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GREINER TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
GREINER TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
Radical innovation requires agility and courage, because success is harder to predict than ever before. New technologies such as blockchain services, sensors and 3D printing open up new and unprecedented opportunities. However, the development of these technologies also means that new competitors are emerging and underlying business models are frequently subject to change.
During the preceding years, the group‘s innovation center, Greiner Technology & Innovation, has consolidated the organizational framework for a holistic, ambidextrous innovation strategy and has methodologically defined the different stages from the fuzzy front end to the (possible) integration into the group.
GREINER TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
Radical innovation requires agility and courage, because success is harder to predict than ever before. New technologies such as blockchain services, sensors and 3D printing open up new and unprecedented opportunities.
However, the development of these technologies also means that new competitors are emerging and underlying business models are frequently subject to change.
During the preceding years, the group‘s innovation center, Greiner Technology & Innovation, has consolidated the organizational framework for a holistic, ambidextrous innovation strategy and has methodologically defined the different stages from the fuzzy front end to the (possible) integration into the group.
“In our group, we work constantly on the steady, step-by-step improvement of the extant, which constitutes incremental innovation. Conversely, Greiner Technology & Innovation makes an important contribution, when radical, disruptive technologies and business models are the issue.“
Axel Kühner, CEO Greiner AG
THE GREINER OPPORTUNITY FUNNEL
This is the framework deployed by Greiner Technology & Innovation to assess future trends, understand waves of change, and to capture the pearls in a blurred ocean of information and players.
Opportunities
Validation
Potential Analysis
Group Research
Incubation
Opportunities
The first step in this regard is the anticipative search for weak signals and hence the early detection of chances that could lead to fresh success potential, which Greiner designates as “Opportunities”. Greiner Technology & Innovation clusters these uncategorized opportunities in technology areas and subsequently submits them to over a hundred scientific and industrial experts for evaluation. The top ranked technologies are then included in the Greiner Signals Radar.
Validation
The Greiner Signals Radar is a growing and dynamic tool that attempts to capture technologies of the greatest relevance for Greiner. It is an inspirational aid that supports group strategy and search field identification in several group business areas.
Some of the thirty technologies that we launched via the Greiner Signals Radar during 2018 were selected by experts from our Divisions and the Strategic Management Meeting. As these appeared to be the most important technologies from a current perspective, Greiner Technology & Innovation carried out technological deep dives, or so-called potential analyses.
Potential Analysis
At this stage, we identify the research institutes that are leaders in the various fields and outline both present research trends and the barriers to adoption. An overview of markets and players and a description of potential business models within Greiner are also provided and last, but not least, Greiner Technology & Innovation offers recommendations for further activities.
Group Research
After providing deep insights in a specific technology, the executive board at Greiner selects between 2 and 3 technologies and commissions a Group Research Initiative to Greiner Technology & Innovation. In 2018 the main topics were “Polytronics” and “Additive Manufacturing”, while the 2019 focus was on “Artificial Intelligence”.
A group research topic becomes then the Leit motiv of the year that drives most of our projects and initiatives at Greiner Technology & Innovation.
Incubation
THE TEAM
Meet the Greiner Technology & Innovation Team
We are a colourful mix of expierences, cultures and professional backgrounds
but we have something in common: we don´t like things as they´ve always been
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GREINER FUTURE HUNTERS
Sensing signals of change with a network of experts around the globe
The Greiner Future Hunters Network (GFHN) is an exclusive worldwide network of Greiner employees who defined themselves as innovators, future thinkers and early adopters. More than 100 future hunters around the world work with us in the realms of science and technology, business, innovation, arts, design and culture to find out indications of change or the so-called weak signals.
With our network, we collect and evaluate a bright range of signals, emerging trends, technologies, concepts and business models. This broad set of information allow us to better understand drivers of change and potential disruptive developments from a global perspective.
The Greiner Future Hunters Network (GFHN) is an exclusive worldwide network of Greiner employees who defined themselves as innovators, future thinkers and early adopters. More than 100 future hunters around the world work with us in the realms of science and technology, business, innovation, arts, design and culture to find out indications of change or the so-called weak signals.
With our network, we collect and evaluate a bright range of signals, emerging trends, technologies, concepts and business models. This broad set of information allow us to better understand drivers of change and potential disruptive developments from a global perspective.
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