The First Open Source Innovation Consulting Firm

Discover the possibilities of new technological approaches with our innovation consulting services. We can help you integrate technological transformation into your business roadmap, creating a future-proof infrastructure that allows you to respond to future needs.

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Explore our Innovation Consulting Services:

Innovation is a big topic, so we break it down into specific areas that we can help you with.

Develop an innovation strategy

The biggest potential problems of innovation?

If you do not leverage existing capabilities innovation is probably not going to be sustainable.

This is why we tailor each innovation strategy to each company, scale and budget.

Find your direction & approach!

Develop a new offer

Isn’t the first step in creating a new offer the most difficult?

Not if you know how to use existing assets to maximize profit and minimize costs.

And we have been doing this for over 10 years, getting our clients millions of revenue.

Uncover your winning strategy

Create an entirely new business

Driven by unique customer insights, business model innovation, tech and data, we create unique and defendable new business.

We will help drive your initiative, as we did for dozens of both start-up as well as corprotate customers.

Find your direction & approach!

Develop an innovation strategy

The biggest potential problems of innovation?

If you do not leverage existing capabilities innovation is probably not going to be sustainable.

This is why we tailor each innovation strategy to each company, scale and budget.

Find your direction & approach!

Develop a new offer

Isn’t the first step in creating a new offer the most difficult?

Not if you know how to use existing assets to maximize profit and minimize costs.

And we have been doing this for over 10 years, getting our clients millions of revenue.

Uncover your winning strategy

Create an entirely new business

Driven by unique customer insights, business model innovation, tech and data, we create unique and defendable new business.

We will help drive your initiative, as we did for dozens of both start-up as well as corprotate customers.

Find your direction & approach!

Launch an Innovation Unit

Ready to give birth to a new unit of your business, fully devoted to drive innovation?

From the groundwork to the final stages, we will make sure the new unit is coherent, on-point, cost and time-effective.

Create innovation at scale

Launch an Innovation Unit

Ready to give birth to a new unit of your business, fully devoted to drive innovation?

From the groundwork to the final stages, we will make sure the new unit is coherent, on-point, cost and time-effective.

Create innovation at scale

Go2Market

Not always the first step is the most difficult part...

From pricing to product placement, from consumer profiling to market research we will take your new offer, product or service to the next level.

Launch & make it happen!

Innovate a core business

Want to reimagine your core business but do not know where to start?

We’ll strategically identify the biggest levers on both your value proposition, operating model and business model to defend your business and set you up for growth!

Reimagine your core business

Go2Market

Not always the first step is the most difficult part...

From pricing to product placement, from consumer profiling to market research we will take your new offer, product or service to the next level.

Launch & make it happen!

Innovate a core business

Want to reimagine your core business but do not know where to start?

We’ll strategically identify the biggest levers on both your value proposition, operating model and business model to defend your business and set you up for growth!

Reimagine your core business

30-60 mins talk about how we could support your plans

Change The Game With Tried & Tested Solutions To Successfully Innovate, Transform & Scale!

Start modeling a proven system for business growth & innovation fully supported with the most comprehensive UNITE Innovation Frameworks, created by over 60+ expert contributors.

This brand new book gives you the very best solutions and strategies that you need to create innovation, with tools, resources & perspectives from strategy, culture, setup all the way down to business model innovation …

Discover Our Related Tools & Models

The following tools and models support and expand on the concept of Innovation Consulting. If you’re ready to enhance your understanding, you can download them for free below…

4 STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES

This critical model will help you gain a holistic perspective on strategy and allow you to guide your thinking by focusing on the 4 central questions of strategic design.

AMBIDEXTROUS ORG-CHART

This ambidextrous org-chart demonstrates how an organization might organize around the 3 Horizons of Growth, catering to both the existing core organization, but also focusing on innovation and transformation.

BUSINESS INTENTION

This tool helps you define your Business Intention, the critical strategic objectives that will orient your entire innovation project.

Get to Know Our Innovation Consultants & Experts

Our team consists of highly experienced strategists who are all leaders in their respective fields

Stefan F. Dieffenbacher

Stefan F. Dieffenbacher

Founder and CEO of Digital Leadership

Stefan has led some of the largest innovation & transformation projects around the world.
He is an sought-after thought leader in the digital innovation and transformation industry and brings over 20 years of experience in the field.

  • Digital Transformation Practice
  • Innovation Practice
  • Brand and Customer Experience.

Adam D. Wisniewski

Adam D. Wisniewski

Partner for IT strategy & business alignment

Adam is a seasoned transformation and digitization expert. He led programs combining IT initiatives with business development goals for a number global companies.

  • Digital Transformation Practice
  • Innovation Practice
  • IT Strategy & Business Alignment Practice
  • Culture & Organizational Change Practice

Dr. Andreas Rein

Dr. Andreas Rein

Partner at Digital Leadership for Organisational Development

Andreas Rein is a C-Level sparring partner and organizational development leader supporting organizations from strategy to (agile) execution.

He has accompanied numerous organizations on their journey in both management, consulting as well as coaching roles.

