Workshops 2021-2022
Interactive corporate-only events hosted by leading global companies
Hosted workshops are designed to enable in-depth knowledge exchange and dialogue between attendees about innovation challenges of their interest and how to implement specific innovation practices in their firms.
Each workshop is attended by 160-200 innovation executives and includes:
Insightful presentations by executive speakers and industry experts
Immersive roundtable discussions on selected topics
Informal networking breaks to build connections
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Upcoming Events
Innovating for Sustainability and Defossilization Building Circularity and Sustainability into Product & Service Innovation, Reducing Carbon Emissions through Innovation, and Leveraging Partnerships & Ecosystems
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Evonik, Philips, BASF, P&G, Danone
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Evonik • Transforming the Organization: Rationale, Approach & Lessons Learned
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Evonik • Partnering with Companies Along the Value Chain to Create Circular Solutions
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights & challenges
Philips • Embedding Sustainability in Innovation: Leveraging a Core Team & Building Partnerships
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BASF • The Sustainability, Circularity and Decarbonization Journey: Evolving the Approach, and Lessons Learned
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Roundtable Discussion II: Collaborative Marketplace
P&G • Business Failures in Circular Economy Initiatives – What Can We Learn
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Danone • Towards Sustainable Packaging: Building Alliances & Key Success Factors
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Panel & Plenary Sharing
Drinks on the Premises
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Taking a Holistic Approach to Sustainability: from Changing Operations to Identifying Opportunities • Getting Various Stakeholders on Board and Convincing Management • What It Takes to Succeed with Circular Initiatives on Waste: from Mental Shift to Collaboration • Managing the Complexity of the Transformation to Circularity • Focusing on Customer Needs and Pairing GHG Emission Goals with Growth Targets • Exploring Different Custody Chain Models to Accelerate Transition to Circularity • Taking a Business Model Approach to Innovate for Circularity and Learning on the Go • Creating a Circular Take-Back System: from Starting Small to Building a Reverse Supply Chain • Collaborating with Brand Owners and Suppliers to Drive Circular Projects and Create Visibility • Building Partnerships across the Value Chain & Managing a Multidimensional Program
Innovation Leadership & Agile Culture for Times of Change Leading Innovation during Uncertainty and Transformation – and Cultivating a Nimble and Agile Innovation Culture across the Company to Deal with Disruptions on Multiple Fronts
Speakers:
Evonik, Spotify, Ericsson, BASF, Tetra Pak
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Evonik • From Innovator to Incubator: Using an Agile Approach to Dealing with Uncertainty with the Discovery, Incubation, and Acceleration Process
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Ericsson • Leading Towards Business Agility
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Roundtable Discussion I: Choice between: 1) How to Find the Right Approach, that is Fit-for-Purpose in Your Business Context, facilitated by Hendrik Esser; 2) Topics of choice
Spotify • The Five Pillars of Leadership for Amplifying Agility and Learning – Creating Patterns for a New Reality, Building on Psychological Safety
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BASF • The Devil is in the Details: Making Agile Work in R&D
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Roundtable Discussion II: Choice between: 1) Explore the Common Pitfalls of Adopting Agile within R&D, facilitated by Cordelia Krooss; 2) Topics of choice
Tetra Pak • Agile Journey – Creating a Movement
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Panel & Plenary Sharing
Drinks on the Premises
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Leadership: The Next Steps in Leadership: How Leadership Must Adapt to Amplify Agility • Leaders’ Role in Nurturing Agile Culture through Practical Storytelling and Visualization • Building and Expanding on Psychological Safety to Lead with Impact and Compassion
Agile: Building an Adaptive Organization and Empowering People for a VUCA World • Applying Systems Thinking and Scaling up across Different Functions • Agile Transformation Journey: from Experimental Scrum Team to Agile R&D • Adapting Agile to R&D Context, and Managing Frictions from Project Setup to Interdependencies • Involving Individual Contributors and Line Managers to Accelerate Agile Adoption • Using Organizational System Retrospectives to Reveal (Side) Effects • Ensuring Methods Are Fit-For-Purpose to Challenges at Hand • Leveraging Agile to Manage Uncertainty in Innovation: From Discovery to Acceleration • Enabling Experimentation in Building Cross-Functional Teams • Leveraging the Full Potential of Agile: from People and Processes to Systems and Data
Circular and Sustainable Solutions & Partner Ecosystems Reshaping Products, Services and Value Chains for Circularity and Recycling; Leveraging Networks & Ecosystems; IP in Ecosystems; Partnering at the Event
