This document summarizes an innovation bootcamp hosted by Corporate Acceleration to help companies bring ideas to market. The bootcamp condensed the innovation process into a single intensive day. Teams worked to explore, refine, and validate their ideas through pitching and feedback. By the end of the day, teams advanced the most promising concepts and 5 ideas were selected for further development. The bootcamp aligned innovation with company strategy, validated ideas, and accelerated time to market through its lean startup approach of rapid prototyping and testing assumptions.

1. Corporate Acceleration
from concept to market

2. WE BRING FUTURE
TO YOUR BUSINESS
Through a combination of innovation, design & development solutions.

3. Learning by doing. People make the difference. It’s not the lack of ideas but
the lack of time.
A good ideas is just the
starting point.
Structure is the foundation of
successful innovation.
Innovation without a link to
strategy is just a hobby.
Our Core Beliefs

4. WE COMBINE THE BEST OF TWO WORLDS
LEAN START-UP AND
CORPORATE MUSCLES
OUR CORPORATE LEAN APPROACH

5. Bootcamp
Start doing
Select, validate &
upgrade the most
valuable concepts into
new business
opportunities.
Business Sprint
Start executing.
Give your most promising
concepts tangible
dimensions & get ready
to start building,
Connect & Engage
Find your hotspot
Define innovation focus
areas, generate & select
the most promising
ideas.
Designed to Deliver
Our 3 boosters of corporate acceleration.
• Align your innovation agenda with the strategical organizational objectives.
• Validate product-market fit.
• Minimize time to market.
• Align content, process & stakeholders.

6. Our Funnel Tool
Connect & Engage Ideation Concepting Validating Building Scaling
Connect & Engage Bootcamp Business sprint
Regular
project
go stop go stop go stop go stop

7. Client case: Bootcamp
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

8. Objective
• Refine & visualize ideas
• Learn innovation by doing innovation
• Validate the riskiest assumptions
• Develop a viable business
case/investment proposal
• Select the most valuable concepts
Context
The Innovation Bootcamp is a condense
program, in which ideas are upgraded to
valuable business cases with high
alignment with the core strategy of the
company.
We put 18 teams in a pressure-cooker
environment to further explore, refine,
visualize and validate their ideas and
assumptions.
As a result of the Innovation Bootcamp, 5
promising concepts were selected to get
developed further.

9. Program Overview
• Kick-off
Opening & Introduction of the program
Get to know eachother
• Work with your team
Fill in the canvas of your idea
Pitch to your team & select one idea
Validate & learn
Pivot
Validate again
• Energizer
• Continue working
Make an action plan
Prepare pitch
Pitch in subgroups
Second selection round
Pitch for the Future Acceleration Panel
• Awarding the winners
• Diner and networking

10. What did we achieve within 1 day?

11. Ideation &
Selection
Concepting & Validating Building
Start-up &
Scaling
Connect &
Engage
Moving Down The Innovation Funnel

12. We started
with 73
interesting
ideas

13. 18
teams
Work together on the most
promising ideas

15. Of course there was also time for some fun

16. Day 2
9 teams
Pitched for the
Jury

17. 3 minutes to
shine..

19. Times Up

20. And the winners
are……

22. For More Information
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