Walter Sepp Aigner .'s Linkedin Analytics

Walter creates value for European Innovation Champions by leveraging 7 functions for them: * R & D Portfolio Management (Connecting the dots) * R & D Project design and Project Development (including proposal stages for public co-financing) * Early User-Involvement and studies in Stage-Gates minus 1 and minus 2 * Concurrent Exploitation and Business Development * Innovation Process Design for today's Creative Class * Subtle + informal Project Management in large collaborative R & D consortia * Coaching High-Potentials in emerging-technologies For more than 7 years Walter led a private Think Tank serving leading-edge European High-Technology industries. Walter feels he has no reason to appeal to orthodox viewpoints of mainstream Marketing and Consulting. Last century he heavily taught and designed brand new Courses on Innovation Marketing and Marketing Engineering. Today he fully focuses upon bottom-line results from strategic corporate R&D collaborations (involving location-based services, emergency operations, nano-technology, embedded-systems). For the near future he ponders the idea of a community where his customer's high potentials co-create leading-edge knowledge on our future in dynamically evolving public narratives. This includes coping with non-knowledge, pioneering in resilience and a smart combination life styles. His core method is best described as an extension of the SPIN-Selling approach (+ Jolles) to overcome Moore's Chasm by using Tuomi's Networks of Innovation. This involves appreciative inquiry, participating observation, Open-Space-Technology, qualitative research into management narratives and Expertise Sharing in Post Mortem Meetings. His most severe weakness is his direct upfront approach - being an amateur sabre fencer. Also one of Walter's customers claims that only the smarter half of a team can follow his wording, speed and conception of how to get things done. Walter works best when he cooperates with people who show a similar strong boundary role spanning behaviour and who are willing to fully share the agenda. Specialties: 1. Hands-on jump-start collaborative industrial R&D projects in European High-Tech Industries. 2. Connecting-the-dots (Roadmapping concurrent to emerging projects and ideas) in order to retrieve strategically relevant returns and a nice Management Narrative;-) 3. Fastest possible concurrent Business Development due to a proven benchmarked approach. 4. Real build-up of the single most valuable competitive resource in innovation = focus on transfer of tacit user knowledge and use case context.