Together with Philips
How could we scale capabilities for impact propositions?
Philips aims to sustain its leadership in sustainable health tech innovations. While known for strong processes and high-quality solutions, the challenge is ensuring multidisciplinary teams can translate innovation into impact. To stay ahead, they need the right capabilities to develop propositions that drive both business and sustainability goals.
From process to capability building
The challenge is twofold: continuously training and onboarding both new and experienced product managers while ensuring they can apply the latest process improvements in their daily work. Since 2014, we have co-developed a curriculum for impact propositions, refining it over time to integrate business model innovation, early-stage business rationale development, and strategies to de-risk investments while accelerating commercialization.
Learning by doing
Our approach goes beyond traditional training. We actively engage with innovation teams on real business cases, applying the framework in practice. This hands-on experience, coupled with our partnership with leadership to enhance their coaching and steering abilities, has successfully embedded capability-building into the organization’s DNA.
Connecting global teams across regions
With teams spread across different regions and time zones, ensuring alignment and accessibility was critical. The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated the need for scalable solutions, leading to the development of virtual tools. These tools, which enable remote collaboration, have been instrumental in ensuring teams worldwide can adopt and apply impact-driven innovation practices effectively.