Vineyard Management Consulting at FH Fresenius (Idstein) Since this year’s winter semester (2015/16) Vineyard Management Consulting GmbH performs at FH Fresenius: On the one Hand our Associates Carsten Wittmann and Dr. Lars Niemann are acting as college lectorers with the reading about „Value Added Management - Quality, Change and Innovation Management“. Content of those lectures is among others Definition, functions  and tools of quality, change and innovation management as well as implementation approaches and case studies within holdings. On the other Hand Carsten Fabig and Alexander Haasper govern a

On 21st and 22nd of May, IASA World Summit takes place in Stockholm – Jon Hill, Associate of Vineyard Management Consulting runs a workshop in the context of the programme “Value”. 21.-22. May in Stockholm (Odengatan 65, Stockholm – 7A Conference Center): IASA World Summit, VALUE – The Biggest Event for IT Architects in 2015 It doesn’t matter if you are an enterprise, solution, infrastructure or software architect. Your job is to create VALUE in one form or another. ITARC 2015 will discuss various methods,

Vineyard Management Consulting GmbH has recently published the book “People & Management – People make the difference”: A lot of people get overrun by dynamic changes and current workplace conditions. This book shows you experiences and impulses for modern and value-orientated management. Besides newly and adapted approaches for leadership and people management, implications of mega trends like demographic development (e.g. generation Y or big data) have been considered. Potential solutions show requirements for interim managers and its strategic utilization. All articles of the book have

The two-day workshop with our associate Dr. Lars Niemann at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg on 17 and 18 November 2014 took place in the framework of the program “Mentoring & Coaching program for Saxony-Anhalt North MeCoSa“. In the intensive promotion program for postdocs 13 young scientists had the opportunity to deeply dive into the topics of Third Party Funding and Project Management, derive individual paths of a scientific career – both from theory to practical exercises to highlight the complex interactions of project management and the

Crossing the Knowing-Doing Gaps Jochen Schuchardt, bildwerkk, about experiences and concepts for managing gaps between knowledge, decisions and solution implementations. 1. Mr. Schuchardt, what does „Crossing the Knowing Doing Gap“ mean and for whom is this interesting? Peter F. Drucker once said: “What all successful people have in common is the ability to keep the gap between decision and execution extremely narrow.” This quote describes quite well what we mean by “Crossing the Knowing Doing Gap”. We see gaps between the knowledge, the decision and

Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for the Mittelstand Hans-Jörg Vohl, Project Management Partners, about the specific challenges and opportunities by the utilization of Balanced Scorecards within the Mittelstand. 1. Mr. Vohl, what kind of link do you have to the mittelstand the so called medium-sized companies? What has been the trigger for you to focus your interest regarding BSC in theory and practice? I have a very close link to the mittelstand since my father’s family has led one of the oldest companies in Bavaria that was founded

Workshops with Vineyard Associate in Career Forum “science paths in wide-angle” at the Technical University of Dortmund On 01 April 2014 will take place at the Technical University of Dortmund, meanwhile eighth career forum under the title “Science paths in wide-angle ” instead. The Career Forum is a module of the university -wide career development program “ScienceCareerNet Ruhr” of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (http://www.scn-ruhr.de/karriereforum/). In three thematically focused workshops – Funding in Germany: Chances and Opportunities for the third party funding – Third party

Seminar “Active Handling of Complexity” Vineyard Management Consulting GmbH offers an additional seminar about the active management of complexity. Date: 23.06.2014 Location: Anywhere.24 GmbH Lindberghstraße 11 81278 Puchheim bei München Costs: Euro 890,00 per person Content In this course you will get familiar with the method “Complexigence” for the smart handling of complexity. You will work on case studies to learn how to put this approach into practice. You will train systemic thinking and adequate taking of measures in dynamic situations and in the context

Seminar “Complexigence” At March 14th 2014 Vineyard Management Consulting GmbH offers the following seminar in cooperation with “Gildenhaus Seminare”: What is your learning target? As a line or project manager you want to be in an adequate position to handle complexity in a suitable and individual way you can deal with? Of course you know that this will be a balancing act to get rid of traditional or well-known common behavior patterns and try new approaches. You are keen on personal development in this context

Vineyard Management Consulting GmbH has recently published the book “Project management – Experience, Methods and Trends”: Large-scale projects like Stuttgart21 or the new Berlin-Brandenburg airport are permanent guests in the news and talk shows with negative headlines. This is the fact although project management has been intensively discussed in the project management community for more than decades and respective standards have been established. Searching for “Projektmanagement” on amazon.de comes up with more than 17.000 hits. Why do we need this book about project management in