sourcing Advisory

Design

We start from your innovation objectives and, stage- and platform-agnostic, design a winning, differentiated, cost effective way of bringing the solution visibility and deal flow you require.

Key principles in our design process include:

  • data driven decision making- our “Power Law index”, “Sector Valuation index”, “Contrarian index”, “White Space index” and “Moat index” exemplify the data-driven approach we will build into your solution. With our approach, you will be enabled to evaluate potential innovations’ alignment with your objectives, even at the earliest stages.

  • loose-tight coupling— effective innovation sourcing programmes balance the variance that externally generated innovations bring compared to your existing portfolio, with opportunities for connection and alignment. We build in the mechanisms to maintain this balance.

  • governance- we begin with the end in mind. Whether your “long game” is to invest and exit, or to partner and exploit the innovations you are sourcing, we ensure the governance foundations are in place to bring the best outcomes to fruition.

DEVELOPMENT

Our team’s extensive expertise and experience in developing cutting edge innovation sourcing programmes is available to you to turn design into action. Using best-in-class approaches around data and programme management, and our extensive, Europe-wide network of domain experts and ecosystem partners, we will maximise your chances of achieving the desired outcomes, while maintaining cost control.

Portfolio review and alignment

As the business and geopolitical landscape changes, your strategy changes. This can leave your portfolio of innovations misaligned. Using our data-driven evaluation and decision making frameworks, and our proprietary methodologies for value architecture and exit preparation, we will realign your portfolio with your objectives.

Ecosystem review and stimulation

You depend on your ecosystem, but how do you assess its health and play your part in orchestrating it?

We audit your team or organisation’s ecosystem skills and mindset, the health of your connections with and the activity engendered by your ecosystem itself, and develop an action plan of high-impact, low-cost ways you can energise your ecosystem, along with a dashboard of metrics (around skills, mindset, health and activity) enabling you to assess your progress in ecosystem development.

Some years ago, the head of the Industrial Engineering Department of Yale University said, “If I had only one hour to solve a problem, I would spend up to two-thirds of that hour in attempting to define what the problem is.”— Markle