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Contact Us for more InfoXNode teamed up with Le Wagon and co-delivered three 3-day Wechat Mini Program Hackathons for Sanofi.
The hackathon aimed to empower Sanofi's in-house innovators to
through a series of tailor-made workshop and coaching.
XNode offered end to end solution, which includes:
And won the award of Sanofi Innovation Community Partner
On Nov 8, 2018, AEYE-GO received a capital investment from Sodexo Ventures as a direct result of the LaunchPad Program
“We are extremely excited to announce the first investment from Sodexo Ventures in China into AEYE-GO. We have always believed that combining the flexibility and creativity of local innovative startups with the fundamental know-how of Sodexo's will enable us to jointly build an ecosystem of digital and innovative services in China. We look forward to working with bigger, better and more powerful Chinese startups in the future to bring much higher value-added solutions and smarter experiences to our customers and consumers.”
Belen Moscoso Del Prado Lopez-Dóriga
Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, Sodexo
50+ brand managers
Kering China and APAC
2-day innovation workshop in Shanghai (powered by Fabernovel and XNode)
To gather in-depth knowledge on pre-determined topics relevant to Kering group’s strategy and get inspired by best innovation practices in different fields and industries
Various brand managers from China and the APAC region, as well as innovation team from the group
XNode organized 1-1 pitching workshop with the startups to refine their pitches and decks in preparation for the final demo day.
On November 8th 2019, GAC-SOFINCO’s demo day was held in Guangzhou with over 30 participants from different business units, and China CEO was one of the judges together with other BU heads. XNode was also invited to give a sharing about corporate innovation.
Final Pitch & Demo Day: 3 startups, 1 winner
XNode worked with OSRAM China BUs to scope and identify business opportunities. Together, 5 innovative ideas with clear pain points and opportunities were defined.
The goal of the X-Pioneer acceleration was to rapidly generate business impact for OSRAM. It also aims to leverage the speed and agility of startups in combination with the existing client network and resources of OSRAM to experiment with new business models.
XNode organized an ideation workshop with multiple BU teams to identify business challenges and opportunities for OSRAM.
At the end of the ideation session, outputs were:
On May 27th 2020, X-Pioneer demo day was held in Shanghai with over 40 participants from different business units including smart lighting, automotive, and smart city.
Adopt and apply a completely new entrepreneurial process and mindset;
Help internal teams validate their innovative ideas with real customers and leads to more launching opportunities;
Accelerate the process of prototyping and building Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to go to market faster.
A multitude of BU’s and markets all with its own dynamics and interests;
Time-consuming and costly process for idea and concept development;
The challenge to quickly learn from the market feedback and improve iteratively.
Lean Startup Methodology:
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence:
Stakeholder Engagement:
Scouting top-notch Chinese start-ups for collaboration on both business and tech development with the aim to become the partner and early adopting venture client of selected startups.
BMW did not have the connection with startups, entrepreneurs, community and network
Lack of experience in creating and managing Proof of Concepts, Pilots and Business cases together with startups
On Oct. 12th 2018, BMW Ideation Workshop was held in Beijing.
Together with colleague from 4 Bus(business unit), we helped to better clarify the challenges and pain points faced by BMW
(1) Discover new business opportunities (2) Learn from the innovation eco-system in China (3)Find collaboration with local innovation partners (4) inspire employees to engage in entrepreneurship
Oney Wake up call: a tailor-made journey to discover innovation from different angles, understand the entrepreneurial mindset, and see innovation best practices. With the ultimate goal of shifting the perspective of Oney employees to drive real change