Explore the New
Discovery X
Type
In-Person & Remote
Duration
1 – 18 Months (Individual Planning)
Impact Measure
Details
Breakthrough Consulting that turns complex problems into market-ready solutions.
The Problem
Struggling to meet customer needs?
Generate out-of-the-box solutions in a structured approach. Take part in our science-based, practice-proven project support for teams in the very early stages of any innovation endeavor. Through this program, you discover problems really worth solving and develop creative sparks to further elaborate on.
The Solution
Discovery –
explore the New
How to combine industrial operations with the metaverse? How does a blockchain-based SaaS for production line simulation look? We don’t know, either! But we know how you can find answers on the pressing future challenges that lie ahead of you.
Over a longer period of time, we wil provide you with a customized journey that is designed in a way that maximizes your creative output. While you can focus on understanding future customer challenges and developing novel solutions, we pave your path to get there.
Let us create your future, together.
Creativity is a Skill – And you can learn it.
At its core, creativity is the interplay of divergence (generating many ideas) and convergence (refining them into actionable solutions). It’s about skillfully managing these two seemingly opposing ways of thinking, not just favoring one. This delicate balance is influenced by circumstances, resources, and desired novelty. Like mastering the violin, fostering creativity demands consistent practice and discipline to develop the intuitive sense needed for truly novel yet valuable output. Yet, investment in creativity often gets sidelined by more urgent tasks.
Let’s conquer the status quo together!
We can help you to generate truly radical impact.
The Approach
This is what you can expect.
How we encourage Creativity.
Every creative endeavor is unique and consumes more resources than just leaving something as is. It is truly a challenge to use capacities and competences for creativity reasonably and sustainably.
3 Levels of Transformation
1 Discovery Engine
Dip your toes into creative waters and experience our creative way of working in a very limited time frame. Explore the problem and solution space once each to generate solution ideas that are somewhat novel and surprising, but of course not breakthrough.
2 Discovery Flex
Engage in an intense collaboration tailored to your circumstances. Over a couple of months you experience our creative way of working in daily creativity sessions. Through the course of collaboration, we are able to flexibly adapt to the progress being made and tailor the sessions to the outcomes of the problem space exploration to increase the chance of creative breakthrough.
3 Discovery Sprints
Engage in a super flexible creative collaboration over at least one year with the Creativity Lab. For each sprint, we take ourselves about 3 weeks and either explore the problem space, solution space or solution implementation. This form of collaboration maximizes the chance of creative breakthrough and provides most opportunities for individual creative growth.
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Meet your Consultants
aka Chief Silencer, Patience Creator, Chief Incubator, and Lead Writer. For me, creativity means generating something that is both novel and useful. Most creative when having a walk in the woods.
Martin Meinel
aka Chief Rulebreaker. For me, creativity means leaving well-known paths and establishing new ones. Most creative when watching the Alps.
Charlotte Werner
“Creativity means trying new things and daring to do what you’d normally be too afraid to do. It’s crucial to build an environment of trust around you to truly foster this.”
Burkhard Frensch, Director – about Discovery X
Success Stories
Goals
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the Discovery X for?
The Discovery X is for everyone who needs to develop something totally new, may it be a new and disruptive product, a game-changing software solution, or a radically new business strategy. People who worked with us are R&D directors, product and portfolio managers, business line heads, or innovation leads. We work across all industries and regardless the organizational boundaries you are in.
Do we need to be “creative” already to join?
Not at all (in fact we are all creative). Creativity is not a rare talent, but a skill anyone can learn. That’s exactly what care about. Based on the creativity level of your team, we provide tailored guidance to the new.
How is the Discovery X structured?
Generally, we offer three different formats for the Discovery X, each designed to fit your organization’s preferences and boundary conditions: Discovery Engine, Discovery Flex, and Discovery Sprints.
After we agreed on a type of format, we will design the specific way of collaboration that fits your circumstances best. No worries, we will discuss all the details before we start collaborating. But, of course, the way how we collaborate might be totally new to you.
How many participants can we bring in?
We worked with clients who brought just three colleagues, and others brought more than a hundred. Let’s see what you got and we suggest a way of collaboration that makes most out of the number of people you bring in (generally, the more the better).
What makes the Discovery X unique?
Very often, teams approach disruptive challenges with singular creativity workshops or by applying innovation approaches like design thinking. Our approach includes all the benefits of workshop settings and innovation techniques. Beyond that, Discovery X builds on the understanding of the human being – in very general and in your particular situation. Based on that deep understand and combined with It scientific insights from creativity research from the social sciences, neuroscience, and psychology, we provide you a unique way of collaboration that makes most out of your very individual circumstances. We do not just follow a five-step process, we build our own way of creative collaboration for every single project.
Is there something that participants can take out of the collaboration beyond the actual results?
Through the Discovery X, participants …
- understand new ways of working creatively to upgrade their creative everyday behaviors,
- learn and practice creativity tools and skills so that they can apply it in other co-creation projects as well,
- rise in creative confidence to embrace also other creative challenges with flexibility, speed, and a growth mindset,
- and become catalysts for change in your organization.
What can I expect to improve for my team after the Discovery X?
Previous clients reported that the Discovery X improved communication, motivation, and cohesion within their team. They experienced some social glue that helped them excel in other projects as well.
Do we receive a certificate for completion?
Yes, upon request, you’ll receive an official certificate upon completion for every participant.
Is there an alumni that we could reach out to?
Sure. Let us first know some details of your very individual challenge and then we’re more than happy to connect you with one of our clients.