Business Case: New Business Factory: from catching opportunities to Business Experimentation

Overview

Our client, a Tier 1 Automotive Supplier, aims to leverage internal assets to deploy a hypothesis driven approach to explore future business potentials.
KEPLER developed a structured business experimentation framework and implemented a hypothesis management approach, driving user and business-centric innovation for sustainable growth.

Context

Generating and transforming opportunities into concrete Innovation / new business candidates ready to transfer to existing or to be created business unit for industrialization & scale-up
Gathering internal ideas through Innovation challenges
Connecting with innovative ecosystem (VC, startups) worldwide to organize ideation workshop, catching earlystage opportunities, fastening the experimentation curve

Objectives

Inventing New Business while leveraging your internal assets (Industrial, Know-How, Footprint,…)
Fostering Innovation in a very mature business to explore tomorrow’s potential businesses
Deploying an approach based on hypothesis management (Technical, Market, Business)

With our “New Business Factory” offer, we assist companies in exploring new business opportunities, experimenting with them quickly while leveraging both their internal assets and a policy of Open Innovation.”
Gregory Blokkeel, Director

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Gregory Blokkeel

Director

Holder of a master’s degree in applied mathematics and physics from MatMeca in Bordeaux, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Marseille II, in partnership with the…

Gregory Blokkeel

Gregory Blokkeel

Director

Holder of a master’s degree in applied mathematics and physics from MatMeca in Bordeaux, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Marseille II, in partnership with the PSA Peugeot-Citroën Group and with the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he spent 18 months during his thesis, Gregory has a rich background in the fields of innovation built over a 23 years career. He brings his solid expertise in the automotive and mobility sectors to the teams in charge of Innovation at KEPLER. Specialized in Open Innovation, IT integration and Data & Digital transformation, his priority mission is to develop the firm’s know-how in breakthrough innovation and the experimentation of new business.
Sebastien Grilli

Partner

Sebastien graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has over 20 years of experience in Management and Organizational consulting. Partner at Kepler, he manages the Innovation…

Sebastien Grilli

Sebastien Grilli

Partner

Sebastien graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has over 20 years of experience in Management and Organizational consulting. Partner at Kepler, he manages the Innovation practice in France and globally. He specializes in the Automotive and Mobility, Defence and Space, Agrifood and Pharmaceuticals sectors.