Innovation

Corporate innovation must now be "For Good" and cross-functional:

  • Innovating to create apositive impact on businessgrowth
  • Innovating to involve talent and employees more fully
  • Innovating to create sustainable growth and desirable futures

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Innovation

INNOVATION STRATEGY

OPEN
INNOVATION

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
WITH A POSITIVE IMPACT

CULTURE
OF INNOVATION

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nourish our approach

Participate in our iQo innovation journey to :

  • design an innovation strategy,
  • nurture creative ideation with meaningful ideas,
  • develop value propositions and business models.

For the most holistic view of the innovation challenge, we rely on

  • big data analysis,
  • qualitative analysis
  • observation

This successfully generates exploration and ideation and enhances more informed decision-making.

We collaborate with a dedicated pool of selected partners to design, produce and deliver tools designed to enrich the creative process and the content of the design journey.

  • iQo digital suite: innovation management and co-creation software, applications, digital platforms, ... to enhance dynamic and creative co-creation work sessions,
  • Spaces for sharing information and insights
  • Access to premium information on open innovation

We provide support from ideation to the realization of innovative ideas through prototyping and MVP.

Our approach enables us to test usability and practicality via a sample of users, to design a final version and a safer roadmap for scaling up.

Design processes where innovation and R&D efforts are synchronized and converge towards revolutionary, human-centered and, ultimately, high-performance innovation programs.

  • Mapping financing opportunities
  • Enable companies and organizations to unlock public funding opportunities via various financial channels from French and European institutions and other public bodies in the EMEA region.
  • Advice on the application process.
  • Screening, scouting and observation
  • Organizing meetings
  • Participation in events
  • Launch of innovation challenges with startups
  • Setting up partnerships with the scientific and business communities to broaden the horizons of innovation exploration and detect trends and strategic opportunities... on a multi-country basis.

Open up the widest range of corporate investment opportunities through our ecosystem of venture capital partners and venture capital advisory services to accelerate the pace of innovation.

Success stories

DESIGNING AN INNOVATION ORGANIZATION FOR A LEADING FOOD COMPANY

  • Accelerating the Group'sinternational expansion
  • Improve the way the organization operates on innovation issues: improve operating methods (interfaces, governance, roles and responsibilities) and innovation performance (time to market, process efficiency, relevance of innovations at global and local level).
  • Assess existing organization and identify areas for improvement
  • Design and deploy the target organization (structure, roles and responsibilities, governance, etc.).
  • Optimize the company's innovation process
  • A strong knowledge of Innovation organizations
  • A expertise in the agri-food and the dairy products market
  • A co-construction approach involving all the functions concerned (R&D, marketing, manufacturing, etc.).

SUPPORTING INNOVATION AND A CULTURE OF INNOVATION AT A LEADING INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL COMPANY

  • Acculturate Safran's top management in the digital and innovation culture
  • Identify innovative and agile solutions to Group business unit problems through Design Thinking and Service Design
  • Set up a foresight watch
  • Identify issues and challenges
  • Design thematic courses for top management to prepare solution roadmaps and financing plans
  • Drawing up a strategic innovation roadmap
  • Organize and lead workshops, talks, keynotes and insights
  • Sourcing experiences and speakers (startups, institutions and major multi-sector groups)
  • Facilitating and supporting the integration of innovation methods
  • Inspiration and organization of workshops to launch innovation projects
  • Adopting a digital culture & innovation
  • Providing operational solutions that can be activated and are actually activated
  • Decision support

EXPLORE NEW AVENUES FOR INNOVATION AT A WORLD LEADER IN HOUSING

Support the management team in implementing anOpen Innovation approach

  • Analysis of innovation trends in the Group universe
  • Scouting of 5 types of player: start-ups, mature international companies, venture capital, universities and patent holders
  • Detailed analysis of startups to identify potential partners
  • Determine the best way to partner with each of them (licensing, distribution, co-design, co-manufacturing, etc.).
  • Our Global Innovation Observatory's global database of over 35,000 startups
  • Our network in France - Israel - USA
  • Extending scouting to areas related to the Group's core business (supply chain, packaging, IOT)
  • A multilingual, multicultural team (12 languages, 6 nationalities)
  • A flexible approach and regular contact points with the Group to share scouting progress and adapt research.

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