Future studies &
Innovation consulting
Megatrends in Society:
Future trends and their impacts on corporate and market strategies e.g.: demography, singles, excess of age, growing inequality between rich and poor, migration
Future living spaces
(future living, future housing, future work, markets and consumers) and their application (e.g. service design for telecom providers, brands for real estate project developers, knowledge management for public administration) e.g. social software, smart living, smart home, eHome .
Smart Living - Technologieentwicklungen
an der Schnittstelle zum Anwender (z.B. Ausrichtung von Embedded Systems auf Anwenderkontext, Entwicklung von Interfaces für Steuerungs- und Bedienungselemente z.B. Informationstechnologien, Kommunikationstechnologien, Ambient technologies, Usability, Smart Spaces, eHealth Application, Webservices, relationale Datenbanken
das fernlicht
focus on quantitative and qualitative methods. Intent is an interdisciplinary approach, and cross section, which develop from the overcoming of a subject specific point of view. Sustainability and innovation as beyond the state-of-the-art. In the area of foresight: Delphi survey, scenario development, expert interviews, in-depth interviews, focus groups, trend analysis,
In the area of innovation development: Lead User workshops