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Tetra Pak, P&G, IKEA, Dell Technologies, Schneider Electric, Lund University, Klabin
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Tetra Pak • Collaborative Innovation Ecosystem to Tackle Sustainability Challenges
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P&G • Towards Circular Consumption Models & Creating a Systems Change – Insights and Challenges on Engaging Internally and Externally
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights & challenges
Schneider Electric • Seizing Opportunities in a Circular Economy
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IKEA • Innovating for Circularity and Sustainability: Organizational Set-Up, Engaging People Internally, and Partnering Externally
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Tetra Pak & Klabin • Fireside Chat
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Roundtable Discussion II: Collaborative Marketplace
Dell Technologies • Driving Sustainability at Scale – Leveraging Moonshot Projects, Shifting towards Services, and Collaborating Across the Ecosystem
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Lund University • Business & Industrial Sustainability Transition – What Works and What Doesn’t
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Circularity & Sustainability: What Drives Sustainability and What Doesn’t: from Regulations to Financial Drivers • Integrating Sustainability across All Functions and Evolving the Approach • Driving Circularity: From Setting Targets to Creating Incentives and Incubation Challenges • Engaging the Salesforce & Identifying Early Customer Adopters to Build Momentum • Connecting Sustainability & Innovation from Innovation Funnel to Development • Building Circular Business Models • Bridging Upstream and Downstream Initiatives and Targets & Enabling Circular Loops • Managing Changing Regulations & Running Multi Development Tracks • Addressing the Price Gap for Refurbished Products to Create Impact with Circular Solutions • How Industry 4.0 Facilitates Optimized Production with Less Energy & Sustainable Maintenance
Ecosystems: Building Win-Win Partnerships and Developing Second Life Solutions • Managing Complex and Multi-Partner Development Remotely • Empowering Multi-Party Teams to Move Quickly with Discipline and Minimal Oversight • Collaborating Broadly: from Suppliers to Customers to Foundations • Adopting New IPR and Licensing Models
Sustainability, Decarbonization & Foresighting Innovating to Decarbonize the Supply Chain; Foresighting, Trends and Building Future Worlds for Sustainability; Leveraging Sustainable Materials and Emerging Technologies
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Tetra Pak, Essity, Stora Enso, IKEA, Lund University, Audi, Renault Trucks
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Tetra Pak • Circularity and Decarbonization of the Food Value Chain – Embedding the Strategy Internally & Lessons Learned on Working with Suppliers, Customers, and the Ecosystem
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Essity • Embedding Innovation for Sustainability with Focus on Well-Being, More From Less & Circularity
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights & challenges
IKEA • Building a Regenerative Future World: The Process, Learnings and Key Concepts
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Lund University • Industry 4.0 and Connectivity: Enabling Technologies for Sustainability
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Stora Enso • Developing Circular Packaging Solutions & Collaborating with Universities
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Roundtable Discussion II: Collaborative Marketplace
Renault Trucks • Building Second-Life Solutions: Addressing the Price Gap and Partnering with the Ecosystem
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Audi • Collaborating with the Supply Chain on Decarbonization – and Changing Internal Perspectives
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Integrating Decarbonization Strategy Upstream & Embedding It into Internal Operations • Creating Hands-on Workshops to Work with Suppliers on Decarbonization • Managing the Complexity and Diversity of a Large Supply Chain with Different Knowledge Bases • Creating Incentives for the Supply Chain & Leveraging Blockchain to Monitor Progress • Changing Internal Perspectives & Getting Procurement on Board • Shifting Towards Circular Models of Consumption & Managing the Systems Change • Working with Customers and Producers Downstream • Building Internal & External Engagement: from Finding the Right Partners to Ensuring Success • Partnering with the Ecosystem to Create Circular Solutions for Collection and Recycling
Digital Business Model Innovation & Incubation Building Ambidextrous Innovation and Lean Startup Capabilities for New Business Creation and Digital Transformation
Culture & Leadership for Innovation & Customer Centricity Engendering Culture and Leadership for Customer Centric Innovation – and for Collaboration & Creativity in an Era of New Ways of Working and Remote Work
Digital Transformation & Leveraging AI & IoT Creating Digital Solutions & Connected Products, Building and Implementing New Business Models, and Driving Digital Transformation in the Organization
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Digital Innovation: leveraging digital technologies to create new value propositions and business models, creating digital platform and service-oriented business models, and organizing for digital transformation.
