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Detecon Business LAB Breathing Room for Creatives and Visionaries 50 Detecon Management Report blue • 2013 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] 51 Detecon Management Report blue • 2013