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Florian Hameister - The Innovation Process Guy

I help medium-sized manufacturing companies identify the best ideas, validate customer needs, and discover new market opportunities. Together, we minimize development risks and achieve sustainable success – efficiently and without detours.

How I can support you:
🎯 Find and validate the best ideas – structured and objective.
🎯 Understand what your customers truly need and develop compelling solutions.
🎯 Discover and prioritize new markets and applications for your technologies.
🎯 Design sustainable, circular products and business models.

What’s in it for you:
🎁 Clarity and focus in your product development.
🎁 Reduced risks in new projects.
🎁 Innovations that are both economically and environmentally successful.

Facilitator & Coach for Sustainable & Customer-Centered Product Development for Industrial Companies

Strategyzer

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Circular Economy Nordhessen

With Circular Economy Nordhessen, we want to support companies with insights, learnings and exchange to shift to a more sustainable Business

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Where to Play

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FORTH Innovation Institute

Innovation Facilitator

ONLINE INNOVATION

A practical “HOW-TO-INNOVATE-ONLINE“ book.

After describing ten common pitfalls, we share some great tools and techniques that work in practice. We discuss the “Achilles heel“ of innovating online and present you ten methodologies you can use for online innovation in a hands-on-way.
https://www.onlineinnovation.online/

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Miro

Helping companies and teams to find the right product idea before wasting tons of money, time and effort in development.

Miro Expert

MURAL

- 🆁🅴🅼🅾🆃🅴 Innovation Workshop Consultant

The MURAL Consultant Network is a global community of leading independent consultants, agencies, and facilitators deeply committed to fostering creative innovation and work transformation. They are constantly working to bring Design Thinking practices to their clients and leverage MURAL🧡 as a visual workspace to enhance their creative collaboration and bridge the gap between in-person workshops and ongoing, remote collaboration in the cloud 🚀.

Part of the Consultant Network

FORTH Innovation Method

Together with Gijs van Wulfen, the founder of the methodology, I train participants in a 6-week learning journey the FORTH Method, and how to do the whole journey 100% 🅾🅽🅻🅸🅽🅴. Mastering the tools and the online facilitation.
Check the training here: https://forth-innovation.learnworlds.com

🅾🅽🅻🅸🅽🅴 FORTH Innovation Master Facilitator and Trainer 💻 🎯

In 2016, Design Thinking was already hip, too hip for me. What I missed with Design Thinking was the corporate perspective. I found this in FORTH.
FORTH is a structured 12-week innovation process that combines business thinking with design thinking. 
Here, the innovation assignment with clear success criteria and focus and the commitment and involvement of management are the factors that ensure that successful business cases are presented and go into implementation.

FORTH Innovation Facilitator 🎯

customercentric and sustainable products and business models, through facilitation and coaching

I empower medium-sized manufacturing companies to develop sustainable innovations faster and more efficiently.

With over 10 years of experience in product development and 8 years as an innovation consultant, I support innovation managers and R&D teams in medium-sized manufacturing companies to turn great ideas into market-ready products and business models. My focus is on identifying market opportunities, validating concepts, and minimizing development efforts – without wasting time or money.

How I can support you:
🎯 Find and validate the best ideas – structured and objective.
🎯 Understand what your customers truly need and develop compelling solutions.
🎯 Discover and prioritize new markets and applications for your technologies.
🎯 Design sustainable, circular products and business models.

Why work with me:
✅ 10+ years of experience in product development in medium-sized companies.
✅ Practical, customer-centered approaches you can apply immediately.
✅ Proven workshops and sprints that sustainably strengthen your team.
✅ Engineering and business background: I bridge the gap between technology and business.

What drives me:
I believe that successful innovations come from well-structured processes, true customer orientation, and sustainable business models. My goal is to help you and your team develop products that are not only economically successful but also make the world a better place.

Let’s talk! Message me here on LinkedIn or schedule a video call with me. I look forward to driving innovation with you.

NUMBERS DON’T LIE… OR? 

Ever seen a calculation method that seems to work perfectly—until you try it with different numbers?

That’s exactly what happens in this video.
Try the square root of 16... I am not the best at math, but I know it is not FIVE.

And it’s a powerful reminder:
📌 Just because numbers look convincing doesn’t mean they’re correct.
📌 Data without context can be misleading.
📌 The real question is: What’s behind the numbers?

