Strengthen your company’s innovative power together with us and accelerate innovation to the market launch and beyond!
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Innovation Management
Innovation Management
Innovations are complex and challenging, yet essential to ensure the future success of your company. In order to meet challenges such as shorter technology cycles, new legislative guidelines and other constantly changing influencing factors, innovation strategies and structures must be rethought.
Targeted, focused and strategic innovation management helps you:
- …Do not leave your strategy to chance! We help you build clear portfolio structures to focus, manage, measurement and control your innovation activities.
- …Synchronize types of innovation! We support you in setting up the right processes, methods, tools and capabilities to combine innovations in products, processes, services and business models!
- …Optimally orchestrate and harmonize the most diverse organizational departments with each other! We can support you to conceptionalize and establish the appropriate department in the Digital Innovation Lab, a central innovation management or a New Venture department.
- …Drive digitalization and sustainability! We show you how to use your innovation management as a instrument for transformation!
- …Look at your innovation process holistically! Don't stop at the development stage! We look at your process from the strategy to the successful market launch and product relaunch!
- ...to tap into new growth potential! We support you in identifying new business areas, tracking down gaps in the market and developing innovative products and services that offer your customers real added value.
Taking action is like wanting to do something, only better! Pragmatism is in demand! With more than 25 years of innovation experience, we offer you a variety of ways to achieve success and ensure your innovation ROI quickly and effectively! From conducting individual ideation workshops to structuring your innovation organization holistically!
Consulting Services for Innovation Management
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

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

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

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

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Digital technologies are developing at a rapid pace, while competitive pressure and customer expectations are constantly increasing. Companies must not only assert themselves, but also grow sustainably in order to be successful in the long term. The key to success? Digital services. These create new, data-driven business models, increase efficiency through automation and strengthen customer loyalty with personalized experiences. However, success depends largely on how strategically and customer-oriented these services are implemented. Our OPPORTUNITY “Boosting Digital Service Innovation” offers decision-makers a practical guide to identifying, developing and optimally linking a company's key capabilities. The authors highlight seven booster capabilities that help companies to optimize innovation processes, shorten time-to-market and stand out from the competition with tailor-made solutions.
Selected Project Stories Innovation Management
Depending on the topic, we provide you with the right experts. Select your preferred date from our calendar and discuss your concerns with our experts by phone or via Microsoft Teams without any obligation. We look forward to getting to know you!





Once a year we host the UNITY INNOVATIONCIRCLE. In a private, exclusive round of 40-60 top decision-makers, we meet for an intensive exchange on current topics in the areas of innovation and foresight, as well as for networking purposes. For the participants, the INNOVATIONCIRCLE is an excellent opportunity to address their own challenges. These select invitations are exclusive and non-transferable. Our next INNOVATIONCIRCLE will take place on November 6, 2025. If you are interested, please contact us!
Contacts for Innovation Management
Contacts for Innovation Management

Dr. Dominik Fischer
Head of Strategy & Innovation

Peter Albrecht
Business Area Lead

Magnus Meier
Partner, Business Area Team Lead

Michael Wolf
Partner, Business Area Lead

Kristin Korsmeier
Senior Team Lead

Dennis R. Schmidt
Partner, Senior Team Lead