CASES · LEADERSHIP
Learning journeys to other companies
Four companies, very different working worlds and one shared question: what can you recognise about your own organisation by observing others more closely? The learning journey deliberately took participants not to benchmarks but to organisations with logics, cultures and dynamics of change as different as possible.
The engagement
- Client Municipal energy and mobility utility
- Sector Companies · Energy and mobility
- Period 2022
- Service Talent development
- Format Learning journey in two groups
THE PROCESS
Four companies, two groups.
1 Starting point
Why other organisations.
We construct our own reality through differences. The participants therefore visited companies with deliberately very different business models, cultures and ways of working. The differences were not meant as an invitation to imitate, but to sharpen the view of their own organisation.
2 Approach
Two groups, four perspectives.
One group visited Unite and enviaM, the other BMW and TIER. Afterwards we brought the four sets of observations back together: in the session on change, participants compared how differently organisations respond to change — and which solutions arise in each case out of their own situation.
3 Result
Seeing your own situation more clearly.
Comparing the four companies made visible how differently organisations deal with change: rebranding and internationalisation, agile working worlds, electrification and new model ranges, merger and post-merger integration.
It was precisely these differences that helped participants place their own organisation more precisely: which dynamics really are particular to us — and which simply belong to the transformation of the sector?
FROM THE WORK
Insights.
Participant feedback
Putting them side by side — the sheer variety of company cultures: incredible!
A participant in the programme, Stadtwerke Halle (translated)
A systemic reading
Organisations can observe themselves from outside only to a limited degree. Looking at others creates differences — and with them new descriptions of your own reality. What matters is therefore not which solution can be copied, but which taken-for-granted assumptions suddenly become questionable through the comparison.
Dr. Jonas Asendorpf
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