26 October, 20:00 CEST/2pm EDT/11am PDT

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How KICKBOX Supports Employee-Driven Ideation and Business Design

Trending Topic Talk with

Dave Hengartner & Ralph Hartmeier

Co-Founders at rready

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About the session

Innovation thrives on anarchy (the good kind). KICKBOX works bottom-up by tapping into the distributed knowledge of your employees. They get feedback from customers and know your daily processes best. The main goals of the program are: ...to create new products and services. This will also brand your company as innovative for customers, investors and employees. ... to educate your employees on the nonlinear innovation process and creating a lasting innovation culture is crucial. ... to make employee innovation visible across your company and onboard all the different stakeholders. Doing so while reduce administrative work with an automated innovation project workflow If you're interested do not miss the opportunity to hear how rready engages employees by unleashing their ambition and creativity and releasing their intrapreneurial power directly from two founders of the program.

About the speaker

Dave is Co-Founder & CEO at rready, a startup that is offering turnkey SaaS products to launch, manage and automate employee driven innovation programs within large organizations. Beside, David is teaching the “Lean Startup Academy” course at ETH Zurich & is guest lecturing at leading universities. Before rready, David worked 6 years in corporate innovation at Swisscom, founded two startups, worked for startups in Zurich and Berlin and is a well-connected member of the Swiss startup and corporate innovation ecosystem. David holds a M.A. in Business Administration from the University of St.Gallen (HSG) with focus on Entrepreneurship and Marketing and a Design Thinking degree from the University of Technology in Sydney. Ralph is Co-Founder and CCO at rready. Before starting rready, Ralph worked for several companies abroad and in Switzerland and founded two startups. Later, he joined Swisscom as 'Open Innovation Developer' being responsible for the Kickbox intrapreneurship program involving tasks such as coaching of intrapreneurs, internal marketing, and company building. After having completed the spin-out of Swisscom, he enables in the role of the CCO other organizations to implement their own Kickbox program working towards an 'open innovation ecosystem'. Ralph holds a M.A. in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and teaches Entrepreneurship at an University of applied Science.

26 October, 20:00 CEST/2pm EDT/11am PDT

How KICKBOX Supports Employee-Driven Ideation and Business Design

Trending Topic Talk hosted by Dave Hengartner & Ralph Hartmeier, Co-Founders at rready

This session is part of Innov8rs Connect on Foresight & Business Design (26-28 October 2021).

This session is now over. You can access the recording of this session and 700+ others and join upcoming sessions live, with an Innov8rs Community membership, the best learning resource for any corporate innovation professional. Check here for more info, and as a first step, apply to join here

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