wega Breakfast - Embracing Change: Navigating Challenges in Transitioning from Hierarchies to a Network-Based Organization

We were delighted that you took part in our hybrid breakfast event!

Date:

September 28, 2023 from 08:30 to 10:00

Language:

English

Recording:

Agenda

08:30 - 08:45 a.m.

08:45 - 09:45 a.m.

09:45 - 10:00 a.m.

From 10:00 a.m.

Intro

Presentation

Q&A and discussion

Coffee, croissants and networking

Abstract

For many years, wega was a small sized company (about 25 employees) with flat structures and direct full management. As the company was growing, a new management layer was introduced and in parallel the three founders sought a seamless transition of their operational duties.

As the organization experienced further growth resulting in increased complexity, the necessity emerged to create a new structure to support this growth and include employees in the company evolution.

To enable a high level of adaptability, we opted for a gradual shift towards self-organization, adapting to emerging needs and priorities rather than a sudden change.

Although studying existing literature, we decided not to implement an existing organizational model like Holacracy or Spotify. We decided to leverage our creativity and experience to organize ourselves in a way that best suit our unique organization. Nevertheless tweak & steal good ideas from existing implementations is a strong pillar of our approach.

Over the past two years, we have diligently developed our "wega model", implemented new processes, and integrated them into our QMS. This year focuses on stabilization and several improvements and adaptations emphasizing optimal staffing, employee skills development, business development, and communication.

We are proud of what we have achieved together and eager to keep evolving our organization. So, we regularly challenge ourselves. During the breakfast, we will explain the current status of our model, successes, and discuss some of the challenges we are facing. We are looking forward to meeting you!

Our speakers

Evelyne D.

Evelyne Daniel

Evelyne has been working in regulated environments for more than 20 years and has been involved in IT projects as a project manager and validation manager since 2005.

She has successfully implemented and validated many systems, mainly in the area of QA/QC/manufacturing. She has also been involved in the optimization of validation strategies and documentation standards for many years.

With the increasing introduction of agile development frameworks, new validation concepts, adequate tools and skills are required. It is their ambition to actively contribute to the establishment of agile validation methodologies.

Michael F.

Mathias Fuchs

Scrum Master, Agile Coach, IT Consultant and since 2011 co-host of the non-profit Swiss ICT event series: "Agile Breakfast Basel".

Mathias has been working on a variety of agile topics for several years. In particular, the reasons for the success and failure of agile transitions are an important area of research and interest for Mathias.

He has successfully led several agile workshops and is a speaker at conferences on agile topics.

 

Laboratory IT Services Basel D. Juchli

Daniel Juchli

Head of the Laboratory and Research Informatics department at wega and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at the SiLA consortium.
With over 20 years of professional experience in both chemistry and computer science, Daniel speaks the language of both scientists and IT experts and can translate between the needs of users and the technical capabilities of IT systems.
Daniel is an expert in the digitalization of laboratories and leads projects for the selection, implementation or development of laboratory automation and IT solutions in the life science environment.
Since joining SiLA in 2014 as the SiLA Supporting Member representative for wega Informatik, he has played an important role in the development of the laboratory connectivity standard SiLA 2.