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Let's talk about your innovation goals!Modularized approach ensures you only receive workshop content tailored to your specific situation
Contact Us for more InfoA 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 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 :
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.
the most promising Startups with whom to set up cooperation agreements and create strong synergies in China
the top Startups into Xnode ”LaunchPad” Acceleration Program, in which startups can learn, shape and further grow their business
both online and offline with Pernod Ricard China experts to implement the solutions proposed at the end of the challenge.
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.
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 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
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
(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