IoT: building smart products, connecting products to get closer to customers and create new value for them, leveraging IoT to optimize operations, ensuring end-to-end control of the supply chain, and enabling connected customer journeys.
AI: understanding AI use cases, leveraging AI for innovation and value creation, and using AI to improve decisions.
Design Thinking, Lean Startup & Agile Creating an Integrated Innovation Approach and Culture Using Elements of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile
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Design Thinking: making Design Thinking available to teams inside the firm and co-creating with customers.
Lean Startup: using experimentation and iteration and MVPs – also in asset-heavy industries.
Agile: being agile, and getting people and leaders on board.
Linking the Three Approaches: challenges & limitations of each, and using them in an integrated way to boost innovation in complex firms.
Business Building & Startup Partnerships Creating and Scaling New Businesses from Inside and with External Startups & Accelerators - Beyond Early Stage and Prototypes
Culture of Intrapreneurship & Customer Orientation Propagating Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and a Customer Centric Mindset for Disruptive Innovation and Experimentation
Business Model Innovation & Agile Organization Creating New (Digital) Business Models and Building an Agile Organization and Culture for the Age of Digitalization and Uncertainty
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Business Model Innovation: innovating beyond the core, finding & validating new business models, encouraging new ideas and startups from within.
Agile Organization and Culture: large-scale agile transformation in a multinational company, becoming fast and adaptive to compete in the Chinese context and ecosystem, supporting leaders in making the shift to an agile mindset, and spreading agile culture through storytelling and agility coaches.
Innovation & Ecosystems for Sustainability & Circularity Creating Value with Innovation for Sustainability and Circular Business Models – and Leveraging Ecosystems for Innovation
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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.
People, Culture & Leadership for Digital Transformation Implementing an Agile Culture for a Digital World, Enabling People and Talent to Thrive, Training Leaders, and Adopting a Mindset of Fail, Learn, and Trust
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Siemens • The Internet of Humans: Why People Matter in IoT Transformations
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights and challenges on people, culture, leadership, and agility for digital transformation
Airbus • Building Digital Businesses: Lessons Learned on Culture and People Competencies Required for Success
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Covestro • A Digital Transformation Journey: How to Enter a Completely New Area within a Conservative Industry
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Volvo Cars • Driving Agile Transformation with Behavior Change and Early Adopters
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Roundtable Discussion II: 1) Tools & Games for Ideation and Innovation in Teams (moderated by Adidas); 2) Selection of topics
Wärtsilä • Driving Digital Transformation through Culture – and Implications for Leadership
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People, Culture and Leadership for Digital Transformation: Creating a Smart Technology Culture with Five Dimensions • Scaling the IoT Transformation by Focusing on the Role of People • Training Senior Leaders to Enable Them to Become Supporters of the Digital Transformation • Developing Leadership Models by Identifying Core Traits & Business-Specific Skillsets • Starting the Transformation with a Core Group of Enthusiasts and Senior Leaders – and Then Consolidating • Leveraging Grassroots Initiatives & Consolidating to Formulate and Implement Strategy • Changing Rules and Removing Rigidities to Enable Talent to Thrive • Building the Right Digital and Business Capabilities & Initiating the Right Digital Projects • Building Digital Businesses – from Platforms to Solutions and Monetizing Assets
Implementing Agile for Digital Transformation: Building the “Fail, Learn and Trust” Environment for Innovation • Fostering Adoption of Agile by Changing Behaviors & Getting Leadership on Board • Managing the Interface Between Agile and Non-Agile Teams • Driving Change by Working with Early Adopters to Reach Critical Mass
From Technology Prototype to Scaling Business Scaling (Digital) Technologies from PoC and Creating Digital Services and New Business Models
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Siemens • Building a New Business – a Startup Inside Siemens
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Bosch • Growing New Businesses in a Corporate Setting: Motivation, Approaches, and Lessons Learned
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Tetra Pak • Moving From PoC to Scaling Digital Business: Lessons Learned from Digital Initiatives within the Tetra Pak Services Business
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AkzoNobel • Incubating Digital Businesses from Prototype to Scaling – and Overcoming the Organizational Obstacles
