Innovation Strategy

We accompany the development of long-term innovation goals and innovation fields of play

  • Map megatrends and industry challenges
  • Define and prioritize innovation areas
  • Formulate an innovation strategy
  • Make the strategy visible and communicate
  • Develop smart and measurable innovation goals
  • Map opportunities in 3 different horizons
  • Define an innovation roadmap and funnel
  • Define value creation paths of innovation
  • Strategy consulting for corporate scaleups

Innovation Setup

We help build the right environment, structure, and transparency for innovation success

  • Manage dual transformation of core and new
  • Foster a culture of innovation across all units
  • Build up a community of innovators
  • Create innovation transparency across all stages
  • Set up fitting instruments to manage the funnel
  • Secure sufficient resources for innovation
  • Position your company in the startup ecosystem

Innovation Execution

We implement new ideas and business models, and create value for people, planet and the company

Internal

  • Build, test, and scale innovative ideas
  • Develop corporate startups outside the core
  • Run intrapreneurship programs
  • Organize hackathons and boot camps
  • Perform design sprints

External

  • Define use cases and scout startups
  • Guide pilot projects and contracting
  • Manage CVC pipeline and investments
  • Run multi-corporate collaborations
  • Structure ecosystem engagements

Venture Building

We help validate early-stage business ideas through a wide range of customer-centric testing methods.

  • Facilitating internal teams to build new ventures through structured design sprints and innovation labs
  • Training teams in prototyping and wireframing techniques
  • Supporting internal teams through co-creation and hybrid innovation formats

Corporate Venture Studio

Together with our partner HYVE, we help companies build and run their own corporate venture studio to develop innovative business models outside the core.

  • We define a strategic portfolio for positioning and building future ventures
  • We conceptualize a venture process ready to roll-out
  • By connecting existing processes, we ramp-up the venture studio program and start the ideation, evaluation, and selection of promising opportunities

Startup Collaboration

We run a variety of startup collaboration programs – ranging from scouting to accelerators, incubators, hackathons, innovation days and co-creation programs.

  • With access to our extensive and global startup network, we make sure you collaborate with the best-in-class startups
  • We scout and match top external players with your business needs
  • We facilitate collaborations and take on project management for implementation

Intrapreneurship

We deliver programs that enable your talent to create positive change through entrepreneurship and innovation.

  • Training, upskilling and facilitating culture change through mindset formats
  • Supporting internal teams to build ideas and products
  • Coaching and mentoring internal startups from idea to roll-out

Piobay

The Digital Platform for Startup Driven Innovation

Large part of the success of Pioneers, Partners and Customers lies in their ability to discover and connect to a broad range of early stage startups.
In order to achieve this, we’ve built a software solution that enables users to achieve just that.
More than 16.000 unique startups have participated in 130+ startup projects managed by our system in the last 2 years.

Reference Cases

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