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corporate entrepreneurship, Education, entrepreneurship, innovation, speaking

Lean Innovation Masterclass @ “Innovation Valley Garzweiler” Kickoff

Honored to be invited to hold my “Lean Innovation Masterclass” teaser workshop at the “Innovation Valley Garzweiler“ kick-off event in the amazing Hugo Junkers Hangar in Mönchengladbach last week.

As you might know, Germany has decided to end using brown coal as an energy source – and that even faster than initially planned: 2030 instead of 2038 – and this will obviously have an effect, especially in the regions where they are depending on the coal, for cheap electricity to industry, a major source of employment, stability, and prosperity.

To help alleviate the transitional pain, public funds have been made available and regional projects have been formed to support the affected regions in many different ways.

One way is to support and stimulate innovation, to enable an environment that can facilitate the creation of new exciting opportunities for the industries of the future – a second industrial revolution if you will — for when the coal that powered the first industrial revolution and has been generating unprecedented prosperity (and unprecedented damage to the planet) comes to an end.

That’s where I and my company +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES come in; I was there to give a teaser overview of some of the methodologies anyone can use (startups as well as established industry) to create disruptive innovation at 50 (!) times faster (and with less resources) than previous methods – to inspire and also to showcase what is indeed possible today; what is actually actionable and teachable.

Special thanks to WFMG – Wirtschaftsförderung Mönchengladbach, Zenit GmbH, and Zweckverband LANDFOLGE Garzweiler for inviting me and to all of the very enthusiastic and motivated participants that came to my fully-booked workshops.

Looking forward to be of further service to the region going forwards!

(And yes, that is an actual original Junkers Ju 52 airplane inside the event location – Hugo Junkers was born in Rheydt in today’s Mönchengladbach.)

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corporate entrepreneurship, Education, speaking

Back helping corporate innovation ventures @ Bertelsmann Creativity Bootcamp 2020 in Berlin

Excited and honored to be invited back for the FIFTH year in a row to support Bertelsmann University at the Creativity Bootcamp in Berlin!

The Bertelsmann Creativity Bootcamp is a three day event that brings together employees from around the world that have great creative business ideas to work on them and present.

What I do is that I help them get ready to pitch management for buy-in with my Pitching Masterclass and by coaching the individual teams through the process of taking an idea into a plausible solution and business proposition.

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corporate entrepreneurship, speaking, startup

Keynote: Do Startups & Corporations mix @ Zentis

Keynote @ Zentis “Startup-Market”, 30. August 2022

Excited and honored to have been invited to Zentis‘ “Startup-Market” event to keynote on the topic of startups and corporations – do they mix? Spoiler: It depends…

That guy…

As it wasn’t a public event, I can’t share the slides – but if you’re a corporate tasked with cooperating with startups, I can give you these helpful actionable excerpts:

Where is Corporate Startup Engagement positioned compared to R&D and M&A
The types of Corporate Startup Engagement and how they align with Corporate Objectives

Types of Engagement ranked Low to High Involvement

Types of Engagement ranked Low to High Costs
Types of Engagement ranked Low to High Risk

Types of Engagement ranked Short to Long Term Strategy

The typical evolution of the Startup Engagement phases

Are you working in a company looking to engage with startups and could use some help? Let’s talk!

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corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, Lessons Learned

An update from +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES

As some of you might know, I also run a company called +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES on the side. We help medium and large companies and organisations around the world get serious about innovation and delivering actual results instead of PowerPoints.

I thought I’d take a couple of minutes to update you on how we’ve been adapting to better meet your needs in these trying times.

tl;dr – We now offer all our programs and services also via remote (in the best possible quality available today) as an option for you.

Whether you’re back in the regular office or still working remotely from home, we’re providing you with our popular programs like directly to you in the conferencing tools you already use, in the quality you’ve come to expect.

Everything you’re seeing in this video is taken directly from our streaming studio. This is how it actually looks in your normal conferencing app.

And for the highest quality possible over the Internet today, we also offer a completely new direct point to point streaming solution – in full HD, with no dropped frames, no screen freeze, and no audio issues.

Also, by popular demand we’re now offering moderation and management of internal and public online events for those of you looking for quality outsourced alternatives.

For those of you who are new to remote working and online collaboration, have no fear, we of course offer you training, both for your managers and for all of the program participants in advance.

Thank you for your time, stay safe.

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