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Using Advanced Sensory Design Methods • Leveraging Design Thinking to Drive Customer Centricity: Providing Tolls & Guidance • Applying Radical Empathy to Both Internal Teams and End Users to Minimize Hierarchy • The Four Stages of Co-create Approach: From Discover and Frame to Ideate and Build • Scaling Product and Design Insights to Inform Innovation in a Productive Way • Creating a Collaborative Space to Drive Innovation and a Culture of Exploration • Building Agile and Nimble Development Teams  • Enabling Collaboration with Horizontal Feedback  • Shifting Mindsets from Product to Services: Building a Roadmap and Knowledge Base • Taking a Top-down and Bottom-up Approach to Drive Change Successfully • Innovating with Three Drivers: From ‘Speed to Insight’ to ‘Speed to Execution’ • Building a New Product Development Life-Cycle Model

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Shifting to Circular Models of Consumption • Getting Buy-in and Embedding Sustainability into the Organization’s DNA • Empowering Employees to Integrate Sustainability into Their Daily Work • Three Key Learnings on Engaging Successfully on Internal and External Fronts • Collaborating with Customers and Using Customer Insights to Inform the Innovation Pipeline • Transforming Business Models to Become More Circular and Managing Challenges • Decarbonizing Effectively: From Mapping the Footprint to Pricing and Budgeting • Addressing the Hard Problem of Collecting Plastic Waste: And Quality and Quantity Issues • Collaborating with Diverse External Partners and Managing the Differences in Dynamics • Changing City Systems to Circularity: Aligning the Ecosystem to Drive the Transition • Leveraging Blended Financing to Make Waste Management Systems Financially Viable

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Building Innovation Hubs and a Network with Diverse Partners • Becoming a Startup Client and Co-creating with Them within the Business Lines • Overcoming Corporate Risk Aversity and Getting Business Units on Board • Facilitating Connections and Collaboration between Startups and Corporates • Scouting for Startups & Working with Them Productively • Combining Collaboration Approaches and Adapting Them to Strategy • Measuring KPIs for Long-Term Projects to Demonstrate the Value of Startup Collaboration • Building an Internal Startup Team to Tap into New Opportunities • Working as a Startup within a Corporate in an Agile and Fast but Disciplined Way • Fostering a Growth Mindset at Both Team and Stakeholder Level

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Lean & Agile: Bringing Agile Ways of Working to a Non-agile Environment and Setting up Cross-Functional Teams • Building on Existing Agile Aspects of Diverse Cultures to Drive Scale • Creating the Structure to Bridge Agile with Non-Agile • Moving to Macro-Agility with Ten Key Transformational Steps • Modeling Agile Leadership: Identifying Tangible Behaviors and Principles • Supporting Leaders to Transition to Agile and Anchoring New Behaviors and Ways of Thinking • Taking an Integrative Approach to Combining Design Thinking with Lean Startup and Agile

Talent: Adapting Ways of Working and Creating the Right Environment to Attract Talent • Driving Five Remote Work Themes to Enable Lifestyle Autonomy • Translating the Culture to a Remote Environment and Bringing Dispersed People Together • Fostering Talent Development: Upskilling and Reskilling People from Inside

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Innovation for Sustainability and Circularity: integrating sustainability and circularity in product innovation, creating value with circular business models, integrating circular economy perspective into the organization’s strategy, developing a circular portfolio based on market insights & sustainability trends.

The Role of Ecosystems: partnering up with ecosystems to scale sustainable innovations, in-boarding externally developed solutions, using ecosystems to source knowledge and technology, building alliances and ecosystems to enable circularity.

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Connecting Sustainability and Innovation from Innovation Funnel to Development Phase • Levering a Moonshot Project to Push the Boundaries of Design & Inform Innovation • Creating Circular Business Models and Shifting from Linear to Circular Production Models • Transitioning to Everything-as-a-Service • Setting Innovation Targets for Businesses and Guiding and Supporting Them • Building Future Worlds: from the Approach to Steering the Business towards a Better Future • Anchoring Sustainability in the Overall Strategy to Drive Scale • Mobilizing the Organization: Building a Content Platform to Enable Self-Service on Sustainability • Setting up an Internal Intrapreneurship Program to Drive Circularity & Trigger Ideas • Measuring Social and Lifecycle Impact and Linking This to Corporate Targets and Assessments • Collaborating Broadly: From Customers to Suppliers to the Ecosystem & Corporate Alliances • Innovating with Suppliers: Setting up a Recycling Facility & Identifying Local Partners to Drive Scale • Partnering with Ecosystem Stakeholders: From Product Design to Raising Customer Demand • Collaborating on Plastic Waste: from Creating New Uses to Increasing Value

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Propagating Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and a Customer Centric Mindset for Disruptive Innovation and Experimentation • Bringing Multifunctional Teams Together for Consumer-Centric Innovation • Leveraging Storytelling to Understand Consumers’ Behaviors and Attitudes • Combining Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile for Disruptive & Customer-Centric Innovation • Driving User-Centricity within It and Digital: And Converting Skeptics along the Way • Building Data Design Capability in a Tech-Driven Firm: Integrating Human Qualities in AI Solutions • Developing Meaningful Experiences around AI and Data • Key Elements for Development and User Adoption of Design-Centric AI Solutions at Scale • Applying a Consumer-Centric Approach Internally to Drive Innovation and Experimentation • Driving a Culture of Intrapreneurship: Building Creative Confidence in Multi-Disciplinary Teams • Encouraging Teams to Share Openly and Fail Frequently While Building Their Way to Success

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Agile Culture: Leveraging Agile to Manage Uncertainty in Innovation: from Discovery to Acceleration • Building a Culture and Organization for Flexibility and Digital Transformation • Organizing around Skills: Creating Six Chapters to Staff People into Projects Where They Fit Best • Managing Challenges in Driving Transformation: from Resistance to Mindset • Building a Feedback Culture with Openness and Transparency & Changing the Ways of Working • Facilitating Collaboration and Cross-Pollination through Training Everyone to Work Agile • Setting up an Interaction Model to Enable Digital Unit to Work in Partnership with the Business • Bringing Down Silos by Rotating People between Projects • Using Digitally Enabled Initiatives to Drive Communication across Hierarchies

Leadership: The Five Pillars of Leadership for Amplifying Agility and Learning • Leveraging Paired Leaders to Provide Management Services to Autonomous Teams • Building and Expanding on Psychological Safety to Lead with Impact • Changing the Ways of Leading and Empowering People • Overcoming Leadership’s Resistance to Change through Diverse Initiatives

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Building an Internal Incubator and Evolving the Set-up • Investing in Internal and External Start-up Activities beyond the Core • Creating New Business: From Management Support to Finding the Right Organizational Home • Sourcing Ideas and Innovation from Within: Supporting Intrapreneurs and Building Companies • Assembling the Right Team: From Leaving the Corporate Comfort Zone to Acting in Start-up Mode • Involving Internal and External Partners to Accelerate and Establish Knowledge • Managing the Challenge of Organizational Ambidexterity • Leveraging Internal Agency to Drive Digital: From Trend Research to Ideation • Combining Three Views of Innovation to Develop New Business Models • Reducing Hierarchies & Reporting for New Businesses and Managing Expectations • Transferring Knowledge with Design Thinking and Digital Business Model Programs • Using AIoT to Develop Business Models to Optimize Operations and Efficiency over Lifetime