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Roundtable Discussion II: 1) Evaluation of Business Models, moderated exercise; 2) Selection of topics
Sanofi • Collaborating with a Startup Accelerator, Clustering New Business Opportunities, and Introducing an Agile Approach to New Business Creation
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Wacker • Creating Tomorrow’s New Businesses in Silicon Valley
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Fireside Chat (with speakers from Sanofi and Wacker): Front End of Disruptive Innovation: Internal Startups in Silicon Valley & External Startups with Accelerator
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Creating New Businesses and Digital Services: Developing and Incubating New Digital & Service-Based Businesses • Setting Up an Incubator to Drive Change and Prepare the Organization for the Future • Overcoming Organizational Challenges to Accelerating Digital Innovation • Involving Employees in Entrepreneurial Activities – from Bottom-Up to Top-Down Initiatives • Evaluating Business and Technology Readiness for a Clear Path Forward • Leveraging Tools for Digital Innovation and Servitization - from Innovation Story Canvas to Where to Play • Getting the Sales Department on Board with Digital Services • Tailoring the Approach to Projects Based on Topics and Proximity to the Core • Leveraging Machine Learning to Generate Data Streams and Develop APIs
Scaling New Businesses: Involving the Right People & Getting Leadership Support • Managing Adoption Challenges to Ensure Success • Measuring Progress & Making Evidence-Based Decisions • Focusing on Real User Problems – Learning & Iterating • Enabling a Continuous Loop of Creating PoCs – Accelerating and Rolling Out
Global Startup Collaboration & Corporate Venturing Accessing Digital & Sustainability Startups in Global Hubs; Using Internal/External Incubators; Collaborating with and Investing in Startups
Design Sprints for Innovation & Market Growth Using State of the Art Design Thinking & Rapid Prototyping Techniques to Learn about Customer Needs and to Speed up Innovation & Business Development
Culture of Design Thinking & Innovation Instilling Design Thinking, Experimentation, and Agility into the Organization – and Rethinking Management Principles
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Volvo Group • Applying Design Thinking in a Satellite Hub and Contributing to the Transformation of the Volvo Group
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Stanford University • Dancing With Ambiguity: What Every Company Tries Desperately to Avoid
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights and challenges on Innovation Culture & Design Thinking
Amazon • Applying Human Centered Design in the Car and Balancing Safety and Engagement
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Nike • The Role of Agile Program Management for Bringing in Design Thinking Principles and Innovation to the Organization
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Intuit • Designing for Agile Delight! Customer Obsessed and Data Driven Innovation
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Roundtable Discussion II: 1) Exercise on Design for Delight and Measuring Agility in the Organization; 2) Selection of topics
Samsung NEXT • Reorienting The Design Thinking & Making Process for a Stronger Customer Journey
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Philips • Defining the Roles of Multidisciplinary “Design Thinkers” and Full Stack Designers in the Process of Applying Human Centered Design Principles at Philips
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Implementing Inclusive and User-Centric Methodologies • Finding Ambassadors to Diffuse Design Thinking Throughout the Organization • Leveraging and Balancing Waterfall and Agile for User-Centric Solutions • Seeking Diverse Perspectives to Generate New Ideas • Creating Prototypes Early and Iterating Based on User Feedback • Using a Variety of Design Thinking Tools to Understand Consumer Needs & Journeys • Integrating Innovation Practices in Agile Implementation • Using NeuroDesign to Re-Design Teams’ Thinking and Performance • Navigating and Aligning with a Vast Number of Teams and Functions • Implementing a Four-Stage People-Centric Approach for Smart & Value-Creating Solutions • Design for Delight Process – From Deep Empathy to Rapid Experiments with Customers • Increasing Capacity & Speed of Design Sprints and Reviews • Slowly Evolving from a Design Service Function to Strategic Integration • Positioning a Design Thinking Mindset Versus Process-Thinking Within the Core Organization while Embracing Ambiguity
Gamechanging Innovation with Startup Ecosystems Plugging into Startup Ecosystems Effectively and Leveraging Silicon Valley to Boost Business Model Innovation and Transformation
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Volvo Group • Corporate-Startup Innovation 101: A Playbook to Innovate With Startups in a Systematic and Purposeful Way
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Gore • Creating Opportunity and Growth Through Establishing a Silicon Valley Outpost and Leveraging an Ecosystem
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Roundtable Discussion I: Issues of Special Interest
SAP.iO • Strategically Collaborating with Startups to Meet Specific Business Needs Inside the Organization
