Connecting the dots between your idea and a real impactful business case
Our innovation process is a three-step process, centered around quickly validating the challenges that your customer experiences. By building the right solutions fast, we’ll help you discover the right transition path for your company quickly.

1/2 to 1 day
An interactive work-day with experienced professionals that’s designed to tackle one specific topic in your innovation journey. In one day, we’ll turn your challenge into an actionable output that will help you take your next step.
Design sprint
4 days
A four-day process of intensive teamwork that employs Design Thinking to validate hypotheses of your solution, prototype these, and test them with ‘real’ customers.
You bring the challenge and your own team members, we’ll supply you with the right creative and technical experts to compliment your sprint team.
Project
3 to 6 months
We’ll assemble a diverse team from multiple organizations with different expertise to be your team. They’ll share an agile mindset and lend their complementary skills to work comprehensively on your innovation project in a multi-month process.
Startup support
On the fly
We would like to help you turn that idea into a reality by offering you the startup support we would have loved to have had, when we started our own businesses.
We’ll be your innovation guide and together we decide what is needed to make your idea reality, using the Noorderwind Strippenkaart.
Step up your innovation capacity!
At the Noorderwind Academy, teams of participants will learn how to turn their ideas into impactful business cases. By combining theory, hands-on exercises, and inspiration from the field in several diverging and converging ideation sessions, our experiential programs create value and learnings for individuals and your organization as a whole.