When a crisis affects your company, you can do more than merely rely on contingency plans. Switch to “crisis innovation” and use scenarios as guidance, …
The Unseen Paths: Why Crisis Innovation and Scenarios Matter Now
Unlocking the Future of Outpatient Care
The blog post highlights a one-day „Future Thinking“ workshop organized at Heidelberg University Hospital for the master’s programme “Health Services Research and Implementation Science.”
How will we live in the future?
Whether you try to create a successful new product, introduce a smarter process or initiate a strategic initiative – the solution always needs to “fit” …
One year “The Pandemic Aftermath” — a review
One year has passed since we published our four scenarios for the year 2030. It seems like a good time to go back and check: …
The 5 most surprising lessons from our virtual innovation workshops
In March 2020, we realized that our business model would no longer work. Locking ourselves in a room with our clients for a day or …
How to stop wasting innovation opportunities
Innovation often emerges in unexpected places. Large corporate innovation projects may receive a lot of attention and become “innovation showrooms”. At the same time, however, …
Scenario tracking: watching the future unfold in real-time
In late March 2020, we created four scenarios for the year 2030 to imagine possible futures for the world after coronavirus (learn more). Shortly after, we …
The Pandemic Aftermath – Four Scenarios for 2030
April 06, 2020. Ten years from now, we will probably still remember how we lived through the initial days and weeks of the corona crisis. …
The big misunderstanding about ideas
Conventional wisdom in the start-up scene holds that execution is much more important than ideas. Likewise, many larger companies that consider themselves as moderately advanced …
Reviving scenarios — to boost innovation in a fast-paced world
Scenarios have been used in strategic management for decades. However, they rarely play a role in contemporary innovation management. To many, the scenario method is …