Innovation

Innovation Fastlane: the turnkey innovation

We are your extended innovation department. We work together on the next big innovation from your company. With the outsourcing of innovation tasks, you benefit from our experience. We supplement your team where it is needed.

The challenge

Scarce resources

In-house innovations can fail due to the fundamentals.

The next innovation is required, but the time, resources, and skills are lacking.
Operational blindness blocks sight of solutions.
Demand for a high level and speed of innovation.

The solution

Innovation Fastlane

Multiply your innovative strength with lead innovation.

Quicker to market through the outsourcing of innovation tasks.
We draw on the knowledge of over 30,000 experts from the lead user network.
We boast methodical expertise: from the idea, to testing, through to prototype creation.

The result

Innovative strength

You secure your competitive advantage with your turnkey innovation from us.

From concept to prototype – everything is possible.
The risk of flopping is reduced, and feasibility is checked.

Despite the open innovation approach, your intellectual property rights are safeguarded.

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Strategy issues

How does the Innovation Fastlane increase your rate of innovation?

In established companies, many innovation projects are started, but then mostly fail very early soon after. Often, there is an incorrect allocation of resources, and the lead time of projects is too long.

The Innovation Fastlane is a results-oriented approach with which you ensure the implementation of innovationsinstead of getting stuck in the innovation process. We quickly and strategically check the feasibility of your innovation. The implementation rate of your innovation project increases and, at the same time, your company allocates minimal resources.

Make or buy

Is there a turnkey innovation?

We say: 'yes'.
For innovation success you need creativity, speed, and special knowledge. For a long time now, companies have not been able to manage this with just their own in-house R&D department. Cooperation with third parties – be they customers or innovation partners – can lighten the load on the innovation department.

Yet the integration of external stakeholders (open innovation) does not solve the problem of inadequate resources. This is where the Innovation Fastlane comes in and assists you with innovation projects.

Why we are the right innovation partner

You order, we deliver. With our experience and our systematic approach, we help you towards innovation leadership.

You realize your innovation strategy. We supply the right turnkey innovation.

You increase the rate of innovation in your company. We are your innovation partner and help you from the idea to the prototype.

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Innovation at Lercher Moldmaking

At Lercher, one of the leading mold makers and tool builders, the daily routine is perfectly structured. This is one of the reasons why the company relies on the Lead Innovation Fastlane for innovation projects.

Innovation at Lercher Moldmaking

Outsourcing in innovation management

The Innovation Fastlane demonstrably increases the realization rate of innovation projects, through fast implementation of ideas to functioning prototypes. Affordable for all organizations.

In-house innovation cannot always be achieved without external support. During the innovation process, there are a multitude of tasks with which we can provide you with assistance: from topic research by our research specialist to prototype development.

The methods

The lead user method

The driving force behind innovation is often advanced users with a sense for customer requirements and the markets of tomorrow. We use these attributes in the lead user approach: experts in our global lead user network enhance your innovation projects with a wealth of experience and active collaboration.

Service design

Customer-focused services leave a lasting impression. With the service design approach, we develop an understanding for customer expectations and needs together with you. With this knowledge, we design the interaction along the customer journey to be more intuitive. Consequently, you excite customers and trust in your brand grows.

Design thinking

Design thinking solves problems systematically and accelerates the innovation process. The customer-focused approach is suitable for the development of better products, services, and business models. In an iterative and agile design process, we analyze the problem, identify solutions, and test the result together with you.

Agile project management

With innovation projects, the result is mostly uncertain and requires agility, flexibility, and quick results. Agile project management simplifies the customer-focused development of high-quality innovations, especially in product development. Work in agile teams is efficient, and the results are quickly visible.

The innovation contest

The innovation contest allows new ideas to emerge in your company. An internal competition for ideas makes the creativity of your employees visible and unveils the unexpected potential of staff. You fill your ideas pipeline efficiently and with structure, while promoting a positive culture of innovation at the same time.

Innovationsprozess als Erfolgsfaktor einführen

Grundsätzlich geht es bei Innovationsprozessen in Unternehmen darum, einen klaren Rahmen zu schaffen, der festlegt, wie Ideen im Unternehmen eingebracht, wie sie weiterverfolgt und wie sie auf den Markt gebracht werden.

Innovationsprozess als Erfolgsfaktor einführen

Das House of Innovation

Weit hinten, hinter den Wortbergen, fern der Länder Vokalien und Konsonantien leben die Blindtexte. Abgeschieden wohnen sie in Buchstabhausen an der Küste des Semantik, eines großen Sprachozeans. Ein kleines Bächlein namens Duden fließt durch ihren Ort und versorgt sie mit den nötigen Regelialien.

Es ist ein paradiesmatisches Land, in dem einem gebratene Satzteile in den Mund fliegen. Nicht einmal von der allmächtigen Interpunktion werden die Blindtexte beherrscht – ein geradezu unorthographisches Leben. Eines Tages aber beschloß eine kleine Zeile Blindtext, ihr Name war Lorem Ipsum, hinaus zu gehen in die weite Grammatik.

“Viele Sachverhalte werden von uns intern als selbstverständlich wahrgenommen und nicht mehr hinterfragt. Oft hilft ein Blick von außen, um sich von alten Denkmustern zu lösen.”