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staufen magazine 2019 | No.2

A journal for change from STAUFEN.AG INSIDE EVERY COMPANY THERE IS AN EVEN BETTER ONE. Facing the current megatrend of individualization, factors which connect us with each other are receding into the background more and more in our fragmented society. Corporate management and leadership can and must be innovative and successful, even in such a fragmented world. And you can see confirmation of this in the real-life examples and interviews with experts presented in this issue. No matter whether the business in question is a startup or a global market leader, it is the team and not the individual person that determines a company’s success and adaptability. A venue for exchanging ideas and coming together is the new staufen magazine. We hope you enjoy reading our articles, and we hope it provokes many thoughtful and inspiring conversations with colleagues and employees.

A journal for change from STAUFEN.AG

INSIDE EVERY COMPANY THERE IS AN EVEN BETTER ONE.
Facing the current megatrend of individualization, factors which connect us with each other are receding into the background more and more in our fragmented society.

Corporate management and leadership can and must be innovative and successful, even in such a fragmented world. And you can see confirmation of this in the real-life examples and interviews with experts presented in this issue. No matter whether the business in question is a startup or a global market leader, it is the team and not the individual person that determines a company’s success and adaptability.

A venue for exchanging ideas and coming together is the new staufen magazine. We hope you enjoy reading our articles, and we hope it provokes many thoughtful and inspiring conversations with colleagues and employees.

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Success Story<br />

Herr Schreyer, als langjähriger Deutschlandchef von<br />

Transdev haben Sie Lean Management mit nach Frankreich<br />

in die Zentrale gebracht. Mussten Sie bei Ihren<br />

Kollegen im Vorstand viel Überzeugungsarbeit leisten?<br />

Schreyer: Natürlich haben wir ausführlich darüber diskutiert,<br />

aber am Ende waren wir uns alle einig, dass wir ein<br />

Unternehmen sein möchten, das erstens seinen Mitarbeitern<br />

vertraut und zweitens jedem einzelnen auch eine<br />

Menge zutraut. Aus meiner Sicht ist Lean da genau die<br />

richtige Antwort, um einem Unternehmen nicht nur eine<br />

neue Philosophie zu geben, sondern es auch nachhaltig<br />

erfolgreicher zu machen.<br />

de Villepin: Uns war es dabei vor allem wichtig, ein stabiles<br />

und langfristiges System zu etablieren, von dem jeder<br />

einzelne Mitarbeiter – auch ganz persönlich – profitiert.<br />

Selbstverständlich hatten wir auch Erwartungen an eine<br />

bessere Performance, nur sollte die eben nicht über noch<br />

mehr Druck, sondern durch eine höhere Einsatzbereitschaft<br />

und eine stärkere Identifikation erzielt werden. Beides<br />

wird erreicht, wenn die Mitarbeiter in den Workshops<br />

und Projekten erleben, wie Prozesse einfacher werden –<br />

also nicht mehr gefordert wird, sondern das Richtige.<br />

Woran machen Sie einen solchen Wandel der Unternehmenskultur<br />

konkret fest?<br />

de Villepin: Das fängt schon bei den Meetings an. Lange<br />

Diskussion haben wir durch strukturierte Agenden und<br />

Spielregeln ersetzt. Mit den positiven Folgen, dass die<br />

Kollegen nicht nur pünktlich zum Meeting erscheinen,<br />

sondern auch viel aufmerksamer daran teilnehmen.<br />

Mr. Schreyer, as longtime Head of German Operations<br />

at Transdev, you brought Lean Management to its<br />

headquarters in France. Did you have to do a lot of<br />

persuading among your colleagues on the board?<br />

Schreyer: Of course, we discussed it in detail, but in the<br />

end we all agreed that we wanted to be a company that,<br />

firstly, trusts its employees and, secondly, trusts each<br />

individual to achieve a great deal. From my point of view,<br />

Lean is exactly the right answer for not only ingraining<br />

a new philosophy in a company but also making it more<br />

successful in the long term.<br />

de Villepin: Above all else, it was important to us to<br />

establish a stable and long-term system, from which<br />

every single employee benefits, even on a personal level.<br />

Of course, we also had expectations for improved performance,<br />

but that should not be achieved by applying<br />

more pressure, but instead through greater commitment<br />

and stronger identification. Both can be achieved<br />

when employees see how processes become easier<br />

through workshops and projects – not being asked to do<br />

more, but the right thing.<br />

In tangible terms, how do you achieve such a change<br />

in corporate culture?<br />

de Villepin: It starts with the meetings. We replaced<br />

long discussions with structured agendas and rules. The<br />

positive consequences of this were that colleagues not<br />

only showed up on time to meetings, but also paid much<br />

more attention while there.<br />

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