Innovation
Our aim when working with clients on innovation is twofold: (a) to develop, integrate and sustain innovation processes, structures, procedures and cultural aspects within the own organisation, and (b) to turn ideas into innovations by realising new products, services and business models on the market. We accompany our clients every step of the challenging way that mostly follows the idea generating phase. Of eminent importance to us is bringing strategy and innovation together and developing a sustainable innovation culture that enables organisations to permanently bring forth innovations from within.
Ultimately, innovations must create value for the organisation. In this respect, it is important to avoid costly failures by means of fast prototyping and rapid learning. Taken innovation work seriously quite often means disappointment and failures, especially when aiming to bring forth radical innovations. The art of prototyping is to fail early and economically.
For us, innovation is the manifestation of realising inventions and
novel ideas that provide companies or societies with a major advantage
or benefit.Thus, innovation results include new products, new services, novel business models or new organisational structures and processes.
Our offer for innovation work
1. Open Innovation | Crowdsourcing
Supporting organisations to enable ideas & innovations flowing easily inward and outward.
Conceptualisation and Realisation of (international) challenges and Lead User workshops.
2. Radical Innovation | Emergent Innovation
Implementation of a tested process that qualifies an organisation to bring forth profound innovations. The process is based on the innovation framework
LEAP.
3. Innovation Management
Design and buildup of an individual innovation management framework within an organisation (structure, processes, culture, integration of strategy and innovation, etc.)
4. Start-Up Coaching & Entrepreneurship
Conceptualisation and operation of innovation hubs.
Coaching and support of start-ups.
5. Enabling Spaces
Design of a sustaining framework in order to best possible support innovation- and knowledge processes. Areas of applications are: working environments, conference rooms, entire organisations, exhibitions, show rooms, museums.
Selection of realised projects
net culture labs
Conceptualisation and operation of two innovation hubs in Vienna and Dornbirn in cooperation with Telekom Austria and osAlliance. Software developer and Designer were able to bring forth their ideas and projects. Overall, 30 projects have been financed, over 100 events have been organised and 5 start-ups were created.
Link | Open Innovation, Enabling Space | 2006–2009
A1 InnovationDays 2008
Conceptualisation and realisation of an international developer challenge for mobilkom austria. After a peer-voting and commenting phase of all online submitted ideas, 5 inter-disciplinary teams were invited to a prototyping sprint. At the Kloster Und, the teams implemented their ideas into working prototypes and presented the results on the final day.
Link | Crowdsourcing, Enabling Space | 2008
Innospace
Implementation of the
LEAP-process for a personal developement training of selected high potentials within the Austrian Press Agency. The result is the realisation of a completly new process and structure for the internal innovation management.
Executive Coaching, profund innovation | 2008–2009
Mesnerhof-C
Analysis, development and description of innovation and knowledge processes that support the Mesnerhof being a place where radical innovations will be co-created. Development of Design Patterns as foundation for the realization of the rebuilding. A dossier that describes and illustrates typical daily activities.
Innovation spaces, radical innovation, Enabling Spaces, Holiwork | 2009-2010
APA ZukunftWissen
Editing of a dossier on the platform of the Austria Press Agency labelled "Innovating Innovation - wie kommt das Neue in die Welt?". This dossier provides unexpected and trans-disciplinary insights into the meta-questions, how innovation can be innovated.
Link | Profound innovation, innovation journalism, innovation | 2009–2010
em.te.ba.
Implementation of a one-stop-portal for emergent technologies --such as semantic systems, embedded systems, visual computing, etc-- for the Austrian Research Promotion Agency. The aim of the platform is to exhibit the achievements of Austrian research in these fields as well as to trigger spill-over across different scentific disciplines.
Link | Innovation policy, technology management| 2008–2010
Living Semantics
Together with the Austrian Press Agency and factline, trendsetting research topics and their medial reception have been analysed. 2006, at the Euopean Forum Alpbach, the artist Max Frey visualised and staged these topics.
Communicating innovation, innovation and art | 2006
