Ralf Lippold

Change Agent, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Idea generator, Performer, Project manager, Startup, Technologist

Ralf Lippold is a global connector and boundary-spanner in diverse areas, mainly facilitating organizations to use best digital information technologies to make their processes even better. He is based in Dresden heart of the German SiliconSaxony. His work covers seamless solutions to tricky and complex business problems. Being on the core team building up BMW Plant Leipzig has been amongst the several drivers for understanding large scale group dynamics and collective learning. Ralf is recognized for building up collaborative workspaces such as LockSchuppen, http://slideshare.com/RalfLippold/lockschuppen-the-story, and CoOrpheum, https://vimeo.com/12337345 combining the physical and virtual world jointly together. Role model of the above are http://singularityu.org and https://vimeo.com/10000408 (High Tech High)

Shaping serendipity by bringing art, science, and technology together in innovative and unexpected ways.

After seven years of growing seeds the #CitizenScienceLab idea emerged during the 2nd MOOC "u.lab - Leading From the Emerging Future" (2015) - see under "Your links"

Community and Social development, Exponential Technologies, Facilitating Creative Problem Solving, Lean and Project Management, Mentoring and coaching, Organizational Design, Supply Chain and Logistics, System Dynamics, technology - High Tech, Testing and Quality

A severe, life-threatening, illness at the age of five held me back one year from entering school and later made me an "outsider" due to my tinyness. Over the years I have built up the capability to immerse amongst different groups of interest (at the same time). A few years ago, during my first International System Dynamics Conference in Nijmegen 2006, I learned that this role is called "boundary spanner". Bringing simple to implement solutions to present problems it appeared useful to know a large and diverse network of people in various fields. During the floodings in Dresden in the summer of 2002, this got me appointed to become the project manager of the crisis first response center within the City of Dresden. The internet had back then slowly emerged into the business and everyday's life. In 2003 I was invited to join the team for building up the new BMW Plant Leipzig. Virtual and real-life collaboration using the most appropriate tools brought the team together in order to put up the best, most productive and fastest built up plant in the network.

Connecting change makers locally and around the globe in very diverse fields (e.g. information technology, lean management, psychology, city planning, system dynamics, performing arts, research, ...) to achieve greater goals together.