• Serious gaming, business game / role play seminars
• Design workshops for individual serious games, haptic and digital business games or role-playing games (including gamification and micro-learning)
• Development of individual learning factories, with the aim of making tangible the necessary procedural and digital changes.
• Creativity seminars, innovation workshops and idea events
• Presentation and rhetoric seminars (individually or in groups, e.g. to promote communication in a project)
• Potential analyzes (e.g. critical incident technique, key task analysis)
• Seminars on time management / self-management
• Management seminars, e.g. on coaching
• Seminar on workplace organization & office management
• Workshops on personnel management and motivation
• Assessment centers (recruitment / screening of managers)
• Personnel development services for companies
• Support for educational institutions (e.g. competence-oriented teaching and testing, accreditation coaching, digitization concepts)
• Support for e-learning (conceptually and / or in terms of content, e.g. to promote deeper learning)
• Individual seminars to promote problem understanding, definition and solution (solution-oriented action and thinking, e.g. based on content defined by the client)
• Workshops on multilateral thinking (e.g. to make different positions, roles and responsibilities within the company understandable)

• Conception of mental and / or formal models for further use
• Model development and model implementation (e.g. identification of action principles and their mathematical description)
• Development of qualitative models for the investigation of self-contained chains of effects
• Development of quantitative (quasi-real data) models to gain a deeper understanding of the system
• Development of technically oriented models (e.g. building information modeling)
• Support in the simplification of complex models (e.g. abstraction through idealization or possibly also modularization depending on the model purpose)
• Extension of simple models to record further attributes or behaviors of the original (e.g. to record dynamic behavior)
• Analysis of the complexity and quality of an existing model
• Conception of models for knowledge representation and for building a knowledge database
• Implementation of a model in a simulation environment (static, dynamic, stochastic or deterministic simulation depending on the purpose)
• Modeling and simulation for the purpose of testing hypotheses
• Simulation of processes (e.g. before a real change)
• Simulation of complex systems (e.g. environment, logistics, production)
• Development of simulations for training and further education

• Support in the development or realignment of an innovation strategy
• Identification of innovation potential or niche (white spot analysis, foresight study)
• Validation of new business models
• Trend monitoring (organization and implementation)
• Creativity workshops (e.g. for the individual promotion of problem-solving skills) or future and creative workshops)
• Innovation workshops (e.g. to generate new ideas as the basis for operational or strategic adjustments in the company or to derive innovation potential within an organization)
• Planning and implementation of events for different target groups (e.g. employees, customers) and events (internal idea management, trade fairs, hack days, hackathons, open space, bar camps etc.)

• Contracted research
• Research plan development
• Evaluation of research proposals (e.g. as an independent quality check before submitting to a funding agency)
• Analyzes in the company (conception and implementation of e.g. requirement analyzes for personnel selection as well as personnel or organizational development, OCEAN analyzes in connection with disruptive technologies)
• Innovation management
• Development of communication strategies and methods (project and / or company level)
• Market analyzes (e.g. product and / or country specific)
• Customer satisfaction analyzes (e.g. using the KANO model)
• Marketing strategies (including social media activities)
• Forensic studies (e.g. to examine completed or ongoing projects, ex post and ex ante assessments)
• Security analyzes (e.g. in operation, on the construction site or IT infrastructure)
• Empirical studies (e.g. surveys with different methods)
• Implementation of transformation processes (including sustainability, BIM)
• Support with publications (e.g. technical editing, identification of suitable media)

MAXIA, your research partner in EU projects

As a partner of companies and universities, MAXIA is also at the side of its clients in the context of EU projects for the implementation of targeted and tailor-made solutions. MAXIA is registered with the European Commission as a participant in tenders and funding programs under the Participant Identification Number (PIC) 899869389.

You want to prepare yourself for the upcoming challenges due to increasing digitization

Module A. ResWorX competence area
Determination of transformation requirements (e.g. analyzes in the company regarding the possibilities and necessities to digitize processes). Development of a specific digitization strategy together with the client. Propose possible transformation measures (e.g. introduction of a digital document management system for more efficient project implementation or introduction of Building Information Modeling (BIM) at different levels).

Module B. TechWorX competence area
Requirements engineering for operational information and communication technology (ICT), e.g. regarding the introduction of the BIM method in the company.

