target Symposium 2023

Innovative horizons—partnerships and visions for the future

On September 19 and 20, 2023, approximately 50 customers and interested parties traveled to Heidelberg and gathered at the arthotel in Heidelberg's old town for the target symposium 2023.

After introducing the current target team including its youngest offspring, Kai Axenath opened the conference program on behalf of the Zentrum Ideenmanagement by presenting the German Idea Management Report 2023. In his presentation, Kai Axenath went into more detail about current developments in idea management.

Robin Günther from Volkswagen AG and Michael Mulinski from Audi AG provided the following technical contribution to the symposium. They presented similarities, but also special features of target Idea Management with FIORI in their companies. They outlined the successful transition from WD4A to FIORI at VW and Audi.

For dinner, the participants of the conference met—almost according to tradition—at the "Wirtshaus zum Seppl" in Heidelberg's old town and enjoyed the evening in rustic surroundings.

The morning of the second day of the event was kicked off by the target employees Robin Müller-Cajar and René Austermühl with a demonstration of new features, improvements, and integration possibilities of target Idea Management. They not only showed the many further developments in target Idea Management on-premise that have been added to the software since the last symposium in 2022, but were also able to present target Idea Management Cloud as a standalone software on the SAP BTP for the first time.

Carmen Giese and Peter Stenzel from Fraport AG then presented use cases for target outside of ideas management. The focus of their presentation was on the work of the Konzern-Unterstützungsverein der Fraport AG e. V., which covers the costs of medical health services for employees. In a joint project, the entire process—from application to payment—was mapped using target Idea Management software. Applications can now be processed many times faster.

"Doing instead of talking" was the motto of the following agenda item. Professor Sven Poguntke from Sven Poguntke Business Development Consultants gave a clear introduction to the Lego® Serious Play® method. This is an innovative workshop, communication and problem-solving tool that can be used to address a wide range of topics (e.g. analysis, brainstorming, innovation, team development, vision, strategy). The Lego® Serious Play® method is based on the insight that creativity is particularly well released in a playful context. Questions from the hard "business world" are visualized in models and then discussed in a goal-oriented and at the same time profound way.

All participants of the meeting actively participated and tried out the Lego® Serious Play® method. Some presented their creations to the large group. 

The professional program of the event was rounded off again this year by workshops. The topics "AI in (target) idea management" and "Deepening the Lego® Serious Play® method" were available for selection, as well as an exchange on development ideas.

In the workshop "AI in (target) idea management", the participants, led by Matthias Bauer from X-INTEGRATE and René Austermühl, gained a basic understanding of artificial intelligence and then worked together to find possible applications for AI in idea management. After intensive discussions, exciting new ideas emerged. Some ideas could be analyzed in more detail, provided with possible solutions and even illustrated with a prototype. The result: AI is not just a passing trend, but an effective means of optimizing idea management processes!

In the workshop on Lego® Serious Play®, the participants put their previously gained knowledge into practice. Under the guidance of Professor Sven Poguntke, creativity was combined with structured thinking. Amazing results came to light!

Robin Müller-Cajar received wishes for the next developments from his workshop participants, including, for example, wishes for the functionality and design of the new Fiori interface, but also an explicit wish to establish a community to promote exchange between users of target Idea Management.

The general feedback on the conference was again extremely positive, which makes us very happy. As in previous years, the exchange of ideas "among colleagues" and with the target team was highlighted by the participants as extremely enriching.

We would like to sincerely thank all speakers for their willingness to present their idea management and their activities to our participants!

And of course we thank all participants for this successful event!

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News 11/14/19

target Symposium 2019

Our annual symposium took place on November 12 and 13, 2019. A total of 47 customers and prospects attended the event at the arthotel in Heidelberg’s old town.

News 6/2/22

target Symposium 2022

On May 31 and June 1, 2022, our symposium could finally take place again after being canceled in 2021 due to the pandemic!

Service 4/13/23

Implementing target idea management software

Take full advantage of all the benefits of target software for your idea and innovation management. We support you with the implementation.

News 2/1/23

target became part of the TIMETOACT Group

target Software Solution GmbH and Walldorf Consulting AG have been acquired by the TIMETOACT Group.

News 8/16/23

target Software Solution merges with Walldorf Consulting

target and Walldorf Consulting join forces—for more flexibility and less bureaucracy

News 12/29/20

New Data security audit at target (2020)

An independent auditor confirms that target has implemented and continuously improved its data security requirements.

News 8/23/23

target Software Solution merges with WCA Walldorf Consulting

The IT companies join forces – for more flexibility and less bureaucracy

Service

Training courses on how to deploy target software

Do you want to maintain the software for your idea and innovation management yourself? We will be happy to provide you with the necessary know-how in our training courses.

News 1/1/22

New shareholder structure at target Software Solution GmbH

Hanno Hofmann, founder of Walldorf Consulting AG, acquires all shares in target Software Solution GmbH.

News 5/15/24

target Idea Management Release SVP 11 is now available

In May 2024, we released the new SVP 11 version of our on-premise software target Idea Management.

News 7/10/22

New target Idea Management Release SVP 10 is now available

The new release offers numerous advantages. Among them: Even better user interface made possible by SAP Fiori 3!

News 6/17/22

The new target Idea Management Release SVP 9 is now availabl

The new SVP 9 release of our on-premise software target Idea Management offers numerous advantages. The highlight: complete workflow mapping with Fiori apps!

News 1/26/21

The IPG Group becomes part of the TIMETOACT GROUP

The TIMETOACT GROUP acquires the majority of the shares of IPG Information Process Group Holding AG, based in Winterthur. Through the acquisition, the competencies for Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions in the DACH market are combined.

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Unternehmen 1/26/21

IPG Information Process Group Holding AG

IPG Group specializes in the design, integration, operation and training of IAM solutions.

Standort

Location of Winterthur

Find catworkx AG and IPG Information Process Group AG in Winterthur: Theaterstrasse 17, 8400 Winterthur

Standort

Location in Dresden

Find IPG Information Process Group GmbH Germany in Dresden; Gertrud-Caspari-Str. 13; 01109 Dresden; +49 7531 957 3020; info@ipg-group.com

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Service 8/11/21

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) involves the capture, recognition and classification of business documents and data from unstructured and semi-structured texts.

News 8/6/21

Intelligent Document Processing now even more efficient!

For these reasons, we are constantly improving our performance in the field of Intelligent Document Processing and now have a strong partner at our side in the form of the experts from PLANET artificial intelligence GmbH in Rostock.

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Leistung

Mastering digital transformation in insurance

Digital transformation is the transformation of the corporate world through new technologies and the Internet ► Learn how insurers can master this.

Branche

Digital transformation in public administration

The digital transformation will massively change the world of work, especially in public administration. We support federal, state and local authorities in the strategic and technical implementation of their administrative modernisation projects.

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