This document introduces a Project Design Kit for collaborative innovation projects. It addresses common challenges with collaboration including difficulty, lack of alignment with societal demands, and lower than intended business impact. The kit aims to improve collaboration practices, early and ongoing validation, and impact focus across project mobilization, exploration/experimentation/implementation, and post-project business development and legacy binding. It seeks consortia for FP7 proposals involving ICT solutions and a willingness to optimize results. The kit is offered by SMARTconsulting.nu and BM-Change consultants with experience in collaborative research projects and innovation topics like smart energy and e-government.

1. Project Design Kit
For collaborative innovation projects

2. Challenges in todays’collaborative innovation
projects
1. Collaboration ain’t easy
2. Low conjunction with societal demands
(drawback of old school models such as gate-
stage model of innovation)
3. Lower business impact than intended or no
sustainable use of project results

3. Our vision
Mobilization Exploration/experimentation/ Business development &
implementation legacy binding
Collaboration
practices
Early stage & ongoing
validation
Impact focus
Pre-project Project Post-project

4. What we offer: roadmap & toolkit
Mobilization Exploration/experimentation/ Business development &
Collaboration
implementation legacy binding
Social
practices
Forming
media use innovation
Partner teams Beta testing
Leaduser
selection Cocreation fora
Early stage &
guidelines
validation
Business
ongoing
Business Ecosystem model
roadmap Benefit
model business
mngt
innovation case
Impact
focus
Pre-project Project Post-project

5. What we are seeking
• Parties/consortia planning to issue FP7 project proposals
• Inclusion of ICT solutions
o ICT for sustainable and secure society
• Seriously aiming to optimize collaborative project results
• Partners aiming to increase impact and sustainable use of project
results
• Willing to adopt and validate the Project Design Kit

6. Who we are
SMARTconsulting.nu – Irma Borst
o Holds a PhD in innovation management
o Extensive (> 20 years ) consultancy experience
o Mainly involved in ICT projects
o Recent innovation topics:
 smart energy grids & services, e-government platforms
o Participated in several FP7 and national research projects
o Owner of research & consultancy firm (SME in the Netherlands)
o Affiliated with Free University Amsterdam & Rotterdam School of
Management, Erasmus University
BM-Change – Sander Smit
o Believer in design thinking, lean startup and visualization
o >15 years R&D experience in high-tech industry
o Participated in multiple collaborative research projects
o Experience in Smart Mobility, Open Data and Converged Media
o Co-creator of Business Model Generation
o Founder and owner of strategic innovation consultancy firm

7. We are inside
1. SNUPI:
o Socially-aware Natural inclUsive Personalised Interaction
Through gestures, voice and expressions
o Project Proposal for Objective ICT-2013.5.3
ICT for smart and personalised inclusion
2. Waternomics:
o Valorizing the cost of water with use of real-time information about
water consumption at domestic, corporate and municipal level and by
considering climate change and weather forecasts
o An integrated cloud-based service environment for valorising, costing
and billing water consumption taking into account individual, business
and community needs
Contact person: Dr. Adamantios Koumpis, Research Programmes Division, ALTEC S.A., (akou@altec.gr)

8. sander@bm-change.nu
&
iborst@smartconsulting.nu