Innovation Management Consulting

Develop an innovation roadmap and manage the innovation portfolio

Active portfolio management focuses on the effective use of resources (personnel, capital, etc.) in the innovation fields. The spotlight is on agile portfolio management. This makes it possible to evaluate, select and implement the continuous flow of new ideas in a targeted and flexible manner. The overarching goal here is to achieve a balanced project portfolio and ensure the company's economic performance.

Align innovation organization and innovation portfolio with sustainability

In addition to economic requirements, a modern innovation portfolio also takes into account sustainability requirements for products and systems. Reducing or avoiding the environmental impact of product manufacture and use is one of the most important challenges. After all, criteria such as reduced use of materials, durability, reparability, recyclability, reliability and minimal consumption of resources (energy, raw materials, etc.) are becoming increasingly important competitive factors.

Together with ROI-EFESO, your company can solve the following innovation management tasks:

• Carrying out an innovation inventory.
• Development of an innovation roadmap.
• Portfolio mapping of projects.
• Determination of the risk/return exposure.
• Design of agile control processes.
• Designing selection processes and criteria for innovation projects.
• Targeted involvement of other companies and external parties in the process of combinatorial innovation.

Creating efficient innovation processes with Design Thinking and much more

In the early innovation phases, the focus is on creative approaches to generating ideas and agile process models that rely on rapid feedback to avoid waste: these include rapid prototyping, set-based engineering and minimum viable products. In late innovation phases, the emphasis is on more stringent, planned process models such as product industrialization.

A particular challenge in designing efficient innovation processes is the increasing intelligence and networking of products. Whereas innovation processes used to be primarily hardware-driven, software now dominates the innovation process in many industries. Many companies have to adapt accordingly: Away from the one-off delivery of a finished product and towards "service packages" that are constantly changing via software releases (feature innovations).

ROI-EFESO supports you in the development of efficient innovation processes with:

• Design Thinking
• Lean Startup methods
• Iterative or agile product development processes
• Lean Agile development

Frugal innovation and development

Fast feedback cycles in development enable companies to optimally harmonize their development efforts and customer added value. In line with the principle of "do better with less", frugal innovation is about realizing high-quality products with clear customer benefits – and doing so with the lowest possible, sustainable use of resources.

Establish the principles of frugal development in your company with ROI-EFESO. We support your developers in turning these principles into successful products. We offer you a comprehensive portfolio of effective methods for this purpose:

• Core use case- and Design Thinking-workshops to radically focus developments on the core customer benefit.
• Pattern-based solution approaches for the development of "frugal products".
• Introduction of adaptive and customer-focused development processes in modern collaboration networks.
• Mindset and improvement program to anchor frugal ideas and principles in your employees, based on our successful Human Dynamics approach.