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Schneider Electric • Innovation at the Edge – Creating and Nurturing Disruptive Businesses
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Johnson & Johnson • Presentation title tba
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U.C. Berkeley • Working with Startups to Capture Value from Disruptive Innovation
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Roundtable Discussion II: 1) Exercise around self assessment and opportunity assessment using the Fit and Location Matrix (facilitated by UC Berkley speaker); 2) Selection of topics
Cisco • Startups and Corporates: Learning From Each Other to Co-Innovate, Win-Together and Prosper
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Wrap Up
Drinks on the premises
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Building Blocks for Corporate-Startup Innovation • Identifying the Most Promising Ideas and Transforming Them into Full-Fledged Business Plans • Building the Right Teams That Can Successfully Execute & Accelerate Business Plans • Engaging Key Stakeholders & Business Lines to Ensure Strategic Alignment with the Core • Finding the Right People for Successful Startup Collaboration • Strategies & Management Practices to Create Win-Win Outcomes for All Stakeholders in a Complex Innovation Ecosystem • Frontloading Riskiest Assumption Testing for Informed Decision-Making • Creating Quick Wins & Effectively Communicating the Value Throughout the Organization • Management Framework to Assess Organization’s Strategies & Capabilities to Execute Against Challenges • Establishing Tangible and Intangible KPIs & Metrics • Using a Diverse Committee to Select the Best Startups • Creating Focused Programs for Strategic Startup Partnerships • Running an Effective Innovation Outpost for Outside-In & Inside-Out Tech Exchange with Startups • Leveraging Global Innovation Programs to Establish Diverse Partnerships for Gamechanging Solutions
Internal & External Startups for New Business Creation Supporting Intrapreneurs and Leveraging External Startups to Build New Business Models
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Internal Startups and Intrapreneurs: getting the right people on board, encouraging new ideas and startups from within, nurturing an innovation culture where intrapreneurs can create startups, getting business units to invest in ideas and startups, assessing the readiness of startups to transition to operating units, and building a gamechanging innovation proficiency.
Collaborating with External Startups for Growth: attracting and leveraging startups, collaborating with them, partnering with incubators & accelerators, adapting processes to the speed of startups, forming & scaling partnerships, and following the venture market.
Digital Transformation & Technology Trends Mastering Digital Innovation with IoT & AI and Transforming the Organization
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Digital Transformation: building digital business models and platforms, leveraging digital to create new services, changing customer relationships, rethinking value chains, and creating smart and connected products that leverage IoT and enable new value propositions.
Organizational Transformation: creating an organizational capability for digital business model innovation, setting up a digital incubation unit and balancing centralization vs business unit ownership.
Customer & Employee Engagement for Sustainability Engaging Employees within the Firm and Working Across Silos; Building Customer Communities Around a Purpose-Driven Identity; Involving Partners in Creating Solutions
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ENGIE • Even Big Companies can Innovate: Funding and Organizing for New Business Creation, Leveraging Startups, Spotting Weak Signals, and Embracing Digital Innovation
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New Design University St. Pölten • How to Find Business Model Innovation Ideas and Introduce Them to the Market: Innovation Culture as a Key Success Factor
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Roundtable Discussion I: 1) Exercise on Rethinking Business Models; 2) Exercise on Innovating and Scaling in Ecosystems; 3) Selection of topics
Volvo Car Mobility • Building a Fully Standalone Company to Offer a Real Alternative to Car Ownership in Cities
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Konica Minolta • Creating, Incubating and Scaling New Digital Businesses: Organizing, Success Factors and Partnering with Startups
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Roundtable Discussion II: 1) Exercise on Rethinking Business Models; 2) Exercise on Innovating and Scaling in Ecosystems; 3) Selection of topics
Volkswagen Group • Incubating and Accelerating New Business Models, Creating Digital Services, and Managing Organizational Obstacles
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Bosch • The Journey of Developing a Digital Business and Scaling It within a Large Firm
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Wrap up and Plenary Sharing
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Customer Centric Innovation & Portfolio Management Making Customer-Informed Portfolio Decisions; Investing Beyond Prototypes for New Market Leadership; Using Customer Insights & Market Experiments for Innovation
