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WELCOME Business Innovation Can we really innovate our business? 9 th July 2014
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Connect 2 Innovation: Business innovation and growth slides (9 July 2014) Featuring: Nigel Bigg- CEO Passionate Innovation & Entrepeneur in Residence at Univeristy of Surrey Triin Udris- Oxford Innovation and Enterprise Europe Network South East
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WELCOME
Business Innovation Can we really innovate our business?
9th July 2014
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HOUSE KEEPING
Future Events with
– 9th July: Business Innovation – can we innovate service?
– 10th September: Finance readiness –what’s good practice when seeking funding?
– 15th October: Woking means Business
– 12th November: Sales – tips and techniques
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Our speakers today
Nigel Biggs -
Triin Udris -
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• Deliver your 1 min business pitch
– who you are
– what you do
– what makes you unique
– what are your current goals
• Make sure you hand out your business cards
It’s your turn
now!
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Assistance?
“Growth through Innovation” & “Growth
Accelerator”
are both subsidised government schemes to
assist SME business which can help realise IP
and business potential
Enterprise Europe Network
Our Speaker can help you – take the opportunity &
discuss your business issues with them today
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Innovation? Or make money by
doing things differently?
Business Challenges:
Increase revenue
Grow the customer base
Raising brand awareness and improving image
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Innovation
“The world is getting smaller and
busier every day.
The average western consumer sees
more than 3,000 marketing messages
a day.
How can [we] possibly compete for
people’s attention in such a crowded
environment?
........Matt McNeil CEO of Sign-Up.to
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Always
be innovating
Unfair, but firm
•We need to innovate and improve our offering(s)
continually, or
someone else will either steal our market or leave us
working
hard for pennies, as a commodity supplier.
We are in business to make money?
•Studies show that it pays to be innovative.
•So, why not target 30%, or more, of sales from new
products or services annually
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Quotes
“I cannot understand why people are frightened of new ideas – I am frightened of the
old ones!”........... John Cage composer
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.”
........ Steve Jobs – CEO of Apple
“The greatest danger for all of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it ,
but it is too low and we reach it!”.....Michelangelo
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Over to Nigel
Email: [email protected]
Follow us on Twitter: @Connect2Innov
Join our Linked In group: Connect 2 Innovation
Telephone: 01483 743024
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Nigel Biggs
Founder, Pixology plc
and now Passionate Innovation Ltd
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at
University of Surrey
Innovation is FUN –
and deadly serious for
your business!
... and so is BREAKFAST!
... is Black Forest Gateau for
BREAKFAST!
... be different for BREAKFAST!
Tom Peters said ....
Never waste a lunch!!!! Lunch
is 5 opportunities per week, 220
opportunities per year to get to
know interesting outsiders,
folks from other functions,
customers, vendors, frontline
staffers.
So let’s not waste breakfast....
LET’S TRY
ROOMSOURCING
ROOMSOURCING
Grab a sheet of A4 paper
Write name on top area and 10
keywords to describe your business &
market, your hobbies and a current
need!
NOW LISTEN!
WHO HERE INNOVATES?
Lesson 1: Try It! Do it now!
Darwin rules. More stuff goin’ on, more
interesting-good stuff happenin’.
Innovation is to a large extent a “numbers
game”: He-she who tries the most stuff
wins. (Astonishingly true.)
Tom Peters: Innovate or Die: The Innovation 121
A Menu of [Essential] Innovation Tactics
WHAT IS ...
NEW IDEAS to
IMPLEMENTATION
NEW IDEAS – WHY, WHEN, HOW?
NEW IDEAS – WHEN?
In the shower ? On your own?
With your team? Brainstorming?
With other colleagues?
With new contacts?
Planned away day?
Away Hour????
NEW IDEAS – HOW?
P I L O T
PILOT
How can we
........................?
P: Pursue the Problem
Is it too wide? Make more
focused?
PILOT
How can we
........................?
P: Pursue the Problem
Choose one business
from your group.
5 mins to explain the
problem.
PILOT
On your own
3 minutes
1 idea per post-it note
Be adventurous!
Pass over. Do again.
I: Input Ideas
PILOT
View the ideas.
With time we would ....
Share the ideas
Sort/De-dupe. Chase more.
Categorise (Green/Yellow/Red)
Choose/Vote
L: Locate the Likely
PILOT
Check with others (Will they buy?)
Does it work financially?
Does it work in time?
O: Open to the Outside
PILOT
Start small even free
Get feedback
Adapt
T: Test & Trial
PILOT
Do it for another
business?
Innovate or Die!
Darwin said:
“It is not the strongest of the
species that survives, nor the
most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change.”
Opportunities Missed
ViewFinder
Red Eye
The “Away Hour”
Invest the Time. Use a Process!
ROOMSOURCING
PILOT
The “Away Hour”
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 01483 827301
Mob: 07860 873717
Twitter: @nigelb22
Skype: rnigelbiggs
Web: www.passionateinnovation.com
Questions?
•Enterprise Europe Network
•Connect2Innovation
•09.07.2014
WHAT WE DO?
The world’s largest B2B network
Free services
International matchmaking
Access to Funding
Snapshot of Oxford Innovation’s
clients
• Utilities software developer finds Spanish, Greek and Lithuanian
partners to jointly supply 17 technologies to a university in China
• An automotive manufacturer finds German, Spanish and Italian
partners to apply for Horizon 2020 to develop a flywheel
• An SME developing an UAV receives a letter of support for their
Horizon 2020 application from a large EU rail operator
• Cosmetics company secures contracts in Ireland and China
European Funding
Horizon 2020 Understand how it works
• €79bn 2014-2020
• Up to 100% funding
• Up to €2.5m for SMEs
Help building a consortium
Application support
What to keep in mind?
What have we achieved?!
• 80 000 companies have received support
to finance their project
•
• Over 9000 businesses have found
international partners
Thank You!
Triin Udris
Oxford Innovation Services
www.een.ec.europa.eu
