We help companies to successfully Transform and Innovate.

Why Partner with Us?

Digital Transformation

Transform or die! That is the reality we live in. This can only be done when changing mindsets, rethinking business models and developing digital capabilities that help you exploit new exponential technologies like AI, Blockchain, IoT or 3D Printing.

This is a journey where we assist clients from initial awareness workshops, to strategy definition, capability development through training programs, and development of actionable transformation roadmaps. Digital transformation is a journey that ultimately will lead you to become a more agile company with a truly innovative culture.

Innovation

Innovation is not an option anymore. Only the most innovative companies will thrive in the digital economy. The mindset and culture shifts that are required are often build on an entrepreneurial spirit, and a willingness to experiment and learn.

We help clients setting a focus on their innovation initiatives and help them achieve better returns on their innovation investments. Whether it is about setting up a strategy, building-up internal capabilities (Design Thinking, Lean Startup), defining industry collaborations, or engaging with external startups, Innoopolis can help you define, shape and execute these programs. We turn innovation into a systematic and scientific method with measurable impact.

Startup Eco-System enablement

Healthy innovation eco-systems require a good collaboration between governments, corporates and startups. We can help you define, set-up and manage incubation and acceleration programs. This goes from the initial outreach, to scouting and scoring of startups, to delivering master classes, developing partnerships, raising funds and tracking progress and impact.

As an eco-system builder we have also a large network of mentors, coaches and acceleration partners that we can tap into. Our support to startups doesn’t stop there. We also provide market entry, and fundraising support for international startups that want to access the GCC region.

Companies that Trust Us

Our customers are from multiple industries including financial services, telecoms, healthcare, transportation, energy, consulting as well as events organizers and training companies. Our approaches, frameworks and skillsets are industry agnostic, and that means we engage our clients without bias and pre-conceived ideas.
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Where You’ve Seen Us

What outcomes can you expect?

This is how we helped some of our clients:

Digital Transformation trainings and workshops

We deliver world class digital transformation trainings, where participants get a hands a one experience on the frameworks and tools needed to successfully define a digital transformation strategy and execution plans. The structured approach and step-by-step guidance in our trainings typically allow us participants to develop their very own high level transformation roadmap in a matter of days. For one of our clients we trained close to 300 persons in two weeks.

Collaboration with Universities

We work with Universities to help them develop entrepreneurial capabilities. We define innovation programmes, deliver inspirational talks, run and help evaluating innovation competitions. We help students getting exposed to entrepreneurship through lean startup principles, creativity sessions, business modeling workshops and most of all by getting out of the classroom working with real-life challenges and opportunities.

Keynotes and Inspirational Sessions

We deliver keynotes and inspirational sessions on everything digital. Our expertise in digital transformation, innovation and entrepreneurship means we can touch on some of the hottest topics right now. From Exponential thinking and AI, all the way to industry transformation using industry 4.0 concepts and technologies like IoT, BigData, Machine Learning, Blockchain or 3D Printing. For corporates we are often requested to create awareness about business model disruptions and digital opportunities.

Digital Transformation Certification Training

In collaboration with our partners we also provide a certification training for digital transformation practitioners.During the 5-day training participants are not only educated about disruptive technologies, leadership mindsets, industry responses, culture or governance models but they are also taken through an experiential journey where they get to use our digital transformation framework and a number of other tools in oder to develop an executable roadmap for a select case-study. At the end of the training students can confidently go back to their companies and take a stronger ownership of the digital transformation process.

Financial Service Summit – Manila

We provided a set of keynotes and main content for a 2-day Digital Transformation summit organized jointly with Ateneo University in Manila. The theme of the summit was to define the digital future of Financial Services in the Philippines and how digital transformation can help existing institutions. We explained the impact disruptive and exponential technologies like BigData, AI and Blockchain will have on the industry, while also explaining the development on regulations like GDPR, Open-Banking or KYC/AML. We talked about unbundling, startups that are disrupting the industry and gave an overview of industry responses, digital transformation frameworks and leadership mindsets that are needed to drive a deeper culture.

Innovation exploration journey

Taking the team of a large utility company through a 12 weeks exploration journey using the forth innovation methodology. The systematic approach to innovation, as well as the playfull approach allowed to break organizational increase collaboration and creativity. During the journey about 400 ideas where generated, validated through customer focus groups. Ultimately 6 concepts were selected and supporting business cases were developed and validated by the leadership team. Shortly after one of the ideas was already taken into production.

Startup Bootcamps

Delivered a 1-week bootcamp at Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA). Prepared close to 50 teams in fundraising through the World-Bank Sponsor Entrepreneurship grants program. The 1-week bootcamp included one-on-one coaching with each of the teams as well as masterclass in pitching, market sizing, go-to-market strategy, fundraising, business modeling, digital marketing and customer acquisition.

Startup Coaching

We have coached many local and international startups. Our coaches are all entrepreneurs themselves and all of them have also held executive positions in the corporate world. We combine a strong business background with a deep understanding of the local culture and the startup eco-system. We dive into the details to help founders resolve real challenges that startups are facing. From selecting the right co-founders, to validating the problem, the solution, the business model, developing a meaningful go-to-market strategy or defining a tactical digital marketing plan, we accompany startups all the way from ideation to fundraising.

