In occasione della prima edizione romana degli Explore Talks - avvenuta mercoledì 24 febbraio grazie al sostegno di BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas - Ernesto Ciorra, Head of Innovation & Sustainability ENEL ha presentato le iniziative di Open Innovation dell'azienda a livello mondo

2. Innovation can kill companies’ business
models.
At Enel we are aware of that

3. In 1997 mobile leaders were…

4. Innovation is a great opportunity

5. 2012
2.4 $ mln
raised on Kickstarter
2014
2,000 $ mln
sold to Facebook

6. How to turn a threat into an opportunity?

7. Can we do it on our own?

8. NO!

9. Who can help us?

10. Microsoft corporation, 1978
Small
companies,
with BIG
ideas

11. Innovative
universities
and
research
centers

12. Venture
capital

13. Startups
Pipe Line
Technical
Specification
Prototype Test Phase
Commercial
Pilot
Market Phase
1.200 startups screened
20 ongoing projects

14. 14

15. Partners104 running innovation partnerships
13 Partnerships executedin the last year

16. Innovators

17. Customers

18. Colleagues
E. Chesbrough
“Firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas,
and internal and external paths to market,
as the firms look to advance their technology”
outside
Enel
People inside

19. Spreading the open innovation
culture for the Group’s benefit…
19
My Best Failure
69 posts, 379 votes and
comments,
+5000 visitors
Do you have an idea
113 ideas since Aug ‘15
Innovation World Cup
398 Teams competing
805 colleagues
11 Countries
Makers lab, innovation sandbox
Innovation based induction
program designed with HR
2 editions in 2015
Innocentive Enel Pavilion
7 challenges published
1 preparation ongoing
1 under definition
Project portfolio
Dashboard and monitoring tool
online
290 projects
41 project dissemination cards
Open Innovability plafform
Design ongoing
GP ideation space
43 ideas since Oct ’15
Innovation by vendors
60 participants
21 proposals, 9 selected
19

20. …boosting ideas generation to solve
markets’ and business lines’
challenges
23
Creative
brainstorming
sessions
446
Ideas generated
Creative Problem
Solving
and
LEGO®
SERIOUSPLAY®
500
Participants
7Projects resulting
81External
Participants
(in addition to
the 500 internal)
4Creative Problem
Solving
disseminations
6
Countries
25
Departments
Involved
Enel Idea Factory main numbers

21. We have set up a new process that turns the ideas
collected into real projects and partnerships

22. Enel Innovability:
a step beyond Open Innovation
#InnovationAndSustainability
« We aren’t sustainable unless we innovate..
to innovate we have to be sustainable, since the
best minds out there aren’t doing it for money…
They’re doing it to be part of a bigger project to
better mankind..»

23. 23
&
Kumi Naidoo
Greenpeace's International Executive Director
Nov 2009 - Dec 2015

24. Backup diesel
Mini Wind
Ropatec
Solar PV Plant
Batteries
More than 200 people getting energy access from RES in
a remote location
Just one, clear Example of innovation for people’s benefit
Ollagüe - Chile

25. We got structured to work as
an Innovability Hub
Innovation Managers and Sustainability managers
in all the Business lines and Countries

26. Is this enough?

27. NO!

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It’s up to us to innovate as much as we can
to let Enel being sustainable
in an ever changing world

30. Enel seems to be on the right path…
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Among the Top 5 “Change the
World” Companies
Listed in the guide “Winning
together” as example of
successful collaboration model
with startups
Listed in Bloomberg’s list “50
Companies to Watch in 2016”