Zühlke creates effective strategies and breakthrough innovations that deliver long-term value, for you and your customers. We take a relentlessly agile, outside-in approach. In close collaboration, this proves transformative for our clients. We drive innovation with interdisciplinary teams that include business experts, UX designers, psychologists and mathematicians. In this way we fuse three essential perspectives: technology, business and human experience.
Our innovation consulting turns promising ideas into concrete opportunities, and then the amazing products, services and business models that customers find compelling. We also examine the need to change or reorganise processes or parts of the company – to ensure you realise every innovation’s full potential.
We Turn Promising Ideas into Products, Services and Business Models That Make You the Market Leader
Differentiation is key to customer growth and competitive strategy. To differentiate your business in tomorrow’s markets, Zühlke helps you turn promising ideas into opportunities today.
We use the Zühlke Innovation Sprint to identify and evolve ideas with great business potential. We work fast and focused, but with a broad solution horizon. With the Zühlke Rent-a-Startup® approach, we convert these ideas into amazing products, services and business models.
Rent-a-Startup® evaluates promising ideas at high speed, with precisely the right manpower and skills.
Our Rent-a-Startup® team works with your experts as an autonomous entity. Together they build, test and optimise your idea with real market feedback until they reach the right product/market fit. It’s fast, efficient and low-risk. As soon as you’re ready to realise an idea, our product and application services experts get involved. This integrated approach generates co-created new products, services and business models that combine groundbreaking technology and customer excitement with maximum business value and clear differentiation.
We Power Quantum Leaps in Performance and Competitive Advantage
Zühlke helps makes your business more competitive by consistently aligning your output to your customers’ needs. By developing a process map and customer journey, our process innovation consultants expertly identify any processes and steps that cause unnecessarily high costs or trigger undesirable emotions among your customers. Together with you, we realistically cost every innovation and radically redesign your processes accordingly. Our soft and hardware experts handle technical implementation, incorporating each step on a roadmap according to its priority.
Zühlke teams unleash the full potential of the latest technologies to make viable concepts a reality. With human-centred design as our guiding principle, enthusiastic customers are virtually guaranteed.
Bridging the gap between strategic orientation and implementable activities is one of Marco Balzarini's core competencies. He has successfully combined these elements for years in client mandates as well as in Zühlke's Leadership Team. He leads the Solution Center Digital Consulting Team and has been a partner of the Zühlke Group since 2015.
William Dew leads Business Development for Zühlke in Singapore. He has over 20 years of experience working with diverse organisations across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East to solve complex business and technology challenges. Prior to joining Zühlke, William was the founder and CEO of a PropTech business in Hong Kong and has held various APAC leadership roles within companies in the FinTech and Communications industries.
Connie oversees the Insurance and other key business verticals in Hong Kong. She has over 10 years of experience working in both Finance and IT industry, supporting a wide range of organisations including Fortune 500 clients. With that, she has gained extensive insight into how enterprises can create better business outcomes with digital innovation. Connie is also active in foundations supporting initiatives on women leadership and women in IT.
Stefan Malcherek is Principal Business Consultant at Zühlke Germany in the Hamburg Office since 2019. He has a diploma in business administration and extensive experience in management consulting, agile transition, the development of new business models, the management of interdisciplinary teams, the creation of new teams and start-ups. Before joining Zühlke, Stefan worked for PWC (Consulting) and a Boutique Management Consultancy in the energy and telecommunication industry. After joining E.ON and the E.ON Accelerator he founded his own start-up and led it for three years developing a B2C data driven platform for energy customers.
Richard Meirion-Williams is the Managing Director Markets in the UK. Richard sits on the Executive Board in the UK.
Cristian Hofmann is Business Solution Manager and since März 2020 at Zühlke. After his studies of Computer Science and Doctorate in "Digital Multimedia" and "User Experience", he worked at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft as Senior Researcher and Project Manager. From 2012 to 2020, he was employed at adesso Austria, for the time being as Project Manager, and later as Managing Consultant and Head of Consulting. His emphasis is the field of UX/CX and Innovation Management as well as Web and Mobile Applications. He was able to employ these skills at customers of diverse business areas, such as Insurance, Utilities or Public.
