Outcome Economy Podcast

What does it take to transform a tens-of-thousands-employee enterprise like Bayer? In this Outcome Economy episode, Michele Zanini explains why the status quo is indefensible, why agile and OKRs fail without systemic change, and how outcome-based organizations align strategy, resource allocation, and local autonomy. Recorded at the Peter Drucker Forum, the conversation dives into front-runner team...

Bruno Bonando is Director of Customer Relations and Sales at REWE Digital, the digital organization of REWE Group - one of Europe’s largest retail and tourism enterprises, with brands like REWE, Penny, Toom, Lekkerland, and ITS Travel. Bruno, former Vice President of Technology at MediaMarkt Saturn and Head of Engineering at Cazoo, originally comes from Brazil, but has been working in Europe for m...

"Business model transformation requires new operating models, metrics and ways of working.” After spending several years at McKinsey, this episode’s guest Dr. Manuel Braun joined Systemiq, a think tank and consultancy for the circular economy and for sustainable business transformation. Manuel is a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and an author who just published his book...

Stefan Kühl  ist Soziologe, Historiker und Professor für Organisationssoziologie an der Universität Bielefeld. Er betreibt Forschung, unter anderem zu dezentralisierten Organisationsformen, sowie Steuerung und Strategie und er ist Autor zahlreicher Bestseller wie ,,Sisyphus im Management" und wissenschaftlicher Papiere wie „Strategy is Structure“. Immer wieder tritt Stefan auch auch in den Me...

Join Johannes in a captivating conversation with Christopher Freese, a senior partner at BCG, on AI's impact on corporate strategy and the insurance industry in 2024. They discuss corporate AI goals, day-to-day AI use, differences in AI adoption between the US and Europe, and investment pitfalls. The episode also explores AI's role in insurance operations like underwriting and claims, futu...

Inside Outcomes is the hands-on format for the strategy execution community. Learn from practitioners that bring the Outcome Economy to live in their organizations.

"So is it a culture where conflicts are avoided or where hierarchy solves conflicts? Because, hierarchy is always right and other people have to accept that? Or is it a culture where conflicts are seen as a creative source, as a source of creativity, of discussion, different viewpoints and people like to have dialogues about the best possible perspective? All that together, often unseen, is w...

OKRs are a simple concept but incredibly powerful because what it does is, it starts to move an organization towards better agility, collaboration, more customer centricity, more humility…creating the kind of culture and ways of working that tend to be more successful today. - Jeff Gothelf In today’s episode “OKRs and Outcomes: Tools for de-risking uncertainty” we talk with Jeff Gothelf about why...

Survival in the banking industry requires change. Currently, 70% of projects fail, making it evident that success lies not with big, renowned banks but with those that adapt swiftly to customer needs. In today's episode, we therefore delve into the challenges faced by banks, including evolving regulations, emerging technologies, and the urgency for transformation. The primary strategic shift r...

Welcome to our new series AMA on OKRs, this time with our CE team lead Alessia Fadda. Over the course of several videos we’ll try to: Bust the most common OKR myths, Answer your most pressing OKR questions and Share the knowledge our CE team accumulated over years of living and breathing OKRs so that we all become better at achieving our outcomes, personal or professional. In this first episode, A...

“I see OKRs as something that is probably overhyped. For me, however, it is most important that organizations understand the principles and the rational behind OKRs. What is really meant by that and not only the grammar but really the thinking and the value that comes by Outcomes.” - Dr. Erik Lenhard With today’s guest Dr. Erik Lenhard we talk about the 3 dimensions of agile transformation: New st...

“The beauty of OKRs is that they engage right away the people who are responsible for executing the strategy. This outcome thinking - which is the main theme of OKRs -  is  very powerful. Basically, when we do work on our client’s strategy, we convince them to use OKRs as a strategy implementation tool”  - Frank Radeke In today’s episode “OKRs in Strategy and Product Development” we talk about how...

In today’s podcast, we talk with Cristina Popa on the role of leadership styles and how they facilitate or hinder transformation programs in the enterprise space. We also touch on the shifts that are needed in the current environment and in order to perform large-scale enterprise transformation projects. Finally, we  discuss the role of OKRs - as they are used in these projects and how OKRs r...

