Sebastian Hartmann

Next Generation Management for Professional Services

Month: April 2020

The Invisible Threat to “Traditional”​ Law Firms, Consultants and other Professional Services Firms
April 28, 2020

The Invisible Threat to “Traditional”​ Law Firms, Consultants and other Professional Services Firms

Is the next generation of competitors even visible to a traditional lawfirms or the providers of consulting, tax or accounting services?

Many established players seem to have a hard time recognizing the underlying shifts in the market, which can be observed upon closer inspection of demand and spend patterns of professional services‘ clients. Or in other words: They are invisible – unless firms truly listen to clients, tune into the technological change and embrace the emerging digital future and opportunities across the professions and beyond.

Best Practices for Virtual Design Thinking Workshops in Professional Services
April 21, 2020

Best Practices for Virtual Design Thinking Workshops in Professional Services

Professional Services Firms are currently facing questions such as:
– How to best solve our clients‘ issue in the COVID19 crisis?
– How can we deliver in virtual or fully digital setups?
– How to design or adapt solutions for the emerging recession?
– How to adapt our solution portfolio and firm for the new normal?

Tackling these challenging topics in virtual design thinking workshops is not just necessary and one of the only few options available at the moment – it may turn out to be surprisingly effective and efficient.

The Benefits of Virtual Design Thinking Workshops
April 8, 2020

The Benefits of Virtual Design Thinking Workshops

Professional Services, like everyone else, are forced to move quickly towards delivering their expertise virtually or even digitally in the face of the COVID19 crisis. For legal, consulting and other expert services, design thinking takes on a whole new meaning, in order to adapt services and solutions for clients – and to develop and design answers to unprecedented challenges.

However, Design Thinking has been mostly known for its playful, innovation and creativity fostering and immersive on-site workshop settings… until now. And like everything else, these workshops need to take place virtually now. But is this even possible?