INNOVATION EXPEDITION

Your current service is underperforming? Your competition has stepped up their game? Or you simply have customer centricity running through your organizations veins and want to provide the best service and value for your customers. With an innovation expedition we will guide your company through a design sprint to develop an answer to the most pressing business challenges. We will develop a customer-centric new or improved service, business model or complete customer experience together with you.

Ingredients

  • Your business challenge
  • A motivated project team consisting of:
    • A carefully selected multidisciplinary team from your organization
    • An experienced project leader from SSF
    • A professional Service Designer of SSF
    • The best students – carefully recruited for you by SSF
    • Academic experts, PHD-students or professors from Maastricht University doing research in a field relevant to your business challenge

 

Duration

  • 4 to 12 weeks

Outcome

  • Deep insights into the needs, wishes and frustrations of your customers.
  • A concrete concept of new or improved services that will create a competitive advantage and grow your business.
  • A final presentation, a report and a prototype of the new service!
  • Commitment of your own employees with regard to the innovation they co-created.
  • Learning about state-of-the-art innovation methods, tools and scientific knowledge.

Testimonials

An innovation expedition with Gemeente Maastricht

STRATEGY EXPEDITION

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES EXPIRE FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE, INDUSTRY BOUNDARIES ARE DISAPPEARING, SECTORS ARE BEING DISRUPTED. FUTURE PROOF COMPANIES CONSTANTLY CHALLENGE THEIR OWN BUSINESS MODEL, PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES IN THE INDUSTRY.

DISRUPT, OR BE DISRUPTED.

 

With our strategy expeditions we will guide your company through a strategic design sprint to develop your company’s future proof strategy. This strategy will be based on a solid research into your organisation and its context. Using several proven methodologies, like Imagineering, speculative futures and design thinking we will build a strategy that allows you to be agile and ready for the future.

Ingredients

  • A multidisciplinary team from your organisation
  • A motivated project team consisting of:

A carefully selected multidisciplinary team from your organization

An experienced project leader from SSF

A professional Service Designer of SSF

The best students – carefully recruited for you by SSF

Academic experts, PHD-students or professors from Maastricht University doing research in a field relevant to your business challenge

 

Duration

  • 4 to 12 weeks

Outcome

  • A final presentation and a report on the most important research insights that form the basis for the new strategy
  • A visual document outlining the new strategy
  • A roadmap to work towards your new strategy
  • Commitment of your own employees with regard to the strategy
  • Learning about state-of-the-art innovation methods, tools and scientific knowledge.

Testimonials

A strategy expedition with LIOF

Sounds interesting? Get in touch to learn more about our Research Sprints

GET IN TOUCH

Sounds interesting? Get in touch to learn more about our education opportunities and customised in-company trainings.

Sabine Janssen

SABINE JANSSEN

Head of Service Science Factory

T +31 6 28 29 02 74

E s.janssen@maastrichtuniversity.nl