Your challenges:

• Lack of transparency about the maturity of the innovation system
• Necessary optimizations and unused potentials are not recognized, resulting in lost efficiency and effectiveness
• Low innovation ROI leads to dissatisfaction at all levels

UNITY solution approach:

• Analyze the innovation system with the help of the customizable UNITY Innovation Maturity Check to determine the degree of maturity
• Derive optimization approaches based on the maturity level
• Conduct a detailed evaluation including identified potentials and measures within a Master Plan of Actions
• Implementation of a tracking system to measure the impact of implemented measures on the innovation ROI

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Your challenges:

• Lack of synchronization of various strategies e.g., corporate, innovation and digital strategy
• Lack of strategic framework leads to inefficient control mechanisms and frustrated stakeholders

UNITY solution approach:

• Develop a consistent innovation strategy that is aligned with the company's goals, including a target picture
• Derive innovation search fields supported by a market, customer, technology and IP analysis
• Involve all relevant stakeholders and communicate results for transparency
• Implementation of a system to regularly evaluate the strategic direction and effectiveness of innovation initiatives

Your challenges:

• Decentralized innovation activities leads to unused synergy potentials and expensive redundancies
• Lack of harmonization of the various places where innovation is developed in the company

UNITY solution approach:

• Based on your strategy and maturity level, we identify - together with you - the appropriate innovation organization for your company.
• Development of a target operating model including governance structures
• Through our holistic approach to organizational development, we always keep an eye on the implications for people, technology and process
• Implementation of KPIs to measure the success of the restructured innovation organization in terms of cost reduction and innovation output

Your challenges:

• Lack of a reference point and ideas on where to start with sustainability transformation
• Employees and managers are insufficiently made aware of, motivated and enabled on the topic of sustainability in the innovation process
• Lack of impulses to rethink existing products, services, and/ or business models as part of sustainability

UNITY solution approach:

• Our Fast Track formats offer you the possibility to generate new ideas of selected focus areas in an interdisciplinary way and in the shortest possible time, to test them with concrete prototypes and transfer them into projects.
• Implementation of a system to monitor progress in the sustainability transformation using clear indicators

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Your challenges:

• Lack of innovation formats that deliver validated innovation concepts quickly, creatively and with the involvement of diverse stakeholders
• Few employees involved in innovation development

UNITY solution approach:

• Ideation Workshop: In 1-2 days, new innovative ideas are developed collaboratively using "state-of-the-art" methods
• Innovation Boostcamp: In 5 days, topic-specific ideas including a sound basis for decision-making and initial prototypes are generated.
• Hackathon: In a 3-day hackathon event with an additional 1-2 week inspiration & education phase, you will solve challenges of the future together with experts and impulse providers.
• Development of KPIs to evaluate the success of the ideas and innovation concepts developed in workshops

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Your challenges:

• Corporate structures, processes, and values do not allow for valuable new venture activities
• New venture initiatives are not successfully mapped and implemented in the existing innovation process

UNITY solution approach:

• Gain inspiration on possible potentials through New Venture activities
• Develop structures and processes through which new venture initiatives fall on fertile ground
• Benefit from our many years of experience in the spin-off of corporate start-ups and the management of holdings