Transformation & Change with System
We support organizations in agile transformation — from strategic restructuring and activating pioneers and navigators to embedding it in daily operations. The ICO EmpowerSystem® combines agility and stability to create an ambidextrous organization that manages complexity and speed simultaneously.
Service Overview:
How do I best utilize my resources? Are there new products and channels for my “go to market”? How do I manage to be a sense-maker, locomotive, and guarantor for my employees all at once? With a systemic project management approach, we strengthen leadership, structure, and implementation power.
Suitable for:
This service is aimed at:
- Management teams in the midst of digital transformation
- Leadership teams that need to combine agile and stable structures
- Organizations that want to introduce or deepen the ICO EmpowerSystem®
- Corporate divisions with an ambidextrous strategy (efficiency + innovation in parallel)
What the EmpowerSystem® achieves in a company
The focus is on a self-learning organization that can handle complexity and speed — not through yet another set of methods, but through the targeted interplay of agility and stability.
- BUILDING THE ORGANIZATION'S CAPACITY FOR SELF-LEARNING
- SITUATIONALLY COMBINING AGILE AND STABLE METHODS
- ACTIVATING PIONEERS AND NAVIGATORS IN THE TEAM
- CREATING RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE
- TRANSLATING CHANGE INTO CONCRETE IMPLEMENTATION
Transformation only takes effect when it connects strategy, leadership, and implementation. The EmpowerSystem® provides the methodological framework for this — developed in practice, certified throughout Europe.
Topics and Goals:
The EmpowerSystem® follows a clear 3-step model — from analysis to implementation and sustainable embedding within the company.
In-depth Analysis & Diagnosis
Identify pioneers and navigators, analyze line and network leadership.
Transformation & Implementation
Actively engage agile and stable leadership in digital upheaval.
Embedding & Growth
Align a self-learning organization with customer value.
Included in every seminar:
Our quality promise: Every EmpowerSystem® program follows the same standards — methodologically sound, individually tailored, sustainably effective.
Expectation Survey:
We ensure to address the specific needs of the participants. Flexibility in execution is our self-understanding.
Seminar Materials:
Each participant receives our method handbooks & work tools in physical and digital form, as well as e-learning videos if applicable.
Method Mix:
We use modern & proven, agile & stable methods that optimally interlock & are compatible with all industries.
Online Seminars:
Combining in-person seminars, webinars & e-learning effectively means optimal resource utilization with maximum effect. Fast, lean, effective.
Feedback:
Your feedback is our quality assurance. We look forward to reflecting with you for our continuous improvement process.
Free Concept Download:
EmpowerSystem® Concept
The complete concept of the ICO EmpowerSystem® by Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck — structure, methods, application.
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Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck
What is the ICO EmpowerSystem®?
It is a Europe-wide certified system for fostering self-learning capabilities in organizations. It combines agile methods with stabilizing approaches to create resilience and robustness. In change, the rule is: What cannot be intuitively understood is not suitable for everyday use. What is not implemented by one’s own efforts will not last. We briefly touched on the three phases above — here in detail, how the EmpowerSystem® methodically shapes each phase.
In-depth Analysis & Diagnosis
We identify pioneers and navigators in your organization and analyze the interplay of line and network leadership. Gaining control over complexity and speed.
Transformation & Implementation
Agile and stable at the same time: Through the targeted alternation between network and line leadership, we activate pioneers as change agents and navigators as preservers — for acceptance of change from the outset.
Embedding & Growth
The goal is a self-learning organization, holistically aligned with customer value and corporate success. Culture-building impact through the involvement of all stakeholders ensures sustainable results.
What defines the ICO EmpowerSystem®
Does the word ’empower’ make you pause? Empowerment by ICO stands for the meaningful distribution of responsibility within defined boundaries. Expert knowledge from affected lines, departments, functions, and hierarchical levels is bundled into swarm intelligence to be maximally innovative & solution-oriented. Situationally appropriate networking ensures competitiveness. Nevertheless: agility must not replace processes and line workflows, as these ensure efficiency & economic viability.
