New-Business Building: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Roundtable with

Younes Souilmi, Pontus All & Frank Mattes

Amadeus Business-Building Incubation, Head of Portfolio at Amadeus | Senior Venture Development Manager at Volvo Group | CEO at Lean Scaleup

16 February, 16:00 CET/10am EST/7am PST

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About the session

New-business building was one of the hot topics in Innovation in the last years. For 2023, the studies project that it will remain high on the corporate agenda and budgets will remain stable. These studies also predict more C-level engagement and a growing appetite for adjacent new businesses.

But still, only 3 out of 100 corporate startups create sizable and profitable businesses. And the ones that try to do that, like Younes (for TravelTech company Amadeus) and Pontus (for Volvo Group), still have to fight uphill battles in their companies.

- What has changed?
- Where are corporate mindsets, capabilities/skills and the business-building infrastructure shifting?
- Where are companies still stuck?

These are some of the questions that 2 corporate venture builders, Younes Souilmi and Pontus All, will be discussing with business-building thought leader Frank Mattes.

About the speaker

Frank Mattes is an expert in corporate business-building, advisor to Corporate Innovation and Corporate Venturing, and author of two books on corporate business building. In the last four years, Frank focused on the corporate business-building problem: why do large companies struggle dramatically in building new businesses from innovation - and how can they improve?

Together with 20+ industry leaders from many sectors, Frank co-created the Lean Scaleup™ framework. This framework comprises Best Practices in how to create new sizable, profitable businesses. The Lean Scaleup is the latest addition to the corporate entrepreneurship toolbox. It takes the Lean Startup into the corporate context, extends it to an end-to end journey from idea to scale and comprises the Best Practices from some of the world’s finest companies.

To help corporate innovation practitioners improve in business-building, Frank founded the consulting agency Lean Scaleup and published the book with the same name in May 2021. The book was co-written with two dozens of corporate practitioners and two leading business schools, UC Berkeley and the London Business School. Please find more on the book and the Lean Scaleup framework at www.leanscaleup.com/book

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