Next Work Innovation.

Redesign Work.

The next work innovation garage is a multidisciplinary think tank that researches, advises and coaches on new work in the digital age.

We combine the New Work movement founded by Frithjof Bergmann with a new understanding of productivity and value creation for the digital knowledge age.

We look forward to hearing from you!

What we do

Innovation and creativity are thought processes that need an optimal business environment. Together with you, we develop value-added-specific Next Work concepts for your company and accompany you in the transformation.

Consulting

We accompany you and your company from the development of goals and analysis to the conceptualisation and successful completion of the transformation process.
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Coaching

We accompany entrepreneurs, management and HR professionals in the transformation process, which always affects their own role.
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Training

We train Next Work Coaches, Next Work Leaders and Next Work Conflict Coaches to become active shapers of transformation.
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Impulses

Fancy some input?
We hold stand-ups, key notes and lectures – dialogue-based, down-to-earth and with professional depth.
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„If the brain is the machine of the creative, service and technology industries, why do you keep interrupting it instead of kick-starting it?“

– Cal Newport

Our motivation

Work in the digital knowledge age is brain work: our work design and environment should promote the performance of our brain.
Our everyday life: open-plan offices, fragmentation, multitasking, information overflow, inefficient meetings, culture of constant accessibility, dissolution of boundaries, etc.
Companies need Deep Work as a system competence.
Agility and adaptivity are introduced in many companies at the method level. Becoming an agile company requires work on the system. Agility emerges in an environment that is psychologically safe, that makes decentralised self-organisation a systematic outcome of management and that lives a NEW WORK understanding of leadership.
Agility needs NEW WORK.
Old metrics that are still used to measure productivity, e.g. the duration of presence at the workplace, cannot make a valid statement about how productive a person is when he or she is doing (innovative) mental work.
Consequence: Outdated working time models lead to unproductivity and the return on investment of digitalisation fails to materialise (productivity paradox).
Productivity needs new metrics.

Neuroergonomic working is a prerequisite for innovation and productivity in the digital knowledge age – which is why we need to rethink value creation.

– The Focused Company Approach

Our projects

Project The Focused Company-Model

Companies need Deep Work at system level to increase creativity and innovation. For this purpose, we at the ThinkTank have developed a model for brain-friendly work. The Focused Company model is not a blueprint, but a process framework that every company systematically and structuredly goes through in relation to its own specific value creation in order to become a Focused Company. In contrast to strategy processes, implementation of new process models, culture change approaches, etc., which are each implemented in the individual dimensions of strategy, structure or culture, our focus is on the brain-friendly design of the value creation process itself. The change of this core process then has strategic, structural and cultural implications.
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Project Study on Productivity and Concentration in Knowledge Work

  • Wir planen derzeit die erste digitale branchen- und hierarchieübergreifende Studie zu Konzentration und Produktivität im Unternehmensalltag von Wissensarbeiter:innen.
  • Universitäre Begleitung durch einen Wissenschaftsbeirat, mit dem Neurowissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Volker Busch, Universitätsklinik Regensburg, und dem Sozialpsychologen Prof. Dr. Rolf van Dick, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • Auf Basis der Studienergebnisse werden betriebswirtschaftliche Ableitungen getroffen, um den Produktivitätsausfall durch Multitasking und Fragmentierung zu beziffern.
  • Zudem dienen die Ergebnisse als Basis für die Weiterentwicklung unseres The Focused Company Modells für konzentriertes Arbeiten in Unternehmen.

Unternehmen, die Interesse haben, an der kostenlosen Studie teilzunehmen, können mit uns dazu sehr gerne über kontakt@nextworkinnovation.com Kontakt aufnehmen

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Project New Work Book Edition

  • In our New Work book edition, we address the question of how New Work can be translated in a value-added-specific way and design prototypical utopias for individual sectors.
  • Publication date “New Work in Medicine. How we can succeed in utopia!” on 8 March 2022, by Rossberg Verlag. The book is published to complement Antje Schneider’s documentary film “4 Sterne Plus. From Patient to Guest. The hospital of the future” about the Waldkliniken Eisenberg and co-author David-Ruben Thies.
  • Planned follow-up volumes 2022/23:
  • New Work in Start-ups
  • New Work in Architecture
  • New Work in Cultur
  • New Work in Consulting

Realisation period for the planned 10 volumes of the New Work Edition from 2022-2027.

