Developing Business Models, the Lean Startup Way — A Way Out of German “Happy OverEngineering”?
An introduction for tech- and engineering-driven companies residing in the D.A.CH. area
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Agile Team and Project Work (6)Culture Change (5)Design Thinking (10)Digital Transformation (10)Entrepreneurship (2)Innovation Leadership (4)Innovation Management (8)Intrapreneurship (2)Lean Startup (5)Organization Design (3)Product Management (5)Sustainable Innovation (2)The co:dify “Innovation System Design” Card Set by Jan Schmiedgen is Now Published
Our visual tool with 120 building blocks for innovation leaders, consultants and other change agents whose job it is to work on organizational structures to sustainably establish a culture of innovation
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Frugal Innovation or the “Art of Lean-by-Force”
Frugal innovation and lean startup share common principles that can greatly benefit us in improving our innovation practice today.
2 minutes read
Innovation Stickers
We have packed the best-of of our mottos, mantras, and sayings on product and innovation into a sticker set. Have fun with it!
1 minute read
The Innovation Villagers
The wondrous character world of corporate innovators
1 minute read
Jan Schmiedgen on Design Thinking in 2022
A Product Quest Podcast Interview
16 minutes read
The Building Blocks of an Innovation System
Why I visualized the innovation vehicles and measures of world-leading pioneer companies in a set of cards for strategy work
9 minutes read
Measuring Design Thinking
How to evaluate design thinking activities in organizations — in a fair way
55 minutes watch
Circular Economy Primer
An intro to Circular Economy and its relation to Service-Dominant Logic.
2 minutes read
Elias Barasch joins Tech4Germany
Elias Barrasch is joining the Tech4Germany Fellowship Program of the Bundeskanzleramt.
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The GOV.UK Innovation System at a Glance
A short case study on how GDS' support structures for their digital transformation works
2 minutes read
Online Course: Introduction to Agile Teamwork — Three Methods for Successful Innovations
A Zeit/HPI Academy Co-Production with Selina Mayer, Flavia Bleuel, Dr. Holger Rhinow, Markus Andrezak and Jan Schmiedgen
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Becoming the Weatherman
How to create a presentation setup for professional online-facilitation
2 minutes read
Overcoming the Babylonian Language Confusion around Innovation
Our innovation glossary succinctly summarizes the co:dify view of frequently encountered terms in innovation and change management
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Innovation System Design Webinar
Recording of a teaser webinar on Innovation System Design at Shanghai Connectory with TeamPlus.
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Digital Transformation Needs an Innovation System
Take a look how GDS created a large scale support system for their Transformation A.
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Follow-up Study to “Parts Without A Whole”
In 2015, Jan Schmiedgen co-authored a study on the state of design thinking in the industry. Now, five years later, a team of HPI researchers has published the follow-up study.
2 minutes read
Design Thinking Camp 2020
Stephan Raimer and co:dify bring this year's meetup of the German-speaking Design Thinking scene to the virtual world
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There Are No »Products«, There Is Only »Service«.
Rethinking corporate strategy with service‑dominant logic
18 minutes watch
Of Things and Services: Why “Quality Products” Do Not Create Value
A keynote about the German fixation on making things better instead of people's contexts and lives