THE PROBLEM

THE PROBLEM

The traditional way of innovation development is fundamentally broken.

The average development time for new products in fast-moving consumer goods today is 15-22 months.

Summed up: Extremely high costs, slow processes and no active involvement of real customers leads to very high flop rates.

Complex products and services even require significantly longer intervals. Nevertheless, 90% of all new product launches fail.

What is even worse, a large part of the actual innovation potential and ideas in companies never sees the light of day.

The traditional way of innovation development is fundamentally broken.

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OUR SOLUTION

OUR
SOLUTION

INNOWEEK® is the established solution to quickly deliver validated results for your innovation project.

Instead of spending months in meetings and discussions, we focus our work on maximizing benefits and concrete output.

Working that way does not only lead to maximum team motivation and personal commitment, but also to exceptional results.

Moreover, it reduces the flop rate of your business model, product or service drastically. Having your product vision tested within an INNOWEEK® reduces the usual development period of months or years to a few weeks only.

Never has it been possible to provide valid solutions within such a short time. Together with our clients we work in highly concentrated, extremely short and intensive work phases with a clear goal.

We were the first to combine all relevant areas of innovation development under one roof - from creative ideation and vision development to strategic guidance, design, product development, engineering, communication, and sales implementation.

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THE RESULTS!

Powerpoint is evil! In order to create real added value for our clients, we focus on delivering concrete results:

tangible prototypes, testable products, measurable services, understandable processes and their successful market introduction, instead of one-hundred-page concept papers and theoretical essays.

Seven out of nine of the most innovative companies in Germany have already worked with Granny&Smith that way.

From idea to market in a few weeks - a speed that is becoming increasingly necessary today and the key to competitive advantage.

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YOU WANT TO ACCELERATE EXECUTION?

No Bullsh*t.
No Drama.
Just great
work.

INNOWEEK® is the established solution to quickly deliver validated results for your innovation proTogether with our customers, we develop innovative products and brands as if they were our own. We don't work for you, but with you.

What you can expect from us is that finally your product doesn’t only look good, but also works well.

We make sure it's that simple.ject.

By focusing on innovation development, we have acquired a skillset that is unique on the market.

With 15 years of experience, we are proud to have successfully helped a variety of forward-thinking innovators to create new products, services, business models and brands, or reinvent existing ones.

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SELECTED CUSTOMERS

DIPL.-ING.

LARS BEHRENDT

CEO GRANNY&SMITH

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Full engagement

Why can you only book single INNOWEEKS® with us?

Even if you want to work with us all the time, we work in single weekly bookable INNOWEEKS® only.  

This helps us a lot to keep up the momentum and motivation. This way we achieve best results if everybody is fully committed for a week.

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Us?

1 week trial period only

We always start new relationships with a one-week testing phase only.

This helps both parties to check the fit before making a longer-term commitment.

INNOVATION AGENCY

HIRE US TO BRING YOUR IDEA TO MARKET WITH THE LOWEST FAILURE RISK

Done-for-you’ innovation development service for mid-to-large companies looking to accelerate their innovation process drastically. And yes, we guarantee results and could achieve fantastic things together... ;-)

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INNOVATORS' BOOTCAMP

LEARN HOW TO BRING YOUR IDEA TO MARKET WITH THE LOWEST RISK POSSIBLE

Innovators training programs for companies serious about bringing their ideas to market FAST (in weeks, not months or years).

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STARTUP BOOTCAMP

LEARN HOW TO BRING YOUR IDEA TO MARKET WITHOUT THE NEED TO INVEST

A compressed online course that helps you to bring your product idea to market without the need to invest.

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INNOVATION AS A SERVICE

HIRE US TO BRING YOUR IDEA TO MARKET IN ONE WEEK ONLY
WITH THE LOWEST FAILURE RISK

Done-for-you’ innovation development service for mid-to-large companies looking to accelerate their innovation process drastically. And yes, we guarantee reducing risk and costs of your innovation projects, too.

ONLINE COURSE 
INNOVATE!

