Heike Arnold

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Heike Arnold (born August 22, 1959 in Rockenhausen ) is a German entrepreneur and author in the field of "new forms of work and cooperation ".

Life

After training as a nurse, she founded Pro Medico , a specialist office for medical word processing in Mainz . Dealing with organizational, technical and social deficits and problems related to home and teleworking led to a theoretical discussion of the possibilities of the early Internet.

In 1996 Arnold founded the TWG Central Office in Schmalenberg (Rhineland-Palatinate). Municipalities and medium-sized companies in particular were interested in the concepts of the TWG in the area of ​​telework, which propagated and implemented the use of the web for the socially acceptable optimization of the balance between work and life. The TWG, which operated under the name of TWG The Webworker Group - Gesellschaft für Virtual Business Service mbH from 1998 to 2007 , is a company that is not tied to a specific location; the company's headquarters have been Velden / Vils since 2007 .

In her work, Arnold describes the structures and competence profiles necessary for virtual companies . Their analyzes form the basis of numerous research projects, including those for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Berlin) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organization (IAO).

Your work was u. a. awarded with the following awards:

  • 02/1998: Office 21 Award, Future of Work , awarded by the IAO and the business magazine impulse , 1st prize for "Best overall solution for innovative processes"
  • 08/1998: e-business award , awarded by IBM Germany and the ZDF business magazine WISO , 1st prize in the communication culture category for the range of services within a virtual network of freelancers.

Fonts

  • Online Dosing: Virtual Companies. Why they arise. How they come about. And what contribution they make to change in the economy and society. , https://virtuelleunternehmen.wordpress.com/tag/heike-arnold/
  • The Webworker's Handbook. How to get more out of life with work , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt DVA 2001, ISBN 3-421-055-610
  • Work better in networks. How virtual companies are successful , Shaker Verlag , 2003, ISBN 3-8322-0903-4 (collaboration)
  • e-cooperations . In: Planning and implementing cooperation. Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (BMWi), 2003
  • Curriculum vitae fragile . In: Kursbuch Neue Wirtschaft. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt DVA, 2000, ISBN 3-421-05435-5

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personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockenhausen