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OPEN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

Want to build capability with a competitive edge and agility, we call you an Early Adopter.

As an Early Adopter you are a leader or influencer in your organisations who understands the value of innovation with a strong desire to identify new and disruptive Innovators to seize opportunities, solve challenges or create new products and services.

Working with EarlyBirds you can solve challenges and seize opportunities using actionable innovation from Innovators (startups, scaleups and mature organisations).

Whether you want to build or accelerate internal innovation capacity OR require outcome-based innovation OR Hybrid approach, we have options to suit your needs.

EarlyBirds is a global open innovation ecosystem that connects Innovators (startups, scaleups and mature) with Early Adopters and Subject Matter Experts - to accelerate capacity, increase speed, and create an innovation culture to solve business and technical challenges.

INNOVATION SOLUTIONS THAT WORK

INNOVATION ENABLED SELF-
LEARNING ORGANISATION

EarlyBirds helps you to become a self-learning organisation to: achieve continuous improvement across all business functions; resolve business and technical challenges quickly; and explore disruptive business models, solutions and innovations.

Becoming a Self-learning Organisation
Continuous improvement across all business units
Resolve business & technical challenges quickly
Explore disruptive business models, solutions & innovations
Early Adopters
Solve Challenges Quickly
Find Oportunities
Ecosystem Advantage
Capabilities
The Challenger Program
Solve Business & Technical Challenges
The Explorer Program
Continuous Innovation as a Service
Platform Innovators SME
Innovators SMEs
Innovators + SMEs
Adopter
Innovators + SMEs

SELF-SERVICE

LEARN NEW WAYS TO SOLVE
CHALLENGES

Using the EarlyBirds platform, big data and Innovation Project functionality to accelerate and supplement your innovation capabilities and learn new ways to solve challenges based on our Assisted Programs.

ASSISTED PROGRAMS

CONCERNED ABOUT COMMERCIAL
SENSITIVITIES OR SECURITY? SUBJECT
MATTER EXPERTS TO HELP

Through the EarlyBirds Explorer and Challenger programs, Subject Matter Experts and independent consultants are available to work directly with Early Adopters to define and resolve challenges confidentially and securely. Through these programs, Early Adopters can also evaluate innovators and create a roadmap for the path ahead.

THE EXPLORER PROGRAM

for businesses who need innovation as a service to supplement existing innovation programs, or to conduct innovation projects as required.

THE CHALLENGER PROGRAM

designed to solve one business or technical challenge at a time and search for relevant innovators that meet the business, technical, commercial, and business risk requirements.

GET HELP FROM PROFESSIONALS

WE ARE HELPING EARLY ADOPTERS FIND SOLUTIONS FASTER

If you’re a leader who wants to embrace innovation for your organisation, gain a competitive edge, validate ideas, and even provide feedback to innovators, get access to over 1 million innovators, from startups, scaleup and mature organisations with solutions for any business challenge.

Get insights into global industry innovation capability
Source, analyse and curate global innovators for your solutions, partnerships, and for more use cases
Search and buy innovations, such as proof of concepts and trials, in your industry and business functions based on what business outcomes they provide

EXPLORE OUR

RELEVANT USE CASES

Transform with Actionable Innovation

  • Explore new Business Models in your industry
  • Radically Improve and disrupt your business Processes
  • Create new or dramatically enhance your Products and Services
  • Establish an enterprise innovation culture

Create Innovation Culture

  • Empower your people to share ideas
  • Provide freedom to your people to try new disruptive solutions
  • Enable a fail fast, learn faster approach
  • Create an organic innovation culture across the organisation

Build Better Customer Solutions

  • Attract new customer using latest technology
  • Engage with your customers more effectively
  • Enhance customer experience to a new level
  • Deliver greater customer satisfaction

Explore M&A and Investment Options

  • Explore latest and rapidly emerging Innovators
  • Identify potential options
  • Conduct due diligence on selected Innovators
  • Invest in or acquire relevant Innovators

Grow Revenue Opportunities

  • Identify potential growth areas
  • Collaborate with the relevant Innovators
  • Implement joint Go To Market strategy to grow revenue
  • Create commercial advantage

Reduce Cost, Improve Efficiency

  • Find innovative ways to reduce cost
  • Examine options to improve efficiency
  • Evaluate various technology to meet your efficiency requirements
  • Become a cost effective and more efficient business

Build Team Collaboration

  • Discover key challenges and opportunities across your organisation
  • Align key stakeholders to your business strategy
  • Provide access to innovative solutions to the team
  • Build collaboration across key business functions

OUR PROFESSIONAL TEAM

ROLE BASED INNOVATION

EarlyBirds helps you to become a self-learning organisation to: achieve continuous improvement across all business functions; resolve business and technical challenges quickly; and explore disruptive business models, solutions & innovations.

