IDEAS GERMANY

Welcome to IDEAS GERMANY (Zentrum Ideenmanagement – ZI), the leading professional and independent network of idea managers for the entire German-speaking region: Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Under the guiding principle "Empowerment for Idea Managers", the IDEAS GERMANY-Campus forms the central innovation ecosystem for idea management in the German-speaking region - predominantly digital and hybrid or also in person!

Facts and figures

• 100+ meetings of the idea management network per year 
• 1000+ participants annually
• The IDEAS GERMANY network has a reach in 40+ countries worldwide
• We enables the exchange of idea management best practices
• We run several co-innovation projects for idea management
• We conduct annual idea management trend analysis updates
• We generate new idea management knowledge via surveys
• We conduct cross-industry idea management benchmarking
• We prepare the annual German national idea management report for the German Federal Government
• We conduct idea management research with universities such as Harvard Business School, University of Lausanne, University of Stuttgart
• We participate in the development of ISO standards in innovation management and idea management
• We conduct the annual national German Idea Management Award
• We organize the annual German Idea Management Summit
• We train idea managers to become Certified Idea Management Experts according to the European Credit Transfer System (university certificate of the HDBW Munich)
• We support idea managers in improving the innovation culture and performance of their idea management system