Open Innovation
Accelerating Innovation with the Right Collaboration Partners
No organization wants or can solve all innovation challenges on its own. And it doesn’t have to, because that’s exactly what our Open Innovation methods are developed for. By identifying and selecting collaboration partners, we accelerate your innovation projects. We can also help build an ecosystem and fulfill an ‘orchestrator’ role in it. Together, we work on the future of your enterprise.
Experiences:
Open Innovation Brings New Business Ideas to Life
We think outside the box to bring new ideas to life. We don’t do it all ourselves. Somewhere in the world, there’s already a solution to your problem, and we make smart use of that. As soon as we find the right collaboration partner in our database or through our network, your innovation project becomes shorter, cheaper, and has a higher success rate. It’s a win-win.
We Do This in Steps
Proven Open-Innovation Method
Our unique open-innovation method consists of 9 collaboration steps. This is developed to formulate urgent challenges, explore the world for potential technical solutions, and enable a 100-day pilotproject. With this structured approach, we develop new services and products from existing solutions.
1. Market Research
We create an overview and understanding of your specific market, supported by insights into key technologies and trends.
2. Setting Priorities
We assess which market insights fit your overall organizational strategy.
3. Define Domains
We determine which innovation domains should be a focus area for your organization.
4. Forming Challenges
We form concrete innovation challenges that are most relevant within your innovation domains suitable for open innovation. Alternatively, we follow a venture-building process together.
5. Finding Solutions
We explore the world for applicable innovations. We then prioritize and zoom in on potential solutions.
6. Selecting a Pilot
The most promising solution(s) are selected based on solution fit, cultural match, and value case.
7. Refining the Pilot
We conduct a pilot design workshop to define tangible and achievable goals for the 100-day trial. We also perform backplanning on how to measure value. The collaboration takes shape, and we align the details of the pilot.
8. Starting the Pilot
The 100-day pilot or POC has started. This results in a scale-or-kill advice, including a value case and roadmap. We guide and support you and the selected startup(s) in a 100-day collaboration.
9. Scaling or Stopping
We make a timely and clear GO/NOGO decision to keep the energy high and work only on high-quality projects.
Evaluation of the Pilot
Despite our thorough approach, some innovations still disappoint in the pilot phase. Together, we evaluate the pilot and decide whether to proceed to the scaling phase or to break off the collaboration and look for alternative solutions.
Cases
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