The document provides information about an event on business innovation hosted by Connect2Innovation (C2I) on July 9th, 2014. It introduces the speakers Nigel Biggs and Triin Udris and discusses how businesses can innovate through piloting new ideas, testing with customers, and adapting based on feedback. Attendees are encouraged to discuss challenges their businesses face and potential solutions with the speakers.

1. WELCOME
Business Innovation
Can we really innovate our business?
9th July 2014

2. © C2I Ltd July 2014
HOUSE KEEPING

3. Future Events with
– 9th July: Business Innovation – can we
innovate service?
– 10th September: Finance readiness –what’s good
practice when seeking funding?
– 15th October: Woking means Business
– 12th November: Sales – tips and techniques
Register at succeed@connect2innovation.co.uk to be kept updated
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4. Our speakers today
Nigel Biggs -
Triin Udris -
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5. • Deliver your 1 min business pitch
– who you are
– what you do
– what makes you unique
– what are your current goals
• Make sure you hand out your business cards
It’s your turn
now!
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6. Assistance?
“Growth through Innovation” & “Growth
Accelerator”
are both subsidised government schemes to
assist SME business which can help realise IP
and business potential
 Enterprise Europe Network
 Our Speaker can help you – take the opportunity &
discuss your business issues with them today
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7. Innovation?
Or make money by
doing things differently?
Business Challenges:
 Increase revenue
 Grow the customer base
 Raising brand awareness and improving image
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8. Innovation
“The world is getting smaller and
busier every day.
The average western consumer sees
more than 3,000 marketing messages
a day.
How can [we] possibly compete for
people’s attention in such a crowded
environment?
........Matt McNeil CEO of Sign-Up.to
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9. Always
be innovating
Unfair, but firm
•We need to innovate and improve our offering(s)
continually, or
someone else will either steal our market or leave us
working
hard for pennies, as a commodity supplier.
We are in business to make money?
•Studies show that it pays to be innovative.
•So, why not target 30%, or more, of sales from new
products or services annually
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10. Quotes
“I cannot understand why people are frightened of new ideas – I am frightened o
old ones!”........... John Cage composer
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.”
........ Steve Jobs – CEO of Apple
“The greatest danger for all of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it ,
but it is too low and we reach it!”.....Michelangelo
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11. Over to Nigel
Email: succeed@connect2innovation.co.uk
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Telephone: 01483 743024
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12. Nigel Biggs
Founder, Pixology plc
and now Passionate Innovation Ltd
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at
University of Surrey
Innovation is FUN –
and deadly serious for
your business!

13. ... and so is BREAKFAST!

14. ... is Black Forest Gateau for
BREAKFAST!

15. ... be different for BREAKFAST!

16. Tom Peters said ....
Never waste a lunch!!!! Lunch
is 5 opportunities per week, 220
opportunities per year to get to
know interesting outsiders,
folks from other functions,
customers, vendors, frontline
staffers.

17. So let’s not waste breakfast....
LET’S TRY
ROOMSOURCING

18. ROOMSOURCING
Grab a sheet of A4 paper
Write name on top area and 10
keywords to describe your business &
market, your hobbies and a current
need!
NOW LISTEN!

19. WHO HERE INNOVATES?

20. Lesson 1: Try It! Do it now!
Darwin rules. More stuff goin’ on, more
interesting-good stuff happenin’.
Innovation is to a large extent a “numbers
game”: He-she who tries the most stuff
wins. (Astonishingly true.)
Tom Peters: Innovate or Die: The Innovation 121
A Menu of [Essential] Innovation Tactics

21. WHAT IS ...

22. NEW IDEAS
to
IMPLEMENTATION

23. NEW IDEAS – WHY, WHEN, HOW?

24. NEW IDEAS – WHEN?
In the shower ? On your own?
With your team? Brainstorming?
With other colleagues?
With new contacts?
Planned away day?
Away Hour????

25. NEW IDEAS – HOW?
P I L O T

26. PILOT
How can we
........................?
P: Pursue the Problem
Is it too wide? Make more
focused?

27. PILOT
How can we
........................?
P: Pursue the Problem
Choose one business
from your group.
5 mins to explain the
problem.

28. PILOT
On your own
3 minutes
1 idea per post-it note
Be adventurous!
Pass over. Do again.
I: Input Ideas

29. PILOT
View the ideas.
With time we would ....
Share the ideas
Sort/De-dupe. Chase more.
Categorise (Green/Yellow/Red)
Choose/Vote
L: Locate the Likely

30. PILOT
Check with others (Will they buy?)
Does it work financially?
Does it work in time?
O: Open to the Outside

31. PILOT
Start small even free
Get feedback
Adapt
T: Test & Trial

32. PILOT
Do it for another
business?

33. Innovate or Die!

34. Darwin said:
“It is not the strongest of the
species that survives, nor the
most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change.”

35. Opportunities Missed
ViewFinder
Red Eye
The “Away Hour”

36. Invest the Time. Use a Process!
ROOMSOURCING
PILOT
The “Away Hour”

37. Email: nigel@passionateinnovation.com
Tel: 01483 827301
Mob: 07860 873717
Twitter: @nigelb22
Skype: rnigelbiggs
Web: www.passionateinnovation.com
Questions?

38. •Enterprise Europe Network
•Connect2Innovation
•09.07.2014

39. WHAT WE DO?
 The world’s largest B2B network
 Free services
 International matchmaking
 Access to Funding

40. Snapshot of Oxford Innovation’s
clients
• Utilities software developer finds Spanish, Greek and Lithuanian
partners to jointly supply 17 technologies to a university in China
• An automotive manufacturer finds German, Spanish and Italian
partners to apply for Horizon 2020 to develop a flywheel
• An SME developing an UAV receives a letter of support for their
Horizon 2020 application from a large EU rail operator
• Cosmetics company secures contracts in Ireland and China

41. European Funding
Horizon 2020
 Understand how it works
• €79bn 2014-2020
• Up to 100% funding
• Up to €2.5m for SMEs
 Help building a consortium
 Application support

42. What to keep in mind?

43. What have we achieved?!
• 80 000 companies have received support
to finance their project
•
• Over 9000 businesses have found
international partners

44. Thank You!
Triin Udris
Oxford Innovation Services
t.udris@oxin.co.uk
www.een.ec.europa.eu