We all hate belly stores and endless tables of content. We are increasingly overwhelmed. We cut that short.
Let’s see projects like time: clockwise.
We call this our Circle Concept.
To catch your audience.
[1] Listening
We have two ears and one mouth. For good reason. Let’s talk about your specific needs or your vague ideas. We have more than six ears for your concerns.
[2] Reflecting
After our initial exchange, we derive your specific problem from what we have heard. We like to use the modern term holistic. We think through all the levels involved and initiate the next step.
[3] Deriving
We derive your specific requirements from the bouquet of possibilities and identify the fields of consideration with initial explanations. Everything in advance, without a bill for thinking.
[4] Confirming
If our assumptions are correct, we are well on the way to providing you with a binding offer for our specific services.
[5] Offering
We can offer you pretty much anything. But we don’t. We only do what meets your needs. Always with an element of surprise that will only cost you a smile.
[6] Contracting
You have confirmed our offer and commissioned us. Now it’s time to get started. We always start projects from the foundation, which often corresponds to a technical basis.
[7] Consulting
Before we start with our craft of design, IT and security, we do the mental work by developing a concrete project plan, action plan and schedule.
The entire plan reliably corresponds to our calculation. Additional costs only arise if you request more services. We can.
[8] PDCA
We follow the PDCA cycle, which consists of four phases that always run in the same order:
First, we plan carefully and coordinate together before moving on to the first development phase. We present the result to you and check whether the result and expectations match.
If this is not the case, we run an extra loop. Otherwise, we proceed step by step towards the finish line as defined in the service description.
[9] Specifications
The specification sheet, in German [Lastenheft], may sound rather formal, but it is an elementary component of our cooperation for your expectations and our performance orientation – whether on a project basis or as part of a longer-term partnership.
We break down the specifications into individual parts that represent our tasks. These are worked through iteratively in order to achieve a productive result.
[10] Strategy
So far, these have been general steps as a basis for successful cooperation. Now we are getting specific with the first big step – the strategy. The word is used in a torrential way, but for us it means nothing more than that we clearly formulate and record your goals.
Goals can be many things: Creating a brand, making an existing brand better known, creating a new website, modernizing an existing one, analyzing and optimizing data protection circumstances, creating a security concept. And so on, and so on.
[11] Branding
What motivates us time and again in our work is to create brands. They serve as orientation, regardless of the target group(s) or industry.
Branding means making an impact in a world that is highly saturated with advertising messages. We do not praise the miracle from heaven but remain down-to-earth but no less excellently determined.
[12] Design
We move on to design with a goal-oriented approach and brand awareness. Design is not just about graphics. Design is everything that makes your brand and your product look good to your target groups.
This is user guidance, functional design and yes, graphics too. We talk about user interface design, experience design, user centered design, design systems. And much more.
[13] Marketing
What is marketing? A colorful bouquet of quite a few possible measures. Marketing is everything, and nothing if you don’t narrow it down. Together we will find the best mix for your going-to-market goals.
We talk about product definitions, target group definitions, your business model, the user journey or even acronyms such as MKT, CSM, MQL, SQL, SPICED, BANT, MEDDICCT or classic CRM – there are many things we can talk about.
[14] Technology
Technology is a big concept that is often presented in a complex way. We make it simple for you by understanding your needs and translating them into the best technical solution.
This can mean developing a digital workflow to modernize your processes for customers as well as internally. Or it can mean the development of new software or the optimization of your hosting, your existing website, your SEO, your website content. A lot of things are technical these days. We understand all of it and solve it in your language.
[15] Development
Now we dive down for you and let you know in advance when we’ll reappear with the results we present to you. After all, technical developments are often like a diving process in which you go down quietly and come up with a good catch – whether quickly or in the long term depends on the scope of the tasks you give us.
However, our project management will always take you by the hand and provide orientation in the schedule. We are always available to answer any questions you may have.
[16] Security
Do you know the difference between data protection and information security? Exactly, one is part of the other, but data protection is only one part of information security, which nowadays is not only in the interests of your target groups in order to comply with laws and meet your own requirements.
It is much more about stability and defense against threats, which are increasing significantly in a digitalized world and solutions in the cloud. We advise you and create the smartest solution for you in the context of your requirements.
[17] Check
Now you may wonder what Check is supposed to mean. Quite simply, all the measures we have developed for you so far are subjected to a step-by-step target/actual comparison.
