Services to accelerate and scale your innovative projects

Services

We have developed customized tools to help you make innovation happen and turn innovative ideas into profitable businesses.

Do you need support in identifying promising innovation areas outside your business? Do you want to test and validate ide as that sit on your table? Do you want to accelerate and scale your innovative projects?

We have a tool for each of your needs, that we customize to each specific case, covering the entire innovation process. You can combine them to develop an idea from inception to unicorn or cherry-pick the one that best suits your needs.

WHAT’S NEXT MAPPING

Industries are undergoing an unprecedented degree of uncertainty and change. This causes challenges for many companies, but change is also an opportunity to design and implement new solutions and business models.

The question many executives face is where to focus – and where not to focus – innovation investments.

We have developed a data driven approach to identify new business opportunities and help executives prioritize a portfolio of opportunities to prioritize, as well as a tool to understand the organization’s readiness to capture these opportunities.

CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP MACHINE

Innovation shall be seen as more than just a project: it needs to become an integral capability within the organization.

When companies involve their employees in the innovation process, it becomes easier to align the strategy and connect the team to the “why” behind initiatives.

This higher level of engagement leads to improved talent retention – one of the challenges in today’s talents market.

We provide the tools to identify and nurture corporate entrepreneurs, helping to accelerate internal innovation development.

START-UP ALLIANCE

Collaboration between start-ups and corporates is not always smooth.

Countless collaborations between corporates and start-ups failed because the two do not speak the same language, do not travel at the same speed, do not look at risks and opportunities in the same way.

We build the bridges that allow corporates to leverage on the dynamism of the best start-ups to accelerate growth with frictionless collaboration.

CORPORATE VENTURE BUILDING

Venture building allows to quickly explore, exploit, own, new strategic growth areas in the adjacencies of your core business: this is where new entrants and competition will emerge.

Take advantage of new technologies, channels, changes in customer behaviour, or regulatory developments by launching new products, services or disruptive business models.

We develop with and for corporates new ventures in the proximity of the core business, that can contribute to growth in 4-5 years. When the time comes to leverage your competitive advantage, the ventures are ready to be integrated and be part of the group portfolio.

WHAT’S NEXT MAPPING

NEXT®: OPPORTUNITY MAPPING

Identify where to grow next, how the competition is moving and spot opportunities for innovation with our methodology CH NEXT ® that includes start-up scouting, VC investment mapping, and patents analysis to map adjacencies’ attractiveness.

INTERNAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE

Leverage on employees’ creativity to generate new business ideas, spot customers’ needs, accelerate growth.

VALUE-CHAIN INNO-WORKSHOP

We bring together your team, suppliers, customers, and partners, to identify shared challenges and co-create solutions.

START-UP & TECH SCOUTING

We track the direction of top start-ups in your business to uncover innovation opportunities and identify the best ones for collaboration.

CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP MACHINE

FUTURE READINESS ASSESSMENT

Is your organization ready to the capture the evolving needs of your industry? We assess with you the “starting point” for your organization to identify the areas to improve.

INNOVATION GOVERNANCE

We help you build discipline around the creative process of innovation, structuring innovation governance, processes and tools.

SPARKSPACE INNOVATION PLATFORM

Our innovation platform SparkSpace has already supported industry leaders in building a community of corporate innovators, disseminate innovation news and nurture engagement.

SPARK TALENT PROGRAM

We have developed a custom coaching and training program to turn talents into corporate entrepreneurs, giving them the tools to turn ideas into business opportunities.

START-UP ALLIANCE

OPPORTUNITY VALIDATION

We build and validate together with your team and the start-up the joint business case, technical and commercial feasibility and define a joint roadmap.

BUSINESS PROOFING

We ensure with field pilots that the joint business is sound, gathering customer feedback and ensuring smooth start-up – corporate communication.

ADOPTION ACCELERATION

Corporate bureaucracy is where innovation fails. We act as pace setters and keep all stakeholders up-to-speed, preserving momentum and ensuring business results.

SCALING AND ACQUIRING

We support start-ups’ scaling while maximizing corporates’ revenue and margin growth, and preparing both sides for a smooth M&A when strategically aligned.

CORPORATE VENTURE BUILDING

FEASIBILITY ASSESMENT

We minimize the risk in the innovation process with a full pre- and prototipation. We build MVPs and engage early customers in ideas’ definition.

LAUNCH AND VALIDATION

We have a consolidated methodology to carry out the first pilots, gather insights, iterate and finalize the business concept.

CONSOLIDATE AND SCALING

We manage the new venture, staff the team, develop customers and sales until break even and beyond, and build the path to growth.

BUSINESS INTEGRATION

We facilitate the re-insertion of the venture into corporate operations with governance and incentive mechanisms, shared roadmaps, collaborative sessions.