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ENGIE • Being Customer Centric in New Business Creation and in a B2B Context – and Allocating Resources in a New Business Creation Context
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Philips • Needs-Driven Innovation Portfolio: Balancing Core vs. New Business
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights and challenges
Solvay • Portfolio Management: Leveraging Agility and Customer-Validated Insights for Breakthrough Innovation
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Danone • Driving User Centricity: Generating User Experience Insights, Co-Designing with Users, Changing Mindsets and Engaging Internally
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Roundtable Discussion II: Selection of topics
P&G • Shaping the Future: Designing Future Ideas with Today’s Consumers
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Portfolio Management: Ensuring Agility in Executing Portfolio Choices • Using Strategy and Real Customer Needs to Drive Portfolio Choices • Balancing Investments in the Core versus New Business • Balancing Long-Term Focus on Technology Platforms with Fast Decisions on Specific Projects
Customer-Centric Innovation: Driving a Customer-Centric Mindset throughout the Organization • Leveraging Digital Tools to Enable Fast Delivery of Breakthrough Projects • Applying a Customer-Centric Approach for New Business Creation Tailored to B2B • Co- Designing and Iterating with Different Tribes of Users • Embedding User-Centric Teams within the Business and Operations • Using Prototypes and Market Experiments for New Business Creation • Building a Strong Global Community to Drive User Centricity – and Working Cross-Functionally • Anticipating Users’ Needs by Leveraging User Observation and Google Search Analysis • Making Go/ No-Go Decisions and Resource Allocation within a New Business Creation Context • Getting Quantitative Customer Input Early and throughout the Innovation Process
AI, Robotics, Industrial Cloud & Digital Experiments Leveraging AI, Robotics, and Industrial Cloud for Business Innovation and Doing Digital Experiments to Refine Value Propositions
Open Innovation, Co-Creation & Ecosystems Co-Creating with Startups, Customers, Suppliers & Universities; Leveraging Ecosystems for Sustainability, Digital & New Tech; Setting Up Multilateral (EU) Projects
IoT, AI and Digital Service Models – and the Role of UX Leveraging AI and IoT, Moving Beyond Products into Services & Software-Oriented Business Models, Understanding UX, and Identifying Profitable Value Propositions
Working Lean & Agile and Attracting Digital Talent Creating a Lean & Agile Culture with MVP Experiments – and Attracting Talented Software Engineers with the Right Infrastructure and Opportunities
Digital Technologies & Startup Partnerships Embracing Digital Transformation and Emerging Technologies (e.g. AI, IoT, and Blockchain) for Innovation & Growth – and Collaborating with Digital Startups
Culture of Transformation, Resilience & Collaboration Engaging and Empowering the Workforce for Innovation & Digitalization, Breaking Down Silos, and Using Innovation for Resilience to External Shocks (e.g. Corona)
Transforming Culture for Agility, Trust and Purpose Agile at Scale for the Digital Era; The Role of Trust & Psychological Safety in Agile & Innovative Organizations; Instilling Purpose to Build a Sustainable Future
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Ericsson • Leading Towards Business Agility
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Manchester Business School • Creating the Environment for Innovation Through Agile Leadership: Learning, Experimentation and Collaboration to Innovate in an Age of Uncertainty
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Roundtable Discussion I: 1) 8 ways to scale agile; 2) Insights and challenges in leadership for innovation, agile and transformation; 3) Selection of topics
Thales • ‘Transformation’ – Lessons From Experience; A Systemic View and the Role of Leadership in Complex Organisations
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Bosch • Agile Transformation Journey: Establishing New Ways of Leadership, Collaboration and Organization
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Roundtable Discussion II: 1) Applying the systemic approach, exercise by Adrian Terry; 2) How to find the right approach, exercise by Hendrik Esser; 3) Selection of topics
BP • Driving Agility and New Ways of Working for Digital Transformation – and Adapting Leadership Principles
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Continental • Taking a Holistic and Purpose- Driven Approach to Transformation, Adapting Leadership Principles, and Driving Agile
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Startup Collaboration, Sustainability & Circularity Innovating for Circular & Sustainable Solutions and Business Models; Leveraging External Startups for New Business Creation and Circular Economy
Culture of Collaboration & Customer Centricity Culture of Purpose for a Sustainable Future, of Internal & External Collaboration, and of Customer Driven Innovation
Previous Events
Business Transformation with Digital, Data Analytics, & AI Developing an Organization & Culture for Digital Transformation; Creating Digital Business Models & Services; and Leveraging Data, Analytics & AI