  • Digital Transformation Practice
  • Culture & Organizational Change Practice

questions to be answered

How to create innovation in my company?

Ultimately the rate of change inside of your organization has to match (and hopefully exceed) the rate of change in the market relevant to yoy. How? Leverage the lessons from this book and apply the provenly most effective strategies to your specific business model and initiative. You can either grow from a small cell, or directly start out with a larger unit.

How could I use all of these models? Is that just a theory?

In hundreds of different ways, they all provide a structure for organizations to assess different dimensions and meaningfully respond to any innovation or digital transformation challenges. And, to answer the second question, even though theory is the lighthouse leading the way, every model is ready to be used in your workshops and business processes to get fast and concrete results.

What is your track record?

This book has been written by 60+ contributors and industry thought leaders from all over the world. In addition, we at Digital Leadership have delivered dozens of projects and programs since 2010 for globally leading organizations and start – ups. So this book covers the essence of what we collectively learned. Btw if you need help with your initiative, contact us . This is what we do here every day.

How can this book help us grow our leadership and leave the competition behind?

Most importantly: build the right context . Most organizations fail to understand in which Horizon they are playing and how to set themselves up for success. There are several critical elements beyond:
  • limiting your initiatives to areas where you can leverage core or ideally differentiating capabilities
  • identifying important but unmet customer needs and
  • building a culture fit for innovation are just a few critical buil ding blocks to get right.

All our past innovation projects failed: can you help us ensure this does not happen again?

Failure is part of innovation and digital transformation. But a significant failure percentage is often a sign of more fundamental challenges. If you apply the UNITE approach and models correctly, you should see timelines shorten, budgets shrink, all while drastically improving the investment security. If you want expert help, we are also happy to partner with you on any relevant change initiative. Contact us if you are interested.

What business domain does this book apply to and how can I know your framework will work in my case?

Uniquely, the UNITE models provide a comprehensive way of thinking and working, encompassing all business domains and spanning an initiative’s entire lifecycle. Simply put, the UNITE appro ach shows you what to use, how to use it and how everything fits together — addressing the most critical challenge of innovators everywhere. By the way, UNITE stands for ” Understanding and Navigating Innovation & Transformation in Enterprises.”

What Do We Stand For?

Our principles guide us in all of our decisions and actions

Positive thinking positive energy

Our world has an abundance of opportunities for all of us. Working together as a team we can recognize & achieve them.

Be handshake ready!

Trust proves again & again to be the most powerful & important component of success, & the most underrated of economic power. We love a firm handshake!

Building relationships that last

Every great strategy started out as a bad draft. Let's see where we are right now & consider the options. With our expertise & experience we can provide a new understanding of how to drive value.

Releas the handbrake

Think in terms of progress & ask the tough questions without fear. Evolution is often the wisest way forward, but sometimes we need to go for a breakthrough.

A strong why will answer any how

Identifying a strong purpose always helps us build value for you, your shareholders, your customers & the environment at large.

A love of bad drafts

Every great strategy started out as a bad draft. Let's see where we are right now & consider the options. With our expertise & experience we can provide a new understanding of how to drive value.

Our Inovation Consulting Strategic Approach

We know what you’re probably thinking: how?

The challenging part about a transformation is that you are touching multiple parts of your system. Even if you are just changing your pricing model or sales channel, you will likely need to adapt your value-, service-, experience- and operating model.

Failing to do so effectively, most organizations do not manage to see their projects through.

Want to know more? Let’s talk!

Schedule your free business assessment call with our team!

1.setup

The transformative change into your core organization

2. Problem / Solution Fit

Adapt all components of your product, business- and operating model

3. Solution / Market Fit

Understand the levers: what and where best to apply change?

4. Build & Scale

Start with a team experienced with conducting digital transformations

Why should you believe we are the most profitable choice for your business?

Unrivaled knowledge

We may have the world’s largest body of research on the topic of innovation.

Global Experience

We have been there: on countless engagements for some of the world’s most amazing brands.

Senior Team

Our typical team member has on average at least one master degree and over 10 years of experience.

Trusted Partnership

Typically we work in an integrated way with your team to achieve the best results possible.

Entrepreneurial Spirit

We are entrepreneurs ourselves and share the same passion and drive for progress and making a difference.

Flexible Options

With access to an unrivaled pool of experts, we can be as flexible as you need us to be.

Deeply Integrated

We work across all disciplines and can optionally be deeply integrated in your organization.

Holistic Frameworks

We work to an end2end implementation strategy – everything is considered, nothing is left out.

Digital Leadership has really delivered, providing us a team of experts with strong experience in the digital domain. They truly integrated with our team, and went well above and beyond what was promised.

Group HR Business Partner of a leading international media concern.

Meet the largest library of innovation and digital transformation tools on the internet

Plus the “First Full-Fledged Business model framework connectoing all the dots”

IT’S YOUR BONUS!

The 50+ UNITE models
are shared OpenSource and for FREE

Meet the largest library of innovation and digital transformation tools on the internet

Plus the “First Full-Fledged Business model framework connectoing all the dots”

IT’S YOUR BONUS!

The 50+ UNITE models
are shared OpenSource and for FREE

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