We leverage proven program structures to strengthen your organizations innovation capabilities.
Let's talk about your innovation goals!The comprehensive practice of open innovation. Within 3 months, we validate and roll-out innovation together. It can happen completely within the corporate. Together we identify, select, nurture, and bring ideas into intrapreneurship projects.
Or you can break the wall and embrace external startups. We help to scout, interview, select the best candidates based on pre-defined topics and help validate the business value of collaboration.
International leadership teams explore the Chinese innovation ecosystem. Meet with local entrepreneurs, up-and-coming startups, and investors for a full-immersion.
Through bi-weekly or monthly sessions, we connect our network of +500 successful Chinese Tech entrepreneurs directly to C-Suite decisions makers in your organization to mentor, guide and coach key decisions makers and innovators to realize and execute upon your innovation strategy.
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.
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
(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
50+ innovators
Foxconn D Group
3-day wake up call in Shenzhen
To get inspired by the innovation ecosystem, find ways to drive new business revenues for Foxconn, and identify talents for the new innovation projects.
Head of D Group, senior managers, and junior team members from Shenzhen, Wuhan, Taiwan, and USA
25 people joined a follow up internal accelerator program run by XNode resulting in the subsequent creation of 2 spin-outs by Foxconn
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:
Active exploration of 3 new business opportunities for Oney, Achieving Problem/Solution fit through rapid iteration and customer interaction, building a bankable business case to gain HQ support for follow-on investment.
Oney Incubation Program: a tailor-made incubation program to rapidly explore the 3 business opportunities through a rigorous process of validation and customer interaction. After the program, 1 proposition was turned into a compelling business case with customer traction, while the other 2 proposition proved not to be viable in the market.
XNode worked with X5 Retail Group’s Innovation Department to scout 100 top-notch Chinese startups. The aim was to co-develop innovation solutions to automate and robotize retail processes, as well as the testing of new technologies, products, and services.
In December 2019, a total of 100+ startups were scouted with 20+ brief reports delivered.
Among the shortlisted 20+ startups, successful pilots are already underway in the scenarios of ADAS, biogas and AGV.
Pilots have the potential to roll out across X5 Retail Group’s various formats that cover 14,400 stores and comprise the brands: Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, and Karusel.
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