We do this automatically for you as part of project management in order to identify gaps and open issues and resolve them step by step. We present interim results to you with prior notice so as not to burden you and your valuable time unnecessarily. You jointly define schedules that you can use as a guide.
[18] Finishing
The last major step in project planning often gives the result that special shine – whether visually, technically, structurally or legally. All of this ensures that your project leaves our studio extrapolated and is handed over to you.
This includes the comparison of all load points defined at the beginning and confirmation that we have thought of everything for you. We provide you with a checklist in which you can see all the tasks and their solutions once again.
[19] Completion
A good beginning needs a good ending. That’s why we approach project completion just as conscientiously as we did the identification and analysis of your requirements at the beginning. In this way, the conclusion of one project can be the seamless transition to a new project planning for your needs, for which we are happy to recommend ourselves.
Before that, however, we settle the account immediately. We deliver conscientiously and quickly and are pleased with our payment practices. Anything else will not make us happy to work with you in the long term.
[20] Emergency
Whether during a project, as part of a term contract or even without any contractual basis, emergencies can arise in which you need experts to solve the problem. These can be examples such as:
Your website is crashed. Your server is down. Your application is an open door for pirates. Your newsletter ends up in spam. We understand everything. Let’s solve it. In an emergency, around the clock minus sleep.
[21] Workshops
As part of project planning or independently of it, workshops are a good way of providing you and your team with expert knowledge that is conveyed and deepened in a dialog-based manner.
As university lecturers and with a network that includes the world’s top universities, we can lecture for you in person or simply create shirt-sleeved and sustainable knowledge that you and your team can apply directly. We are happy to support you in this for the short or long term.
[22] Network
[23] Mode
At the moment, people think they can find an answer to everything with artificial intelligence. The truth is that without a well-founded system, you won’t get the right answers and automated solutions to your problems.
Our way of working – the so-called mode of operation – is therefore always human-oriented and supplemented by digital automation aids that are used where we can save the most valuable things together: Time.
[24] End
Everything has an end, which we never regret but see and recognize the reason for. This can be an end that was clear from the beginning because a project has a fixed time limit. But it can also mean that we had to find out together that we weren’t so well suited to each other after all.
That’s absolutely fine, because a successful business relationship is like a good friendship: It is based on trust and grows as we work together. If trust or mutual growth or even both are disrupted, we honestly say that it is often better to end it in peace than to hold on painfully.
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Our Circle Concept
We have two ears and one mouth. For good reason. Let’s talk about your specific needs or your vague ideas. We have more than six ears for your concerns.
After our initial exchange, we derive your specific problem from what we have heard. We like to use the modern term holistic. We think through all the levels involved and initiate the next step.
We derive your specific requirements from the bouquet of possibilities and identify the fields of consideration with initial explanations. Everything in advance, without a bill for thinking.
If our assumptions are correct, we are well on the way to providing you with a binding offer for our specific services.
We can offer you pretty much anything. But we don’t. We only do what meets your needs. Always with an element of surprise that will only cost you a smile.
You have confirmed our offer and commissioned us. Now it’s time to get started. We always start projects from the foundation, which often corresponds to a technical basis.
Before we start with our craft of design, IT and security, we do the mental work by developing a concrete project plan, action plan and schedule.
The entire plan reliably corresponds to our calculation. Additional costs only arise if you request more services. We can.
We follow the PDCA cycle, which consists of four phases that always run in the same order:
First, we plan carefully and coordinate together before moving on to the first development phase. We present the result to you and check whether the result and expectations match.
If this is not the case, we run an extra loop. Otherwise, we proceed step by step towards the finish line as defined in the service description.
The specification sheet, in German [Lastenheft], may sound rather formal, but it is an elementary component of our cooperation for your expectations and our performance orientation – whether on a project basis or as part of a longer-term partnership.
We break down the specifications into individual parts that represent our tasks. These are worked through iteratively in order to achieve a productive result.
So far, these have been general steps as a basis for successful cooperation. Now we are getting specific with the first big step – the strategy. The word is used in a torrential way, but for us it means nothing more than that we clearly formulate and record your goals.
Goals can be many things: Creating a brand, making an existing brand better known, creating a new website, modernizing an existing one, analyzing and optimizing data protection circumstances, creating a security concept. And so on, and so on.
