EarlyBirds Explorer Program is one of four options available to help organisations with technological innovation. All are meant to help businesses accelerate the pace of change while overcoming the challenges of doing so sustainably.
Tackling Sustainable Innovation Challenges
Unsurprisingly, organisations today find it very difficult to keep pace with change, never mind identify and implement suitable innovations. Consequently, they often make rash choices, or do nothing at all.
Organisations face many innovation challenges because of:
- Declining resources – organisations must do more with the same or fewer human resources, very restrained budgets, and existing infrastructure
- Outmoded unsustainable practices – what once served the business is now too slow, ineffective, or inadequate for current needs and client expectations
- A lack of balance between scale, cost, and reliability – innovation efforts often lack direction, fail to deliver expected results, cost too much, or can’t be scaled up reliably
- Overdetermined uncertainties – existing systems are over constrained and unable to adapt to new requirements
- Breakthrough bias – organisational innovation efforts are limited and ineffective due to a strong bias against the unknown and untried.
Fortunately, EarlyBirds developed an open innovation ecosystem that brings early adopters, innovators, and Subject Matter Experts together to overcome such challenges. The goal is to open up interaction between businesses and creators to come up with the best possible solutions that solve organisational challenges.
EarlyBirds Innovation Ecosystem
Our award-winning Innovation Ecosystem earned us the title of Global Open Innovation Platform of the Year 2023 and 2024. It allows both innovation and strategic thinking in all areas of business.
We unite Innovators, Early Adopters, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to fuel rapid innovative adoption and business evolution. Early Adopters are leaders eager to identify new and disruptive technologies. They want to seize opportunities, solve business challenges, or create new products and services.
What Sets the EarlyBirds Explorer Program Apart
EarlyBirds Explorer Program brings innovation as a service to an entire organisation. It is for business enterprises who require innovation as a service to either complement their current innovation programs or for additional innovation projects, as needed.
Instead of fragmented efforts, the Explorer Program establishes an innovation roadmap to address whatever challenges your organisation wants to tackle. The program is specifically designed to create and speed comprehensive technological innovation.
Furthermore, the EarlyBirds Explorer Program includes a number of features that ensure companies avoid preventable failures, conserve resources, and choose viable innovations. These features include:
- Platform enterprise access to the EarlyBirds Innovation Ecosystem. This ecosystem includes over 5 million global innovations across many industries with solutions that may already address organisational challenges.
- Regular webinars to help stimulate innovation within your organisation
- Quarterly and monthly innovation days
- Narrowed focus on suitable innovations
- Dedicated Subject Matter Expert that closely collaborates with your organisation to pinpoint opportunities. Organisations also regularly connect with suitable innovators to solve specific business problems as the occur within an evolving business landscape.
Stages Within EarlyBirds Explorer Program
The EarlyBirds Explorer Program is methodical and targeted. Benefits of participating in this program include access to a network of innovators, SMEs, and industry insights.
The program also includes several key stages:
- A thorough innovation assessment to determine organisational needs
- An identification of beneficial opportunities for the organisation to offset investments in innovation
- Determination of the best possible innovation roadmap.
Other EarlyBirds Options
All EarlyBirds programs help organisations create a solid strategy to effectively address innovation needs. Each offers the following benefits:
- Reduced cost of innovation
- Quick increases in innovation capability, when required
- Connections to the best Subject Matter Experts and innovators available
- Simple process
However, the Explorer Program isn’t your only option. EarlyBirds also offers ecosystem maps and the Challenger Program.
EarlyBirds Ecosystem Maps
The EarlyBirds Ecosystem Maps can help Early Adopter organisations accelerate technology advancement in their industry.
Mapping innovation is the process of collecting and evaluating information regarding the external and internal factors affecting innovation. It is an ongoing process that provides a comprehensive and clear view of a company’s innovation ecosystem. By doing so, it is possible to pinpoint potential collaborators and partners that can address your organisational needs.
EarlyBirds Challenger Program
The Challenger Program differs from the Explorer Program, because it focuses on a single organisational or technical challenge. It also looks for the most relevant innovators that meet your organisational, technical, and risk requirements, but in a more singular way.
The program is run by an EarlyBirds Subject Matter Expert who identifies your key issues. The SME then searches the data pool to identify and curate options for further evaluation. The most suitable option is chosen and the SME drafts a roadmap of next steps, POC, trial, or implementation.
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EarlyBirds can help your organisation create a path towards sustainable innovation. We’ve helped those in Manufacturing, the Public Sector, Food Industry, Retail, Healthcare, Operations & Maintenance, Finance & Insurance, Energy, Education, Cybersecurity.
Let us help you propel your organisation’s innovation efforts forward, whether you need innovation as a service for your entire organisation or innovation for a specific need.
Organisations can register independently at https://earlybirds.io/. Alternatively, please schedule a consultation. We use an individualized approach and can help you determine which of our services are best for you.