LET YOUR TEAM LEARN HOW TO BRING IDEAS TO MARKET WITH 
LOWER RISK & COSTS

Innovators training programs for companies serious about bringing their ideas to market FAST (within weeks, not months or years) and reducing the failure rates and costs drastically.

INNOVATION TALKS

Lars rocks your stage and gives YOU AND your guests innovation insights with a goosebump

Book our CEO Lars Behrendt for your event to inspire guests. Humor, Entertainment and Learning combined in a single talk is what Lars is delivering on stage.

STARTUP BOOTCAMP

LEARN HOW TO BRING YOUR IDEA TO MARKET WITH THE LOWEST COST POSSIBLE

A compressed online course that helps you to bring your product idea to market without the need to invest.

3-DAY INNOVATION WORKSHOP

DEFINE YOUR GOING-TO-MARKET STRATEGY IN THE DAYS ONLY

We develop your innovation strategy for your startup in a joint 3-day workshop. We will build your masterplan and provide clarity about  the next steps to conquer new markets and customers.

INFLUENCER COOPERATION

Make your innovation seen with the help of our social media reach

You got an innovative product but no one knows about it? We might help you to get it in front of the masses. But be aware, we only accept products or services we also believe in.

HOW TO SUCCEED
ON LINKEDIN

How to get as many clients, customers, and sales as you can possibly handle.

A compressed online course that helps you to skyrocket your visibility on the leading b2b social media platform.

GET REAL INNOVATION

Read & LEARN - the bestseller book from Lars Behrendt

Innovation development has drastically changed over the last years. The traditional approach of how we bring products to the market has finally come to an end. Read the story behind about what a better approach might look like today.

INNOVATORS
MERCHANDISE
SHOP

SHIRTS, MUGS, POSTERS you name it. Show that you are part of the new innovators movement

In our shop you can find all the usual and unusual stuff you might need or not. Shop till you drop.

From Co-WORKING
to events, meetings and videos

Combining the best of both worlds: Develop new products in record time and validate them immediately in the market, which, if successful, are then scaled up on a large scale in cooperation with corporations.

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Innovate like a start-up & scale like an Enterprise

Combining the best of both worlds: Develop new products in record time and validate them immediately in the market, which, if successful, are then scaled up on a large scale in cooperation with corporations.

The classical way to innovation VS the innoweek framework

Project duration

BUDGET & COSTS

CUSTOMER VALIDATION

TANGIBLE RESULTS

Time to MARKET

RISK

CLASSICAL WAY

≈15-22 months
Very high costs due to long term team involvement
At the end of the project by theoretical market research
Concept Papers, Requirement Engineering, Estimations, Guess-Work
Approx 3 months after engineering is done
90% of all projects fail

INNOWEEK

1 week only
One week only team involvement needed
At the end of the week by real buying customers
Real working Prototype or tangible Product Vision
Before detailed engineering & massive investments
90% of all projects are successful

Innovate like a start-up & scale like an Enterprise

Combining the best of both worlds: Develop new products in record time and validate them immediately in the market, which, if successful, are then scaled up on a large scale in cooperation with corporations.

Move the table to the left to compare The classical way to innovation VS the innoweek framework

Project duration

BUDGET & COSTS

CUSTOMER VALIDATION

TANGIBLE RESULTS

Time to MARKET

RISK

CLASSICAL WAY

≈15-22 months
Very high costs due to long term team involvement
At the end of the project bytheoretical market research
Concept Papers, Requirement Engineering, Estimations, Guess-Work
Approx 3 months after engineering is done
90% of all projects fail

INNOWEEK

1 week only
One week only team involvement needed
At the end of the week by real buying customers
Real working Prototype or tangible Product Vision
Before detailed engineering & massive investments
90% of all projects are successful
See what our clients are saying about us

HOW TO BUILD A PRODUCT CUSTOMERS LOVE WITHIN ONE WEEK ONLY

GET REAL INNOVATION shot up from being ranked 90.000 on the day of release, to a #1 German Amazon bestseller in less than a day.

