Holger Lörz, CEO of Actano in interview with Ralph Szepanski of The Business Debate. In this interview Holger Lörz talks about the challenges in projects that companies are currently confronted with. Link to the video Implementing projects efficiently, meeting deadlines and always keeping an eye on the budget: The problems faced by companies during project planning are many and varied. Digitalization … Read More
Idea generation as a part of the Continual Improvement Process (CIP)
Are you working ON the business or are you working IN the business? Working ON the business has to be the goal of working IN the business and as a way to achieve it, the continual improvement should be the approach we should take into consideration, but what is continual improvement? It is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, … Read More
Project planning of the future – already today
Interview with Holger Lörz, CEO of Actano, about the recently introduced cloud-based project planning solution RPlan 4D, which visualizes the project progress on the respective 3D models. Mr. Lörz, how does industrial project management have to adapt to the new framework conditions of IoT & Co.? The international perspective on German project management is characterized by the large projects Elbphilharmonie, … Read More
Workstreams introduces message menus
How we use Slack’s most recent update on interactive messages to massively improve our bot’s interaction design. The most recent big update to Slack’s interactive messages was the introduction of message menus. They are like the dropdown menus you know, but on steroids. When we built the Workstreams Slack app, users had to go through a long series of buttons … Read More
Before Artificial Intelligence takes over our jobs, it will organize our work.
It won’t be long until AI’s are better than humans at forecasting project success. In May of 2012, just 4 weeks before the official date, the opening of Berlin’s new international airport is announced to be delayed for another couple of weeks. Weeks became months and months became years. The latest prediction for its actual opening is late 2018. Read … Read More
Collaboration 4.0 is only about transparency
Industry 4.0 extends the work in engineering by the level of networked data. To cope with this increase in complexity, engineering teams must acquire a workflow that places transparency at the forefront. How well does engineering work in German companies to meet the requirements of Industry 4.0? The results of the VDMA study “Industrie 4.0 in Anlagenbau 4.0” last year … Read More
Who is making the race in automotive development?
The German automotive industry is facing a major challenge with regard to digital transformation . Like no other industry, it has recognized that it must be a leader in topics such as the increasing IT-based networking of vehicles with production and workshops as well as state-of-the-art functions such as (autonomous) driving. Because if the car manufacturers and their partners ignore … Read More