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Our medical technology expert at CO Improve

Dr. Bernd Oehme is our expert in the field of medical technology. With his many years of management experience and extensive expertise in the field of product development processes, he will enrich our team.

Team CO Improve at the Alpencross 2024

The CO Improve cycling team continued the Alpine Cross tradition this year: 6 days, almost 500 kilometres and over 8000 metres of altitude difference through the Alps (photo gallery).

Successful Automotive Day

The Automotive Day on 9 July at the Seibert headquarters in Wiesbaden captivated the industry! With over 100 high-calibre participants, our debut event was a phenomenal success that set new standards in the automotive industry.

Stagflation - what’s next?

SAFe Summit Berlin 2024

Premiere for the new Agile Implementation Flow Network at the SAFe Summit in Berlin - the annual conference for the SAFe community, organised by Scaled Agile Inc.

New Managing Director at CO Improve

New task for Andreas Grohmann. He was appointed Managing Director of CO-Improve GmbH & Co KG at the beginning of the year. Congratulations from the whole team, Andreas!

Consequences of the shortage of skilled workers on project work

The causes of the shortage of skilled workers are manifold, but all in all it affects all companies in all sectors. To ensure that your project work continues to function smoothly in the future, we have identified the right levers for you.

New employees and new competences

Our CO Improve team continues to grow. We are pleased to have Hans-Peter Neu and Deborah Brattig as new consultants in our midst. With both of them, we are strengthening our competences in the area of component development, variant and complexity...

SAFe Release Train Engineer Certification

Our experienced SPCs are now also certified SAFe® Release Train Engineers (RTE). Congratulations to Dirk Meißner, Dr Nicolas Vortmeyer and André Rudolph.

New Whitepaper Product Development Processes available

With our free white paper, we want to give you orientation in the increasingly complex R&D world. Simply receive it by e-mail and read it.

Everything in view with an app

At our AGILE@HARDWARE Conference we give our participants all the important information about the event directly to their fingertips - or rather to their smartphone or tablet.

CO Improve again TOP employer 2022

CO Improve is delighted to have once again been named Germany's top SME employer by Focus Business.

10 successful years of CO Improve

We look back on a successful 10 years of CO Improve with joy and pride! An anniversary is a great opportunity to look back on what we have achieved. We would like to share some moments with you and invite you on a picture journey.

Lessons from the crisis

How well has the SME sector weathered the Corona crisis? Many companies took part in our survey. Be the first to read the interview results from the CO Improve Study 2020/21.

Successful innovation with requirements management

A product is only successful if it meets the needs of the customer. Your key to this is professional requirements management.

Strengthen global development networks

To give you, as a manufacturer of mechatronic products, a boost through a powerful global R&D network, we have compiled the decisive success factors for you. You can find the most important tips from us in the current issue of Konstruktionspraxis.

Agile methods revolutionise vehicle production

With an agile project, a large sports car manufacturer tackles necessary work steps for the implementation of changed assembly guidelines during ongoing production.

Agile working in the development of electric vehicles

Scrum in the automotive industry: When developing a stand-alone architecture for electric vehicles, Mercedes-Benz relied on agile working methods.

Uncover optimisation potential with quickchecks

In order to identify existing optimisation potential, a leading German manufacturer of laser technology had a quick check carried out by CO Improve. In this way, valuable insights into further potential for improvement could be gained within a...

Leadership Agility Coach

Andreas and Gunther are now certified as Leadership Agility coaches by Bill Joiner from Changewise. Now we can also accompany leaders in the context of agile transformation projects with a 360° feedback process in the development of their agile...

Reaching the goal faster with SCRUM

Sometimes you have to try out new things in the development of your products in order to get back on the road to success. An agricultural technology manufacturer has also had very good experiences with Scrum.

How to analyse the agile capabilities of your organisation

In the current issue of "Business User" you can read an article about our self-developed maturity and capability level model. We have used it to determine the location of many industrial companies.

Optimising product development with Scrum

Read in the current issue of "Konstruktionspraxis" how a large agricultural machinery manufacturer has put the development of a planting machine on an agile footing with CO Improve.

Creating challenges together

After a challenging year, we wish you a healthy & successful 2021. Instead of sending greeting cards, we have decided to help where the pandemic has hit the weakest and donate to the Schönebeck Foundation "Future for Children".

Learnings from the crisis

We wanted to know how badly companies have been hit by the crisis. What have they learned from the changed normality and where do they want to leverage to better prepare for the future. Here is an interim report from our interviews with the...

CO Improve is Top Employer 2021

For the fourth time, the magazine FOCUS-BUSINESS, in cooperation with the employer rating portal kununu, has rated the "Top Employers 2021". We as CO-Improve GmbH & Co. KG are very pleased about the award!

Systems Engineering - Expert Talk with Dr Walter Koch

Systems Engineering (SE) has more than caught up with the times. Why is this so? One of the main reasons for its growing relevance is an increasing interconnectedness and embeddedness of systems, which requires a holistic approach.