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Rediscover your inner entrepreneur

All organisations are born entrepreneurial. Success brings size, size leads to established processes – and then things slow down.

CORE Innovator helps you rediscover your entrepreneurial genes by fostering an experimental culture in your core business. From procurement to HR, and from R&D to the C-suite, you can revitalise operations and humanise growth. Our approach is co-creative at heart. Together with our customers, we help answer the difficult questions: How to get closer to customers, take better risks, and test new products and services fast.

Open Innovation Programs

In most businesses, innovation is an outside-in approach. Collaboration with new kinds of partners – especially those who have shared goals and complementary strengths – lowers the cost of innovation and accelerates the transfer of talent and technology into your business to create new value for your customers.

How it works

We find and develop ‘unlikely partnerships’ in a wider ecosystem of innovative startups and corporates, then help you solve shared innovation challenges together. We design the framework to fit your organisation and your strategy, and then equip you with the tools and capabilities for fostering a naturally innovative culture.

Agile Execution Capabilities

The ability to respond to change quickly is a 21st century competitive advantage. And it requires strong execution capabilities in your organisation. Traditional management practices have to give way to explorative, experimental, and agile ways of working for businesses to stay relevant.

How it works

We upgrade your organisation with three inseparable components: an agile mindset, an organisational structure of teams and networks, and a set of leadership practices and process tools that speed up decision-making and execution in your business. We embed a set of new capabilities at your core, making sure they stick. And we add continuous improvement and learning to make sure you stay competitive.

CORE Innovator cases

Applying design sprint to accelerate development of innovation in Novozymes

The situation:

The biotech industry is, at its core, innovative. Technology, including biotech, is in a
constant state of evolution. Disruptive technologies are growing exponentially and
competition is increasing and putting pressure on innovation.

What did we achieve:

Early customer validation of the product innovation, resulting in a collaboration agreement between Novozymes and an innovation partner.
Enabled rapid evidence-driven decision-making– in this case the projects showed such positive results that it was decided to ramp up on budget and team
Increased learning and decreased risk by validating the desirability of the innovation with customers.
Delivered two months output in one week

The challenge:

Taking biotech products from idea to market is almost always a long journey. Evidence-driven decisions are key when it comes to choosing which projects to focus on. In Novozymes’ case, customer input is essential in determining which innovations have the most potential. The company asked Core Innovator to accelerate time-to-market by testing customer desirability of a specific innovation.

Approach:

Sprint planning:
- Gathering insights
- Identifying knowledge gaps and areas of opportunity
- Securing the right customers for product testing
Five-day Design Sprint focusing on desirability
Providing evidence-based recommendations for leadership

Developing an open innovation program for Dansk Industri to drive innovation in green tech

The situation:

Denmark is a global leader in green energy with ambitious climate action targets. However, investment in green tech innovation has stagnated over the past 10 years, and green energy exports are not growing as fast as the country would like.

Compared to other industries, the energy sector has been slow at leveraging digital technology and making use of data when it comes to creating new products and services. To tackle this issue, the Confederation of Danish Industry, Danish Energy, Microsoft & Energinet came together to create a platform for green tech innovation. The mission was to make Denmark a leading player in green tech innovation, similar to the country’s global market leadership in green energy.

The challenge:

We were challenged by the Confederation of Danish Industry, Energinet, and Microsoft Denmark to develop a collaborative approach to growth acceleration in the energy industry through innovation of green tech with a focus on energy flexibility and efficiency across the value chain. The client wanted a commercial approach that would, at the same time, have an impact on climate targets and generate commercial results in the short term.

The open innovation program needed to enable:

Development of innovative and commercial green tech solutions in open partnerships across sectors.
Growth of Danish green tech startups through partnerships and access to capital.

Imagine if:

...we could leverage big data from utilities, energy production and consumption to enable efficient and flexible energy solutions for the future.
...we could connect industry with promising technologies and talents from a global ecosystem of technology-based startups.
...we could raise the bar and set bold ambitions to tackle the climate challenges while building a new generation of sustainable energy companies.

The approach:

We spent 100 days building an Open Innovation Program by designing and testing a prototype. It was co-created with the customer and with other potential members, and the process enabled the program to be ready for launch.

What we did:

Mapping of the Danish and European ecosystems of scale-ups and green energy organisations to understand gaps in the market and opportunities for collaboration.
Co-creation of an open innovation concept together with the customer and a handful of Danish corporates
Development of an open innovation program prototype including a business model, organisational structure, innovation themes, and membership structure.
Testing with potential members and onboarding of members on commercial terms.

Impact:

Developed and validated an Open Innovation Program the customer can take forward independently
DI and Danish Energy now have a strategic position and roadmap for how to accelerate innovation across sectors.
A better chance of realising the climate action targets through innovation in partnerships and fast execution of groundbreaking green tech solutions.

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