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Detecon Business LAB
Breathing Room
for Creatives and Visionaries
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The future is agile. The rapid pace of technological transformation, accelerating
speed of change, and profound social changes demand dynamic ruggedness,
flexibility, and liquid structures – in a word, agility. Agility assures the survival
of the knowledge society.
A
gility means viewing transformation capability as a key
­ aradigm of future working environments. This demands of
p
companies expansive thinking, a habit of thinking in terms of
viewpoints, opportunities, and contexts. The prerequisite for
this way of thinking is a corporate culture which is marked by in­
dividual responsibility, creativity, and transformation. Thinking
and acting creatively go beyond artistic creative power, namely:
the ability to perceive continuously new i­nterrelationships, to
integrate differing viewpoints, and to question the ­legacies from
the past over and over.
An organization cannot be agile without the utilization of ­flexible
methods and instruments. This does not mean the end of tried
and proven management methods, but rather a m
­ eaningful
supplement. For instance, strict project ­
­
planning with set
­milestones can be supplemented by agile project ­management
using Scrum. Another paradigm accompanies “­accepting dyna­
mics and uncertainty”: maximum focus on ­customers. This is
­especially the case when the matter at stake is the company’s
survival capability in the future – its innovations. Innovations
are born in people’s heads, not generated by managed processes.
The focus here is on the customer’s problem rather than on
­engineering art enamored of technology.
The Detecon Business Lab is a nucleus for agile methods, a
room for experimentation and doing it yourself. This is also the
inspiration behind the name “Business Lab”: lab as the short
form of laboratory – a room for experimentation. A place where
agile methods and formats can be developed, tried out, tested,
and applied during projects. The bandwidth ranges from inter­
active brainstorming sessions and flexible project management
methods to product developments based on design thinking
approaches.
Interdisciplinary networking and the sharing of experience lead
to the reproduction of knowledge and the creation of disruptive
innovations. The objective is to bring together people with diffe­
rent experience horizons and educational backgrounds who can
spur each other on to ever greater heights.
The room has been completely designed with interactivity and
creativity in mind; it can be set up in any configuration at any
time and changed quickly.
Business Lab elements:
• A writable wall provides the space needed for brainstorming.
Special whiteboard paint means that anything written here
with whiteboard markers can be simply erased.
• A wall which has been covered with special tiles can be used
when working with Stattys, Post-its, or self-adhesive paper.
Ideas written down on cardboard can be pinned to the wall.
• Learning maps show thought-provoking ideas for innovative
workshop formats and for project management methods.
• All of the furnishings such as shelves and tables are movable
and can be placed anywhere in the room.
• A projector is provided for any kind of monitor transmission.
• An idea board steadily collects new flashes of inspiration, but
is also standing by to accept remarks, feedback, and expressed
wishes.
The Detecon Business Lab at Cologne headquarters is available
at all times to our clients for projects, workshops, meetings, and
events of any type. If desired, our consultants will act as profes­
sional facilitators.
Contact: [email protected]
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