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Volvo Cars, Ingka Group, Linde Group, Baker Hughes, The Lego Group, Coloplast, Ørsted
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Linde Group • The Digital Journey: Pivoting, Getting Buy-In from People in the Businesses, Working with Champions for Change, and Leveraging Agile & Design Thinking
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Ingka Centres (IKEA) • Three Stages of a Digital Transformation Journey: Balancing Central vs Local, Agile vs Non-Agile
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The LEGO Group • The Digital Transformation Path: Building Digital Capabilities and Aligning the Organization
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Coloplast • Moving into Connected Products & Becoming More Agile – Getting Management on Board & Adapting the Organization
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Coloplast, Ingka Centres, Linde Group, The LEGO Group • Panel: The Digital Journey – and Becoming Agile
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Volvo Cars • Making Applied AI Work in a Large Corporation: Lessons Learned on the Maturity Journey
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Baker Hughes • Data, Talent, Culture: Key Elements and Pitfalls in Using AI In Industry
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Ørsted • Panel: AI, Data and Analytics
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Creating Data-Based Business Models and Services • Organizing in Value Streams with Autonomous Teams • Working in an Agile Way and Applying Lean Startup and Design Thinking in a Mixed Physical and Digital Space • Building a Community from Four Historically Distinct and Siloed Business Units • Combining Different Data Sources to Create New Cross-Industry Use Cases • Reskilling and Upskilling the Workforce – and Recruiting the Right People from Outside • Embracing Agile Management Methods • Balancing Capabilities and Customer Needs to Create Meaningful Innovations • Aligning Business Units and Their Data Processing in a Multi-Divisional Company • Becoming More Agile and Driving Culture Change • Raising Awareness of AI’s Potential and Managing Expectations • Leveraging Ambidexterity to Both Deliver on Current Projects and Innovate • Managing the Complexity of the Interaction between Digital and Physical for Organizations with Physical Legacy
Internal and External Startups & Ecosystems Creating New Businesses Inside the Company and Working with External Startups, Ecosystems, and Universities to Boost Innovation
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Danone, Airbus, Bosch, Porsche, Henkel, ABB, Rotterdam School of Management
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Danone • Open Innovation and Partnerships at Danone: Leveraging Ecosystems and Collaboration for Purpose-Driven Innovation
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Airbus • Launching a New CV Model for New Business Creation – The Rationale, Transition Journey and Set-Up
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights & Challenges
Bosch • Lessons Learned in Incubating New Ventures – and Embedding These Experiences in a Digital Tool to Guide and Validate Internal Startups
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Porsche • Company Building Beyond the Core: Working Eye-Level With External Entrepreneurs
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Porsche Forward 31 | Aware • Fireside chat: Experiences from a corporate-startup partnership
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Henkel • New Business Creation: Taking a User-Centric Approach, Seeding Innovation Internally, and Acceleration through Partnering
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Rotterdam School of Management • What It Takes to Make Open Innovation Work: The Role of Internal Alignment and of Getting Ecosystems Right
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ABB • Panel & Plenary Sharing
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Internal Startups: Setting up a New Business Unit and Organizing Around Capabilities vs. Legacy • Taking a User Centric Approach: from Immersing with Customers to Testing • Leveraging a Digital Tool for New Business Creation and Validation • Developing Criteria for New Venture Evaluation to Ensure Successful Scaling • Integrating New Ventures Into the Business Unit • Managing Challenges in Leveraging Lean, Agile and Scrum in Large Corporations
External Startups & Ecosystems: Developing New Capabilities for Collaboration and Transformation • Identifying Opportunities & Teaming up with Entrepreneurs to Build & Incubate Business Models • Company Building with Founders: Approach & Collaboration Principles • Identifying Relevant KPIs for Game-Changing Innovation and External Technology • Enabling Collaborative Ways of Working for Purpose Driven Innovation
Innovation for Sustainability and Customer Value Building Circular Business Models, and Innovating for Sustainability with Partners and Ecosystems, to Create Value for Both Business and Society
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Danone, ABN AMRO, Philips, DSM, Hitachi, Schneider Electric, Grundfos
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Danone • For the People without the People Is Against the People: Responsibly Innovating for the Long-Term
