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.

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"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.

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INSTARIDE - Synchronizing mobility demands with the help of AI.
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HOW IT STARTED

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Stiftungshaus Oldenburg

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Innovation Authority

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//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.

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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.

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Torben Nils von Spreckelsen🫂

Secret creativity innerbloom recipe

The secret art of sowing the seeds and reaping the fruits of creativity

Where do creative thoughts come from?

Do you change perspectives?

What and how do you see?

How do you come up with creative thoughts?

#1 Aspheric thinking

It is the ability to think multidimensionally, revealing patterns and criss-crossing and applying those to other fields.

#2 Juxtaposing 

is a great technique to connect the un- or disconnected.

#3 Reverse-engineering 

the texture and structure of white shark fin surfaces to develop skins for airplanes to improve their aerodynamics

#4 Spatially Visualize to Crystallize

Have a grand spatial picture vision to granulize patterns and fragments creating a tapestry

#5 Changing Perspectives

A bird's eye perspective is essential for the corn art presented in the video which is a pre-requisite in any art form

#6 A grand pineal gland

How do I make my pineal gland grand?

A 5 year old's pineal gland is up to 5 times bigger than that of an adult.

It is a very small gland found in the centre of your brain.

It synthesizes and synchronizes energetic mind, body and soul frequencies, serving as a radio receiver and may be responsible for the origins of your ideas.

How do you sow the seeds of creativity and how do you make it blossom?

I have coached some 
science geniuses and here are my observational inferences.

What you can do to be more creative

1 Walking 

(almost all geniuses walk a lot)

It increases oxygen, oscillates, and lets your mind roam. 

2 Being multilingual

I have been thinking in a different language other than my mother tongue and it really helps me with recognising patterns more easily.

The more languages one knows, the easier it becomes to learn more languages and to spot and see meta structures/patterns.
 
3 Musical instruments

Playing musical instruments really helps you in becoming more creative as you have to memorize algorhythmns and sounds.

4 Repititive tasks

A mentor of mine cleans a window for 2 hours at a nano level, leaving it looking as if it just got out of the factory.

Repetitive daily chores serve as a great trampoline for our brain to oscillate our thought frequencies.

5 Timing

Early morning and late at night is when our brain waves are in theta, a natural creative state. 

6 (Circular) Art

Looking at the creating of art like the one in the video beautifully demonstrates the concept of a loop of juxtaposing corns to the image of birds and then being eaten by them.

We are all artists after all and our artistic vision shall be filled with love and excitement for our craft.

So be daft. 

What do you do to invoke your creative frequencies?

How do you stay creative ?

Torben Nils von Spreckelsen ✍️📚

ThoughtPollinator | Storyteller | Content Curator and Creator

Secret Communication Dance Tools

ComMuniCation consist of three words

1 com, latin for together with, or in combination

2 Muni = Hindu for a holy man who has taken a vow to be silent

maybe that is the origin for silence is gold?

3 cation = a positively charged ion

Unification = seeking of becoming/having a positively charged ion

community = the act of becoming one = a melting pot vs a salad bowl

So Communication

Is a seeking of togetherness by  positively charging/having our ions, one that would be attracted to a cathode in electrolysis.

Uni(fi)cation

1 uni = Latin for one

2 fi means at, in, on and also there is in Arabic

Since we are nothing but electro-magnetic frequencies we seek the opposite and naturally always want what we do not have.

The law of polarity always applies subconsciously but also consciously sometimes.

This is the reason for why when one gets treated badly, one tries to make up for it as people may have a bad consciousness. You want to counterbalance it to have neutrality. 

You add your positive ion to charge the negative ion to find balance.

However, once you become aware of the toxic strategy and of your toxic external validation (identity) mechanisms, you counteract by ignoring the negativity or adding your reaction. 

Take nothing personally

(the bad parts)

While subconsciously we are all one and all alone. We are just separated by a space and L (love). 

all one = alone.

We also subconsciously seek harmony. 

What is the best strategy?

To bow and to serve 

(those that deserve)

When looking at ripe wheat crops they hang down and are flexible, so their stalks bend (mindset).

As opposed to stiff young stalks who are proud and inflexible (mindset).

Their mindsets are narrow and their identity is not on serving the others, but on holding their head up high in the sky and building skyscrapers for themselves.

When engaging in communication we want to find common intersections. We subconsciously are a bit like a chamelion.

Blend in to stick out

Trans = across, beyond, having certain groups of atoms on opposite sides

We engage in trans-communication.

Transculturalism is the field of making the inbetween not seen but felt. Ideally, by positively reading and charging the other person(s) and engaging in a communicative dance seeking harmony and love. We align certain groups of atoms on opposite sides

Words create worlds

we add L = love and s = sword

words = sword + L = worlds

It is a delicate dance of the tongues.

The tongue is our strongest muscle

They are swords of Love 

This dance exemplifies ideal harmonic transcultural communication.

Everything is inbetween the unseen. 

The two dancers interprete and unify the musical frequencies and engage in a symbiotic dance, positively elevating us.

We exist to love and be loved.

Where do you seek love?

Internally from God above?

Externally from others?

Or a combination?

What communion and what do you do to serve your community?

ThoughtPollinator | Transculturalist | Storyteller |

ThoughtPollinator | Art and Ai Affiando | eternal refinement is our assignment | Subconscious Synchronicity

🎨 When We Design Memories, We Reprogram Ourselves

I recently watched someone turn a memory into art —
a seashell, a photo, a pressed flower — sealed inside glass.

That’s when it struck me:
“Every time we preserve a memory, we reshape it.”

We think we’re freezing the past.

In reality, we’re rewriting it.

I’ve noticed this in my own life.
Years ago, I framed my first solo trip boarding pass — a symbol of courage.
But when I later remade it into a collage, it told a different story — one of transformation.

That’s when I realized: I don’t collect memories to remember.
I collect them to renegotiate who I’ve become since.

What I felt emotionally, neuroscience later confirmed biologically.

There’s a process called reconsolidation — every time you recall a memory, your brain reopens it like a file, updates it, and saves a new version.

In other words:
 → Every recall reshapes emotion.
 → Every artifact redefines meaning.
 → Every creation teaches your brain what to remember next.

We aren’t just saving memories — we’re editing identity.
In my view, it’s not about avoiding nostalgia — it’s about using it consciously.

Here’s how I try to keep memory creation honest and healing:
✅ Reflect before preserving. I ask, “What emotion am I choosing to keep?”
✅ Capture feeling, not perfection. Beauty without authenticity becomes fiction.
✅ Revisit memories with gratitude. It transforms regret into understanding.
✅ Leave room for evolution. Some memories should keep growing with you.

I think memory-making isn’t about holding on to time — it’s about teaching yourself what to believe next.

Every time you design a memory, you’re shaping the architecture of your future self.

So I’ll leave you with this:
👉 When you turn a memory into something beautiful — are you preserving who you were, or redesigning who you want to become?

#Neuroscience #MemoryDesign #Creativity #Reflection #HumanMind #GrowthMindset

Video credits: Ahmed Rashed

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