SDA Bocconi School of Management
ITA

ICE

Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship

SDA Bocconi School of Management

ICE Innovation Journey is a 5 step-path towards innovation grounded on multiple available formats. While every business’s Innovation Journey will be different, it may follow some common steps. Yet each step and format is fully customizable to your journey, meaning that you get format that’s tailored to your firm’s specific needs:

UNDERSTAND INNOVATION CHALLENGES

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INNOVATION REPORT

Map and assess your current innovation strategy and processes, compare them to what benchmark companies do and outline avenues for accelerating the capacity of your company to innovate.

EXPERT CLUB

Get direct access to our exclusive network of technical experts, opinion leaders, and startuppers to discuss your innovation challenges.

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INNOVATION CONCIERGE

Back up your arguments on an innovation issue with the support of SDA Bocconi faculty or secondary data.

INNOVATION CONFERENCE

Attend the annual innovation conference and get an expert view on new technologies and business models, access to our startup pipeline and an exclusive network of peers.

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DEFINE THE INNOVATION SANDBOX

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CORPORATE STRATEGY

Identify your next core business in a corporate strategy workshop.

INNOVATION STRATEGY

Use our structured and unique approach to define your innovation strategy.

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IDEA COLLECTION

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INNOVATION CONTEST

Unleash your employees' innovation potential by scouting high-potential innovation opportunities in a systematic way.

STARTUP RADAR

Identify the startups that will shape the evolution of your industry and learn how to engage with them.

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PRE-ACCELERATION

Turn unstructured ideas into business plans and prototypes to speed up time to market.

INVESTMENT DECISION

Focus your innovation efforts by developing and using an effective methodology to make investment decisions.

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INVENT

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DESIGN DOING

Accelerate your innovation processes by co-developing innovative ideas with experts from all technical and business areas that you need.

PROTOTYPING AND MARKET TESTING

Get early market feedback by pro- or pre-totyping your product or service idea.

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INNOVATION GOVERNANCE

Set the right incentive and control systems to align the interests of all innovation stakeholders.

GO TO MARKET

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B4i ACCELERATION

Support the development of your startup with the 4-months business acceleration process.

Formats

Action Research

Use innovation reports, assessments, startup radar and strategy driving tools to gain knowledge about best practices, innovative business models and technology trends, to face the industry evolution.

Executive Education

Access easy-to-customize education formats (ad hoc workshops, call for ideas, innovation contests, coaching and other customized programs) to foster corporate and innovation strategy and solidly build development tracks.

Innovation Eco-system

Communicate with entrepreneurs of early-stage business idea and startups, to investigate business opportunities by joining an experts’ club or annual networking conferences.

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