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"One
great Idea doesn't make a great company - Management today
means, to create an inspiring environment where thousands
of new ideas evolve every day and where employees share, develop
and implement their ideas collaboratively. The success of
an enterprise today depends on its ability to find a balanced
culture of innovation and implementation".
Markus
Hegi - CEO
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SHARING
If
you enter metalayer, you will not find any private or personal spaces
and assigned workplaces and computers. Every employee, and especially
the team leaders and management often change their workplaces many
times a day, acting as 'knowledge distributors' and 'inspirers'.
As all data is kept on the internal comties, shifting of workplaces
takes no time and effort. SHARING is the basis of our culture and
is a part of our day-to-day life.
OPEN
SPACES
Our
office space is 'minimalist' and we have removed any physical or
communication walls in the organization. We have applied the same
basic rules as in the development of the metalayer platform. We
made the space as open and inspiring as possible to give creative
minds space to innovate.
We
do not encourage any rigid structures and hierarchies. The focus
in metalayer is on the 'authority of knowledge' and not on the 'authority
of position'. Errors and mistakes are welcomed, openly discussed
and are learning sources. With open minds metalayer employees work
more freely and concentrate on knowledge creation and distribution,
bringing value to the entire organization.
TRANSPARENCY
All
decisions and policies are publicly discussed on the layer for everyone
to think about and discuss. The concept of confidentiality in metalayer
has been reduced to a bare minimum. Transparency not only reduces
risks, but it is also the only way to create TRUST in a free environment
with focus on innovation. This ensures a free flow of knowledge
and performance. Transparent communication and open discussion is
the only way to create a learning environment and a long-term success
strategy.
COLLABORATION
"None
of us is as smart as all of us". We strongly believe in sharing
and live collaboratively. All metalayer employees work closely in
synchronization and the amount of many-to-many collaboration is
very high. Co-creation, co-working, co-learning are the fundamental
values of metalayer. All work and idea creation takes place on the
comties of the layer, which gives every employee the possibility
to participate and discuss all work under progress. Collaboration
has been practiced and made a part of everyday work at metalayer.
THE
SPIRIT OF LEARNING
Confusion
is another permanent element of our culture. Socrates, with his
famous sentence 'I know, I know nothing' has taught us, that un-learning
and confusion are the first necessary steps towards new ideas and
learning.
The
learning process in metalayer never stops, and the same is true
for un-learning and confusion. Our employees are knowledge driven
learning individuals more than anything else. To be rigid is to
be static and only open minds with a learning spirit can manifest
and harness the great potential of knowledge.
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