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Sustainable changes in companies often fail due to rigid structures, as new approaches are culturally inappropriate. Spiral Dynamics helps to understand corporate cultures and adapt transformations. Leaders play a key role by reflecting attitudes and enabling changes in context.

Complexity and complicatedness are fundamentally different. While complicated challenges can be solved analytically, complex problems require creative, non-linear approaches. Using the Cynefin framework, companies can identify the nature of challenges. By involving stakeholders, utilizing existing resources, and initiating small, monitored projects, companies can overcome complex challenges.

With Sensemaker^®, an open-ended online survey tool, companies can find creative ways to engage employees. The tool combines stories and statistical data, offering valuable insights into the lived reality of employees. This basis allows for the development of creative solutions that are based on the actual needs and challenges of the company.

Successful workshop facilitation requires openness to results, broad participation, space for creativity, and appropriate to-dos. Openness enables new perspectives, participation fosters engagement, creativity allows for innovative solutions, and appropriate to-dos facilitate implementation.

Agility, more than a methodology, is a risk management framework. It minimizes uncertainties through iterative cycles, feedback, and adaptation, breaks down risks into manageable units, enables early error correction, and strengthens learning processes. Flexibility is essential for achieving goals successfully.

Sensemaker^® is an innovative tool for fostering creativity that combines the expressiveness of individual narratives with the objectivity of statistical analysis. By collecting narratives about everyday experiences and evaluating them in a structured way, it makes the collective knowledge and experience of an organization accessible. This helps companies identify obstacles and opportunities, develop solutions, and monitor changes.

Agility, driven by constant change, requires adaptation like navigating in rapid waters. From the P-80 fighter jet to digital transformation, it proves: Flexible systems, iterative processes, and learning organizations master complexity. Key: Culture of trust, self-organization, continuous learning. Agility is not a panacea, but a tool for actively shaping the future – requiring courage, experimentation, and constant adaptation.

Innovation requires an agile culture. Companies should have the courage to launch small initiatives based on insights gleaned from employee narratives. These narratives help to understand the current cultural landscape and develop concrete measures. There is no need to feel pressured to achieve a grand slam. Gradual changes lead to success.

To foster creativity within a company, more than just creativity techniques are needed. Crucial is an understanding of the fundamentals of creativity, the innovation process, and the targeted selection of methods and tips. Relating it to practice, for example through real-world projects, increases the learning effect and facilitates the transfer into everyday life.