Partnering for innovation
Bosch’s Innovation Consulting, led by Dr. Eva Mitterreiter, collaborates with digetiers to transform business models through digital innovation.
Use caseOpen innovation
Find partners for win-win collaborations
Involve clients, external experts, startups, and partners to gather solutions for short-, mid-, and long-term challenges. Build your own web portals and direct submissions to your platform.
Manage all external submissions on one platform
Bring every proposal (from customers, experts, and startups) into a single, structured workflow instead of scattered inboxes and spreadsheets. Prism creates and enriches content automatically.
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Find ideas for your business challenges
Open a submission portal for external partners. Score their proposals in the same pipeline as internal ideas. The best answer wins regardless of where it came from.
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Like a Bosch
Bosch uses ITONICS as an open innovation platform to coordinate idea submissions for defined search fields and co-create with startups, universities, and other experts. It serves as a gateway for outside perspectives. The ongoing initiative has yielded more than 1,000 submissions.
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Spot white space in crowded categories
Line extensions do not grow share in saturated markets. New space does. Prism scans adjacent categories, start-ups, and technologies and flags openings that fit your portfolio. You evaluate a shortlist of real gaps.
Implement an innovation culture
Adapt and respond quickly to new challenges. Establish open innovation practices that are well-developed, integrated, and easy to coordinate and maintain. Drive end-to-end innovation across the organization.
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Best practices for open innovation
A toolbox for start-up and corporate collaboration at Unilever
Unilever’s TRANSFORM program, led by PJ Mistry, accelerates corporate-startup collaboration, solving scaling challenges and driving impact-focused innovation.
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Next-level venture clienting
DB Schenker’s Venture Clienting model shifts startup collaboration from push to pull, ensuring high-impact innovation pilots.
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Pioneers Camp: Intrapreneurship for new growth
Miele Pioneers Camp, led by Dr. Ina Nordsiek, fosters intrapreneurship, turning employee ideas into scalable new business ventures.