What motivates us time and again in our work is to create brands. They serve as orientation, regardless of the target group(s) or industry.
Branding means making an impact in a world that is highly saturated with advertising messages. We do not praise the miracle from heaven but remain down-to-earth but no less excellently determined.
We move on to design with a goal-oriented approach and brand awareness. Design is not just about graphics. Design is everything that makes your brand and your product look good to your target groups.
This is user guidance, functional design and yes, graphics too. We talk about user interface design, experience design, user centered design, design systems. And much more.
What is marketing? A colorful bouquet of quite a few possible measures. Marketing is everything, and nothing if you don’t narrow it down. Together we will find the best mix for your going-to-market goals.
We talk about product definitions, target group definitions, your business model, the user journey or even acronyms such as MKT, CSM, MQL, SQL, SPICED, BANT, MEDDICCT or classic CRM – there are many things we can talk about.
Technology is a big concept that is often presented in a complex way. We make it simple for you by understanding your needs and translating them into the best technical solution.
This can mean developing a digital workflow to modernize your processes for customers as well as internally. Or it can mean the development of new software or the optimization of your hosting, your existing website, your SEO, your website content. A lot of things are technical these days. We understand all of it and solve it in your language.
Now we dive down for you and let you know in advance when we’ll reappear with the results we present to you. After all, technical developments are often like a diving process in which you go down quietly and come up with a good catch – whether quickly or in the long term depends on the scope of the tasks you give us.
However, our project management will always take you by the hand and provide orientation in the schedule. We are always available to answer any questions you may have.
Do you know the difference between data protection and information security? Exactly, one is part of the other, but data protection is only one part of information security, which nowadays is not only in the interests of your target groups in order to comply with laws and meet your own requirements.
It is much more about stability and defense against threats, which are increasing significantly in a digitalized world and solutions in the cloud. We advise you and create the smartest solution for you in the context of your requirements.
Now you may wonder what Check is supposed to mean. Quite simply, all the measures we have developed for you so far are subjected to a step-by-step target/actual comparison.
We do this automatically for you as part of project management in order to identify gaps and open issues and resolve them step by step. We present interim results to you with prior notice so as not to burden you and your valuable time unnecessarily. You jointly define schedules that you can use as a guide.
The last major step in project planning often gives the result that special shine – whether visually, technically, structurally or legally. All of this ensures that your project leaves our studio extrapolated and is handed over to you.
This includes the comparison of all load points defined at the beginning and confirmation that we have thought of everything for you. We provide you with a checklist in which you can see all the tasks and their solutions once again.
A good beginning needs a good ending. That’s why we approach project completion just as conscientiously as we did the identification and analysis of your requirements at the beginning. In this way, the conclusion of one project can be the seamless transition to a new project planning for your needs, for which we are happy to recommend ourselves.
Before that, however, we settle the account immediately. We deliver conscientiously and quickly and are pleased with our payment practices. Anything else will not make us happy to work with you in the long term.
Whether during a project, as part of a term contract or even without any contractual basis, emergencies can arise in which you need experts to solve the problem. These can be examples such as:
Your website is crashed. Your server is down. Your application is an open door for pirates. Your newsletter ends up in spam. We understand everything. Let’s solve it. In an emergency, around the clock minus sleep.
As part of project planning or independently of it, workshops are a good way of providing you and your team with expert knowledge that is conveyed and deepened in a dialog-based manner.
As university lecturers and with a network that includes the world’s top universities, we can lecture for you in person or simply create shirt-sleeved and sustainable knowledge that you and your team can apply directly. We are happy to support you in this for the short or long term.
At the moment, people think they can find an answer to everything with artificial intelligence. The truth is that without a well-founded system, you won’t get the right answers and automated solutions to your problems.
Our way of working – the so-called mode of operation – is therefore always human-oriented and supplemented by digital automation aids that are used where we can save the most valuable things together: Time.
Everything has an end, which we never regret but see and recognize the reason for. This can be an end that was clear from the beginning because a project has a fixed time limit. But it can also mean that we had to find out together that we weren’t so well suited to each other after all.
That’s absolutely fine, because a successful business relationship is like a good friendship: It is based on trust and grows as we work together. If trust or mutual growth or even both are disrupted, we honestly say that it is often better to end it in peace than to hold on painfully.