New Work & Innovation — One-on-One with your Buddy
We at smartive strive to improve ourselves as well as our work processes. The concept of New Work offers a holistic approach in running a company and is in line with our principles.

Since we do not have any hierarchy nor any formal managers, we use four different tools to steer the company:

We incorporated the advice process to enable everybody in our company to make any decision. With a quarterly held company retrospective we constantly improve our processes. To keep everybody up to date we hold a monthly all-hands meeting. It is always facilitated by another colleague to foster ownership and keep the meeting interesting and fun. In our weekly pulse check everybody fills in a form with 4 questions to be rated:

How do you like the project you’re currently working on?

How satisfied are you with your performance?

What is your workload?

What is your satisfaction in general at work?

Additionally you can leave a comment to give some context.

Since the answers are internally accessible to everyone, over time you get a pretty good understanding on the wellbeing of the individuals and the company as a whole. Based on the data of this weekly pulse check anybody can work out improvements following the advice process.

With these four tools we handle company-wide challenges. But some challenges do not affect the whole company.

How do we deal with these?
['Thomas Moser']
['HR', 'Lean Management', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Innovation Management', 'Reinventing Organizations']