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Gerhard K Eichweber
Innovation- & Entrepreneurship Mentor
Semi-Retired
Now Sharing important Know How 
with Entrepreneurs & Stakeholders in all Fields

Inventor, Organiser and Designer of Innovative Milestones

Gerhard Eichweber already as a schoolboy has been an inventor and designer*. In addition to new technology for cars and boats, his interests focused on architecture and jewellery, some of which he created himself. Directly from university initially as freelancer he became an entrepreneur. Starting out in aerospace engineering, he helped to optimise and realise many innovations in a wide variety of fields. In doing so, with the teams he led, he repeatedly achieved veritable quantum leaps.
Unique sales propositions are at the centre of strategies and brand techniques, while he himself remains in the background, all the more so, as from the very beginning recommendations from entrepreneur to entrepreneur have continuously led to new challenges in a wide range of fields.
Since his partial retirement, Gerhard Eichweber has continued to support individual entrepreneurs and colleagues in realising their ambitious projects, while for himself focussing on the question of what actually, in addition to his methodology, determined the breakthroughs achieved, given that his view of entrepreneurship contradicts the mainstream opinions regarding both macro-'economy' and business ‘administration'. Long hesitating to publish his findings, his ‘Supplements to Economic Theory’, officially presented in 2008, have become accessible at the internet in2022, while their elements have been presented in relation to concrete developments in Europe through additional papers.
The course of the world shows where this treasure trove of knowledge is lacking. Advancing the state of the art is a need.
In the spirit of ‘handing over the baton’, Gerhard Eichweber is now offering his expertise to pass on the culture of innovative quantum leaps to younger generations. 
Instead of preaching, together with determined colleagues, Gerhard Eichweber wishes to induce other professionals to experience themselves how much more is possible than what is currently highly praised. In the process, the experience of excellence and of the "ease and joy of outstanding achievement" shall become an infectious routine helping to solve pressing problems, and soon. 

* At the age of 14 Gerhard learnt from his father, how to precisely word an application for a patent, later granted, yet only realised  five decades later by some Chinese manufacturer. This and following experiences have lead to more sophisticated strategies regarding intellectual property right policies as part of holistic strategic thinking. See more humorous remarks under "Anecdotes"…

Innovation is the Key

Quantum Leaps are necessary Breakthrougs pave the way …


The flow of innovation could be much bigger, as should the knowledge of the fact, that not only most employment, but the majority of all innovations and outright quantum leaps are generated by selfmade entrepreneurs and family-run businesses turned into industries in order to realise their inventions.


The much mentioned need for Quantum Leap Innovations is closely related to suppression of entrepreneur managed companies, which like famous examples of technologies and brands resulting from such initiatives can provide what others can not or do not want. It is therefore necessary to share the Know How about the successful creation of innovations and the related entrepreneur managed companies, supporting the existing and generating new enterprises in outright incubators providing not only space, but instigating leadership and sober mentoring closely making sure, that every latent breakthrough becomes reality.


Letting people experience by themselves, how much more than imagined they can do, leads to a reassuring way of dealing with complex problems.


Passing on the Know How stemming from the realisation of various technological breakthroughs realising outright 'quantum leaps' follows three directions:

Consulting and assisting companies to realise what they had thought possible but so far no one has succeeded to realise.

Secondly, adapting anew what has been proposed and implemented in a sabbatical to boost the Basque industry, 

by creating a true 'incubator for innovations and companies' teach by practising the realisation of huge leaps improving ecological energy efficiency in various fields, e.g. in cooling.

While assuring optimum successes and impacts by realising a first wave of pending proven technologies, research and development focussing on the exploit of unrealised ideas and inventions from international patent archives shall generate more waves of equally unexpected breakthroughs.

Thirdly, Communicating to various circles, what is possible, how what can be improved, leading also to close studies confirming variants and corrections of theory, can spread the "news" and pave additional roads for progress & peace.


Raison d'Étre as a Leitmotif linked to qualitatively distinct Target Groups:
Who favours What - Why?

Economy concerns the Sum of both: 
Of the Number and of the Values of all Transactions realised. 
In order to secure structures and jobs by constantly introducing new innovations and convincing unique sales propositions and also to be able to offer fulfilling tasks and adequately remunerate employment, it is important to achieve the highest possible added value. The value added arises from being different, fitting in particularly well, in qualitative terms, with the preferences of the respective target group. 

More Value Added by focussing on Values and their Diversity: Numbers are only results of Being. 
While achieving the cost minimum is one requirement which goes without saying, the more important goal is the high added value, which is the result of the focus on qualitative diversity of both target groups and offers aimed at them.

