Ep 43 - Dr. Giordano Koch - How HYVE Supports Innovation at Companies Like BMW and Beiersdorf
As innovation partners, we're perfectly poised to assist our clients with developing new products and internal solutions.
In this episode, Dr. Giordano Koch shares his story as the Managing Director of HYVE—a leading innovation enabler that guides its customers in strategic foresight, as well as the user-centric development of products, services and business models.
What's in it for you:
1. Learning the hard way: from a failed overseas initiative in Indonesia to a thriving nearshore digital innovation hub in Las Palmas
2. A look at how HYVE operates in joint co-creation models with their customers to create innovative solutions
3. How HYVE designs the critical interface between hard- and software and how a diverse team set-up is helpful in the process
About Giordano:
Giordano Koch has always been active at the interface between business, science, and technology. The topic of innovation and user-centricity runs like a thread through his scientific and entrepreneurial career. For more than 12 years, he has been teaching at various universities on the topics of innovation management, open innovation, user-centric innovation, and the challenges of innovation in times of increasing digitalization and sustainability. As CEO of HYVE, his goal is to empower organizations, teams, and leaders to embrace change and remain competitive through innovation.
Find Giordano on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giordanokoch/
Giordano's business book recommendation:
Competing in the Age of AI - Marco Iansiti https://amzn.to/3X8wGbB
Giordano's favorite podcasts:
The Secret Source of Innovation - https://www.hyve.net/de/innovation-podcast/
Hotel Matze - https://www.hotelmatze.de/
Zeit online - https://www.zeit.de/podcasts
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About HYVE:
HYVE develops customer-centric and desirable solutions together with its customers, their customers as well as all partners in the ecosystem. Building on over 5000 successful customer projects, HYVE's competencies and capabilities are designed to accompany its customer in the End2End innovation process, developing both service, digital and hardware solutions. With our consulting approach, HYVE optimizes the innovation organization and empowers its customers' employees to become better innovators.
Website: https://www.hyve.net/
Industry: Business consulting and business services
Company size: 65
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Founded: 2000
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About the host Sammy:
Sammy and SAWOO enable you to become a thought leader and win leads directly through your own podcast & great content on LinkedIn.
Get in touch with Sammy here on LinkedIn.
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Past guests on the LEADERS IN CONSULTING Community include: Dr. Stefan Sambol, Dr. Andreas Baader and Rainer Majcen, Friederich von Hurter, Peter Feldmeier, Alexander Kainer, and many more.