Transforming Public and Private Sector Organizations Implementing Sustainable Purpose, Travelling Organization and Connectivity for Resilience

The book addresses an explicit demand expressed in a large number of C-Suite interviews: managing significant transformations in the private and public sector. The book describes what types of transformation have to be reflected, why transformations are crucial in our days, the triggers they have, and how they might be best managed from a theoretical and practical point of view – technically and with all people-connected soft facts. The book, which contains numerous use cases, is written by an international community of practitioners, experts, and academics from different geographies, countries, public and private organizations, industries, and cultures, which guarantees the comprehensiveness and richness of the developed insights and the value of the presented use cases.

Part I: Introduction Chapters.- 1. General Introduction.- 2. The Framing of the Book Using Statements of Selected Leaders.- Part II: Fundamental Perspectives.- 3. Different Umbrellas to Foster Innovation: An Overview of Potential Ecosystem Options for Innovation Driving Change and Transformations on Different Levels.- 4. Psychological Capabilities Required for Continuous Transformations: The Self on Permanent Journeys with a Travelling Organization.- 5. How Science and Management Under Uncertain Conditions Are Linked. Lessons Learned from Studying the Origins of Life Through Molecular Modeling and Life as a Doctoral Student.- 6. How to Create Neutral Views and Perspectives During Transformations. Learning from Rebecca Solnit’s Book “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”.- Part III: Preparing and Running Transformations.- Large Scale Transformation, Adaptation, and Resilience Using Mindfulness, Purpose, and the AAUL Framework.- 8. The Application of a New Framework: Connecting the “Being Framework” with the “Three-Pillars Model” of Organization and Leadership to Foster Transformations: A Helpful Contextualizing of the “Being Framework Ontological Model” in Working with People in Organizations in Transformations.- 9. How to Bring Energy into a Travelling Organization Running Transformations.- 10. The Controller’s New Role in Significant Transformations.- 11. Development of the Personal Ability to Transform by Means of Actor Coaching and Training.- Part IV: Fundamental Transformations: Exciting Use Cases in the Public and Private Sector.- 12. The Role of Management in Business Transformation: Success Factor Mindset.- 13. The Journey of Start-Ups from Birth to Adulthood: Case Studies on Fundamental Transformations with Start-Ups as Traveling Organizations.-14. Starting a Fundamental Transformation: From Stone Age to Exploring the Universe in a Few Years—Breaking the Continuum of Evolution in Insurance.- 15. The Virtual Actuarial Function as a Key Part of an Insurance Enterprise’s Navigation in General and in the Unknown Area of Product Development.- 16. A Travelling Organization in Latin America: How to Run a Local Project as Part of a Global Transformation Program.- 17. New Technologies and New Customer Experiences Driving Transformations in the Private and Public Sector.- 18. The Sustainability Transformation.- 19. Transparency and Technology: How to Transform to Sustainability by Applying Blockchain Technology.- 20. How to Navigate and Pivot in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (“VUCA”) World: Perspectives from the Corporate and Non-Profit Sector.- 21. A Fundamental Transformation in the Context of Peripheral Territories and Revitalization Processes in Urban Planning.- 22. A Significant Transformation of a Technical Museum: A Mini Case Study.- Part V: Resume and Take-Aways.- 23. Conclusions and Takeaways.

Peter Wollmann has been a manager, initiator, mentor, and facilitator in large, predominantly global transformations and strategic developments for almost 40 years. His specialties are the implementations of the Three-Pillar Model in organizations and focused setting checks to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and facilitate optimization measures. Since 2017, Peter has been working independently on organizational projects and future initiatives. After graduating in mathematics and physics from the University of Bonn (Germany), he began his professional career at Deutscher Herold, then part of the insurance group of Deutsche Bank. Later, he took on strategic leadership and most recently was program director for global transformation in the Zurich Insurance Company (ZIC). In his professional network, he has leveraged his experience and strategic thinking to the development of various leading companies. He is the author and publisher of severalbooks and articles on strategy, leadership, and project and project portfolio management. Currently, he is developing new consulting concepts involving the 17 UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Peter is also the founder of wine business: VinAuthority.

Reto Püringer has worked for more than 20 years in the banking and insurance industry. He held various senior positions in large international companies such as ABB, UBS, AXA, and Zurich, and his practical experience ranges from strategy development, proposition development/management, business/portfolio design, and large-scale change program delivery to finance/actuarial. Reto has seen the practical implications on what change means to individuals in their different context and also change that is required from a strategic point of view. The focus in his work continues to find a way to combine both aspects.