“Organizations were readjusting in the past 3 years - from Covid-19 to the economic crunch. But now we are in a period when we need to start implementing. And realizing that when you’re adapting on the leadership level - how do we get people on board? How do we get them engaged? I think leaders realize that Outcome Management is key to be successful.” - Felix von Held In today's podcast with D...

In unserer heutigen Episode sprechen wir mit Dr. Maximilian Lude über Familienunternehmen und den deutschen Mittelstand. Er teilt, warum seine Doktorarbeit das Interesse an Familienunternehmen geweckt hat und seine größte Erkenntnis:  Familienunternehmen werden in der Öffentlichkeit anders wahrgenommen. Ebenso beleuchten wir, wie sich familiengeführte Unternehmen von Konzernen unterscheiden,...

In today’s podcast, we talk with Niels Rasmussen about outcome-based thinking and participative strategy development - a method of involving a large part of the organization coming together and creating and implementing the strategy - that’s gaining more and more ground. This method comes to address rising problems that result in over 70% of all strategies not coming to fruition, problem...

Marie-Luise Lehmann is an executive with over 15 years of experience in the fields of finance and agile transformation. Currently, she’s Chief of Staff to the Deloitte Consulting Germany and EMEA CEO and COO as well as Office Lead for the CxO and Agile Finance Lead. She’s also the founder of Finance goes agile - a Think Tank for agility and corporate finance in German-speaking countries where she...

Welcome back to Superkinetics! In todays episode, we are talking to Ana Pacios Escudero and Philipp Schoel from Workpath about mastering change. In our fast changing working environment, it is hard to keep up, and you have to find ways to adapt to those changes. Our guests will tell us how to adapt to this change, and how to use your data to make the right decisions. Further resources: VUCA Superk...

Welcome back to Superkinetics! In todays episode, we are talking to Workpath's Product Lead Simon Bock. You might already know him, as he has been in our Podcast before in some episodes. Simon is giving us some insights into the topic of outcome execution. We are talking about productivity killers, focus, and routines that influence our ability to reach our outcome oriented goals. Further resource...

Welcome back to Superkinetics. In today's episode we are focussing on the second problem we introduced in episode 1 of this season. We talk about alignment - the advantages that arise with good alignment, and the problems that arise when it is missing. To discuss this topic we invited Isabell Stahl , Product Manager at Workpath .   Here you can find the separate sections of the interview: (02...

Welcome back to Superkinetics! Today's guests are Katharina Ortkrass and Constantin Möckelmann from Hella - one of the world's largest automotive suppliers. They are leading the transformation process in their company and will give us some insights into their work.  To continue the topic of our last episode, we will keep talking about the concept of clear outcomes and talk about the challenge...

Welcome to our latest episode of the Superkinetics Podcast. Today's guest is Robert Kleinscheck , Product Leader at Workpath. With him we are talking about goal setting, outcome orientation, clarity and communication. Here you can find the separate sections of this interview: (02:56) The importance of the human factor (09:19) The difficulties of setting clear outcomes (14:50) What are clear outcom...

Welcome back to Superkinetics. In this first episode of season 4, we are introducing you to some of the main problems that companies have to deal with in our modern working environment. Together with Simon Bock - Program Lead at Workpath - we are talking about the necessity of transformational processes and common issues, that probably every organization is struggling with. In the next episodes of...

Im Finale der dritten Superkinetics Staffel haben wir Philipp Depiereux zu Gast. Einige von euch kennen ihn vielleicht auch schon aus seinem eigenen Podcast und Video Format “ ChangeRider ”. Nachdem er bereits einige Erfahrung in der Beratung gesammelt hatte, gründete er 2010 mit 2 Partnern die Digitalberatung Etventure , bei der er auch bis zum Sommer dieses Jahres noch Geschäftsführer war. Phili...

Welcome back to Superkinetics! Today's guest is Patrik Olofsson. Some of you might already know him as he was a speaker at our Workpath Quarterly in June and also as a guest at our OKR Forum in Amsterdam. He is a certified Scrum Master, and he is Chapter Lead and Vice President, leading the Agile Coaches at INGKA which is a part of the IKEA Group. Patrik started his career as a developer and archi...