Actively shaping the future

Innovation is one of the keys to achieving commercial success. Maintaining an edge in a competitive global market means understanding your customers’ current needs, deploying the very latest technologies and responding quickly to market developments. Successful companies are aware of this and attach great importance to a properly functioning culture of innovation. We enable companies involved in the fields of organization, training and technology to foster a long-term knowledge edge and to translate this into commercial success. We achieve this by developing, implementing and optimizing processes, products and facilities until they are perfectly balanced for deployment and market launch. We support our customers in introducing new forms of organization and new technologies.

The work conducted at the Fraunhofer IAO is divided into five key business areas:

• Corporate Development and Work Design
• Service and Human Resources Management
• Engineering Systems
• Information and Communication Technology
• Technology and Innovation Management

You can find more information on our work on the webpages devoted to each specific business area.