Process innovation: How LEAD users supported the Voith Group
Voith is regarded, among other things, as a pioneer in the processing of waste paper. With the help of the LEAD user method, the company was able to develop a new process that saves up to 50 percent energy compared to the old method. LEAD users from completely different areas helped in this. The background of the project "Low Energy Paper Mill" can be found in this blog post. Waste pa...
LEAD User innovations to be proud of
How quickly LEAD users find solutions for tricky product innovation tasks surprises not only our customers, but also ourselves time and again. We would like to tell our success stories to the world - but we can't. Of course, keeping the results secret is part of a LEAD user conference. Only sometimes there are small exceptions - then we can tell about our inventions... Invention of c...
Innovation success with the LEAD User Method
When we travel through the countries, give lectures and seminars, we have been telling the favourite example of our innovative success for years: the history of the Artweger bathtub. That's the one with the easy exit, everybody's seen her before. Not only its general popularity as a consumer product predestines this tub to be a first-class demonstration object. The process of their dev...
LEAD User Portrait: Thorsten Kern
A LEAD User is a kind of cross between hobbyist, scientist, inventor, technologist and creative genius. So a rare species. Thorsten Kern is an ideal-typical example of this stroke of man. He only found out that someone like him was called a "LEAD User" when we invited him to a LEAD User conference. Not to anybody. What Thorsten Kern had achieved for the innovation of the automobile, we...
