Innovating
Businesses
The Hot Topics of the Corporate Sector
The disruption of existing sectors and business models requires more profound forms of innovation. Businesses need to find solutions for the demands of tomorrow to stay competitive.
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Healthcare providers are under great pressure to transform, driven by demographic changes, digital technologies and budget constraints. We support hospitals and other providers in developing customized strategies, roadmaps and innovation projects, taking the needs of healthcare professionals and citizens into account.
See one of our successes here.
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The decarbonization of the economy is driving new markets for green materials, manufacturing processes, circular business models, and smarter energy use. We help identify which opportunities are ripe for development using professional search and evaluation methods, ensuring you focus on the most promising green business ventures.
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Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Companies need the trust of employees, customers and citizens so that machine learning & co can be meaningfully integrated into work processes. We specialize in creating tailored strategies for trustworthy AI innovations, governance, security, and compliance.
With our subsidiary, leiwand.ai, we are dedicated to making AI systems trustworthy for all.
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To use energy more efficiently and maximize renewables, electricity, heat, and mobility need to be integrated through sector coupling. For instance, electric car batteries can ease electricity grid loads by providing temporary storage during surplus. We develop smart ideas and business models to drive these sector interfaces forward with our customers.
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AI applications are developing at a rapid pace. However, using them blindly does not automatically lead to greater efficiency or other benefits for an organization.
Join us on a journey and find out for which of your business models and processes technology is actually a solution - and for which it is not.
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Billions rely on space-based tech for weather, TV, communication, and navigation daily. The New Space era brings increased private investment and public-private partnerships. We help companies develop competitive space technologies and innovative business models for space data.
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In order not to innovate past the market, new solutions should be geared towards the needs of future users and buyers from the outset. However, this is easier said than done because real, reliable needs are difficult to identify.
We are experts in applying suitable methods to find out the market demand for innovations both qualitatively and quantitatively and are happy to carry out such analyses for you.
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Innovation does not happen because an idea is brilliant. It only happens when highly motivated people with different roles and expertise work together at exactly the right time.
We are happy to be your guide in co-creation and in building powerful, global innovation networks.
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The way companies earn money has changed fundamentally: e-commerce, subscription models and other digital business models are changing everyone, from small craft businesses to medium-sized hotels and international machine manufacturers.
Together with our clients, we develop competitive business models that drive the company forward as a whole - also from the perspective of customers, employees and the environment.
“The healthcare sector is undergoing a major transformation. Resource constraints, labour shortages, an ageing population and therefore higher number of patients put care facilities and its employees under immense pressure to meet rising demand for services. As one of the leading health care services innovators in Austria, we recognized the need to address these challenges while keeping human well-being as our core value.
winnovation helped in reimagining our role in healthcare services, anchoring innovation in the organisation and enabling ideation for new business ideas. winnovation brought together international experts to collaborate with our team, co-create a forward-looking strategy that sees us transform from a pure hospital group to a comprehensive healthcare and social service provider.”
winnovation has provided consultancy for a great variety of sectors since its foundation in the 2000s.
We don’t shy away from a challenge.
While every industry is unique and requires carefully developed innovative strategies for companies to improve and attain new markets, we understand that an open mind is crucial in gaining the competitive edge.
a glimpse at some industries we have supported
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winnovation helped the Vinzenz Gruppe, a private provider of non-profit healthcare facilities in Austria based in Vienna, to identify future challenges as a health care provider.
Using Open Innovation methods like Innovation Roadmapping and Lead User & Lead Expert Search, we provided a comprehensive paper that gives a clear strategic orientation for the future. You can learn more about it here.
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For Austria's largest automotive club, ÖAMTC, winnovation aided in the development of Smart Connect, a helpful tool that improves roadside assistance.
Smart Connect reports warnings directly to the ÖAMTC technical helpdesk, enabling prompt diagnosis of potential issues. By intelligently forwarding error messages and operating data from your vehicle, it ensures that the necessary help is dispatched, providing proactive support and enhancing mobility and safety.
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winnovation aided Schindler, a Swtizerland-based mobility company providing elevators, escalators and moving walks, to connect with highly qualified contributors and implement a major leap in innovation. You can learn more about it here.
Our Cross Innovation Services
Our innovation solutions are tailor-made and make use of a plethora of cross innovation methods, which we combine interdependently to assess your potential and find solutions for your needs.
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We align innovation projects with market trends to help our clients avoid market flops and seize high-potential opportunities to provide them with a competitive edge.
We address the challenge of leveraging our clients' investments to find suitable customers and markets for their technologies by identifying unmet needs and emerging market opportunities.
Our research focuses on user-centered analysis, ensuring products and services meet market expectations, ultimately driving successful innovation.
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We work with leading thinkers to create innovative ecosystems, leveraging diverse crowds to identify needs and generate ideas.
Our approach involves aligning with clients' goals through customized innovation strategies, establishing networks, and organizing co-creation workshops to develop cross-sector collaboration and innovation.
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With 18+ years of innovation expertise across the private and public sectors, we offer diverse methods for dessiminating our knowledge to you and involved audiences on the hot topics of innovation.
We offer keynote speeches, co-creation workshops and facilitation, and innovation training and coaching.
Contact us.
office@winnovation.at
Linke Wienzeile 42
1060 Vienna