Connecting The Dots – Creating an Innovation Network at The Core of an Innovation Ecosystem Inside a Global Life-Science Company

Henning Trill

VP Innovation Strategy at Bayer

as recorded on 16-19 March 2021 as part of Innov8rs Connect on Culture, Talent and Teams

For the internal innovation ecosystem of Bayer our innovation Community, the “Innovation Network” plays a crucial role. The members connect all employees, who would love to engage with innovation with the offerings and opportunities Bayer offers.

Henning Trill shared the story how they created the Networks and got its members engaged as well as the other core elements of the ecosystem that enable us to drive innovation on an incremental, breakthrough and transformational level.

About the speaker

Henning Trill has a passion for new ways to make life better and focuses on ecosystems in nutrition and health as the VP Innovation Strategy. In his former role as Head of Corporate Innovation at Bayer he created and implemented Bayer’s Innovation Agenda which is a top-down and bottom up approach to drive innovation across the whole organization. His team supported an innovation Network with more than 800 Coaches across the company, a crowd ideation platform and more than 85 projects through an Intrapreneurship program based on Lean-Startup, creating substantial digital revenue potential.

Previously, Henning lead the global R&D Team of Bayer’s Inhouse Management Consulting Unit. Prior to joining Bayer, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group and a start-up in the Lithium Ion Battery space. Henning studied Physics and Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität in Münster and at the University of Santa Barbara, California (UCSB).

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