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What should your company look like in the future and how do you ensure its competitiveness? With active corporate development, you systematically address these questions about the future.

Yadana Thein

Focus on Efficiency – Putting Organizational Efficiency into Practice

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Improving Collaboration Efficiency Within the Company

The efficiency of individual departments or areas within a company does not necessarily equate to high organizational efficiency. Achieving organizational efficiency requires an end-to-end view of processes, which are typically designed to span across departments and functional areas. Defining and structuring interfaces plays a central role in enabling cross-departmental efficiency.

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Yadana Thein

Fundamentals of Organizational Efficiency

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Foundations Efficiency

Organizational Efficiency Is the Efficiency of Collaboration

The competitiveness of German companies is currently suffering from high energy costs, high labor-related expenses, excessive reporting requirements, and slow approvals and bureaucracy. Admittedly, the ability to influence these factors is limited. Instead, companies must focus on improving efficiencies to achieve desired results with minimal resource consumption.

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Katharina Auer

Fair compensation in small and medium-sized enterprises: Why clear and transparent compensation principles are crucial

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At a time when securing skilled workers, transparency, and strategic alignment are key challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises, the topic of compensation is becoming increasingly important. A fair, comprehensible, and future-oriented compensation structure is no longer a “nice-to-have”—it is a decisive competitive factor that is also accompanied by increasing compensation transparency requirements.

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Fabian Reinhardt

Automation through Digitalization – in Medium-Sized Companies

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Digitalization and artificial intelligence are offering SMEs more and more opportunities to automate processes and workflows. Automation is a key element in organizing companies efficiently and thus making them fit for the future.

Through automation, tasks are transferred from employees to machines or systems. These carry out automated processes to achieve the task objectives without employees having to intervene.

The advantages of automation are obvious: significant efficiency gains, largely error-free operation, adherence to regulatory compliance and scalability are adequate responses to the ever-increasing competitive pressure and the shortage of skilled workers. The implementation of automation steps in medium-sized companies takes place in administration, manufacturing and production as well as in logistics, as there are many opportunities here to achieve the desired objectives.

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Katharina Auer

Prevention Management – Let your will be done!

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Whether you are an entrepreneur or not – the topic of pension provision affects us all. What happens if we are unable to act ourselves – if we are unable to work due to a sudden illness or an accident forces us to stay in hospital for a longer period of time and we are unresponsive?

Family members or parents may not automatically make full and permanent decisions or act on behalf of adults in a precautionary or emergency situation. The same applies to spouses and registered partners.

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Katharina Auer

Transparency & Planning Security: ERP Systems for SMEs

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Introducing digital technology into your own company is anything but trivial and poses a challenge for many companies. The introduction of an ERP system, i.e. a software solution for enterprise resource planning, requires a lot of preparatory work before the actual digitalisation of processes and workflows can begin.

But first: why an ERP system? An ERP system bundles real-time data from all departments in one system and thus provides a comprehensive overview. This makes it much easier to plan, control and monitor relevant business processes in a focussed manner. Trends and patterns in these processes and among stakeholders are recognised and potential problems are visualised at an early stage. This up-to-the-minute transparency across all areas of the company enables company managers to make the right decisions at the right time on the basis of solid data.

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Katharina Auer

Sustainability Reporting

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Since 2024 at the latest, the topic of sustainability has been at the top of the agenda for many companies. The Corporate Social Responsibility Directive (CSRD) takes sustainability reporting to the next level and brings a significant expansion for companies. Since January 1, 2024, companies that are already subject to the Non-Financial Reporting Directive are required to report. In the next stage, CSRD will also apply to large corporations, and subsequently also to small and medium-sized enterprises with a capital market orientation.

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Katharina Auer

Transparency: Management Based on Facts and Figures

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Transparency is one of the key factors in successfully managing a company. This applies equally to economically good and economically challenging times. The only difference is that a lack of transparency in economically challenging situations makes corporate management significantly more difficult and its absence can have far-reaching consequences. When company management acts on the basis of facts and figures, it creates a foundation for a future-proof organization. Ultimately, management based on facts and figures is an elementary component of good corporate governance.

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Katharina Auer

The Challenge of Company Succession: Successful Generational Change in SMEs

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According to a recent study by KfW Research, around 560,000 companies will be facing management and ownership succession by the end of 2026. However, a third of these companies are planning to leave the market without a successor. And this high figure is not surprising. Succession has become a major challenge in many medium-sized companies.

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Katharina Auer

Forward-looking Partnership: INCTEC and THE MAK`ED TEAM start Cooperation

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incontext.technology GmbH from Heidelberg and THE MAK’ED TEAM GmbH & Co. KG, with locations in Nuremberg and Karlsruhe, have agreed to cooperate. With this step, both companies are extending their value chain in all relevant questions of digitalisation and digital transformation in medium-sized companies. The synergy of management and process consulting on the side of THE MAK’ED TEAM and innovative technology on the side of INCTEC, as incontext.technology is called, leads to tailor-made concepts for the requirements of our two client companies. These can be realised with future-proof technology in almost all functional areas of medium-sized companies.

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