Service module

tu.CREATE: From breadth to excellence - from idea to implementation


You have many ideas and great know-how in your company, but don't know how to develop them into innovative business models or new products?


You will work with us according to the lean start-up approach besides other methods to develop customer-oriented products and viable business models as quickly and cost-efficiently as possible. The intrapreneurship program can be based entirely on self-learning modules and take place digitally or in close collaboration with us. You continuously push your ideas and pitch your milestones to our team of experts. The goal: New products & business models or spin-offs.
 

You will work with us according to the lean start-up approach besides other methods to develop customer-oriented products and viable business models as quickly and cost-efficiently as possible. The intrapreneurship program can be based entirely on self-learning modules and take place digitally or in close collaboration with us. You continuously push your ideas and pitch your milestones to our team of experts. The goal: New products & business models or spin-offs.
 

Possible procedure

tu.CREATE is the TU concept's intrapreneurship program. Together with our experts you develop ideas into sustainable business models. The procedure shown here will give you a first impression of how we proceed.

Based on your needs and problems, we design an individual and needs-based project flow for the intrapreneurship program tu.CREATE. Each offer is tailored to your company. We are convinced that due to the different circumstances in companies, a "one-size-fits-all" program is not possible.

After defining the initial needs and problems in your company, we develop the milestone/goal and weekly planning together with your project manager and interdisciplinary team. We have divided the individual phases into Ideation (creative and idea phase), Exploration (development phase) and Creation (market phase). Of course, it is possible to implement only individual building blocks, but we believe that a run-through from start to finish is the most successful. 

The ideas tested under Ideation are systematically developed into viable business models and an initial business plan is drawn up. In the phase, an iterative, agile way of working is established with the teams to prepare the business ideas for market entry. The teams go through one-week cycles with a fixed weekly retrospective date accompanied by our coaches. The program has two phases: In the first phase, teams investigate the problem-solution fit in order to develop a prototype, a sound business model and a business plan in the second phase.

Your advantages

 

We offer companies access to creative resources that develop new solutions to existing problems based on the current state of science. 

 

We support corporate innovation teams in our programs with method input, expert coaching and optimized processes.

 

We provide access to an ecosystem of strong start-ups and the TU Dortmund research network.