New Work in Medicine by Vera Starker, Dr Mona Frommelt and David Ruben Thies, Rossberg Verlag 2022

„The most valuable asset of an institution in the 21st century … will be its knowledge workers and their productivity.“

–Peter F. Drucker

Who we are

Vera Starker

Co-Founder NWI, TFC author, speaker, the creative-researching mind in the garage

Anne
Starker

Co-Founder NWI,
Next Work Consulting,
Coaching

Matthias Schneider

Co-Founder NWIG,
CEO NWIG, cultural scientist, author

Prof. Dr. Volker Busch

Neuroscientist,
speaker,
author

Angelika Westerwelle

Author,
Next Work Consulting,
coaching,
training,
speaker

Susen Starnberger

Author,
Next Work Consulting,
coaching,
Time Value Designer, Team Development

Elsa van Amern

Next Work Counselling,
Leadership training,
Author

Susanne Nitzsche

Next Work Expert
for new working methods

Felix
Russwinkel

Next Work Consulting,
Coaching

Alexander
Milz

Existential Analyst,
Next Work Coach

Markus Väth

Humanfy,
one of the leading New Work minds,
author and Next Work Speaker

Daniel
Hanke

CEO Klenk & Hoursch,
Next Work Speaker

Oliver Schmidthals

Brand Expert,
New Work Consulting

Martin Kley

Occupational scientist,
Next Work Speaker

And You?

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Penny

Chief
“more balance than work” Officer

Unsere Partner

Our references

Datev - Next Work Innovation
PwC Germany- Next Work Innovation
PreZero - Next Work Innovation
Charité - Next Work Innovation
edenspiekermann - Next Work Innovation
Axel Springer Corporate Solutions - Next Work Innovation
Total Energies - Next Work Innovation
50 Hertz Transmission GmbH - Next Work Innovation
Twaice Predictive Battery - Next Work Innovation
Hornbach Baumarkt - Next Work Innovation
BNP Paribas Germany- Next Work Innovation
Liberta Partners - Next Work Innovation
Public utilities Bochum - Next Work Innovation
NWI-References-Cabka
Klier & Ott - Next Work Innovation
HVLE - Next Work Innovation
Kptncook - Next Work Innovation
futureworks - Next Work Innovation

The book by Vera Starker „Ich war noch niemals in New Work“ touched me deeply and gave me great deal of pleasure and delight.

–Frithjof Bergmann, the founder of the “New Work” movement

Articles and interviews

New Work in der Medizin Podcast

New Work in der Medizin Podcast

29/08/2023

Nach mehr als einem Jahr seit dem Erscheinen des gemeinsamen Buches New Work in der Medizin. Wie uns die Utopie gelingen kann, haben Vera Starker u...

Vordenkerin Podcast mit Vera Starker

Vordenkerin Podcast mit Vera Starker

17/07/2023

Im Vordenker:in-Podcast von Open Innovation City spricht Gastgeberin Helen Bielawa jeden Monat mit Vordenker:innen, die sich mit Innovationskultur,...

Podcasts

New Work in der Medizin Podcast

New Work in der Medizin Podcast

29/08/2023

Nach mehr als einem Jahr seit dem Erscheinen des gemeinsamen Buches New Work in der Medizin. Wie uns die Utopie gelingen kann, haben Vera Starker u...

Vordenkerin Podcast mit Vera Starker

Vordenkerin Podcast mit Vera Starker

17/07/2023

Im Vordenker:in-Podcast von Open Innovation City spricht Gastgeberin Helen Bielawa jeden Monat mit Vordenker:innen, die sich mit Innovationskultur,...

Books

Hypnosystemische Perspektiven im Change Management

Hypnosystemische Perspektiven im Change Management

09/08/2017

Veränderungen steuern in einer volatilen, komplexen und widersprüchlichen Welt

Von Vera Starker, Springer Gabler 2017 / Erweiterte und aktualisierte 2. Auflage 12/2021

Wozu ein weiteres Buch über Change Management? Weil uns auf die Frage, warum sich trotz aller methodischen Professionalisierung von Change Management kein steigender Erfolg in der Umsetzung von Veränderungsprozessen verzeichnen lässt, eine befriedigende Antwort gefehlt hat. „Die größte Diskrepanz zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit betrifft Punkte, die im klassischen Change Management immer wieder adressiert und eingefordert werden.“ (Capgemini Studie 2015).

Wir hinterfragen in diesem Buch, was das Thema Change Management in Zukunft braucht und finden Antworten im hypnosystemischen Ansatz von Gunther Schmidt, kombiniert mit aktuellem Wissen aus der Neurobiologie und klassischen psychologischen Ansätzen. Viel Spaß beim Lesen!

Aus dem Vorwort von Gunther Schmidt: „Das vorliegende Buch von Vera Starker und Tilman Peschke schließt eine aus meiner Sicht bisher sehr schmerzliche Lücke in der Literatur zum Thema „Veränderungen in Organisationen“.

Dr. med. Dipl.-Volkswirt Gunther Schmidt
Leiter des Milton-Erickson-Instituts Heidelberg

„Zielorientierte Veränderungen in Unternehmen können in der VUCA-Welt nicht mehr „nach Plan“ verlaufen. Vera Starker und Tilman Peschke zeigen spannende neue Ansätze in der Gestaltung und Umsetzung von Veränderungsprozessen. Lesenswert!“

Monika Radecki
M. A., Kommunikationsberaterin, Autorin, Professional Coach

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