Innovations of today are the successes
of tomorrow, our future!

How can innovative strength be developed and increased? Essential for long-term growth and the success of companies.

With AnyIdea, PHS innoVentures is driving forward the global innovative strength of Porsche Holding.

In a digital age, data-driven innovation management is more than just a buzzword.

AnyIdea as a SaaS solution for successful innovation management and open innovation has the goal of simply making companies and especially SMEs more innovative. This is precisely why we have started a research project and want to go a decisive step further.

Digitalisation and innovation are firmly anchored at mogree. The company helps its clients to think in new ways and to use creative potential. Internally, the company is particularly committed to ensuring that colleagues continue to develop and learn.

The ability to innovate is indisputably one of the most important factors for the future of a company. Understand and practically implement innovation management with the Graz Innovation Model Big Picture.

The Austrian company FunderMax is the world market leader for high-quality façade panels and offers a decorative product range for interior design. Headquartered in St. Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, the company can look back on 130 years of corporate history.

Frugal can be described as "plain, simple or modest". The goal of frugal innovation is to focus only on basic components. The focus is not on the innovation performance itself, but on the requirements and the users or target group of the innovation.

It often happens... that products and services come to market too late, are not technically successful or do not meet the requirements of stakeholders. The problem behind this is the lack of cooperation partners, lack of knowledge and expertise as well as lack of creativity and resources for implementation. This is especially the case with SMEs.

Zamperla in Italy uses AnyIdea for digital brainstorming with employees. Innovations are an important part of the company and indispensable for its success.

In order to innovate successfully, an innovation process must first be installed. But what exactly does such an innovation process look like?

You don't lose access to the market and thus to the customer. If you don't innovate, you lose your lead over your competitors. Without innovation, the company does not develop further.

In times of home offices and reduced personal contacts - but also of climate change - everything in business is being put to the test: internal processes, production and supply chains, addressing target groups, customer services and much more.

We interviewed Lukas Renz, one of the founders of Bärnstein, a young beverage company from St. Pölten. Bärnstein is a natural pick-me-up with green coffee as the base, and other ingredients native to Austria such as dirndl, elderberry, apple, quince and verjus. Bärnstein is one of the top 100 start-ups in Austria.

You either love or hate the concept of social media. Liking and commenting puts a lot of people under pressure, but it's actually supposed to have a positive effect. Namely, interaction between people.

With AnyIdea, we not only digitise innovation processes and enable open innovation, but also rethink "innovation" from the ground up. Our vision is to make companies more innovative simply and in the long term.

Open innovation is used for different reasons: To avoid undesirable developments, to involve customers, to bring ideas to the outside world, to minimise development risks and shorten development cycles, to gain and disseminate know-how or to build external partnerships.

Today we spoke to a thoroughly innovative entrepreneurial team of father and son. Hermann and Thomas Neuburger from the Mühlviertel are behind the HERMANN brand, under which they are the market leaders in the production of vegetarian products based on herb mushrooms.

New forms of mobility, redesign and revitalisation of the city centre or utilisation concepts for vacant buildings or fallow land - municipalities are faced with the challenge of finding sustainable solutions supported by all with often little room for manoeuvre. Involving residents and business people is an effective approach to achieving broad consensus. This is how you make your community more liveable.

Like any concept, Open Innovation has potentials and challenges. One should be particularly aware of the challenges in order to be able to overcome them. One can distinguish between internal and external challenges.

Innovation starts with our own employees. They know the processes, the technologies, the products and services and also the opinion, expectations and wishes of the customers.

In order to shed light on current innovation practices, challenges and outcomes, Pioneers has conducted a first major business innovation study in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

Many larger companies now have a so-called Innovation Lab, internally or externally. In these, employees or external persons deal with finding new ideas and/or implementing new ideas.

Traditional, purely product-oriented business models often no longer work in the age of digitalisation. Many previously successful companies fail again and again for the simple reason that they do not adapt their business model to the ongoing changes.

How does innovation work? A question that many people ask themselves. A question that can be answered in many different ways. Our answer: innovation works in many ways. But with AnyIdea, Open Innovation is the easiest!

Is it possible to innovate without having any money to do so? We say yes! Because everyone has ideas lying dormant inside them. And where there is an idea, there is also an innovation.

AnyIdea is suitable for use in various applications. You can read about how AnyIdea can be used for student projects in the following two cases.