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CORPORATE INNOVATION: CROSSING THE OUTCOME GAP

Based on empirical data, we have created a unique offer to develop innovation activities into impactful innovation engines

CORPORATE INNOVATION: CROSSING THE OUTCOME GAP

Based on empirical data, we have created a unique offer to develop innovation activities into impactful innovation engines

WHY DO INNOVATION LAGGARDS
FALL BEHIND?

Most innovation laggards get stuck in the early phases of multiple Innovation activities that lack strategy, structure, actionable metrics and suitable processes.

WHY DO INNOVATION LAGGARDS
FALL BEHIND?

Most innovation laggards get stuck in the early phases of multiple Innovation activities that lack strategy, structure, actionable metrics and suitable processes.

Characteristics:

Silo Innovation Systems

  • Rigid structures
  • Zero-mistakes culture
  • Slow decisions
  • Legacy IT

Ideation Playgrounds

  • Detachment from customers

Innovation Theatre

  • Innovation initiative without results

What can we learn
from innovation
leaders?

INNOVATION LEADERS PRODUCE
5-FOLD INNOVATION OUTCOMES*

Innovation leaders have refined, self-reinforcing systems to
repeatedly scale impactful innovations.

INNOVATION LEADERS PRODUCE
5-FOLD INNOVATION OUTCOMES*

Innovation leaders have refined, self-reinforcing systems to
repeatedly scale impactful innovations.

Characteristics:

Open Innovation Ecosystem

  • Ecosystem partners leverage innovation capacities
  • More attractive for digital talents & partners

Strategy Impact

  • Purposeful innovation goals & strategic fit

Innovation Engine

  • More team motivation
  • Truly lean, agile processes & mindset
  • Quicker Feedback loops

Better selection

Focused

Strategy
alignment

Quick
sorting out

Faster execution in all horizons

Tangible outcomes

Optimize the Core

Innovation as a source of efficiency
and competitive advantage

Extend the core

Innovation as a lever for growth
and business development

Redesign and build the next

Innovation as a future bet and
insurance policy against disruption

Overall innovation outcome gap: +400%*

* Based on our hallmark innovation studies with CAPITAL magazine with more than 200 analyzed corporate innovation units; comparison of top-performing with lowest quartile 

+ Details

PATHWAY TO INNOVATION LEADERSHIP

IS YOUR COMPANY A SELF-
OPTIMIZING INNOVATION
LEADER YET?

PATHWAY TO INNOVATION LEADERSHIP

IS YOUR COMPANY A SELF-
OPTIMIZING INNOVATION
LEADER YET?

+ Learn more about each phase

OUR OFFER

GET YOUR INNOVATION ASSESSMENT NOW!

We benchmark your innovation setup and draw your strategic options to enhance your innovation outcome.

  • Qualitative & quantitative assessment of corporate innovation activities in 8 dimensions across strategy, organization & ecosystem
  • Derivation of strategic improvement scenarios based on the assessment results
  • Development of a future concept with detailed fields of action

Holistic Assessment
of innovation activities 

Detailed Innovation Scoring for strategy, organization & ecosystem

Future scenarios for
strategy, organization
& ecosystem

Concept Pitch deck
& action plan

Holistic Assessment
of innovation activities 

Detailed Innovation Scoring
for strategy, organization & ecosystem

Future scenarios for
strategy, organization
& ecosystem

Concept Pitch deck
& action plan

OUTCOMES OF THE INNOVATION ASSESSMENT

IMPROVE YOUR INNOVATION SETUP!

Detailed analysis in 8 dimensions,
supplemented with benchmarking data
from 200+ corporate setups

&

  • Focus
  • Steering/KPIs
  • Processes
  • Interfaces
  • Strategy
  • Governance
  • People & Skills
  • Partnering

Concrete recommendations for the
organization of your innovation activities
(existing & new instruments)

HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT

PUT IN PLAY YOUR INNOVATION VEHICLES FOR MORE IMPACT

Our corporate innovation assessment considers all relevant activities within your corporate to achieve

  • More impact from Innovation Units
  • More non-incremental innovations from BUs
  • More customer centricity in R&D Innovation
  • More agility in business functions
  • More open innovation across the company borders

Get in contact with our experts!

Get in touch with our experts!

Your experts

Dr. Felix Lau
Practice Lead Corporate Innovation

Theo Haustein
Senior Innovation Expert

Ways to contact us

Schedule a 30 min call
with us!

Write a mail!

Happy clients!

OUR USP

EMPIRICAL BENCHMARK DATA…

200.000 data points on innovation areas from
200+ established companies from DACH region.

  • Contextually filterable 
  • Budgets and setup structure 
  • Methods and main topics
  • Time series data
  • Contextually filterable by industry, company size, type of innovation area, and more
  • Budgets and setup structure (operational and investment budgets, team sizes, team structures, roles, organizational anchoring, …)
  • Methods and main topics (innovation topics, innovation methods used, KPI systems, tools, …)
  • Time series data from 5 years of benchmark study Corporates on the Track of Startups, which we publish together with the business magazine CAPITAL.

PORTFOLIO

We support your entire journey to innovation excellence.

THE INFRONT PORTFOLIO
IMPACTFUL INNOVATION

Our framework addresses the most efficient levers for impactful
innovation with smart tools.

STRATEGY

Put the big levers in motion to improve, expand and innovate the core business.

We advise you on the full range of innovation vehicles to find the right thrust directions for incremental, adjacent and disruptive innovation for your business.

Our offer:

  • Strategy development for innovation
  • Digital transformation programs

ORGANIZATION

Achieve operational excellence in your innovation activities.

Based on empirical data on innovation activities of more than 200 DACH companies, we advise you with our unique toolset for corporate innovation.

Our offer:

  • KPI systems for corporate innovation
  • Benchmarking for innovation systems

ECOSYSTEM

Leverage your innovation competencies with partners to innovate faster, better and cheaper.

We help you overcome departmental silos and company boundaries to innovate across disciplines with startups, universities, suppliers, customers and other companies.

Our offer:

  • Design of innovation ecosystems
  • Design and implementation of start-up programs
  • Design and further development of Digital Innovation Units

IMPACT

OUR INNOVATION
FRAMEWORK IN ACTION 

Audi

Further development of the innovation unit into a global incubation program

EagleBurgmann

Setup of a digital innovation unit

Henkel

Group wide innovation program

Leading SME in polymer solutions

Refinement of corporate venture building

Leading player in the Testing, Inspection and Certification branch

Benchmark and Refinement of the innovation unit

Transmission System Operator

Building a cross-industry
European Ecosystem

A leading German FMCG player

Innovation performance management

Get in touch!

Want to talk?

Schedule a 30 min call with us!

Want to Chat?

Write a mail!

Dr. Felix Lau
Practice Lead Corporate Innovation

Theo Haustein
Senior Innovation Expert

Infront Consulting & Management GmbH
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20354 Hamburg
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