Innovation
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To survive, there is only one
solution:
be on the move and adapt.
From now on, corporate innovation must aim for a Positive Impact. To be truly effective and transverse to the organization, we need to innovate in order to :
- create a positive impact on business growth
- greater involvement of talent and employees
- generating sustainable growth and desirable futures
Our expertise
in Innovation
Innovation Strategy
- Defining the innovation roadmap
- R&D strategy design in conjunction with innovation units
- Optimizing innovation processes
- Observatoire Mondiale de l'Innovation (IWO) - Market trends study: innovation watch and weak signal monitoring system.
- Identifyingbusiness opportunities from data
- Creating new business models that reconcile meaning, viability and feasibility.
- Developing and accelerating ecosystems
- Networking and collaboration with partners (companies, startups, academics, etc.)
- Support in setting up consortiums
- Launch of intrapreneurship programs
- Scouting and international screening of startups and techies, organization of innovation competitions & worldwide calls for projects and Hackathons
- Startup development: startup studio and incubator
- Financing & Financing research for innovative projects
OPEN INNOVATION
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
WITH A POSITIVE IMPACT
- New product design
- Designing new services
- Customer experience / customer journey design
- Solution prototyping and POC management
- Leading innovation sprints
- Enhancing the value of innovation initiatives
- Innovation events
- Innovation training (mindset, tools) and bootcamps
- Organization ofimmersions / Learning Expeditions (France, USA, Israel, China)
- Acculturation to Design Thinking and innovative methodologies
- Implementing organizations conducive to the deployment of innovation
CULTURE OF INNOVATION
Our approach
iQo Design Methodology
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.
Insights
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.
Creative Factory
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.
Digital Tools
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
Scaling up
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.
RID
Design processes where innovation and R&D efforts are synchronized and converge towards revolutionary, human-centered and, ultimately, high-performance innovation programs.
Financing
Design the mapping of funding opportunities
Enable companies and organizations to unlock public funding opportunities through various financial channels from French and European institutions and other public bodies in the EMEA region.
Advise on the application process.
Open Innovation
Screening, scouting and observation
Organization of meetings
Participation in events
Launching innovation challenges with startups
Setting up partnerships with the scientific and business communities to broaden the horizons of innovation explorations and detect trends and strategic opportunities... on a multi-country basis.
Venture Partnership
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 organization and innovation for a leading agri-food company
Our mission
Accelerate the Group's international expansion
Improve the organization's innovation performance: improve operating methods (interfaces, governance, roles and responsibilities) and innovation performance (time to market, process efficiency, relevance of innovations at global and local level).
Our approach
- 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
Our added value
- A strong knowledge of Innovation organizations
- Expertise in the agri-food and dairy markets
- A co-construction approach involving all the functions concerned (R&D, marketing, manufacturing, etc.).
Supporting innovation and innovation culture at a leading industrial company
Our mission
- 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
Our approach
- Set up a forward-looking watch
Identify issues and challenges - Design thematic courses for top management to prepare solution roadmaps and financing plans
- Develop the 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
Our added value
- 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 of innovation at a world leader in Housing
Our mission
Support the management team in implementing anOpen Innovation approach
Our 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 added value
- 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.
Our recent publications
Our Business Design approach
At iQo, we are Hybrid-makers. Not only do we advise and support our customers' strategic and operational thinking, but we also demonstrate our role as Maker itself.
Digital resilience: Web3, the future of the Internet
Web3 is presented as a Web of trust, based on key principles (decentralization, community sovereignty, new ownership models, etc.). In our "Digital Resilience" special report, we
The keys to developing participative innovation within the company
Participative innovation is a collective process that requires certain good practices to be put in place, and certain pitfalls to be avoided. When innovation becomes the business of every employee in the company, we're talking about
iQo Lab: a place dedicated to innovation
The ambition of our iQo Lab is to create a new experience that combines inspiration, exploration, experimentation and realization in a continuous process of reflection. An atmosphere that combines all the conditions for successful acceleration
How can iQo support you?
iQo is a new player in the consulting sector, whose mission is to "unleash collective genius to co-construct desirable futures".
- Our firm offers a unique approach to co-construction with our customers.
- We advocate the hybridization of skills and know-how
- We offer you small, agile teams that are sincerely committed to working alongside you, as an extension of your teams.
- We are "makers" and offer concrete, results-oriented solutions tailored to your specific
needs. - We're committed: iQo is an ISO 14001 and B Corp certified company with a mission.
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