What distinguishes the EmpowerSystem® from Scrum, Kanban & Co.
Agile methods like Scrum or Kanban are powerful — but they do not replace the stable lines of an organization. The ICO EmpowerSystem® combines both: It uses agile methods for innovation and speed, but retains the stabilizing structures necessary for efficiency and reliability. Hence the term ambidexterity — two-handedness. And that is precisely what makes the difference in true transformation.
Volatility as a Constant of Today
Occasionally optimizing processes and leaving innovation to research and development — that is yesterday’s strategy and is no longer sufficient given current volatility.
It is vital for organizations to position themselves in a stable-agile manner to cope with the high-speed digital transformation. “Agile” and “VUCA” are the demands on today’s employees and leaders.
Agile + Stable = Robust
Ambidexterity means two-handedness. Despite all agility, it is important that organizations always have stability. The future viability of companies lies in finding the balance between stable & agile, between old & new, between hierarchy & self-management, between optimizing & innovating.
Organizational Ambidexterity
Also called “two-handedness,” it is an organization’s ability to be efficient and flexible at the same time. The ICO EmpowerSystem® creates organizational ambidexterity.
The Focus
is on mastering both agile and stable methods and being able to combine them meaningfully as needed. We develop your teams towards ambidexterity and thus enable employees to self-manage within a defined framework.
ICO EmpowerSystem® Learning Videos
- Learning Material
Info:
In cooperation with Daimler – Synchronized in 3 languages.
Teaching Topics:
In his learning videos, Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck makes his EmpowerSystem® tangible: how teams self-manage, how swarm intelligence emerges, and how leadership succeeds in turbulent times. Condensed knowledge from three decades spanning top-level sports, sociology, and DAX board members – to the point in just a few minutes.
Excerpt from our learning videos:
Why agile methods alone are not enough — and why only the combination with stable structures unleashes true transformational power.
How the Pareto principle works in the EmpowerSystem® — concentrating energy on the 20% that generate 80% of the impact.
Leadership as creating spaces instead of providing answers — how modern leaders use hierarchy without making it a hurdle.
Pioneers and navigators, clear boundaries, defined responsibility — the mechanics behind self-managed teams in the EmpowerSystem®.
How organizations structurally embed continuous learning — from individual cases to collective competence.
Change only becomes sustainable when it is culturally embedded — what methodologically underpins “Embedding & Growth.”
Would you like to introduce the EmpowerSystem® in your organization?
Contact us for a non-binding consultation — we will jointly clarify what suits your initial situation.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Europe-wide certified management concept for agile leadership and transformation. It combines agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking) with stabilizing approaches — thus creating a self-learning organization.
Scrum and Kanban are excellent agile tools — but they do not replace the stable structures an organization needs for efficiency and reliability. The EmpowerSystem® integrates both (ambidexterity) — you don't have to choose one side.
Daimler uses it Europe-wide as a leadership tool. It is registered as a brandmark under EU law and rated as outstandingly implementable by Kempten University of Applied Sciences.
That depends on the maturity level and the occasion — from a 2-day impulse for a leadership team to multi-year support for large corporate transformations. We always start with an in-depth analysis, which determines the scope.
Yes: Concept PDF for download, an EmpowerSystem® textbook, several learning videos (complete YouTube playlist), and method handbooks in physical and digital form for each participant.
Mental Training & Resilience
Stress competence from elite sports, the 4 pillars of life — the mental strength that makes agile transformation sustainable in the first place.
Crisis Leader
When transformation turns into crisis — leadership in unstable situations, decision-making under pressure, stakeholder management.
More about Peter Tümmers
CV, awards, and media presence of ICO founder Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck.
Outdoor Activities & Team Events
When content should not just be heard, but experienced — the EmpowerSystem® in action: raft building, canyoning, igloo expedition.