LEAD Innovation | The Leading Innovation Management Expert.

With the Open Innovation methods we apply, we integrate our extensive, cross-sector innovators network to develop innovations with our customers.

We believe in a better world through progress & innovation. LEAD knows the way to create innovation for every organization.

As the first and leading innovation partner in Europe, we support our customers in creating breakthrough innovations using the LEAD User Method.

We support companies with our holistic approach to efficiently plan, structure, invent and market innovations and thereby achieve growth.

Structuring.

We help you to establish innovation management in your company, to shape the appropriate innovation process and to strengthen innovation culture.

Inventing.

With a wide range of open innovation methods, we develop tomorrow's product, process, service, market and business model innovations with you.

Planning.

Setting innovation goals, defining innovation, learning from the past through an innovation tree and planning the future through roadmapping and trend scouting are some of our strengths.

Marketing.

You have an invention and want to market it successfully now? With modern marketing methods and a large network we support you in your project.

The LEAD User method came more than handy to us in order to bring the forward-looking customer even more into the foreground of our ideas than before. Because Vitrulan is regarded in our industry as an engine of innovation. This reputation fills us with a certain pride and strengthens our claim not to let up in any way in our innovative activities. We gladly accepted the offer of several years of support and advisory accompaniment from LEAD Innovation Management GmbH in order to be able to realize the developed idea concepts in a professional, goal-oriented manner from the technical development to the marketing introduction in a timely manner.

Michael GEBHARDT former managing director of Vitrulan Textilglas GmbH

Everyone talks about innovation. And how important good innovation management is. LEAD was the first to show how it works. And that was no accident: precise and detailed preliminary work, a structured and excellently organized LEAD User Conference and a great and competent LEAD team helped us to this success.

Dr.Dr. Ildikó Amann-Zalán Head Medical Affairs & QM, Roche Diagnostics GmbH

Many issues are taken for granted by us internally and are no longer questioned. A look from the outside often helps to detach oneself from old patterns of thinking.

Frank Bistrick, Head of Product Development Private Customers of Westfälische Provinzialversicherung

Our latest blog posts

Here you can find our latest blog posts about innovation topics.

What is Rapid Prototyping?

Rapid prototyping defines a method that enables companies to produce a prototype already in the planning phase of a product. In this way, early detection of flaws, defects or weaknesses in a product can help to avoid ...

From opportunity spaces to search fields - a definition

In innovation management one speaks of search fields when it comes to the strategic planning of innovations. With the help of these search fields, you can clearly formulate your development mandate for new products, ...

Keeping your employees happy with these 5 easy tricks

The main focus of doing business of any kind is to provide a product and/or a service that satisfies customers and solves a problem that they have. That means offering the best price-to-benefit ratio that is possible ...

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