Mission

Highly concentrated solutions for your company’s digital transformation

Digitalization will remain the strongest driver of change in business for the foreseeable future. With a view to exploiting the opportunities that arise, companies need to fundamentally rethink their business models and expand their competitive focus way beyond established competitors. Infront is your partner in this all-encompassing and permanent challenge.

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Opportunities & Risks

Many companies are worried about the impact of digital transformation.

Will new technologies and the business models derived from them abruptly question the validity of values and ecosystem networks that have evolved over decades? And how does digital transformation offer opportunities for tapping new sources of revenue?

Safeguarding and rejuvenating

With Infront, companies can defend and sharpen their competitive edge

We believe that digitalization will inexorably lead to a steady and swift evolution in companies – with the aim of harnessing existing values intelligently and of creating new values through optimizing, extending or redesigning the today’s business model.

Harnessing experience

Individual complexities require structured responses – and more than just once.

Our experience in more than 14 sectors and over 50 clients clearly shows that digital transformation is not just a one-time special effort but an iterative process that must be revisited – in the three core dimensions of digital transformation.

Core Dimensions

Our Holistic Approach to Solutions for Permanent Change

With our three-tiered, end-to-end digitalization approach, we develop digital business strategies and models and translate them into effective and agile transformation programs. At the same time, we support our clients in the design, development and operation of digital innovation and scaling units, and in anchoring digital change permanently in companies – starting with the business model, implemented across all processes of value creation, and firmly rooted in the minds of the employees.

Strategy

Analysis of ecosystems, factors of influence and strategic options, along with the creative development of future business models.

Innovation

Design, operation and optimization of Innovation Units as well as development and scaling of digital innovation projects.

Transformation

Implementation of the new concepts in the core business and embedding the findings in the organization.

Approach to Digitalization

Innovative Instruments for Unique Challenges

The strong focus on the business model perspective and an analysis of the challenges from the standpoint of the market and the client are factors determining Infront’s approach. With the aid of our tools, we combine experience, content and cooperative methods in a unique way in all core dimensions of digitalization.

Strategy

Ecosystem Mapping

Development of a holistic picture of digitalization-driven changes in the ecosystem beyond sector-specific boundaries. The approach is based on the analysis of current and potential positions of all relevant players and identifies potential roles to be assumed in the ecosystem. It facilitates an aggregated overview of the ecosystem’s dynamics and provides clarity as to strategic action.

Strategy

Business Model Analysis and Digital Strategy

Innovative analysis on the impact of digitalization on a company’s business model, based on our award-winning methodology of the “Five Apocalyptic Riders”. Consolidation of the actual status on a haptic tabletop, narrowing down to relevant digital business models and trends, and transposing of business model analogies to the individual situation of the company. Result: concentration on relevant topics, inspiring approaches to business models, and specific implementation formats.

Strategy

Digital Roadmap

The discussions that we facilitate around the tabletop find expression in specifications and an initial prioritization of all digital initiatives transferred on to a road map. New and existing initiatives are collated to make up a helpful birds-eye view and set in place the preconditions for quick and targeted planning and implementation.

Strategy

Minimal Viable Organization

Forming a coalition between the willing and the able without burdening the organization in the early stage of the digital transformation is behind the idea of the minimal viable organization. The MVO undertakes key tasks for identified initiatives – coordination, interfaces, management and control, budgeting – and prepares ambidextrous organization components, while facilitating integration into the fabric of the core organization.

Innovation

Design and Operation of Digital Innovation Units

Fast and pragmatic design of measurably effective digital units. Leveraging our approach, we develop a differentiating and customized digital unit for established companies within a few weeks. We use the special success patterns of digital units to ensure immediate performance, minimize critical success risks and inspire internal stakeholders.
If desired, we can provide you with a fully functional digital unit – whether Innovation Labs or Startup Labs – and handle the entire operation for you.

Innovation

Benchmarking and Optimization of Digital Innovation Units

Far from any common standard models, we optimize your digital unit in terms of performance and speed. No matter if it is strategic orientation, innovation accounting, scaling paths or cooperation models with the core organization and start-ups – this project delivers clear and individual development scenarios and optimization potentials.
We are pleased to drive the successful implementation together with you.

Innovation

Development of Digital Innovations

Accelerated and customer-centric development and testing of new business model approaches in the market. Iteratively and focused on the success-critical hypotheses, the concepts are further developed, sharpened, validated as a prototype in co-creation with customers or partners within a few weeks or months and, if successful, transferred to scaling.

Innovation

Scaling Digital Innovations

Commercial scaling is the supreme challenge in digital innovation projects. The path to a cash cow is one thing in particular – individual. We support you in the fast and concentrated scaling of digital B2B and B2C business models. With our customized approach, we develop effective scaling paths which leverage real unfair competitive advantages. Infront delivers the critical success factors of speed, customer focus and expertise in digital business building – even with shared entrepreneurial risk.

Transformation

Digital DNA Transformation

Changes to the business model, product and process innovations, agile ways of working, new technologies, all of which present organizations and people with huge challenges. In our new approach, we develop the DNA of a company meticulously and precisely where it is needed. Agile, customer-oriented, iterative and always in close collaboration with the employees.

Transformation

Digital Customer Interaction

Digitalization is not only spawning new business models – it is also changing the way in which companies communicate with their customers. e-business, user experience, automation & robotics, artificial intelligence, and so much more are the hallmarks of profound change advancing at a rapid pace. Our innovative, individual approach enables us to assist companies in mastering these changes and leveraging them to their advantage.

Transformation

Digital Companies

A company’s core processes and external interfaces must allow the digital company to respond flexibly to market requirements. Enterprise resource planning, optimized process environments, with intelligent automation, the Cloud, the Internet of Things, Digital Twins, … – our approach brings Systems of Record and Systems of Engagement closer together and enables them to attain flexibility and stability.

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