Innovation Foresight

Strategic growth fields

New growth opportunities arise on the fringe of current skills and business areas. Recognising them requires you to transcend boundaries. Our structured process guides your team from foresight analysis, through an exploration of the growth areas of tomorrow right up to a full-scale evaluation of an innovation project. We have the long-standing experience necessary to transform a successful pilot project into regular innovation foresight processes, which you can then conduct on your own in the future.

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Disruptive product and service innovations

The trick to being an innovator is the ability to surprise customers and markets over and over again. This requires the courage to question the basis of your own success. Embrace the possibility that your revenue streams might come from completely different products, services and business models in five or ten years. Together with a team of your innovation experts, we take the plunge and consider how tomorrow’s products and services might look, attacking your business before somebody else does.

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Client environments of the future

You know your clients extremely well. Yet, what will tomorrow’s customers look like – and what requirements will they have? Since we can’t ask them, we use a variety of qualitative and quantitative foresight methods to anticipate the lifestyles of tomorrow. In doing so, we consider changing sets of values as well as shifts in incomes and spending patterns in your target countries. Using new approaches, such as value proposition design, we identify innovation opportunities that allow you to captivate the next generation of customers.

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Quantifying growth fields

You have already identified a portfolio of attractive growth fields – within your company or in a project together with us. Now you ask yourself: Are those fields worth betting on? With our system-dynamic approach, we find out what future demand to expect in which circumstances. With the help of a „robustness check“, you will gain an understanding of the factors determining an attractive market development.

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Innovation workshops

Are you looking for external impetuses to drive future inspiration in your innovation team? Using a portfolio of unusual workshop formats, ranging from innovation speed-dating to our highly-acclaimed rapid future factory, we create the perfect setting to enable you to think proactively about the future. Our workshops are not just about playful creative techniques; their value lies in the unique combination of trend expertise and future knowledge that we bring to each workshop. 

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Contact

Get in touch with us if you are planning a Innovation Foresight project. Andreas Neef, Managing Partner, will be happy to advise you.