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We are companions for the digital transformation
d.quarks supports family businesses, SMEs and the public sector in Germany in their transformation in the age of digitalization and sustainability.
As experts in digital and sustainable transformation, we can look back on many years of project experience, master the complexity of transformation processes and have the tools to successfully shape these processes. As creative and innovative change agents, we combine cultural and technological perspectives and approaches. And as trailblazers for change, we enable people to renew themselves and their organization in a self-determined and sustainable way.
In this way, we bring the most diverse parts of an organization into a concerted movement – and create something new that lasts.
Dr. Carsten Hentrich
»It’s not complicated just because it’s complex.«
Carsten Hentrich studied computer science and lives in a sleepy village in the beautiful Westerwald – a place where people greet each other by name when they meet on the street.
His favorite place to be is in the quiet of nature. Or in front of the screen. Carsten belongs to the “Commodore 64” generation, dusty terms such as Datasette or floppy disk are part of his early digital socialization: he discovered his love of IT at the age of twelve and started coding.
After leaving school, his passion led him to study computer science, then to Oxford for a master’s degree in software engineering and then to London for his doctorate. There he discovered not only his admiration for the elegance of history and tradition, but also for research into future-proof change. A passion that has strongly influenced his professional work ever since.
Carsten’s work focuses on the design and realization of positive visions of the future, where the power of innovative technologies in a sustainable regenerative economy is a central factor. As a transformation architect with more than 20 years of experience, his strength lies in the practical handling of complexity and the sustainable implementation of structural and cultural change. It is no coincidence that he is now considered one of the pioneers in the implementation of network-like, agile IT organizations in companies.
Carsten is also a book author and a regular inspirational speaker at the Zukunftsinstitut. He is also program director and lecturer for digital transformation at the Goethe Business School. And as co-host of the podcast “The Moment of Truth”, together with Michael Pachmajer, he regularly talks to exciting personalities who talk about drastic changes in their lives.
Manuel Heß
»IF YOU WANT SOMETHING TO CHANGE, YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.«
Manuel Heß studied computer science and lives with his family in the Ruhr region – and he loves it. The sometimes gruff, but always warm and pragmatic mentality of this region has left its mark on him. Whether it’s sports, crafts or work, people in the Ruhr region like to get stuck in, get things done and produce visible results. Manuel has internalized this principle.
He has been fascinated by new technologies since he was a child. This passion is so great that he also tries to pass on his IT knowledge to his two daughters. If the school system doesn’t deliver, you just have to do it yourself.
Manuel’s professional focus is on the sensible and sustainable use of new technologies in a business context. For almost 20 years, he has been looking at how organizations can develop, implement or optimize digital business models. To this end, he supports managers in fulfilling their leadership responsibilities and ensuring the future viability of their organizations. As a sparring partner, he supports family businesses, SMEs and the public sector from the design of a visionary target image to the development of a transformation plan and its implementation. The focus is on empowering the organization and the people in it to successfully shape the change independently.
The future viability of IT is particularly important to Manuel. He therefore helps organizations to completely realign their IT departments, to live up to their claim to be innovators or to design sustainable IT architectures.
It is always important to him to get down to business – in other words, not only to determine where you want to go, but also to start implementation quickly. Because only with an agile and iterative approach can you quickly create validatable results that give you the certainty that you are heading for the right goal.
Michael Pachmajer
»For a successful transformation, we must be willing to change ourselves first.«
Michael Pachmajer studied geography and lives and works in a three-generation house in Frankfurt am Main – a city that is constantly on the move and full of contradictions in a very small space. A historical place of change, where people with the most diverse roots and perspectives come together. And that is precisely why it inspires him time and time again.
In his work, Michael deals with the question of how we as a society can make our way of life and economy more sustainable. During his studies at Frankfurt’s Goethe University, he was already concerned early on with the changes to ecosystems as a result of climate change. At the beginning of the New Economy, he switched to the business world and worked for international corporations and consulting firms.
Today, he observes, plans and accompanies the most diverse aspects of the transformation brought about by increasing digitalization in companies and public administration. He questions, gets involved, brings people together, takes a stand and imagines the world as it could be in the future.
As host of the podcast “The Moment of Truth”, he also talks to exciting personalities about incisive events or situations in their lives that have led them to fundamentally question their previous actions and immediately change their behavior.
In addition, he passionately shares his transformation experience not only as a book author, but also as a keynote speaker at the renowned Zukunftsinstitut, as a lecturer for Digital Transformation Management at the Goethe Business School and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cocreation Foundation.