基于企业现状与发展目标,我们为你搭建面向外部初创企业或内部创新团队的创新加速器,筛选匹配的合作/孵化对象,在3个月的项目进程中验证其商业可行性。
沉浸式的创新探索,为企业的创新领导者提供高质量的商务访问、交流,帮助他们会面当地知名企业、初创企业、投资人并建立潜在合作机会。
我们为企业的决策者安排周期性的网络会议,对接XNode创业校友会成员,帮助决策者开拓新的商业视角,以此促进企业创新战略的与时俱进。
Our mission is to create game-changers by unlocking intrapreneurs and innovators, shaping the future together.
By enabling intrapreneurs to test and validate their ideas (market, product, operational) through the stages of rapid prototype, Incubation-MVP (minimum viable product) to Incubation-Industrilization ahead of moving into Ignition (acceleration).
This proposal outlines a full support structure to incubate and accelerate the Ericsson internal teams over a 2 months period. With our support, we aim to accelerate the proposition from idea to prototype, build a comprehensive business and investment case and validate the concept in the market to generate customer traction.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 Scania internal BU and support teams to map out problems and issues that Scania want to tackle for current daily work and for future planning.
After problems and solutions are scoped, we co-picked 5 topics that can be further scouted after. The final goal is Scania BU will work closely with selected startups to co-create a PoC/ MVP for new market share acquisition and finance incremental. This will leads to real business impact generation in the end.
XNode plays the role as executor, facilitator and guider during the process of innovation strategy planning, program scoping, scouting and collaboration among startups and corporate.
1 month scouting in China
- From pre-A round to C round startup
58 startups are either being selected or showing interests
Only 3 startups are interviewed and picked to enter the 3-month acceleration program
- 3 startups collaboration model brief :
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
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