Space and Lemon Innovations

Leading trend specialist in Europe. Growing trends, 
AI focus

SLI (Space and Lemon Innovations). Leading trend scouting specialist in Europe, and optimist. Growing trends, not trending. Since 2016: focus on AI. Hamburg, Berlin.

✱ Trend radars x2 p.a. ✱ Deep-dives (AI, business model) ✱ Consulting/scenario for a growing tech

WHO WE ARE

Space and Lemon Innovations is a leading trend specialist in Europe. Growing trends, not trending. Founded in 2016. In the heart of the start-up ecosystem at betahaus Hamburg and Berlin. Focus on digital, tech and AI. Permanent scouting close-to-business and unique methodology. Always optimistic.

Our activity ✱ Trend radars x2 p.a. ✱ Deep-dives (AI, business model) ✱ Consulting/scenario for a growing tech

AI practice with over 100 man-days research per year.

Trend studies and radar (13 industries), innovation workshops, AI use-cases and DIY workshops, original “Mosaic Canvas” and no more “Design Thinking”, concept for an innovation in 3 months (acceleration, not banana).

Digital Trend Study 2024

Best mate and AI, what? Yes! We at Space and Lemon Innovations love AI and believe it will be a welcome, regular, support in daily life, at the office, at school, in a car, in a supermarket. This is what happens in 2024, a phase of support, not replacement. However, forcing us all to new routines. A “best mate” in a way, both serious and nice.

This is an excerpt from the yearly digital Trend Study 2024 edition.
Download the white paper here.

Contact for an exclusive one-hour Trend Study 2024 introduction at zest@spaceandlemon.com.

WE CAN HELP TO

Identify trends ahead.

Identifying trends ahead of time is key. Digital trends transform many businesses and we have a proven process to identify them. An exclusive trend radar twice a year. AI, deep tech, e-commerce and digital habits. With a strict selection. Always with opportunities.

Format: digital trend radar 2x a year. Always with a transfer to the business. (13 studies running in different industries).

Update all teams on tech.

Teams in all disciplines don’t have the time to update themselves on tech and AI trends, among the huge dynamics. Regular updates on-board everyone for any digital project. We created a short monthly ritual for that.

Format: monthly digital update of 25 minutes or an 8-minute video for the intranet. (This has been running, every single month, since 2016).

Find specific use cases.

We call this “special research”. A trend and the corresponding opportunity are identified - now comes the time to deep-dive. A special research, and often in a workshop, develops specific use cases for the business. Use cases and concrete projects.

Format: special research and a 4 h-workshop with pressure on concrete results. (Very good experience with this format, from data to marketing teams).

Push AI use cases.

AI has been a focus of ours since the inception of SLI. And the present dynamic is unstoppable. We have a process to identify use cases in AI for a specific company. 1/ brief the team on what AI and Gen AI are 2/ brainstorm AI use cases in a strict process and select them.

Format: two AI sessions and a specific canvas. (Started this format mid-2023 - with amazing results and motivated teams).

Do-it-yourself and train.

Tech and specifically AI is easier than expected. The DIY workshops gather a team, brief them on a tech, and have them develop a product, a service on this tech. Works very well with Generative AI.

Format: DIY workshop - often with Gen AI. (Marvelous feedback on that format and some magic!).

Just an exciting keynote.

We’ve been running keynotes for years - in 30, 45 or 60 minutes - in English, German or French. All latest digital news, often fresh, just from the day before. Fast, videos, and intermezzo in between with a demo or a poll.

Format: Keynote on two subjects - AI dynamic or digital vibrations of the moment. (24 keynotes in 2023).

WILL ChatGPT SAVE THE CAR INDUSTRY?

“Awful”, this is the usual reaction when using an interface, an interaction in a car. “Great” when testing a NIO or a Tesla. We are in Germany in a car interface crisis. For sure, the traditional car brands are lagging behind. A huge gap many complain about when comparing a smartphone interface with a car screen. And now comes the Large Language Models (LLM), mighty and magic in building conversation with users.

A car saved from convention and habits by LLMs. A whole industry catapulted into a new technology, into the future.

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We live in Hamburg and Berlin at betahaus. We love to scout in Shanghai, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, Tel Aviv. Any place where trends and innovations happen.