Implementing change in organisations: key challenges

A VUCA world (described with four attributes: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) and the resulting need to implement changes continuously in almost every area of organisational activity have enhanced the awareness of organisations with regard to searching for skilful managers/leaders of change and building up competencies in change management amongst their staff. At the same time, however, quite a large proportion of changes fail. The paper aims to identify major challenges faced when implementing significant changes in an organisation using two case studies as an example. The first case study concerns a change to the Agile approach in an organisation’s operations, while the second one – the implementation of the Design Thinking concept in the work of project teams. The obtained results have become a starting point for more in-depth studies on change management focused in particular on factors contributing to organisational change success or failure and the role of individual stakeholders in the process

Access to the digital assets of a deceased user of online services in the context of a judgement of the German Federal Court of Justice

The article is an attempt to analyse the judgement of the German Federal Court of Justice in which this court ruled that in the event of death of a holder of a social network account, the usage agreement is transferring on to his/her heirs pursuant to Sec. 1922 BGB and the access to the deceased user's account and the communication saved therein violates neither the posthumous personal rights of the testator nor the right to protection of personal data or confidentiality of correspondence. In the discussed judgement the problem of the legal succession of digital assets under the German law was elaborated quite extensively and for the most part it dispels the doubts arising in that jurisprudence. Nevertheless, after a closer analysis of the motives of the judgement and the conclusions presented therein, the author argues that the conclusions presented in the ruling cannot be directly applied in the Polish law. This is in particular because of differences between Polish and German rules of succession law. In spite of the above, the conclusions drawn from the justification of the analyzed ruling may also be helpful in the context of clarifying doubts as regards inheritance of digital assets of a deceased users of internet services which are present in the Polish jurisprudence