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Renegades: A review of BetaCodex research between 2008 and 2025
In an article published today on the "News from the Beta World" web magazine, BetaCodex Network founder Niels Pflaeging looks back on 17...
Jul 71 min read
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BetaCodex research paper No. 24 explores "Time-Oriented Work Systems"
BetaCodex Network research paper No. 24, "Slave to the Rhythm" Beta and Lean: It's a powerful combination. Most of what has been done in...
Jun 102 min read
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Red42 launches a new line of booklets based on BetaCodex Network research papers
Four BetaCodex Network research papers (No.s 19, 20, 21 and 22) have been published by BetaCodex Press and are already available for...
May 261 min read
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Subscribe to Red42's new Email newsletter and web presence on Substack
A few weeks ago, Red42 started a new, magazine-like web presence on the Substack platform . Niels Pflaeging curates the presence, adding...
Apr 291 min read
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Red42 adds details on four qualification courses to its website
We just added pages on 4 qualifications to the Red42 website. These qualification formats are OpenSpace Beta Practitioner (2-day, on...
Apr 51 min read
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Niels Pflaegings "BetaCodex MasterClass" returns
After an 18-month-long hiatus, BetaCodex Network co-founder Niels Pflaeging is re-launching his successful BetaCodex MasterClass format....
Apr 21 min read
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A letter to the BetaCodex community
Screenshot from Andrea Heym's LinkedIn article Some of you who have been in touch with the BetaCodex and the network for some time may be...
Feb 123 min read
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Bayer Bitterfeld concludes Beta transformation and adopts a Cell Structure Design, as part of Bayer's DSO initiative
In a new LinkedIn article and news post, Andrea Heym, general manager at Bayer Bitterfeld , a 500-people unit producing pharmaceuticals...
Jan 271 min read
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Work the System: Transformation, delivered
by Niels Pflaeging Over the past decades, since the 1980s at least, a number of trends, or movements have provided promising,...
Jan 198 min read
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Transform any company, fast: Five concepts
by Niels Pflaeging How can we bring about intended change quickly, easily, reliably and without tears? How do we get the organizational...
Jan 194 min read
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If it takes longer than a few months, then it's NOT A transformation
by Niels Pflaeging The OpenSpace Beta handbook, by Silke Hermann and Niels Pflaeging Until seven years ago, I would have told you (and I...
Jan 193 min read
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Forget the Kotter approach to change – here comes VFOT
by Niels Pflaeging The Kotter approach, sometimes referred to as Leading Change , was the best change management model of the 20th...
Jan 197 min read
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Contemplations on Beta Transformation
Illustration: from the Complexitools book (Pia Steinmann) Towards the end of last year, I conducted a series of client workshops for...
Jan 133 min read
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There is no ‘status quo.‘ This has consequences for change and transformation
Illustration: Pia Steinmann It would be really nice if such a thing as a "status quo" existed. Granted: There's a rock band by that name...
Jan 132 min read
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It's ‘Independence Day‘ for organizational transformation that deserves the name
Illustration: Pia Steinmann In our consulting work with Red42, my colleague Silke Hermann  and I deliver workshop sessions and...
Jan 135 min read
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A report on the practice of Beta transformation, II
About a week has passed since our current Beta transformation client "went Live" with its decentralized Cell Structure Design  at the...
Jan 137 min read
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A report on the practice of Beta transformation, I
In the OpenSpace Beta approach, two OpenSpace meetings are used. What you see in the photo is a session grid for a client's OpenSpace...
Jan 132 min read
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Change Management (1992-2018): An obituary
You may have overlooked the news back then: In 2018, or about 6 years ago, Change Management  died. It is fair to say that Change...
Jan 131 min read
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Niels Pflaeging releases new BetaCodex research on the "Relative Targets" approach
Kicking off the new year 2025 in style, Niels Pflaeging of Red42 is sharing brand new research through the BetaCodex Network in early...
Jan 52 min read
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Die Zukunft der Lean-Transformation: neue Live-Events mit Niels Pfläging im Januar und März
Neue Eventankündigung von Red42: Am 23. Januar und am 25. März wird Niels Pfläging den neuen Red42-Kurzworkshop "Die Zukunft der...
Dec 13, 20241 min read
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