Inclusion: Base of multidisciplinary processes 
The Value Design Teamwork Methodology, while applying techniques for qualitative differentiation, is based on Value Analysis (VDI) and Value Engineering. Its application in specific projects, as a byproduct has the effect of strengthening the identity and culture of the respective organisation and brand.

Sustainability: The Definition says it all …
Avoidance of counterproductive long-term effects of short-sighted thoughts, plans, actions and non-actions. In other words: Independent, responsible, holistic optimisation of all aspects through inclusive and systemic methodical team processes. 

We are not only responsible for what we do - and how, but also for what we do not do and the consequences.
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Talking about Quantum Leaps: 

Flat Screens substituting Cathode Ray Tubes 

Reducing to Zero former X-Ray Pollution


Regarding Computer Screens the X-Ray problem was hardly mentioned in public.

Users need to sit close to the screen. It takes up much space and resolution as well as precision of colours are other challenges manufacturers had long been facing.


"Let's just do it that way" is a frequently heard sentence leading to a new solution solving all problems at once. Processing all details, the new ideas appear in seconds. It takes much longer to explain the concept to the rest of the team.


In methodical team processes specialists hardly present innovative ideas in their own fields.

Yet, in the areas of others, their creative thinking is less blocked by prevailing paradigms.

Based upon all information discussed often always the same brains turn up with the breakthroughs. Thereafter, the team's members assure the realisation in all related areas.


Convinced, that combined with the right teams and team work methodology many more individuals could do just that, Gerhard Eichweber sets out to share this Know How.


As far as quantum leaps like the step from old TV and computer screens to flat screens* we are happy to explain many more examples of breakthroughs thus achieved in many different fields, not only regarding technologies, products and services, but organisations, brands and approaches to complex socio-political problems, like the reconversion of regions.


Talk to us about the challenges You are facing and about the Team we could build together in order to overcome the hindering hurdles.       *Ask us about similar cases fitting your type of problems.


Mentoring of Change and Innovation 
Offer to Entrepreneurs: 
Solving Problems Long Unsolved: Quantum Leaps are Overdue. 
Let's realise them!

Approach us with your problems. 
Let's form the right team, to work out the solution and optimise everything holistically together. 
Return home with your own solutions, where you can implement the results yourself, thus setting widely visible new standards with your successes. 
In this way, you prove what many seem to forget:
The majority of all innovations and jobs come solely from medium-sized , and, what is more, entreprener-managed companies. Even Steve Jobs was and remained a self made entrepreneur. And where would computers be today as tools which can be used intuitively without outside help? Where would voice recognition and commands be, where telephony? Would there be pods and pads? Meanwhile, there are many plagiarisms. All the more so: Only unique sales propositions justify preference resulting from added value, leadig to healthy margins and prosperity.

The essence of Being and its tangibility:
Empowerment, the opening up of new possibilities, is an important characteristic of entrepreneurship committed to success. 
In this way, ‘More added value through respect for values, attitudes and preferences’ is realised again and again in new and different ways. It is not what others offer, but the essence of being what matters, thus strengthening and securing companies and jobs. Healthy figures are ‘only’ the result.


Entrepreneurship:
Commited to serve Target Groups better

Traditionally entrepreneurship is based more on doing things differently than others and even when it's not centered around inventions and technologies, entrepreneurial thinking is always more focused on adding value than just cutting costs.

People who are only trained to assist in the administrative side of busineses often find this kind of innovative entrepreneurial thinking more difficult. It is therefore important to forecome the potential degradation of corporate cultures and identities and their reflection in products and services more and more towards mainstream mediocricity. 

Consequently, the proactive use of inclusive and systemic multidiscipline team-processes is ever more important in order to achieve broad understanding and consensus about the essential characteristics at the roots of the identification of others with company and offers.

Economy of Commodities?
Egalitarian Thinking:
Turning Prosperity into an Impossibility

Lack of understanding of the importance of qualitative Information regarding preferences as well as properties of offers precisely aimed at these, derails competition from serving specific target groups and preferences to competing in merely quantitative criteria, such as price. This detaches prices from value and links it to costs only. Consequently, as price battles can only be won by prevailing at the cost front, this leads to endangering the cohesion between workforce, vendors and local roots, as well as foreseeable consequences on the long run.

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Track Record versus Outlook


What to learn from the past? What to learn from others?

In his youth Gerhard Eichweber has been exposed to a wide range of information, some of which apparently contrasting.

Down to earth routines in an isolated old farmhouse often only to be reached by rowing across against tide, strong wind and waves

No electricity nor phone, As children playing chez under candle light , with occasional visitors from abroad looking over one's shoulder when not talking with his father about the realisation of inventions, e.g. in the field of navigation

and flight control, radar, space projects etc.

