Strategy & Innovation · DACH

Innovation is no accident.

We deliver new products that create value with certainty. Our goal is achieved when clients say: “You kept your promise.”


50+ Enterprise Clients
10+ Countries
86% ODI Success Rate
20+ Years Experience

Trusted by innovation leaders across Europe

Liebherr Eaton Teleflex Pöttinger MAM Sennder Huber+Suhner VitrA Raiffeisen Campus SPS SDS IU

Most new products fail. Not for lack of creativity.

Industry research consistently shows roughly 70% of new products miss their financial targets — not because teams lack creativity, but because they solve the wrong problems. Millions invested in solutions for needs that don’t exist — or the needs that matter get ignored.

We replace gut feel with quantified customer evidence. Using Outcome-Driven Innovation and Jobs-to-be-Done, we identify precisely which customer needs are underserved — and which aren’t worth pursuing.

86%

Success Rate · ODI Methodology

Five times the industry average.

Documented across more than 1,000 innovation projects and 30 years of applied practice by Anthony W. Ulwick (originator of ODI). ODI-led products achieve a measurably higher market success rate — because they are built on quantified, underserved customer needs rather than assumptions.

Four services. One discipline.

Every engagement is built on the same methodology — tailored to the format you need.

Needs are stable. Solutions change. Know the right job-to-be-done, build the right products.
Martin Pattera Founder & Managing Director, MYLES

Outcome-Driven Innovation. In six steps.

Over 20 years of applied practice, distilled into a repeatable process from market definition to validated concept.

01

Define market

Market = job executor + job-to-be-done

02

Discover needs

Uncover 50–150 desired outcomes

03

Quantify

Find over- and under-served needs by segment

04

Map opportunities

The Opportunity Landscape

05

Set strategy

Data-driven growth strategy

06

Generate concepts

Targeted solutions, validated

The ODI process in detail

What heads of innovation say, not what we say.

MYLES helped us validate value creation potential from the customer perspective. The ODI approach revealed opportunities we had completely overlooked.
Stephan Ackermann Director Product Management · Pöttinger
The systematic approach to understanding customer needs transformed how we prioritize our innovation pipeline.
Karl-Heinz Mayer Senior Manager Innovation · Eaton
Working with MYLES brought clarity and rigour to our innovation process. The data-driven methodology gave us confidence in our strategic decisions.
Andrea Wirth Mitsubishi R&D Europe

State of Innovation — 50+ episodes with Europe’s innovation leaders.

Martin hosts The State of Innovation. Conversations with heads of innovation at Liebherr, Roche, Volkswagen, Rolls-Royce and others — on what actually works in practice (and what doesn’t).

Listen & follow

50+ published episodes. Depth, not talking points. Two decades of practical know-how per conversation.

Martin as a Speaker

Keynotes, panels and workshops on Outcome-Driven Innovation, Jobs-to-be-Done and systematic innovation management — in English and German, for boards, innovation organisations and industry conferences.

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