The ongoing trend of "open innovation" is rapidly spreading. It is becoming a default marketing strategy - a soft, subtle approach to spread the brand awareness while solving internal requirements at a rapid pace by leveraging external expertise at a rapid pace.
Of course, we have Unilever Foundry - foundry.unilever.com.
These are some of the innovation initiatives by other companies.
1. Johnson and Johnson - http:/www.jnjinnovation.com & http://talk.jnjinnovation.com
2. AIA EDGE Accelerator - http://aia-accelerator.com & http://blog.aia-accelerator.com
3. Verizon Innovation - http://innovation.verizon.com
4. Intel Builder Communities
4.1. Network Builders - https://networkbuilders.intel.com
4.2. Cloud Builders - https://cloudbuilders.intel.com
4.3. Fabric Builders - https://fabricbuilders.intel.com
4.4. Builders - https://builders.intel.com
4.5. Storage Builders - https://storagebuilders.intel.com
5. DBS
5.1. DBS Innovation Uni.Corn - https://www.dbs.com/innovation/unicorn/index.html & https://www.dbs.com/innovation/unicorn/blog/index.html
5.2. DBS Innovation Hotspot - http://www.dbs.com/innovation/hotspot2016/index.html
5.3.
6. Bank Mandiri
And a whole lot of "Companies" listing challenges on www.agorize.com - a potential prospect list for us - Uber, Decathlon, Carrefour, Addeco, AXA and a whole lot of France/Swiss & other European companies.
7. Guys, have put up a blog update on CRM. But more interestingly is the "CB Insights" Mosaic Algorithm that rates Startups. It is something that we can think and explore for Innovation Platform to measure Startups
https://www.cbinsights.com/company-mosaic
https://www.cbinsights.com/pricing
eg - https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gigster-reviews
https://www.cbinsights.com/company/planview
Something useful for in our conversation with DBS, CIMB, Bank Mandiri, etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/4-banking-business-models-digital-age-ben-robinson
8. And a whole lot of "Companies" listing challenges on www.agorize.com - a potential prospect list for us - Uber, Decathlon, Carrefour, Addeco, AXA and a whole lot of France/Swiss & other European companies.
9. KPMG Digital Village - https://digitalvillage.asia/index.html
https://www.techinasia.com/kpmg-launches-digital-village-fill-crucial-gap-startup-ecosystem
https://home.kpmg.com/sg/en/home/media/press-releases/2016/04/digital-innovation-gets-a-new-home-at-the-kpmg-digital-village.html
10. Texas Medical Centre - http://www.tmc.edu/innovation/apply/
working with JnJ Labs and AT&T FOUNDRY Lab
TMC uses gust.com for one setup of applications, Typeforms for another set of applications, and external links for JnJ and AT&T Foundry. We can consolidate and build a CRM system for all such applications to reside in one system - which has multi-folds benefits. The same angle was used for Jeremy to move from Foundry 1.0 to Foundry 2.0
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