In product development and innovation, numbers often give a false sense of certainty:
 •	Business cases built on best guesses
 •	Market projections with untested assumptions
 •	ROI calculations based on wishful thinking

Before trusting the numbers, ask yourself:
✔️ What assumptions were made?
✔️ What real evidence supports them?

Numbers can inform decisions, but blind trust in them can lead to expensive mistakes.

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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

🖼️ Picture/Video: All rights and credits belong to the respective owner(s).

Florian Hameister

With proven formats and focused facilitation, I help midsize manufacturing companies develop customer-centric and sustainable products and business models—pragmatically, efficiently, and with minimal risk.

Coming up with ideas is easy.

Coming up with the right ideas—the ones that solve the right problems—is a different story.

That’s where reframing comes in.

The Reframing Process by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is one of the best methods to uncover the real problem behind a challenge.

Because often, the problem you think you need to solve… isn’t the actual problem.

Or, as Thomas puts it:
"To solve your toughest problems, change the problems you solve."

Before you chase ideas, make sure you truly understand the problem.

It’s the foundation of every successful product.

How do you approach problem framing in your company? 



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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

Problem reframing - T.Wedell

INNOVATION? NOT REALLY…

Just because something is new doesn’t mean it’s needed.

This product is a feature monster packed with:

⚡ A USB charger (because… your feet need power?)

📸 Front & back cameras (for all your sneaker selfies and spy moments)

🔒 Theft control (so you can see, where your shoes walk without you)

📲 QR code scanner (as if your phone doesn’t already have one)

🔥 Auto-warming soles for -20°C (because sneakers are totally the go-to choice for extreme cold)

My take? 🙈

From a professional perspective, my question to you:
What actual customer problem do these shoes solve better than existing solutions? I am curious, write in the comments.

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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

🖼️ Video: All rights and credits belong to the respective owner(s).

WAHL:  ICH KANN DAS NICHT MEHR HÖREN

Ich weiß nicht, wie es euch geht, aber ich bin in den letzten Wochen nur noch frustriert.
Jedes Mal, wenn ich lese, was politisch passiert, werde ich fast schon agressiv.

Ich könnte meinen Frust jetzt einfach rauslassen. Hatte schon viel geschrieben, aber 
das bringt ja alles nix.

Deshalb lieber: Ein paar echte Lichtblicke.

Für alle, die offen sind und darauf vertrauen, dass Wissenschaft mehr wiegt als Wahlversprechen und Narzissten.


Lesen – Für mehr Klarheit & Zuversicht 📖

📌 Maja Göpel – Werte, Ein Kompass für die Zukunft
→ Was wir tun können, um gemeinsam eine bessere Zukunft zu gestalten.

📌 Rutger Bregman – Im Grunde gut
→ Warum der Mensch besser ist, als wir oft denken.

📌 Joseph Nguyen – Hör auf zu glauben, was du denkst
→ Warum viele Ängste nur in unserem Kopf existieren.

📌 Hans Rosling – Factfulness
→ Wie Daten eine positivere Welt zeigen, als wir glauben.

📌 Jan Schmirmund – Regenerative Wirtschaft
→ Es gibt bereits Beispiele für ein besseres Wirtschaften.



Erleben & Verstehen – Für alle, die nicht nur lesen, sondern erleben wollen 🌍

🔹 The Week (https://www.theweek.ooo/)
Ein Gruppenerlebnis, das zeigt, was auf uns zukommt – und was wir tun können.

🔹 Klimapuzzle (https://lnkd.in/eQgKq66X)
In nur 3 Stunden verstehen, was wirklich hinter dem Klimawandel steckt – und wie wir aktiv werden können.


Wenn ihr noch gute Buchtipps oder Erfahrungen habt – haut sie in die Kommentare! 👇


BTW: Jan Schmirmund 💡🌱, danke für deine Posts. Sie sind wichtig.

BTW2: Wenn Interesse besteht, ich kann the Week als auch das Klimapuzzle moderieren

BTW3: Chatpgt hat hier den Feinschliff gemacht und es ist viel besser als mein Originaltext.

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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

HOW LITTLE WHITE LIES COST YOU LOTS OF TIME, MONEY, AND RESOURCES IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

We all do it.

Your kid shows you a drawing and asks, “Do you like it?”
You smile and say, “Looks great!”

But let’s be honest… not all of them are masterpieces.

We use white lies to avoid hurting feelings.

And guess what?
The same thing happens in business.

