Dipl.-Ing. Lars Behrendt

Granny&Smith

We're not just participating in the innovation landscape—we're reshaping it. When market leaders need to ensure their next breakthrough succeeds, they know where to turn.

Our INNOWEEK® methodology has become the benchmark that global industry leaders trust when failure isn't an option.

Where traditional innovation remains unpredictable, we've engineered certainty. Our integrated teams of strategists, designers, and technologists consistently deliver what others consider impossible: guaranteed innovation outcomes in weeks. This is why DAX and Fortune 500 companies choose us as their innovation partner.

Mission Innovation: Inspiring people to be innovative in order to shape the world of tomorrow – that’s my mission.

Keynote Speaker

"Get Real Innovation" is about how to build a truly innovative company and why it's so incredibly hard.

Innovation is the main driver of business success today. What do the most innovative companies like Google, Amazon, Tesla and many startups have in common? What methods do they use? How can you be successful, too? And what, in practice, has proven to be a mistake?

Using real, short, concise & practical examples based on more than 15 years of practical experience in innovation development, Lars helps his readers discuss these questions and find answers.

Bestselling Author

Greenrock

Venture Partner

Family Office

OAB AG

Member of The Supervisory Board

INSTARIDE

INSTARIDE - Synchronizing mobility demands with the help of AI.
The revolutionary social driving startup - still in stealth mode.

Investor

HOW IT STARTED

https://open.spotify.com/show/3A3eHbXPN8A8t8Ga9dK3pE?si=kMT5StTGTrqAQOUO3qQH6g

Podcaster

Stiftungshaus Oldenburg

Board Member

Innovation Authority

Advisory Board Member

//CEO@GRANNY&SMITH, DE-RISKING INNOLAB FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES

//THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGED

It happened during a corporate innovation workshop years ago. As I watched yet another brilliant idea suffocate under the weight of process, I saw the spark fade from the team's eyes. In that moment, I made a promise to myself that would reshape my entire career.

THE PATTERN I COULDN'T UNSEE

Across boardrooms and brainstorming sessions, I witnessed the same story unfold. Brilliant minds with transformative visions hitting the same invisible wall. Their ideas deserved better.

THE UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY

What began as frustration evolved into curiosity. Could innovation success actually be engineered rather than hoped for? I devoted myself to finding out.

Years of experimentation led to an approach so counterintuitive yet effective that it changed everything. By building innovations like a portfolio of startups, we turned the notorious 90% failure rate completely upside down.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT

A prominent German corporation took a chance on this method when traditional approaches had failed them repeatedly. Within weeks, we accomplished what they hadn't achieved in years. Word spread quickly.

Today, seven of Germany's nine most innovative companies have become our partners. From global enterprises to nimble startups, leaders come when they need certainty, not just possibility.

BEYOND THE METHOD

After over 15 years and countless successful market launches, I still feel that same rush when I see an innovation finally connect with its audience. There's simply nothing like watching something powerful emerge from what was once just an idea on a whiteboard.

My engineering background gave me the tools, but it was immersing myself in the human elements of innovation that revealed the true path forward. When leaders invite me to guide their most important initiatives, they're not just getting a process – they're gaining a partner who's navigated this terrain countless times before.

I only commit to journeys I truly believe in, because I've learned that extraordinary innovation requires both methodology and genuine connection to purpose.

MORE INFORMATION:
◾ For enterprises, entrepreneurs and investors -> https://www.grannyandsmith.com/ 
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We are here to help you develop, test, and grow new business ideas in a few weeks instead of months. We specialize in innovation development, constantly keeping up with the latest trends, methods, and ways of working.

We have been developing innovation for our customers for more than 15 years now. Our teams, consisting of designers, engineers, software developers, and business model experts, have tried a lot and gained much experience. Today we know what works and what does not - so you don't have to make all those experiences again.

Our INNOWEEK® method is the result of more than 15 years of continuous development and project experience with well-known DAX groups and Fortune 500 companies and helps you to develop, test, and grow new business ideas in a few weeks instead of months.

