Raimund Schmolze

Venturing Creative Ideas

How Customer-Oriented Product Development Leads to Success

Corporations across the world face the same question: What can we do in the future to keep our customers enthusiastic? Raimund Schmolze uses the Creation Center model to demonstrate how innovation functions today: observation, idea generation, conceptualization and market transfer. Those are the steps that trendsetting corporations use to detect their customers' hidden wishes. Read "Venturing Creative Ideas" to discover how you, too, can establish a Creation Center and why innovation always pays.

Raimund Schmolze
Raimund Schmolze has been head of Deutsche Telekom's Creation Center since 2007. The unit is devoted to the systematic development of product ideas. He earned a doctoral degree in psychology from the London School of Economics and worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company before joining Deutsche Telekom.

191 pages, paperback, with numerous four-color illustrations, 2011

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