The Story of InGenius - Nestlé's Global Employee-driven Innovation Accelerator

Nick de Blasio

Product Group Manager Employee Innovation at Nestlé

as recording during on 9 December 2020 as part of Innov8rs Connect on Business Design, Venture Building & Portfolio Management.


InGenius is Nestlé’s Global Employee Innovation Accelerator that has engaged more than 65k employees, generating over 7k ideas and 100k likes and comments in the last 7 years through internal challenges; bringing to life new digitally powered solutions in B2B and B2C as well as new Food Products and Packaging.

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About the speaker

Crowdsourcing ideas directly from our wide expert base of employees and then funneling the most promising through a structured and accelerated innovation program generates both Intrapreneurs and Innovation, a powerful combination for sustainable long term growth.

Nick co-founded InGenius with its humble beginnings in Supply Chain IT and it has since evolved to directly support, enable and deliver innovations across corporate functions such as R&D, HR, our business units and in the markets. In this session Nick went through its early beginnings, what worked well, what didn’t and where he is taking it next.