Falko Wilms

Falko Wilms in 2019

Falko Ernst-Eberhard Paul Wilms (born July 30, 1961 in Bremen ) is a German economist . He works as an organizational consultant , coach and university lecturer .

Life

After graduating from high school at Wall am Wall in Verden an der Aller , he studied economics and social sciences at the University of Lüneburg from 1984 to 1989 . He then worked as a research assistant at the local institute for business administration, chair of organization and decision-making with Egbert Kahle , where he received his doctorate in 1994 on the design of multi-person decision-making processes. While working as an assistant, he met Frederic Vester and Heinz von Foerster in person, and integrated their work into his dissertation. He supplemented Vester's sensitivity analysis with the tool of the priority matrix .

Since 1998 he has been teaching various subjects from the interdisciplinary field of Organizational Behavior at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn , Austria . It offers courses in various fields of study on issues relating to the design of organizations, the control of processes and the principles of participatory problem solving. He combines the Luhmannian philosophy of science and his theory of social systems with the calculus of George Spencer-Brown contained therein with business administration .

Falko Wilms maintains the Organizational Behavior portal and publishes podcasts on iTunes and YouTube.

As a supporter of the Inverted Classroom Model (ICM), Falko Wilms is a member of the German group of the "ICM-Germany Network".

Since 2013, Falko Wilms has been a "dialogue companion" in the St. Arbogast dialogue project. The central aspect of his activity as a dialogue facilitator is the verbalization of common thinking in the "here + now". He researches and practices different variants of dialogue in academic teaching, in leadership development and in accompanying change processes in companies, in NPOs and in community development.

As a coach, Falko Wilms supports his clients in thinking more effectively with one another, making decisions together and being able to work in a division of labor. In a client-centered manner, he is concerned with developing useful actions and decisions between "logic and psycho-logic" within the framework of value creation based on the division of labor. Oriented towards the respective goal, recognized options for action are assessed on the basis of expected success effects. For Falko Wilms, the core of leadership consists largely of the conscious design of feedforward and feedback loops in direct interpersonal communication. Figures are to be processed in a meaningful and target-oriented manner and their significance for success must be worked out. It is often necessary to develop a satisficing procedure (satisficing) that satisfies as many requirements as possible, instead of an optimal solution, when the information base is vague / insecure. In this way, his clients can put their approach on a well-founded basis and reduce the rationality deficits that are inevitable due to cognitive limits and the tendency towards opportunism.

Works (selection)

• Decision-making behavior as a recursive process , Wiesbaden: Gabler 1995, ISBN 3-409-13190-6 .
• The helide. A non-hierarchical form of the analysis of complex effect structures (with Kahle, E.), Aachen: Shaker 1998, ISBN 3-8265-5732-8 .
• System-oriented management , Munich: Vahlen 2001, ISBN 3-8006-2389-7 .
• Thinking systemically - in a nutshell (with Lehner, M.), Zurich: Industrielle Organization 2002, ISBN 3-85743-711-1 .
• The consultant as an entrepreneur , Bern et al. 2004, ISBN 3-258-06724-4 .
• Planning with fuzzy information , in: Fischer, Th .: Cybernetik und Wissensgesellschaft, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2004, pp. 165–178, ISBN 3-428-11393-4 .
• Effectiveness and efficiency through networks (ed. With Kahle, E.), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2005, ISBN 3-428-11884-7 .
• Scenario technique. From dealing with the future , Bern et al. Haupt 2006, ISBN 3-258-06988-3 .
• Corporate management (with Thiel, M.), Bern et al: Haupt 2007, ISBN 3-258-07177-2 .
• About the Dialogic (with Jancsary, PM), Berlin: wvb 2008, ISBN 978-3-86573-414-3 .
• Effect structure. Possible uses and limits in corporate management , Bern, among others: Haupt 2012, ISBN 978-3-258-07755-0 .
• The CIRCU: Concept - Application - Observation (with Meusburger, M.), Berlin: wvb 2016, ISBN 3-86573-987-3 .
• Communication in the theory of social systems , Berlin: wvb 2017, ISBN 3-96138-042-2 .
• Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity - Cybernetic Approaches for Corporate Management (ed. With Großler, A.), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2018, ISBN 3-428-15557-2 .

Periodicals

• 2000–2017 publisher of the semi-annual journal for systems thinking and decision making in management SEM-RADAR, ISSN  1610-8914
• 2002–2018 editor of the series Change and Continuity in Organizations, ISSN  1616-5012

Web links

• University professor homepage from Falko EP Wilms
• Literature by and about Falko Wilms in the catalog of the German National Library
• Consultant homepage from Falko EP Wilms

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lehner / Wilms: Systemic Thinking - klip und klar , Zurich: Industrielle Organization 2002, p. 124.
2. ↑ Wilms: Decision-making behavior as a recursive process , Wiesbaden: Gabler 1995
3. ↑ Wilms: Decision-making in networked thinking ; in: M. Lehner, Falko EP Wilms: Problem situations as a structure of effects, wvb: Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932089-75-8 , pp. 53–73.
4. ↑ Wilms: Systemoriented Management , Munich: Vahlen 2001, especially p. 143ff .; Thiel / Wilms: Unternehmensführung , Bern et al .: Haupt 2007, esp. P. 117 ff.
5. ↑ Falko Wilms on iTunesU. Retrieved June 20, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Falko Wilms on YouTube. Retrieved June 20, 2013 . 
7. ↑ ICM Germany. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 20, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Dialogue facilitators. (No longer available online.) In: arbogast.at. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015 ; accessed on October 17, 2016 .