Module C. EduWorX competence area
Development of a company-specific and competence-oriented seminar / a series of seminars (possibly supported via an applied gaming approach) to support the digitization strategy (e.g. BIM implementation in projects or in the company) with the aim of supporting change processes at the personnel level.

Module D. SimWorX competence area
Development and provision of a complex BIM model for action-oriented further training (the basis is e.g. the forensic analysis of a past project with the involvement of employees)

Module E. InnoWorX competence area
Workshop on multilateral thinking to make different positions, roles and responsibilities in a BIM project immediately understandable (possibly developing an individual “Serious Game on the job”).

The above modules can be called up by the client at different times depending on the requirements. Depending on the client’s expertise and motivation, current needs or the status of internal company developments, modules can also be adopted. In this way, the optimal service package can be offered for every budget.

• Further education events on the topic of “Building Information Modeling” (various addressees and locations)
• Design workshops for simulations and business games (different addressees, topics and locations)
• Workshop on the development of competence-oriented business and role-playing games at a German university
• Development of a personnel development concept for a company in the healthcare sector (participants: managers)
• Workshop on the implementation of e-exams at a German university (participants: professors)
• Seminar on the implementation of competence-oriented courses for engineers and scientists at a German university (participants: scientific staff)
• Workshop on the development and implementation of business games at a German university (participants: academic staff)
• Seminar on the implementation of competence-based simulation and role-playing games at a German university (participants: research assistants)
• Training in a company in the healthcare sector (focus on personal and social skills, participants: employees)
• Seminar on the implementation of competency-based exams at a German university (participants: research assistants)
• Advising university lecturers on the implementation of competence-oriented courses at a university in Germany (participants: professors)
• Seminar for a company in tourism (participants: managers)
• Coaching as part of a course accreditation at a university in Germany (participants: professors)

• Co-development of a regulation on the examination for the recognized advanced training qualification with the designation Bachelor Professional
• Co-development of a BIM qualification guide for a state ministry
• Project assessment for a British real estate company
• Development of a technical interface solution for a Dutch authority
• Consulting for a US agency in the field of social and economic sciences
• Co-development of a multidisciplinary project simulation platform in an international consortium
• Pre-evaluation of research proposals before submission to the funding agency
• Consultation for agencies of the European Commission
• Conception of simulation modules for an international assessment management company
• Assessment of research proposals on behalf of funding agencies
• Development of a Building Information Model (BIM) for an international energy project
• Forensic project analysis for an EPC contractor (engineering, procurement and construction)
• Development of an actual completion schedule including identification of disruptions in the construction process for an international infrastructure project
• Development of a process for recording sustainability awareness in a local authority
• Research project on the use of BIM in public building management
• Research project to expand construction product declarations
• Development of a formal supplementary procedure for a German construction company
• Analysis and optimization of work processes in a German company for damage restoration
• Development of an EDP-supported HR management system for a construction company in Germany
• 4D modeling, simulation and visualization of construction processes within a civil engineering project for a large German company
• Work process optimization for a municipality in Greece
• Analysis and optimization of business processes within a German civil engineering company
• Co-development of a management information system (business intelligence) for a large German company

• Companies
  • ABB AG
  • Copernicos Group
  • HOCHTIEF AG
  • Lanber Group
  • Municipal Agency NRW GmbH
• Public institutions & associations
  • City of Vienna (Austria)
  • European Commission (EU)
  • Federal Ministry of Defense (Germany)
  • Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development e.V. (Germany)
  • German Environment Agency
  • Ministry for Homeland, Municipal, Construction and Equal Opportunities of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
  • National Science Foundation (USA)
  • Rijkswaterstaat – Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment (Netherlands)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• Educational institutions
  • University of Applied Sciences Erfurt
  • University of Police and Public Administration NRW
  • University of Wuppertal
  • Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences
  • Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt
  • Central Office for Further Education in Crafts e. V.

BIM qualification guideline for municipal and public clients in North Rhine-Westphalia (PDF, German, 5.1 MB) (PDF, 5,1 MB)

Appendix 6 – Digital BIM self-assessment (interactive table) (ODS, German, 134, 85 KB)

Appendix 7 – Sample sheets of sample training measures with topics (PDF, German, 660.16 KB)

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