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Celebrate good times, come on!
“Celebrate good times, come on!” – Under this motto, concedro employees welcomed customers, partners and friends to a celebration of the 10th anniversary on February 20th, 2020! The event opened in the rooms of the Frankfurt press club where concedro invited internal and external speakers to informative lectures.
The interested listeners had a choice of four different topics:
- Digital distribution solutions – Why pension funds
don’t use robos - Business Agility – What Would MacGyver Do?
- GENO Broker – digitization approach, current status
and further development - AI – your digital power of the future
Afterwards there was enough time in the restaurant ‘Herr Franz’ for culinary delights at the Flying Buffet for further professional exchange and intensive discussions. Two other program items rounded off the successful evening: Poetryslamer Jakob Schwerdtfeger entertained with skilful rhymes and wordplay, then concedro employee Christoph Otten and his bandmates from the ‘Burning Icebears’ provided a good musical atmosphere.
The concedro team thanks all guests and supporters for an atmospheric and great evening!
Agile – is the hype at all over?
On 06.02.2020, 25 Scrumies and non-Scrumies exchanged their views on this topic. Alexandra Pirmann from concedro and Michael Riermeier from Raum Für Führung gave impulses.
Rock meets Finance
Christoph Otten, Business Analyst of concedro GmbH and lead singer, songwriter as well as guitarist of the alternative band „The Burning Ice Bears“ impressed with his band members in this year’s competition for the German Rock & Pop Prize in Siegen. The article „Business Analyst in Banken: Wie Rockmusik im Job hilft“, published on December 27, 2019 at the IT Financemagazin is dedicated to the interdependant balance and overall aspect of enrichment achieved by combining work and musical passion. In addition to creativity and a solid amount of teambuilding, it is a confident appearance as well as a goal-oriented approach that Christoph Otten considers essential in both areas.
„Job and hobby form a symbioses – both areas support and complement each other.“
WM Kundenforum
In 2019, the 26th WM Kundenforum was dedicated to digitalization and captivated as a meeting place for further education in the areas of banking and capital market issues. Hamburg artist Sherin L’Artiste, engaged by the repeated exhibitor and sponsor concedro GmbH, enchanted the forum to a place of creativity and created portraits of the present participants within a merely a few minutes.
This combination provided optimal conditions for informal exchange centered around the world of securities trading and data feeds.
concedro sailing trip
In the middle of September this year, the employees of concedro GmbH packed up their duffle bags and set sail for the third time. On board of the nostalgic Soeverein the route led the team across the IJsselmeer from Lelystad to Hoorn. In addition to copius culinary and architectural highlights ashore, the fabulous weather was inviting ideal for joint sailing and animate exchange on high sea.
Rheinkirmes 2019
Already for the third time, the »Schumacher Scheune« on the Düsseldorfer Rheinkirmes was visited with customers, friends and employees of concedro. For the first time a talk entitled »Agil – ist der Hype am Ende?« (Agile – does the hype come to an end?) with support by »Raum für Führung« was held in advance at our Düsseldorf office. The facilitators Michael Riermeier (Raum für Führung) and Alexandra Pirmann (concedro GmbH) led the event and ensured an intensive exchange in the plenum.
5 Myths that hinder agility
In the face of increasingly complex surroundings, Scrum and other agile methodologies became the new mean of our daily business. But who is to justify the end considering the rising number of employees that regard the step towards agility as rather unfortunate? In fact, it might be argued agility has passed the Hype-Cycle’s peak. Even Ken Schwaber, one of the founding fathers of Scrum, came to estimate that 75 percent of all Scrum projects fail to deliver desired expectations. But why? We are presenting five myths that hamper the desires to build agile operations. Starting off from the actual parts to play by IT and Business units, up to training personnel and the role of higher management.
Consistently, we will point out useful steps to achieve the transformation into an agile organization and avoid the garden path. diebank/04.2019.pdf
Nepal Kinderhilfe e.V.
The honorary non-profit society Nepal Kinderhilfe e.V. follows the task to support children in Nepal by getting a school education, whose parents can’t make the necessary funds available. The engagement ranges from the mediation of sponsorship for school, the local support by club members to the construction of the Mandala Children Home.
concedro GmbH seizes this concept and is supporting Nepal Kinderhilfe. nepalkinderhilfe.de
WM-Kundenforum with concedro
The 25. WM-Kundenforum took place in November 2018 in Frankfurt. The WM-Kundenforum encourages the communication of clients, partner and WM Datenservice, an European platform for regulatory documents. Along with an own representative counter, concedro also hosted a performance of poetry slamer Jakob Schwerdtfeger (Jey Jey Günderling) – an eloquent mixture of freestyle rap and and humorous lyrics. This brightened the transfer to the well known Klassikstadt.
concedro hiking offsite
In October, the concedro team went to a sportive hiking offsite to the felsenmeer in the Odenwald. Shrouded in legends, the felsenmeer delivered material for the stonecutter during the roman empire. Nowadays, it is a popular recreation area and nature reserve »Felsenmeer bei Reichenbach«. Fresh air, sportive hiking and diversified content got the concedro team excited.