ICV topic of the year 2022/2023/2024: Digitization & Agility

Digitization is changing requirements and tasks in controlling and thus also the job profile of controllers. In 2016, the ICV Expert Work Group BI/Big Data was reorganized in controlling and in 2017 the ICV Digitization Offensive started, including webinars, business innovation labs, mailings and publications. In 2017/2018, the ICV Think Tank, a top-class committee with masterminds in controlling, also dealt extensively with this key issue. In recent years, digitization and agility have always been the focus of the ICV central event, the Congress of Controllers, but also at the autumn conferences and in ICV live webinars. Several expert work groups of the ICV are dedicated to the questions and conclusions on these key topics, currently DCC Digital Controlling Competence, Digital CFO Agenda, Agile Controlling and Digital Transformation.

The ICV has focused on digitization and agility for many years and, as usual, has supported controllers with its offers in conveying the new realities that result from this for controlling as well as has supported everyone involved in controlling and corporate management with best practice in a wide variety of formats .

In order to clarify the continuing importance of digitization & agility, the ICV has declared it as the official ICV topic of the year in 2022. On this page you can find all relevant information and news.

Reading tip from Claudia Maron, Head of Digital & Sustainable Economy, DATEV eG: 

Digitization makes data available for almost every process in seemingly all areas of life. There is almost nothing left in business that cannot be measured, counted and tracked. That alone is not enough. Data must be sorted and evaluated. In the end, it is important to draw conclusions from the result. How well does that work? The authors of the Spiegel bestseller "Grüne fahren SUV und Joggen macht unsterblich", psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, data analysis expert Katharina Schüller, economist Thomas Bauer and statistician Walter Krämer have been diagnosing for ten years a kind of illiteracy in their "#Unstatistic of the Month", dealing with numbers, with probabilities and risks.

To the Campus Publishing House

Prof. Dr. Heimo Losbichler, ICV Chairman of the Board, recommends the new expert reading (May 2022) of the IGC International Group of Controlling, where he is also the Chairman:

In a VUCA environment, controllers need to act even more dynamic and flexible to meet the changing demands of management. Agility emerges as a recipe for success in this context. It describes the quick recognition and adaptation of changes by flexibly adapting processes, resources, or activities to new requirements for better goal achievement. Thus, agility is based not only on instrumental agile approaches, but also the provision of agile values and principles. Agility is an umbrella term, that can encompass everything from an individual perspective through internal/external up to organisational agility – which we concentrate on in this book.

We have identified 46 agile approaches and describe them in detail regarding core terms, instruments, functioning, and pros & cons.

With eleven implementation examples from practice, we illustrate the application of several approaches, as well as the possible changes and wins, but also the pitfalls. They range from renowned global production companies like Bosch towards small and medium sized service organisations.

The book closes with applications recommendations regarding the use of the 46 agile approaches as well as necessary process and competence changes. 

• Digital Transformation and Controlling - Findings from the empirical research by the ICV
• Artificial intelligence for controlling - a future-oriented solution?
• On the way to the Data-Driven Company. Interview with Pierre Schalbe - Member of the Management Administration International at Lidl
• First Insights into the Studies' Results of the ICV Digitization Offensive
• Review 2017 and Outlook 2018
• The ICV Digitization Offensive: "a completely successful format"
• Information as a Strategic Resource - Digitalization Will Change Companies and Controlling Radically -  Challenges and Potentials in Data and Analytics (Part 3)
• Information as a Strategic Resource - Interview with Stefan Schnell - Head of Corporate Controlling BASF Gruppe (Part 2)
• Information as a Strategic Resource - Digitalization Will Change Companies and Controlling Radically (Part 1)
• Digital Change in Controlling - Overview
• The ICV Digitization Offensive - Motivations and Team
• Digital Transformation and Analytics - Trends and Implications for Controlling
• The ICV Think Tank and ICV Expert Work Group BI/Big Data and Controlling as Pioneers

To the ICV Digitization Offensive