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Schneider Electric • Seizing Opportunities in a Circular Economy
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights & challenges
Hitachi • Incubating Circular Business Models: Building Capabilities & Co-Creating with Partners
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ABN AMRO • Building an Ecosystem to Drive Circular Business Models – Lessons Learned in Collaborating with Sustainability Startups & Scaleups
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ABN AMRO, Hitachi, Schneider Electric • Panel: Circular Business Models and Partnerships
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Philips • Creating a Movement to Scale Circular Innovation
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Roundtable Discussion II: Collaborative marketplace
DSM • Lessons Learned on the Journey to Maturity in Sustainability
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Sandvik • Setting up a Strategic Business Unit, Managing Challenges in Sustainability, and Partnering with the Wider Ecosystem
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Danone, Philips, DSM, Grundfos • Panel: Building Sustainable, User Centric, and Ethical Businesses – with Partners and in Ecosystems
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Drinks on the premises
Abstract
Building Circular Business Models: Tying Circularity to Business Needs • Setting up and Managing a Strategic Business Unit for Building New Business • Piloting and Incubating Circular Business Models on a Product as a Service Basis • Building Capabilities for Circular Business Models and Identifying the Right Partners • Engaging, Co-Designing and Iterating with Customers • Leveraging Eco-Design to Enable Circular Loops • Driving User-Centricity and Organizing for It: Embedding User-Centric Teams within the Business • Collaborating Intimately with Business Leaders to Understand Customer Needs • Building an Ecosystem to Connect Sustainability Startups and Scale-Ups with Large Corporates • Embedding Sustainability within the Organization: Empowering People and Building Communities of Practice • Navigating Ethical and Social Challenges Related to Sustainability
Innovation & Partnerships for Sustainability Building Sustainable & Circular Business Models with Startups, Large Firms, Universities and the Wider Ecosystem; Identifying Collaboration Opportunities at the Event
Speakers:
Nestlé, Enel, BASF, AB InBev, Trinseo, Tetra Pak, OMYA
Agenda Outline
Nestlé • Innovating for Sustainability: Organizing, Driving Momentum and Leveraging the Ecosystem
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Roundtable Discussion I: Insights & challenges
Enel • Partnering with Sustainability and Circularity Startups and with Universities & Large Companies to Drive Enel’s Innovability Agenda
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BASF • Creating Circular Business Models: Setting up an Intrapreneurship Program and Collaborating with the Ecosystem
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AB InBev • Innovating for Circular Packaging: Collaborating with Startups & Ecosystems and Measuring Impact
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Roundtable Discussion II: Collaborative Marketplace
Tetra Pak • Innovation Partnerships for Sustainable Packaging Materials
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Trinseo • Developing Circular Solutions: Orchestrating Partnerships and Leveraging Dedicated Teams
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Omya • Building Solutions with Circular Loops and Linear Ends: Managing Legislation Challenges, Collaborating with Municipalities and Why Linear Matters for a Circular Economy
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Trinseo | Omya | AB InBev | Tetra Pak • Panel: Circular Business Models
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Drinks on the premises
Tour
Digital Transformation & Emerging Technologies Creating Digital Business Models – and Leveraging AI, Robotics and Blockchain
Speakers:
EPFL, Airbus, Danfoss, Nestlé, Schneider Electric, Yum! Brands
Agenda Outline
Yum! Brands • Accelerating Digital – Organizing for Innovation, New Digital Experience in Food, Leveraging AI & Robotics
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Roundtable Discussion I: Issues of Special Interest
Nestlé • Dos and Don’ts in Driving Digital Transformation, AI, and Automation
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Airbus • Lessons Learned in Leveraging Blockchain
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Yum! Brands | Nestlé | Airbus • Panel on Digital & Emerging Technologies
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Danfoss • Remain Relevant in the Era of Digitalization: Transforming a Component Business to Develop Digital Services and Build Organizational Capabilities to Leverage Digital Technology
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Roundtable Discussion II: Selection of topics
Schneider Electric • Building and Leveraging Digital Twins – Resolving a Common Challenge with a Joint Solution
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EPFL • Evolution in Robotics toward Softer and Interactive Applications
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Panel & Plenary Sharing
Drinks on the premises
Tour
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