was this project about? … Read more