Design Thinking meets approveIT
Creative processes have the objective of finding, inventing or creating a previously unknown solution. In this way, processes, products or services can be developed, adapted, expanded or enhanced. Design Thinking is a modern and at the same time proven creative process that triggers innovation and can enable a wide range of solutions.
Fine-tuning for approveIT
ApproveIT digitizes the packaging and POS area for fast moving consumer goods. The workflow tool created and developed by Neuherz is currently being introduced to the market. As is almost always the case in this product phase, the questions for us are also: What are the detailed behavioral patterns of my customers? What are the best and easiest ways to convince them? What details are still missing to ensure an optimal sales launch?The creative workshop for innovation
Conducting a design thinking workshop in a creative agency is the obvious approach. For me, it was important to bring external experts on board and to commission them with the implementation. An outsider’s view always offers a new perspective that is worth taking into consideration. After the preparatory phase, during which the briefing and workshop planning took place, the time had come. Our approveIT team plus one external support person met for the workshop in premises outside of the company. Since the space plays a central role in Design Thinking, leaving the daily routine is necessary to make room for innovation. Our workshop space at Casalunga in the 4th district, which once housed a small industrial and craft business is now, for one day, our space for creative exploration of a product by and for the digital industry.A bird’s eye view of design thinking
Design thinking is a comprehensive, holistic approach to innovation. The goal is to find solutions that are convincing from the user’s point of view. Design Thinking emphasizes the equivalence of team, space and process. The core elements thus consist of an interdisciplinary team, a variable space to break up everyday structures and an iterative process that is composed of various interconnected steps. Innovation thus emerges at the intersection of human needs, technological feasibility and business viability. So much for the abstract view of the workshop framework.
Questioning as a starting point
Phase I – Customer Journey, Touchpoints and Personas
A new quality of group work with Yodelity
Phase II – Mut zu wilden Ideen
The steps to the prototype
The final step – which is the follow-up and processing of the workshop, a final evaluation of the team-based innovation work takes place.
Final assessment
The strong focus on the customer perspective that Design Thinking entails clearly showed at some points that even a very good team is not immune to a certain operational blindness. Our supply chain experience in packaging, on which approveIT is based, has now been extended not only by the results of the workshop. These results have now been incorporated into the software tool, and has made it a particularly efficient one.
This makes approveIT a major step forward in terms of workflow processes. Many things become easier, clearer and also faster for our customers but also for the suppliers involved. This is a corresponding advantage especially for internationally operating companies – but not only for them. Many SMEs with corresponding processes can benefit from approveIT.
The best way to convince yourself is to attend a personal presentation of approveIT. We cordially invite you to do so.