➕LEVEL UP YOUR STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP ➟ I share proven systems, actionable tips, and lessons from 20+ years of helping CEOs make better strategy ➕STRATEGY ADVISOR TO CEOs + THEIR TEAMS ➟ Learn more in my ABOUT section👇

I help CEOs, leadership teams, and boards design and execute real strategy—the kind that drives alignment, action, and results.

For over 20 years, I’ve worked with CEOs, boards, and senior leadership teams at global organizations like BMW, Deloitte, DeBeers, the OECD, as well as high-growth mid-market companies to move beyond strategic planning theater and into practical, co-created strategies that leaders can actually lead through.

Through my Better Strategy OS™ and frameworks like the Strategy Launchpad™ and the Strategy Canvas Collection, I guide organizations to:

✅ Create strategy that’s clear, actionable, and co-owned by the team
✅ Build strategic thinking as a core leadership capability
✅ Move from confusion to confidence—without outsourcing their future

But I don’t just facilitate strategy—I also help you learn it.

I offer courses, tools, and executive education programs for leaders, consultants, and professionals who want to master the Better Strategy OS, learn to think more strategically, and guide others through the process.

Whether you’re leading a team, or a strategist building your own expertise—this is where you learn to make strategy real.

What I’m known for:

– Making complex strategy simple and executable
– Facilitating alignment and unlocking clarity
– Rigorous, structured, yet pragmatic approach 
– Author of The Art of Opportunity (Wiley)
– Trusted advisor & educator to global leaders
– Creator of the Better Strategy OS™
– Challenger of old-school strategic planning
– Founder of The Better Strategy School

If you’re ready to stop outsourcing your strategy—and start building the clarity and capability to lead it—please DM me.

If you’re here to learn how to make better strategy yourself, check out my tools, courses, and frameworks at www.makebetterstrategy.com

Marc Sniukas

90% of strategies fail.
Not because of execution.
Because they were never good strategy to begin with.

Every year, leadership teams spend months building decks, setting targets, and holding offsites.

Six months later?
Those slides collect dust while everyone goes back to firefighting.

That’s not strategy. That’s theatre.

If you want better results, you don’t need more strategy.
You need Better Strategy — built on 7 essential shifts 👇


1️⃣ From financial targets → to strategic challenges
Numbers are outcomes, not strategy.
Better strategy starts with answering: What’s the real problem we must solve?


2️⃣ From 3–5 year plans → to 12–18 month priorities
Long-term plans create comfort, not clarity.
Better strategy focuses on what moves the needle now — while shaping the future.


3️⃣ From copying competitors → to creating advantage
Best practices make you average.
Better strategy puts innovation back where it belongs — at the core.


4️⃣ From annual offsites → to always-on strategy
Strategy shouldn’t happen once a year at a resort.
It’s a continuous practice of learning, sensing, and adapting — every week.


5️⃣ From closed boardrooms → to open collaboration
The best strategies aren’t designed in isolation.
They’re co-created with the people who make them real.


6️⃣ From PowerPoint → to real conversations
Strategy isn’t a document; it’s a dialogue.
Leaders who talk about strategy daily create alignment and momentum.


7️⃣ From consultants → to ownership
Advisors can guide, but they can’t lead for you.
The real power lies in taking responsibility for your own strategy.


Better strategy isn’t about perfection.
It’s about progress, clarity, and courage.

Strategy isn’t a plan — it’s a practice.
The question is: are you doing it once a year, or every day?

Let’s make better strategy.
Every day. Everywhere. Together.

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Dr. Marc Sniukas

20+ Years Helping Leaders Design + Execute Winning Strategies • Founded The Better Strategy School to Help Leaders Worldwide Master Strategy • Global Strategy Advisor

What’s a good strategy to learn about strategy?

Most people still learn strategy as if it were a formula.

Follow the steps.
Memorize the models.
Apply the tools.

That’s not strategy.
That’s administration.

In most strategy courses and textbooks,
you’ll find the same pattern repeated:

❌ A single, accepted view of what strategy “is.”
❌ A linear, step-by-step process to follow.
❌ Simplified, reworded ideas from past thinkers.
❌ And a strong bias toward one national or business context.

It’s clean.
It’s structured.

But it kills independent strategic thought.