This book is easy to read and shows you insights to the leading German Innovation agency Granny&Smith.

You get actionable strategies you can use RIGHT AWAY to dramatically speed up your innovation process from months to a single week only.... in most cases, without spending a cent more on expensive agencies.

IS IT A MATCH?!

Not sure whether Granny&Smith is the right partner for you?

Jobs

Want to join the GRNY family?

We are always interested in meeting passionate designers and developers.

If you’re interested in working here, take a 1-min video of yourself, letting us know your“why I have to work at GRNY.” and send it to:

jobs@grannyandsmith.com

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Frequently asked questions

What can I expect from an Innoweek?

A lot, but the answer depends on YOUR IDEA. Every project is completely different because no two ideas are the same - even if they are built in the same industry. The Innoweeks all have in common that you have an idea and want to bring it to the market in the fastest way possible. 

We had phenomenal Innoweeks where we were able to build a new innovative product and set up the whole company, gave it a name, a corporate identity, a campaign, build a website, and so on. In other Innoweeks, we were happy to create a first User Interface prototype for a new software product (heck, that thing was complicated).  

The key takeaway here is that we know that one size DOES NOT fit all, which is why we curate custom strategies for each of our clients to provide their exact needs. Our goal is to skyrocket their product and services into the stratosphere, and we'll do whatever it takes to achieve that goal.

Why is Granny&Smith the best Innovation Agency?

Why is water wet? No, but seriously. Instead of using this little section of content to spam you with humble brags, let us just say this... Agencies lie; numbers and results don't.

So instead of trying to convince you, we're the best innovation agency around….here are the stats:
- 7 out of 9 of the most innovative German companies have built their products together with Granny&Smith
- We've been working for some of the well-known brands in the world
- We should have started to collect reviews earlier, but at least there are now 132 reviews that speak for themselves(average of 4.7 stars)
- 38 patents created for our customers(they always belong to them, after we've done a joint Innoweek!)
- Over 650 Clients served
- #1 Brand for innovation acceleration
- We have been 15 Years at the market (and we are willing to do another 15 Years)

Do you work with big or small companies?
We don't ask for the size. We ask if you are serious about your idea. Are you convinced? Are you on fire? Are you ready to create a product that makes some real impact? Then we can work with you. Click here to book your call.

Do you want to plug into a team of innovators, digital strategists, designers, engineers, and developers who will help you make your product or service a reality and make the kind of impact that will leave your customers shouting from the rooftops? We can work with you. 

Do you understand the value of spending one week instead of years? We can work with you.
It doesn't matter if you're a big or small company. Our clients range from small, local businesses with five or fewer employees to large multinationals.

How do I know that I will get a return on my investment?

Because we put our money where our mouth is, and we make BIG guarantees that other innovation agencies don't. Go check out our individual service pages for more information on what guarantees we offer.

What does an Innovation Agency actually do?

A good Innovation agency is not taking part in that guessing game whether you innovation idea is good or bad. Instead, we build tangible products and go to the market in record time and let the results do the talking. 

Part of an innovation agency's strategy should involve design or engineering, and a compelling go-to-market strategy to ensure a product is really seen at the markets and results are flushing in. We do all of that but, unlike other agencies, the Granny&Smith team isn't just focused on maintaining that perfect balance. Our goal is to crush your competitors and turn ideas into reality and make them a success.

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HOW TO SUCCEED
ON LINKEDIN

LEARN HOW TO SKYROCKET YOUR LINKEDIN GROWTH WITHIN ONE WEEK ONLY

People always ask me for advice on how to gain more traction on LinkedIn. Instead of giving them some tips, I have decided to put together an online course that covers all of the advice I have to offer.

In this course, I will reveal all the details that have helped me generate over 180K+ followers and thousands of leads, which have significantly changed my business.

This course is for anyone who is tired of learning from people who talk about things they have never done themselves. As a practitioner, I follow what I teach, and I will show you how you can succeed as well.