Structures That Don't Scale
Teams grow, but structures stay the same. Responsibilities blur, collaboration gets harder instead of easier.
Computer scientist. Founder, product manager, and business unit head by experience, including orchestrating 150+ developers. Today I help leaders design how their organization actually works: structures, decisions, collaboration, and yes, AI.
Organizations grow. Complexity grows faster.
AI adds opportunity, but also confusion.
Fragmented Collaboration
Silos, friction between teams, and structures that make it hard to work across functions. With or without AI.
Unclear Decision-Making
Slow, political decision-making, endless meetings, and confusion about who owns what. Meanwhile, AI accelerates everything around it.
How I Help
I combine organizational design, leadership practice, and technical depth to help organizations work better. Simpler structures, clearer decisions, and AI where it actually helps.
Organizational Design
Design structures that support learning, clear ownership, and cross-team collaboration. Instead of getting in the way.
Leadership Design
Shape how leadership actually works: who decides, how information flows, and how AI supports rather than replaces judgment.
AI Integration
Nobody has built the AI-powered organization yet. I help you start where you are. Not just throwing tools at the problem, but integrating AI in a way that actually moves your organization forward.
My work draws on and contributes to modern approaches like unFIX, Management 3.0, and M3K. It integrates systems thinking, network theory, and complexity-informed perspectives. I use these as tools, not templates.
With years of experience building master data systems (PIM/MDM), I know that AI is only as good as the data behind it, and what it takes to build a solid data foundation.
How We Work Together
20+ years of building, leading, and redesigning organizations. I know how hard it is to make change stick. Every engagement is different, but the approach is always the same:
1. Understand
Short call to clarify your context, key challenges, and what "better" would look like for you and your organization.
2. Collaborate
Co-create a simple, pragmatic design for structures, leadership routines, and AI integration. Tailored to your reality.
3. Learn & Scale
Start Small with one area or leadership group, learn from it, then scale what works across teams and departments.
This can take the form of workshops, leadership offsites, ongoing coaching, or a focused advisory engagement.
What others say
Jens leads with clarity, empathy, and focus — across projects, organizations, and people.
Manuel Wohlfarth
VP Digital Services & Managing Director IT @ Viessmann
Jens has been one of the most proactive and trustworthy team members I have ever worked with.
Jurgen Appelo
Thought Leader, Founder of Management 3.0 and unFIX
Open, pragmatic, entrepreneurial — Jens brings people together and keeps practical value at the center.
Jürgen Burger
Managing Director SIMIO GmbH
Side Projects
I've been coding since school, and I still do. These days with AI as my co-worker.
You can find my current apps at the Miro marketplace, or linked from the website of the board game publisher Ottavio:
Miro Apps
Aventuria App
Leadership is serious work. That doesn't mean we have to take ourselves too seriously.