Strategy isn’t a discipline of answers.
It’s a discipline of questions.

At the Better Strategy School, we don’t teach strategy like that.

We explore 11 types of strategic issues,
their underlying paradoxes, and
the multiple perspectives that exist to resolve them:

(1) How do we strategize?
(2) What’s our mission and vision?
(3) How do we compete at the business level?
(4) How do we create value at the corporate level?
(5) How do we collaborate and compete across networks?
(6) How is strategy formed and realized?
(7) How do we lead strategic change?
(8) How do we drive strategic innovation?
(9) How do industries evolve and shape our choices?
(10) How do we develop our organization?
(11) How does the international context influence our strategy?

Each of these issues invites opposing perspectives — markets vs. resources, control vs. chaos, globalization vs. localization — forcing leaders to think beyond one “right” answer.

Because strategy isn’t about memorizing frameworks.
It’s about learning to think across them.

👉 If you'd like to learn more about these 11 strategy issues, join our next webinar with Bob de Wit: https://lnkd.in/dd9FW-Tr

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I’ve spent 20+ years studying and answering three questions:


❓What is strategy?
❓How do you design a good strategy?
❓How do you execute a good strategy?

The key lesson I learned is this:
✅ Good strategists know there are no easy answers.


❌ There’s no silver bullet.
❌ No single framework.
❌ No “5 easy steps” that will magically give you your strategy.

Strategy is inherently complex.

To do it well, you must:
🔹 Understand all its dimensions:
Purpose: Why you exist and where you’re going.
Content: The choices that make you unique.
Process: How strategy gets created and renewed.
Context: The environment that shapes every decision.

🔹 Synthesize its paradoxes:
Profit ⬌ Purpose
Logic ⬌ Intuition
Outside-in ⬌ Inside-out
Competition ⬌ Cooperation
Deliberate ⬌ Emergent
Revolution ⬌ Evolution
Exploitation ⬌ Exploration
Globalization ⬌ Localization
and many more…

Mastering strategy is about holding these tensions, paradoxes, and perspectives together—not oversimplifying them.

👉 And if you’re ready to become a master strategist, join our Better Strategy School Executive Circle: https://lnkd.in/d-Zm9GPa

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20+ Years Helping Leaders Design + Execute Winning Strategies • Founded The Better Strategy School to Help Leaders Worldwide Master Strategy • Global C-Suite Strategy Partner

500+ leaders. One shared goal:
To make better strategy — not longer slide decks.

Most strategy efforts fail not because leaders don’t care —
but because they lack a clear definition, a structured framework, and a systematic process for making strategy work.

They’re told to “think strategically.”
But not how to do it.
They’re handed playbooks that explain what strategy is.
But not how to build and execute one in the real world.

That’s why so many strategies stay stuck in PowerPoints instead of changing organizations.

At the Better Strategy School, we’ve now passed 500 participants.

Leaders, founders, consultants, and executives who decided they don’t want to just plan, they want to lead strategy that delivers results.

But this milestone isn’t about numbers.
It’s about impact.

Here’s what that looks like in practice 👇

🧩 Stefania Mangini, CFO & Board Member, O’Neill:
“Valuable insights from real case studies. Helpful framework, easy to use when having strategy discussions and to ask the right questions at board meetings.”

🧠 Tylney Taylor, Managing Director, Bold Transformations:
“Marc brings in unique and highly valuable insights that add to the robust framework he has developed.”

🚀 Lisa Rehm, Associate Director PMO, Nice-Pak Products:
“Marc’s Better Strategy Masterclass takes this work to an entirely new level.”

💡 Semih Görür, CEO, Tuna Aluminium:
“The sessions provided practical applications directly relevant to today’s business challenges. Marc makes complex concepts easy to understand and apply.”

If you want to design and execute winning strategies — not just talk about them —
you need three things:

1️⃣ A clear definition of what strategy really is.
2️⃣ A structured framework to align thinking and teams.
3️⃣ A systematic process that connects design with execution.

That’s the foundation of Better Strategy — and what every leader deserves to master.

🎯 Learn how top leaders are transforming how they think, design, and execute strategy:
👉 https://lnkd.in/dejWcSAT

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