Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Clients from industry

We advise our clients on the basis of results from scientific research on strategic corporate decisions. We also identify future topics in order to ensure companies‘competiveness. We help our clients to promote, identify and implement technical innovations as well as service, organisational and process innovations. Our systemic view of technologies and markets analyses the challenges which will face enterprises tomorrow and reveal promising corporate strategies. Our scientific management consultancy focuses on the topics future sustainability, the ability to innovate and the sustainability of enterprises.

A central basis of our analyses for politics and industry is our survey “German Manufacturing Survey“. We have been conducting this broadest survey of modernisation trends in the German manufacturing industry regularly since 1995. The representative sample of around 1,300 companies gives information about the status and the development of important indicators in different areas of innovation. These include the use of innovative organisation and technology concepts in production, relocation and outsourcing strategies of companies as well as new business models to supplement the supply of products around innovative services. Central drivers and levers of success of different innovation strategies can be used in detailed analyses to make sound judgements. In order to provide international comparative data the German survey was internationalized and with partners in important European comparative countries expanded into the “European Manufacturing Survey“.

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    • We advise our clients on the design of sustainable company strategy against the background of current mega trends and technological changes.
    • We identify, analyze and elaborate strategies to deal with market transformations and changing conditions. These include emerging markets, scarcity of resources, demographic change, climate change or security in society.

    • We help our clients to develop technical, organisational and service innovations and identify qualification needs.
    • We analyze for our clients challenges and synergy potentials of technological change.
    • We develop and analyze complex information stocks and filter out relevant results.

    • We evaluate innovations of products, services and company processes economically and ecologically and accompany our clients when implementing business processes which save energy and ressources.
    • Technological and strategic foresight for company positioning and the opening up of new markets.
    • We analyse and evaluate potentials for innovations, their barriers and success factors as well as diffusion into the market.
    • We analyse technical, organizational and regulative trends as well as their impact on company strategies.
    • We conduct analyses of competition and markets for the strategic positioning of innovations.
    • We identify the need for qualifications resulting from innovations and changing conditions.
    • We provide support for the improvement of the energy and resources effiiency in the value chain as well decisions regarding location, in- and outsourcing.