Making the New

Kathrin Haug is managing director at Deloitte Digital and her job is to help corporations innovate in the digital space. We talked about the challenge of keeping two different mindsets under the same roof: the traditional one, that still delivers most of the profit in big companies and the more agile culture that is needed for innovation.

This podcast is an initiative from Coaeva Innovation, a creative agency in Berlin. If you want to know more about us, check out our website: www.coaeva.de

This episode is a conversation with our colleagues at J2C, an innovation and business transformation agency. We discuss the main challenges faced by German companies trying to innovate — and what we have learned over the years trying to support them.

This podcast is an initiative from Coaeva Innovation, a creative agency in Berlin. If you want to know more about us, check out our website: www.coaeva.de

The startup Urban Sports Club created a new way of doing sports: instead of signing a contract with a specific fitness center, users pay a flat rate and get access to more than 50 different sports and more than a thousand gyms in Germany. In this interview, Benjamin Roth, one of the co-founders, explains how he came up with the flat rate idea and how he continues to foster innovation at Urban Sports Club. 

This podcast is an initiative from Coaeva Innovation, a creative agency in Berlin. If you want to know more about us, check out our website: www.coaeva.de

How do you innovate in a 170 year-old organization? This is the job of Danny Krautz, senior manager of new ventures at Zeiss, a German multinational in the optics industry with more 5 billion euros in revenues and operations in 30 countries. Danny focuses on one specific part of the company’s overall innovation strategy: investing in early stage high-technology startups. In this interview, he talks about how hard it is to find a right match and how important the Berlin innovation scene has become.

This podcast is an initiative from Coaeva Innovation, a creative agency in Berlin. If you want to know more about us, check out our website: www.coaeva.de