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.

When is the right time to start an innovation activity?

Being in the market with an innovation too early or too late costs money. The question of the right time for an innovation is therefore crucial. In this article, you can read how Roadmapping can help you answer this ...

Speed in innovation management: Why startups are faster than large companies

It is no secret that start-ups usually innovate much faster than established large companies. In this article you will learn why this is so and how the speed of innovation management in large companies can be increased.

Elon Musk and the future of the brain-machine interface

Elon Musk has had a lot to offer over the past 25 years, including an early online bank, solar roof tiles, a tunnelling machine, an electric car, a reusable rocket, and even an electric car shot into space with a ...

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