CEO/Head of Strategy

Implement a vision to create a self-learning organisation and achieve competitive & capability edge
Provide opportunity to all business functions to continuously improve and disrupt
Provide opportunity to holistic collaboration across the organisation to innovate
Create a culture for ongoing innovation and collaboration

IT/Technology Team

Understand the business challenge
Be more closely aligned with your internal and external customers
Discover and refine potential disruptive solutions
Engage with world leading innovators

Innovation Team

Expand your innovation capabilities without expensive overhead
Turn your organisation’s strategy into business outcomes
Stay ahead with digital transformation
Resolve business challenges and seize opportunities rapidly

Procurement Team

Quickly qualify business requirements and potential solutions
Collaborate with EarlyBirds’ open innovation ecosystem
Acquire low investment trial and proof of concepts
Expand your knowledge of available solution options

Product Team

Gain a better understanding of market trends
Find solutions to support your product roadmap
Improve corporate products with better business outcomes
Enhance your products through partnerships and integration

Customer Experience Team

Acquire, grow and retain customers
Get unique customer insights
Better understand customer behaviour and desires
Support customers throughout their journey

Marketing Team

Explore demand generation trends and solutions
Find leading solutions to improve qualification conversion rate
Enhance collaboration and enterprise integration
Make onboarding more effective and efficient

Finance Team

Support the corporate and business unit innovation agenda
Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of your financial capability
Support early trial and proof of concepts to reduce cost to the business
Stay ahead of your competition by accessing innovation trends

Sales Team

Build joint Go to Market capability with emerging innovators
Understand latest trends in sales and Go to Market solution options
Build better technical as well as competitive solutions for your customers
Explore regional innovation capabilities to support your local strategy

M&A, Corporate Strategy Team

Get insights of next potential investment opportunity
Find Innovators based on your corporate investment strategy
Consider multiple options to obtain the best outcome
Create an ongoing pipeline of acquisition targets

HR Team

Motivate your people through proactive innovation activities
Enhance organic collaboration across different business functions
Build and maintain an innovation culture
Develop and retain corporate innovation skills and knowledge for strategic advantage

Security Team

Stay ahead of the emerging threat environment
Use cyber security experts to understand your challenges and remedy options
Explore and evaluate latest cyber security solutions
Try latest disruptive cyber security solutions

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EARLYBIRDS OFFERINGS

Self Service Platform Subscriptions

  • Search Innovations, Services and Challenges
  • Search Global Innovators (over 4M) showcasing global industry innovation capability
  • Buy/sell Innovation and Services
  • Collaborate across the organisation or project teams using Innovation Projects functionality
    • Shortlist candidate solutions
    • Conduct curation process for best fit
  • Training and support on the platform and EarlyBirds program frameworks
  • Optional access to Innovation Maps in specific themes e.g. Global Cybersecurity Innovation Capability

SME-Assisted Innovation
Programs

  • Explorer

    Explorer program is designed to bring Innovation as a Service for the entire organisation including subscription to the platform as well as dedicated Subject Matter Expert working closely with the organisation to identify regular opportunities so that appropriate innovators are introduced on a regular basis to solve business challenges.
    • Platform enterprise license*
    • Nominated SME for Enterprise*
    • Focus on target area of innovations*
    • Monthly/Quarterly Innovation days*
    • Explore potential Innovation Maps*
  • CHALLENGER

    Challenger program is designed to work on a single challenge at a time with the organisation. Five work packages focused on a specific challenge.
    • Identify business challenges and explore available actionable innovations
    • Run by our SME to identify business challenges, then explore potential innovators to match
    • On the completion of the program, customer will get a roadmap of options
    • Mini Challenger Program starts at $25,000, including risk-free success-based engagement for key customers.