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The average lifespan of S&P 500 companies is now below 20 Years and it is clear that most innovative companies consistently outperform top R&D spenders. It is not about how much you spend, but how you spend it.

Corporate innovation is essential to stay relevant:

1. Invest in breakthrough ideas that help you disrupt your current business models

2. Develop the right capabilities to execute these ideas

3. Transform mindsets and culture to spur more innovative ideas

In his book the 10 types of innovation, Larry Keely, from Doblin Consulting (A subsidiary of Deloitte), identified 10 innovation types, including business model innovation, customer experience, brand. S&P 500 Companies that innovated in more than one dimension consistently outperformed their competitors. Companies that innovated in more than 3 dimensions are more likely to disrupt their industry.

What are the symptoms that you need change?

Do you regularly fail to get funding for your innovation projects?

Are you struggling to collaborate with startups because of complicated procurement and due diligence processes?

Have you been unable to change your business models, and new competitors are breathing down your neck?

Does it take you too much time to attract or develop talent in emerging technologies?

Are leadership mindsets stuck in 20th century practices?

Are your employees afraid to take risk and potentially fail at innovations?

Do you regularly fail to get funding for your innovation projects?

Are you struggling to collaborate with startups because of complicated procurement and due diligence processes?

Have you been unable to change your business models, and new competitors are breathing down your neck?

Does it take you too much time to attract or develop talent in emerging technologies?

Are leadership mindsets stuck in 20th century practices?

Are your employees afraid to take risk and potentially fail at innovations?

How can you adapt as fast as change itself?

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The world is moving toward an on-demand workforce

How do you get access to the right skills at the right time?

We have over the years developed a network of thoughts leaders and experts on business transformation, innovation, entrepreneurship and emerging technologies like IoT, Blockchain, AI or 3D Printing.

Receive on-demand guidance through our community of advisors , speakers and entrepreneurs.

We offer multiple ways to access our thought-leaders:

Innovation Sprints

are 1-week workshops designed to take your team through all the stages of the innovation process from insights, to ideation, concept development, prototyping and a high level business cases. It combines the principles of divergence and convergence where a hundreds of ideas generated and prioritized based impact and cost. At the end of the week the teams will have come up 4-6 breakthrough ideas and are ready to pitch them with management.

Innovation Exploring Journeys

are similar to innovation Sprints, but they are spread over a period of 8-10 weeks and focus much more on validation at each step of the process. Following lean startup principles we ensure team have performed validation on problem, solution and business model. The journey start with a bootcamp and is followed with weekly mentoring and progress tacking.

Transformation Assessments

are short term assignments, that can be done remotely, where our consultants review your digital transformation strategy. We give you an independent view on your strategy, its feasibility and identify possible white-spots.

Awareness and Inspiration sessions

give your senior leaders and understand on why change is needed. We will show you how exponential technologies are transforming the world, how startups are disrupting industries and corporates are responding to the challenge.

To truly transform you need to change the culture of the company:

Digital maturity assessments are used to properly identify required shifts
Frameworks and tools are used to set a common language for communication
Rapidly creating quick wins and sharing success stories reduces the resistance to change
Our holistic and integrated approach allows us to break organizational silos and speed-up buy-in.
We develop capabilities to execute the transformation roadmap.
We help setup center of excellence or digital units to properly leverage in-house or external talent
Governance models and KPIs are adjusted to support the transformation objectives.

What we are trying to do at Innoopolis?

Innoopolis was founded out of two beliefs. The first belief is that digital transformation and business transformation is not sustainable unless the culture of the company embraces innovation and agility. The second belief is that the future of work will dramatically change with a more on-demand approach to talent acquisition a new collaboration models with consultants and startups.

The future success of companies will increasingly rely on the networks and connections that they are able to build-up both with client as well as with partners. Platforms and eco-systems will become essential pillars of every business and we want to be here to lead the way.

Jean-Luc’s message “Transformation is not about technology, it is about rethinking your business models and developing an agile and innovative culture”

The Innoopolis Journey

1. Schedule an introduction and framing Meeting

In this first meeting we will try to understand your current situation, your ambitions, current pain points and challenges. This is a framing meeting where we get a clear understanding of areas that need focus and attention. This meeting might be followed by a short assessment on current innovation and transformation strategy.

2. Select the engagement model

We’ll create a custom plan to reach your objectives, this is the scoping phase. Here we agree on the most appropriate approach based on the objectives: whether it is an innovation sprint, an innovation exploration journey, a digital transformation assessment or simply an awareness and inspiration session, we will secure the objectives are met and wanted outcomes are delivered.

3. Execute and Track progress

As we move into execution, we provide all ingredients to setup the path for success:

We secure the right talent both on Innoopolis and client side are fully committed throughout the engagement
Preparation and supporting material is provided to all participants of an engagement to secure full alignment
We clarify the rules of engagement to make sure roadblocks are removed before the engagement starts
We provide all the tools and templates needed, so that participants can focus on value creation and not on reporting
Each engagement model delivers clear measurable outcomes whether tangible or intangible.

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