Case Studies

Sanofi Hackathon 2020

Program Overview

XNode 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

‍Refine their innovative ideas,
Try to validate their proposition,
Develop an interactive prototype,

through a series of tailor-made workshop and coaching.

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XNode offered end to end solution, which includes:

Material design and onsite decoration
Workshop facilitation and pitch rehearsal
Retrospective article and media

And won the award of Sanofi Innovation Community Partner

BMW Open Innovation

Objectives

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.

Pain points

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

Ideation Workshop @BMW BeiJing

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

Michelin SAP 2019

Program Overview

Innovation is a key priority for Michelin to achieve its 2020 Ambitions. In order to achieve those ambitions, Michelin decided to set up a Corporate Innovation Board which initiated the Incubation Program Office.

In China, Michelin IPO (the innovation department) aims to build a strong portfolio of new business models and solutions in the following domains: (1) commercial fleet (2) individual consumers’ mobility needs, (3) retailers, consumer experience on food and travel

Together with Michelin IPO, XNode helped different BU :

Define and finetune innovation topic and needs
Scout and screen the best startups
Accelerate the POC projects with structured methodology and expert coaching.

Legrand Wake Up Call

01 | Objectives

Find new paths to faster growth with the integration of recent acquisitions and the optimization of operations
Build a plan that will be launched after Chinese New Year 2021 by 25-30 people from different departments and locations within several days
Explore industries including elderly care, IoT, and services for data centers

02 | Our Solution: Four days Wakeup Call

A mixture of ideation workshops, guest speakers, visits, and sharing session based in Shanghai

27 people from different locations and departments into 6 groups

Nurture ideas -> prioritize opportunities -> develop new business models

03 | Ideas Generated

A personalized, automated and intelligent home platform that focuses on elderly people
Launch a smart management platform to link software and hardware
Full lifecycle facility management for renewal properties
Providing more professional services other than just hardware products
Rental Services for intelligent home equipment
Enhance the ability of data search and analysis that are related to smart devices

SAP Internal Incubation Program with Globalization Services

Project objectives

Helping SAP Labs China to build internal capabilities of intrapreneurship
Developing capabilities of employees in all aspects of innovation including value proposition design, business model generation, traction and business case building and finance
Increasing the success rate of SAP China Globalization Services (GS) to enter the global project pool and gain access to internal funding
Learning from the innovation eco-system in China

Our solution

Tailored-made Innovation Program: A full support structure to incubate and accelerate internal SAP teams. With our support, we accelerate the proposition, build a comprehensive business and investment case and validate the concept in the market to generate customer traction
Startup Accelerator visits and Startup Meet-ups: Visits and frequent interactions with startups accelerators and relevant startups to interact with, get inspired by and learn from relevant actors in the innovation eco-system

Osram 2019 X-pioneer

Building the OSRAM Engine of Innovation

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.

The innovation journey started with ideation

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:

High potential technologies and innovations for implementation
Relevant business challenges and opportunities
Preliminary project roadmap for acceleration

Demo Day

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.

Pernod Ricard China - Ask Jerry Challenge

Objectives

The challenge aims at making Ask Jerry – Pernod Ricard China’s nationwide WeChat Cocktail Platform, the next industry-standard marketplace with the largest community for bartenders, bar owners and cocktail lovers in China.

Identify

the most promising Startups with whom to set up cooperation agreements and create strong synergies in China

Accelerate

the top Startups into Xnode ”LaunchPad” Acceleration Program, in which startups can learn, shape and further grow their business

Collaborate

both online and offline with Pernod Ricard China experts to implement the solutions proposed at the end of the challenge.

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The Agorize platform was used as a powerful digital tool to spot the best startups to co-develop the Ask Jerry WeChat Platform and making it the next industry-standard marketplace. The XNode ‘’LaunchPad’’ transformed the ideas in executable business cases.

Kering Innovation Workshop

50+ brand managers

Kering China and APAC

2-day innovation workshop in Shanghai (powered by Fabernovel and XNode)

Goals

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

Participants

Various brand managers from China and the APAC region, as well as innovation team from the group

Outcome

Identified trends and inspirations not only limited to luxury industry
Potential business challenges and opportunity identified with a follow-up by adopting new ideas for innovation within respective major brands of Kering
An ideation workshop in Hong Kong for 200+ Gucci store managers

Intel GrowthX

About Intel GrowthX

Formerly known as Ideas2Reality, GrowthX is an innovation program at Intel China that helps our businesses grow inorganically and incrementally.

Each year, we explore dozens of new ideas and pick 10 best ideas to run through our award-winning acceleration program.

The program is sponsored by Ian Yang, Intel China President and Brent Young, VP & Director China Corporate Strategy Office and is truly a cross-BU, customer- centric and one Intel effort.

Impact on business

Over the past 3 years, GrowthX has explored 500+ ideas, accelerated 40+ projects, landing 9 ideas into the market creating an incremental revenue of $25M with an outlook of $275M over the next 5-year.

Innovation Consultancy

Market Analysis & Growth Strategy Research Reports

Analysis Examples

Innovation Strategy: Transformation & Implementation

Result Examples

Let's talk about your innovation goals

Case Studies

Sanofi Hackathon 2020

BMW Open Innovation

Michelin SAP 2019

Legrand Wake Up Call

SAP Internal Incubation Program with Globalization Services

Osram 2019 X-pioneer

Pernod Ricard China - Ask Jerry Challenge

Kering Innovation Workshop

Intel GrowthX

Innovation Consultancy

Market Analysis & Growth Strategy Research Reports

Analysis Examples

Innovation Strategy: Transformation & Implementation

Result Examples

Let's talk about your innovation goals

Case Studies

Sanofi Hackathon 2020

BMW Open Innovation

Michelin SAP 2019

Legrand Wake Up Call

SAP Internal Incubation Program with ​Globalization Services

Osram 2019 X-pioneer

Pernod Ricard China - Ask Jerry Challenge

Kering Innovation Workshop

Intel GrowthX

SAP Internal Incubation Program with Globalization Services