When you ask potential customers, “Do you like this product idea?”

They don’t want to disappoint you.
So they say, “Sounds interesting!”

But interest isn’t commitment. And polite feedback won’t save you from launching the wrong product.

The solution?

Stop asking for opinions. Start understanding real problems.

➪ Who exactly are you solving for?
➪ What are their biggest struggles?
➪ What truly drives them to switch?
➪Take a child’s mindset—be curious, ask smart questions, and never assume.

Check out the slides for more.




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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

The MOM TEST

STOP SPRAYING AND PRAYING WITH PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Most companies treat product development like archery—
except they fire dozens of arrows blindly and hope one hits the target.

Instead of validating first, they push as many ideas as possible into development, tying up resources and slowing everything down.

But here’s the thing:

🔹 More projects ≠ More success
🔹 Unvalidated ideas = Wasted effort
🔹 Product failure is often predictable—if you test assumptions early

The better approach?

✅ Frontload your process—validate before committing resources.
✅ Ensure the idea fits your business strategy and solves a real customer problem.
✅ Then—and only then—put it into development.

One well-aimed arrow is worth more than a dozen random shots.

How does your company ensure it’s shooting at the right targets?



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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

idea validation before development

TURNING CAT SH*T INTO GOLD. 💩✨

Now available for your home.

Sit back, take a break, and enjoy these 90 seconds.

Sure, it’s funny. But it also highlights an important truth:

When we call something garbage or waste, it just means we haven’t figured out how to turn it into value.

That’s what Innovation is all about.

🔹 For Beginners: Rethinking existing processes and problems to uncover new opportunities.

🔹 For Pros: Rethinking not just processes, but (Circular) Business Models—creating new opportunities with less resource usage and a positive impact. 

Because sometimes, the difference between waste and opportunity is just a shift in perspective.


I hope the video made you smile, Enjoy your weekend 😊

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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

🖼️ Video: YouTube: SNL. All rights, and credits belong to the respective owner(s).

START WITH THE CUSTOMER—BUT NOT TOO FAST.

Steve Jobs famously said:
💡 “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”

And he’s right. But there’s one crucial step before that.
( and no, it is NOT ideation, sorry.)


📌 First, understand the strategy.
What is the desired business outcome?  What’s the context?
Without this, you risk losing internal support  — no matter how customer-focused you are.


📌 Then, understand your customers deeply.
 •	What are their jobs-to-be-done?
 •	What solutions (yours or competitors’) are they using now?
 •	What are their gains, pains, and constraints holding them back?


In Short, Start with the problem space:
1️⃣ What is the problem you need to solve for your organization?
2️⃣ What problem do you need to solve for your customers to help them progress?

💡 Great innovation isn’t just about technology. It’s about solving the right problem—for the business and the customer.

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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

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Rejection sucks.

And if you’re an innovator, you know—rejection is part of the game.

It forces us to find new ways, rethink assumptions, and learn.

And let’s be honest: most ideas should be rejected.
But in the process, good ideas often get lost as collateral damage.

That’s why a structured, clear, and smooth idea selection process is so important.


As a rule of thumb 👍:
 Idea selection should take twice as long as idea generation.


And no, I don’t mean dumping ideas into an Excel file, assigning numbers, and hoping for the best.

I came across a brilliant piece of art by Grant Snider on rejection—it sums this up perfectly.

How does your company handle idea selection?


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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

rejection

Most ideas don’t fail in the market.

They get killed internally—often by management.

Why?

Because they get presented as just an idea—with no deeper thought, no clear value, and no business model behind them.

If you want your idea to survive, take the time to figure out:

➪ How it helps your customers make progress in getting their jobs done

➪ How it supports relevant business outcomes that make it a no-brainer for management to support

An idea without context is easy to reject.

An idea that solves real problems—both for customers and the business—is hard to ignore.



How do you make sure your ideas don’t get stuck? 



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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

You just had an idea and want to pitch it directly to m

YOU AREN'T REWARDED FOR YOUR PRODUCT.

You're rewarded for helping customers achieve progress in fulfilling their jobs.

So don't spend too much time building the perfect product from your perspective.

Instead, spend much more time understanding your customers, testing and iterating your idea until you have the right product for them.

Then, build it right.

MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE the best way to drive market success is by having a full product development pipeline—more ideas, more opportunities.

I believe the best way to drive market success is by having a validated product pipeline—fewer ideas, but the right ones.

