by a dedicated project team and has since evolved into an independent start up company Obvious ly the transition to New Work which is a funda mental one has not been happening on its own at Schaeffl er either Sandra Köllner Director of New Work reports Of course there were some skeptical voices at first It s important that all the stakeholders openly discuss how processes and structures change However following a rollout phase New Work met with very positive response at our pilot locations The first unit Schaeffler re organized according to new New Work standards was special purpose machinery engineering see also page 68 at the Frauenaurach location The department moved into its redesigned offices in June 2017 Agile collaboration among teams called for a new open space concept Schaeffler s expert Andreas Possel explains The redesign was also a New Work project in which employees par ticipated as change agents At the Schweinfurt lo cation in the Digital Transformation Center DTC in Herzogenaurach and in the two buildings of the so called Air Campus in Nuremberg that is home to IT staff process specialists and logisticians from Schaeffler New Work principles have been imple mented as well That such pilot projects can also provide import ant impetus to other large corporations in the con text of making the entire organization more agile is a conviction that Dr Thorsten Lambertus a management engineering professional and in trapreneur expert at Fraunhofer Venture shares as well In an article published by the trade mag azine automotiveIT he said You have to start taking specific action somewhere to encourage the formation of germ cells that can serve as role models for others It s the teams that matter Self determination and self organization as pro claimed by the New Work concept entails a high level of responsibility which has to be given up on the one side and accepted on the other At Up stalsboom this give and take has been working well not least because the company s recalibrat ed CEO Bodo Janssen prudently moderates the process Andreas Possel Head of HR Strategy at Schaeffler knows that leaders continue to be im portant However in New Work the emphasis of leadership shifts to other areas Leaders more in tensively represent their units and the concerns of their team members externally while concurrently creating internal room to maneuver and delegating more responsibilities to their teams 52

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