Customer-Centric Solutions and Processes
The iterative innovation process within the Group is steered by company-wide innovation management at all stages in the project pipeline to ensure that new ideas meet the needs of our tenants from the design stage until they are ready to go into production. The focus when it comes to generating new ideas is on the “open innovation” approach. In addition to using various tools to identify trends and topics, ideation workshops are also conducted with various stakeholders. This has allowed a large number of new ideas to be generated. The company’s internal innovative strength is bolstered by start-up scouting and bilateral cooperation initiatives in different areas of the Group.
Among other things, use cases have been put out to tender in cooperation with the local start-up alliance Gründerallianz Ruhr and joint projects have been launched with deep-tech start-ups. In addition to collaborations with external ecosystems, the company also promotes strategic partnerships with universities and research institutions. One example is the Neighborhood Academy, which was established in collaboration with EBZ Business School in Bochum to address hands-on case studies relating to megatrends.