Build your Open Innovation program to validate new ideas and projects and implement them
The Open Innovation Program aims to connect ideas and projects from young talents and/or employees and contractors to the company based on vertical challenges.
The program is divided into 5 steps:
1. Launch of the Challenge and applications
The 85% of «Top Global Brands» uses challenges as an Open Innovation tool.
The Program with the related challenge(s) is published on VGen's platform and open for applications from participants.
Selection of the profiles that will participate in the Program, based also on any background and personality tests and creation of the work teams that will participate in the challenge(s).
Training on business needs and company characteristics (delivered with the company), followed by training on Agile development methodologies that will be used in the program.
Teams work on developing solutions to business challenges supported by an Agile Coach.
Following the teams' submission of solutions, VGen supports the company on the path of validation and subsequent development and implementation.
Facilitator with Agile and Scrum skills who trains and supports teams, coordinating with the company.
Heterogeneous work teams composed of talentes or corporate (or mixed) employees working on challenges.
Mentors appointed by the company to follow the progress of the Program and communicate with other actors.
Open Innovation Programs can involve different types of participation: they can target communities of young talent and professionals externally to the company, or internally to employees and contractors.
Mixed-participation solutions can also be structured.
Addressed to students, graduates and young professionals.
Addressed internally within the company to employees and contractors.
Contamination between corporate figures and young talents.
Analysis of technical and business problems for which innovation solutions are sought.
Searching for solutions to innovation
needs
by creating
and distributing challenges.
Selection, testing and validation of the obtained solutions before further development.
The development and in-house implementation phase of the selected solutions begins.
Trentino Sviluppo's program with the goal of connecting young talents from all over the country with SMEs in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Trentino.
The companies that participated in the 2021 edition of Scintille can tell us.
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