Too many companies treat product development like a numbers game:
🚨 More ideas = more chances to win
🚨 More projects = more innovation
🚨 More products = higher revenue

But in reality, more often leads to:
❌ Overloaded teams with no focus
❌ Resources spread too thin
❌ A pipeline full of projects nobody wants

The best companies don’t chase volume. They prioritize ruthlessly.

✅ Validate ideas early—kill weak ones before they eat resources.
✅ Focus on high-impact products instead of launching everything.
✅ Align product decisions with real customer needs, not just internal opinions.

Your pipeline shouldn’t be big. It should be smart.

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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

“DAD, I WANT A CAT!”

Who else has been there? 😂

Kids come up with brilliant ideas without fully understanding what they mean.
Like getting a cat… or a dog… or something even wilder.

Ideas are exciting and spontaneous, but their impact and consequences are often far from reality.

Sounds familiar? It should—because the same thing happens in business.

💡 A great idea doesn’t mean a great outcome.
💡 Our assumptions about ideas rarely match reality.
💡 That’s why testing ideas before building them is crucial.

Because sometimes, what seems like a perfect idea turns into unexpected chaos. 🐈🏡😂 and it leaves a deep hole where you buried much money, time, and effort.



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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

🖼️ Video: All rights and credits belong to the respective owner(s).

View company: Circular Economy Nordhessen

💡 Regenerative Wirtschaft - Hokuspokus oder eine reale Chance für erfolgreiche Innovation und Geschäftstätigkeit? Für Jan Schmirmund 💡🌱 Schirmund ist die Antwort klar. 

Jans Impuls beim Nachhaltige Transformation Barcamp dreht sich darum, wie wir eine regenerative Wirtschaft gestalten können und dir Ideen geben, um die Frage, wie dein Unternehmen zu einer lebenswerten Wirtschaft beitragen kann. 

Wir freuen uns riesig, Jan Schmirmund als Keynote-Speaker für unseren Networking-Abend am Donnerstag, 25.04.2025, beim Nachhaltige Transformation Barcamp begrüßen zu dürfen! 🎉

Jan ist Transformationsexperte, Autor und Innovation Coach – und wird uns mit seiner Keynote von Ansätzen und aus seinen Erfahrungen erzählen, wie Unternehmen echte Schritte in Richtung einer regenerativen Wirtschaft gehen können und vom guten Vorsatz zum echten Handeln kommen. Dabei zeigt er mit vier zentralen Bausteinen, dass gelebte Regeneration bereits Realität ist. Er bringt inspirierende Praxisgeschichten von Pionier:innen mit, die beweisen: „Seht her, es geht!“

💬 Du willst wissen, welche Chancen die regenerative Wirtschaft für dein Unternehmen bietet? Dann sei dabei!

📅 Wann & wo?
📍 Donnerstag, 25.04.2025 – Networking-Abend mit Impulsen, Häppchen & Drinks
📍 Freitag, 25.04.2025 – Sessions & Barcamp-Diskussionen
🔗 Sichere dir jetzt dein Ticket! Link in den Kommentaren. Noch bis heute Abend 18:00 Early Bird Ticket für 119€ statt 179€ sichern! 

#Nachhaltigkeit #zukunftsfähigkeit #regenerativeWirtschaft

mit Florian Hameister, Katharina (Kathi) Berner, Benjamin Ross, Sascha Kleczka 💡 und Julia Heimeier

SOMETIMES, WE HEAR WORDS… BUT MISS THE MEANING.

Ever asked a simple question and got an answer that made you question reality? 🤔😂

Understanding others’ perspectives isn’t always easy—product development is no exception.

Use heterogeneous teams in the innovation phase. Different demographics and work backgrounds form a group that will create a lot of different viewpoints, share insights, generate massive learning for everyone, and lead to fewer blind spots.

Because innovation isn’t just about ideas—it’s about understanding perspectives.


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👋 Hi, I’m Florian!
💡 I help innovation teams reduce risks in early-stage product development and turn chaos into clarity.
🌍 Passionate about #CustomerCentricity & #CircularEconomy as drivers for #Innovation.

📌 Want frameworks & tools to make better product decisions?
🗂 Get free access to my Library for Innovation & Circular Economy – full of templates, guides & checklists.
🔗 Find it in my Featured Section.
📬 Let’s connect! I’d love to hear your take.

🖼️ Video: All rights and credits belong to the respective owner(s).

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