We look back on an eventful year with many exciting projects and successful implementations and would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers and partners for their trustful cooperation.
We wish everyone Merry Christmas ,relaxing holidays and a good start to the New Year!
Last week we as NOVAZOON with Bastian Deck and Tobias Butsch were part of the jury at the Urban Tech Hackathon in Karlsruhe.
The Urban Tech project promotes European startups and SMEs in the emerging fields of healthtech, smartcity and greentech. NOVAZOON had announced four different challenges in the European consortium and therefore had the opportunity to meet, coach and evaluate the finalists.
The event was organized by Cyberforum Karlsruhe and the Cyberlab Accelerator team and brought together the challenge owners and the startups from many different countries to pitch the submitted solutions as well as ideas in the field of greentech, healthtech and smart city.
It was an inspiring day with innovative ideas, inspiring solutions and great teams – we were very happy to be part of it!
Congratulations to the winners and fingers crossed for the final round in the race for 55.000 € prize money!
In our more tech-related post this week, we want to talk about the design tool that we deploy at NOVAZOON. We are using Figma as design tool and “first step” along our full stack development process of applications or platforms.
Figma is a collaborative design tool for creating screen designs and clickable prototypes. With its online functionality, it allows multiple people to work on the same file at the same time and share ideas.
However, before product designers and developers can start with the screen design or the actual prototype, the hierarchy of the individual pages and their relationship to each other must be clarified. Through multiple user stories and sitemaps, the basis of the application, its application structure and the single pages are defined.
After the sitemap has been iterated several times, the next step is the actual design prototyping. We are distinguishing between two phases. During the first phase we are working on a low-fidelity prototype, which is focused on the type of information and how it is distributed across screens. These are simple sketches. In the second phase we create a high-fidelity prototype, which consists of elaborated screens that show actual content, colors and branding elements.
The most mature form of prototyping is the interactive click dummy. The process from high-fidelity prototype to interactive click dummy is not a too big one, thanks to the Figma design tool. With an interactive click dummy, initial user tests can be performed and the general user behavior, interactions and animations in the application can be clarified. Additionally, Figma allows to export design files to a smartphone as well as sharing the interactive prototype via link, so that it can be accessed via browser.
Have you heard about Figma before? Please feel free to share your experience at our LinkedIn channel.
We are also looking forward to receiving feedback about the technical topics we should discuss next time.
Sometimes new business models seemingly appear out of nowhere. But innovations don’t happen overnight!
In our Innovation Lab, we are continuously working on the technology and business model innovations of the future. This is where creative ideas are born, product prototypes are built and discarded, the latest technologies are tested, innovative business model approaches are validated and, above all, new business opportunities for various industries are developed.
How do we do it? Among other things, we focus on current future trends, operate a tech radar, continuously work on our existing pool of ideas with our partners and thus sustainably drive future innovations.
Our focus here is particularly on platform business models, IOT/data-based innovations, MedTech, UrbanTech, SmartTech & Metaverse. In the field of urban tech, for example, we have launched Europe-wide Innovation Challenges in cooperation with Cyberforum Karlsruhe, with prize money of up to 55,000 euros. The hackathon for this will take place on 29/11/2022 with companies from all over Europe.
Our collaborations range from large companies and corporations to startups, with whom we jointly develop new digital products, realize innovative business models and establish them in the market.
Every company typically has a long-term strategic plan – but often companies lack an appropriate data strategy that fits that long-term plan.
A modern data strategy takes a holistic view of the requirements of the company, its target market and its customers. A focused inventory in the relevant dimensions and systems leads to a starting point that shows how real value can be drawn or generated from existing data in the future. It also provides insight into how the IT architecture must evolve to support this vision.
Today, data is not only relevant for customer transactions, accounting, purchasing or other company departments. Modern data structures and content relate to all processes and transactions inside and outside a company, thus opening up new value creation scenarios and business models.
The NOVAZOON Strategic Data Framework is a method that ensures a strategic added value of data for the future success of the company and gives operational conclusions, makes changes possible and initiates additions. In five simple steps, content is developed and implemented quickly, purposefully and with a focus on results.
Interested in a data framework that fits your long-term business development and IT systems direction? Then please feel free to contact us.
Is it possible to combine the development of innovative, digital business models with a quality management system?
Absolutely TüV Süd is certain and has certified our methods and processes for Innovation & Venture Building Tüv.
Our successful track record in building innovative business models proves that a QM system does have a positive effect on the development of innovative business models.
We are very pleased to be able to make a decisive contribution to successful transformation with our capabilities and over 45 network partners and are proud to have been named Europe’s Top 10 Digital Transformation Solution Provider by CIO Applications Europe magazine .
Would you like to learn how the transformation from core business and innovative new business models can succeed? Then make an exchange appointment now and let’s get talking.
Digital innovation projects carried out with NOVAZOON are directly eligible for funding.
This is confirmed by our status as “certified consultant” by BAFA.
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