Agile

DOSB: Moving away from a straight line organization and towards issue- and project-oriented collaboration

 

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) is the main sports organization in Germany with 100 member organizations, around 90,000 clubs and over 27 million memberships. As part of the worldwide Olympic Movement, it continues to develop sport in all its forms.

Initial situation

At the DOSB, well-functioning cooperation between employees, member organizations and other external partners plays an important role. The DOSB therefore set itself the goal of promoting a modern and more agile form of working and developing the organization further in this direction.

Procedure

In the first step, mixed project teams defined the requirements by means of analysis and concept workshops. After a short time, the central, digital platform TeamPlay (CoffeeNet 365) was ready in the DOSB basic equipment and the pilot phase could begin. On the live system, the platform was equipped step by step and hands on according to the ideas of the DOSB and rolled out with intensive training in the organization.

Results

By replacing on-premise island solutions and file servers as well as third-party cloud services with the central platform on Microsoft 365 (TeamPlay), a new digital and modern way of working was enabled, collaboration internally and with external parties was improved and simplified, and organizational skills in using Office 365 were increased.

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