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Creativity and innovation are rarely spawned in front of an empty word document. Plan for variation during the day and get the innovative muscles working. This post starts off rather meta; on a day where we were brainstorming topics for this blog, and the well of inspiration seemed to have dried out. It wasn’t until […]

Corona has made it crystal clear just how important it is to our business to keep adding revenue streams. It’s easy to feel like you’ve got it all figured out when business is running smoothly in a booming economy. It’s when the storm hits – like the corona-crisis – your assumptions and strategies really gets

Keyboard, ukulele, acoustic bass and guitar and some drums: Lolle & Nielsen got its own house orchestra. The annual Christmas dinner – Julefrokost as it is called in Danish – is a proud tradition for most companies including Lolle & Nielsen Inventions. Every year this is a cosy, informal way of meeting each other, and

The traverse crane system Conhoist is now going to be IoT-enabled – thanks to a grant from the EU-program ‘Eurostars’ and our Polish partners. Funding through grants has been crucial to getting our inventions off the ground ever since Lolle & Nielsen Inventions was founded a decade ago. We’ve had a lot of success with

Taking some time away from a project is a valuable way to be able to experience it for the first time – even though you’ve already seen it a thousand times. Say hello to the concept “Vuja De”. We all know the concept “deja vu”. The feeling of having been in this exact situation before.

As inventors, we’re depending on early-stage funding to make our more advanced inventions come true. It’s high-risk funding, but still, we believe it makes sense for society to bet on new inventions. When you start your business as a window cleaner, you can pretty much buy a ladder tomorrow and start selling your service. As

Our newest process video shows how inventions are born – from idea to market – in 2 short minutes. There goes a lot of processes into inventing a new product and making it ready for the market. From ideation to customer feedback to production ramp-up. Even though we’re intimate with each step, it can be

Choosing the right concept is crucial when inventing new products. For that reason, we keep using the tried and tested ’Weighted Objectives Method’. At the beginning of the development cycle of a new product, we always end up with a handful of candidates after ideation. Sometimes we pick one of the concepts at the stage,

Simple metrics get too much focus in the endeavour for exponential growth. Maybe it’s time to stop for a second and ask yourselves: what do you want to contribute to this world? What is your turnover target next year? How many employees are you going to have? And how do you maintain high growth? This