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СhangeMaker.
ChangeMaker aligns everyone & everything in your company for an undisputed view of progress, so you achieve more impact with less effort
Key features by stakeholder group
From shopfloor to executive floor.
The right features for all.
Senior management





- Consolidated reporting at every level, for every stakeholder
- Understand at one glance which tasks, milestones or phases are not on schedule
- Ensure permanent visibility of targets. Monitor fill levels of planned potential against target, KPI actuals vs. plan etc. in real time
- With the end in mind, create a top-down schedule of activities, their dependencies and deadlines
- Team status automatically consolidates up to the management level, establishing a clear line of communication between all project stakeholders
- Activities that violate milestones are prevented or trigger a warning
- Set and cascade targets, and ensure their visibility in day-to-day work
- See the status and progress of your program at one glance
- Zoom to issues or relevant details with three clicks
- Make status public to stimulate positive competition between teams or sites
- View your programme from different perspectives, e.g., by lever or by region
- Make the matrix work: Assign tasks to owners based on both their vertical (department) and their horizontal (project) affiliation
- Combine the best of agile and waterfall
- Use locking to preserve management intentions
- Take snapshots to have a management-ready history at hand
Program office
- Split your project into phases, and easily assign custom content to each phase
- Use maturity levels to foster pace and broad comparability
- Define your own phase model, e.g. for innovation projects
- Easily view and edit exactly the information you are entitled to
- Prevents mistakes and unsolicited information sharing
- Create groups for stakeholders with the same information need
- Upload data into ChangeMaker from external sources
- Download data from ChangeMaker for manual analysis etc
- Mass edit data using highly practiced shortcuts
- Use ready-made templates for specific project types
- Templates include all the best practices, formats and reports
- Have in-place information material on all templates at your fingertips
- Plan, perform and analyze surveys from within ChangeMaker
- Assess success factors across all your teams automatically
- Elicit performance ratings, e.g. on plant performance





Project leaders & members





- Succeed even on new project methods
- Ensure all the necessary communiation and feedback
- All content in one place, not fragmented across the “tool zoo” of scattered spreadsheets, presesentations, emails, boards and notes
- Effortless reporting without preparation
- Straight from the database – no temptation to bias or “beautify”
- Automatically available for each level of the meeting cascade
- See all tasks you own or have delegated in your personal Kanban
- Do the work and update the status – all from within your dashboard
- View all your topics and action items in the mobile app
- Receive email notifications on all status changes
- Mirror your ChangeMaker chat in an MS Teams channel and vice versa
- Update yourself on your ChangeMaker tasks from within MS Teams
- Maintain a shared understanding of program structure, targets, roles & progress
- Be driven by the motivating energy of broad progress made visible
- Experience self-efficacy & purpose by seeing your impact on the big picture
Success factors of transformations. And how ChangeMaker rolls them out.
Success factors conflict.
ChangeMaker resolves.
Both shared goals and self-efficacy are considered core factors for transformation success.
The problem: They are in conflict. In daily work, other motives dominate shared goals as a source of self-efficacy.
The bad news: Most success factors conflict with others. So choosing one and ignoring the other (as management coaching tends to practice) will not do the trick.
Are there better strategies than the Choice strategy? There are two.
(better)
- Balance shared goals against self-efficacy through prioritized activities, incentive mechanisms or role definition
- ChangeMaker and other tools provide for action prioritization, facts to gauge incentives, or role clarification
- Compromise strategies do not give you both. You go one way, you sacrifice the other
(the best)
- Make shared goals pay into self-efficacy by strengthening their mental representation
- ChangeMaker boosts goal representation through visibility, nudging, rich context, and planning with the end in mind
- By resolving conflict, you get the best of both words. This strategy is a unique domain of ChangeMaker
Examples from our data science platform
Success factors.
Proven to work for you.
Because they are in your data.
earlier if task is part of an initiative
earlier per task if initiative has > 14 tasks
earlier if task has only one responsible
earlier if workflow includes a reviewer
later if task is self-assigned
tasks completed if deadline within 60 days
Transformation is more important than ever before
The ChangeMaker difference
extends to our service

We customize standards
We have created a standard software with easy but extensive customizing options, so it only takes 1-2 weeks to perfectly adapt ChangeMaker to your requirements, structures, workflows and terminologies

We support you
We use decades of experience in transformation and change programs to help you overcome challenges, identify gaps, and expedite success. Your dedicated consultant is ready to help you anytime

We wrap around you
ChangeMaker wraps around what you need for success. Regions, languages, methods, content from legacy tools, existing planning. We take care of everything, if and as you wish. ChangeMaker. One tool for all
4 things you can do if you want to help your transformation fail
Transformation impact scales with the proportion of employees owning visible transformation initiatives and tasks. This is because critical mass is needed to overpower the social restoring force at work. Ensure a participation of below 10% if you want your transformation to destroy value
Engaging on a joint platform pays into multiple success factors for transformations, such as ubiquity of clear standards & targets, and fluent information transmission. If you aim to optimize your in-transparency and limit your intervention options, have every team choose their own tool
Late, inaccessible, inconsistent, incomplete, irrelevant, outdated or beautified information is abundant in transformations, and massively impedes success. A single source of truth controls many of these issues. For a really painful transformation, be sure to avoid a single source of truth
A hammer needs to be grabbed and swung to do its job. Similar with a transformation platform. So, to give failure a chance, do the following: Be incompetent at using the tool. Do not use it at review meetings; instead, have people waste time creating a PPT. Assign new activities verbally, or by email

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Data encryption
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Authentication
Full support for SAML, OIDC and other identity providers in the login process. 2FA supported
Dev process
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Supervision
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Data validation
Validation of entered values before and during server processing. Optional antivirus scan of uploaded files
Data resilience
Redundant data storage with spatially separated backup and disaster recovery routine
Data isolation
Multi-tenant configuration and silo architecture to ensure strict data isolation between customers
Monitoring
Constant monitoring of availability & performance. For up-to-date availability information, click here