By day sailing single handedly with the family's boat. Talking to saylors at anchor close by, watching the first Amphicars passing by, criticising their flaws both as car and as vessel, immediately  thinking of improvements leading to new holistic solutions and hybrid propulsion.

Sketching boats aimed at being able to weather whatever situation and to handle everything securely, single handedly.


Later, at University, Gerhard Eichweber instigated the creation of a new area of specialisation, preparing better for what engineers often end up doing, be it in sales, marketing, design. Attending also extracurricular courses of the Engineering Society he specialised in teamwork methodology and project management.


As becoming engineer at Rolls Royce: Assembly of turbines for the Concorde Prototypes built across the road in Filton. Also, upon a lucky emergency landing there: Disassembly of a Harrier-Engine demolished by Geese passing through it. In the precision foundry: Study on furthering internal cooling of nickel titanium stator blades.


They call it practice – and isn't it necessary? Mustn't one understand what one talks about and orders to be done?


As a professional, working on systems related to the cockpit of existing and planned, meanwhile proven aircraft. Helping to realise  innovations in many other fields contributing own ideas, e.g on IR transmission of data and sound, User Interfacing of a first 3 D CAD system and its application by NASA on the space shuttle.


In construction he focused on 'recycling architecture' by creatively transforming and expanding buildings, even warehouses, into labs and offices and beautifully so. Saving not only on expenditures but on taxes. Thus the quote: "Depreciation rules are a design criterium" (also as far as product development).


These once huge technological steps by now are known.

But where would the world be had they not been created? When might others have invented the same – and would it have been realised and presented successfully?


After all, it is the experience, the lessons learnt from overcoming setbacks and the knowledge of what is to be observed, because there are many sharks out there.


What is more: It is the methodology and the spirit to be passed on in order to instigate and constantly mentor those, who merit the effort because they will make it.


In competence we trust. Competences must only be entrusted to who is really competent - and holistically so.

Everything else, together with Narcissism, nurtures the 'Peter Principle'– and leads ever deeper into Crisis.



Designing Sustainability


Giving Future its Gestalt


Holistic Design of strategies, offers and all measures implemented in an organisation affords innovative entrepreneurship the recognition and leadership it merits and needs in order to prevail as landmarks.


"Design", originally (100 years ago) being defined as

"Giving Gestalt to Artefacts in line with criteria concerning man, society and the environment" concerns everything.

Because  "artefact" means every result of human action.


Important are also the terms Gestalt and Aesthetic":

"Gestalt" is all what can be sensed of a subject with all senses. And "Aesthetics" is "Sensing with all Senses".

The latter, despite its precise definition by Baumgarten long abused in many diffused meanings, in the world of Design and Psychology of Perception (or Gestalt) the term is sometimes named more precisely as "information-aesthetics". Clearly, this term refers to information qualitatively describing "Being".






Quantum Leap Innovations are needed.
In Response to the Situation: Passing on the Baton

It's all about sharing and passing on important expertise to generations of present and future: 
The Ease & Joy of Outstanding Achievements must become a Routine again, enticing, contageous and rewarding.

The Culture of Innovation starts with questioning prevailing paradigms and thinking ahead. 
Further. Much further. Prepared for everything imaginable.
Innovation and entrepreneurship have one thing in common: the all-questioning handling of information.
It is qualitative information which enables us to understand the nature of complex contexts and to develop new solutions. Only qualitative distinction justifies preference and rises unique offers above commodities. This is the only way to create real added value as the basis for prosperity.
The methodology of goal-oriented team processes with its tools for jointly understanding all the details leads to a shared experience of the joyful ease of realising the extraordinary. The repetition of this experience leads to the routine of self-evident excellence as part of the culture and identity reflected in all offers. The result is ‘more added value by embracing values’.

The non-profit offer: 'Hermeneuticum' (in planning)
Support Centre for the Culture of Innovation. 
Training & Mentoring through Active Participation 
in the Realisation of Latent Innovations

Creation of closely managed "real"  incubators for sustainable quantum leap innovations and their entrepreneurial realisation.

Base: Bergell / Bregaglia 
A cultural power location
with short distances for the realisation of sustainable innovations.

From conclave to practice: 
Networking turns excellent ideas into quantum leaps and their entrepreneurial realisation.

Think Tank structures 
at suitable locations: 
Teamwork combines seclusion with broad horizons.

Projects and processes take centre stage. Suitable infrastructures and the methodology of holistic optimisation help with everything.

Inviting Entrepreneurs as well as Politics and Administrations: Use the power of our Initiatives.

Custom taylored seminars and workshops show the way.
The successes of individual companies add up to the upswing of regions.

Invitation 
to Committed Investors:
Bring in your special expertise.

The companies emerging with the quantum leap innovations in quick succession will forge their own interesting paths away from the fashions of ‘start-up’ paradigms.
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