Innovation

At Liip we have had the good fortune of celebrating quite a few awards in the past years. We received many of these because of innovation in client projects or our own products.

In order to sustain our level of innovation Liip invests heavily into its own internal innovation process which includes the entire company. Innovation needs room for experimentation. We use this room continuously to try out different approaches, which lets us find solutions that wow our customers and their end users.

For example, Liip allocates additional resources to customer projects with innovation potential. Internal projects that promise to make Liip development and our tools more efficient can also tap into this innovation fonds. Self-developed innovation ideas that are of strategic importance to Liip's goals are completed with the allocated time. Some examples of this innovation advancement is Liip's involvement with Jackalope, YUI, Drupal and the Symfony CMF but also the iPad app Radios and twichteln.ch.

For the selection of the innovation projects we use the ECOSTAR process. An innovation committee supports the development of the idea. The project idea is iteratively refined with a series of pitches in front of different groups until finally the idea has the support of the management and the entire company. Smaller innovation ideas up that require 2 weeks of effort may use a shortened process that can be submitted to management after a single meeting with the committee.

Through this process at Liip ideas of one single person frequently mature to market-ready products. Always with the goal of developing our skills, so that we can realize more awesome and successful customer projects.