AmbidextrousLeadership

  • A forward-looking leadership handbook for managers in the field of digital transformation
  • Based on extensive empirical case study research
  • With a foreword by Dr. Eberhard Veit
  • Ambidexterity as a leadership approach for the digital transformation, Consciously shaping the digital change process
  • Enabling leaps in innovation
  • Driving evolution and revolution simultaneously
  • The relevance of ambidextrous leadership in times of crisis

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Boardroom2030

  • Describes how Supervisory Boards and Advisory Boards become pioneers of a digital and sustainable corporate future
  • Drafts a guiding vision for the work of Supervisory Boards during times of significant transformations
  • Contains detailed interviews with members of Supervisory Boards and Advisory Boards

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Boardroom 2030 (German Ed.)

  • Describes how supervisory boards and advisory boards are becoming pioneers of a digital and sustainable corporate future
  • Drafts a mission statement for supervisory board work in times of major transformations
  • Includes detailed interviews with supervisory and advisory boards

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Ambidextrous Leadership
(1st edition)

  • A future-oriented leadership handbook for managers in the area of digital transformation
  • Offers communication-based options for successful leadership in highly innovative industrial companies in digitization
  • Is scientifically based on detailed empirical case studies
  • With a preface by Dr. Eberhard Veit

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Ambidexterity, leadership and communication

  • Managers influence radical and incremental innovations through communicative action.
  • The model of ambidextry-oriented leadership communication shows how leadership communication enables and combines exploration and exploitation.
  • Digitalization increases the tension between exploitation (expanding existing business) and exploration (opening up new business areas).
  • Mechanical and plant engineering companies are faced with the challenge of both optimising existing business and driving forward innovative new developments.

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Ambidextrous Leadership (2nd edition)

  • Ambidexterity as a management tool in digital transformation
  • Consciously shaping digital transformation
  • Managing evolution and revolution at the same time
  • Ambidextrous Leadership in times of crisis
  • Beidhändig führen in Krisenzeiten

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Further reading

  • Duwe, Julia (2026): Einblicke in den Boardroom 2030. Interview mit Julia Duwe. Erschienen in BOARD. Zeitschrift für Aufsichtsräte in Deutschland, Ausgabe 1/2026, S. 27-28. → pdf
  • Duwe, Julia (2025): Aufsichtsräte sind mehreren Transformationen ausgesetzt. Interview am 11.03.2025 mit Springer Professional. → zum Artikel
  • Duwe, Julia (2024): Ambidextrie im Aufsichtsrat: Das Denk- und Handlungsmodell für die Transformation. Erschienen in: Der Aufsichtsrat, Ausgabe 09/2024. S. 122-123. → pdf
  • Olivan, Patrick; Hoeft, Anja; Duwe, Julia (2023): Ambidextrie: Organisation, Prozesse, Führung. In: O. Riedel et. al. (Hrsg.), Handbuch Unternehmensorganisation. Springer-Verlag. → pdf
Julia Duwe

Julia Duwe

Expert in industrial transformation, innovation, and organizational ambidexterity

Julia Duwe studied communication science, business administration, and American studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Bergen, Norway. In 2016, she completed her doctorate on organizational ambidexterity and leadership at the European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel. Since 2025, she has been a professor of Strategic Transformation Design at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Art and Design. As a consultant and author, she focuses on how companies can improve their existing core business while simultaneously and successfully entering new markets.

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