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Silke and Niels share new "OpenSpace DEV" approach with the world
In a BetaCodex Network research paper published today, Silke Hermann and Niels Pflaeging of Red42 are sharing a variety of OpenSpace...
Jul 171 min read
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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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An article by Niels Pflaeging talks about Org Design and the inevitability of decentralization
The field of org design is stuck in a conceptual dead-end: As long as it refuses to acknowledge the distinction between Periphery and...
May 71 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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The one big difference between Deming and Drucker: A new article by Niels Pflaeging
During the warm up to a joint podcast session, management icon Peter Block made a comment about BetaCodex heroes W. Edwards Deming and...
Apr 171 min read
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Management icon Peter Block is Niels' and Rijon's guest during the 63rd episode of BetaCodex LIVE
Rijon Erickson and Niels Pflaeging spoke with bestseller author Peter Block about humanity at work, about how to change the world, and...
Mar 291 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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Abolish bonus systems: It is inevitable
The days of the sophisticated systems of variable compensation are over. by Niels Pflaeging *** Once upon a time, there was a bank that...
Jan 195 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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Your company has exactly the culture it deserves
From: Organize for Complexity. Illustration by Pia Steinmann Culture is part of an organization's memory. One could also say that an...
Jan 174 min read
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The toxic power of THEY: How conspiracy theories thwart progress
Illustration: Pia Steinmann We tend to think that change is hard. I wrote about that common misconception elsewhere  before. But one...
Jan 133 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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