Why Innovation House?

Companies need to innovate, remain competitive and assure profitable future business in a world of fast-moving technolo-gies and a changing legislative landscape.

Just like in day-to-day business, succesful innovation cannot be done alone, there is a need to work with clients, provid-ers, partners, …

Innovation House offers a unique opportunity to take a step back, and work with ‘thought leaders’ in- and outside the own organisation to explore future business opportunities in financial services.

Through its collaborative format, Innovation House leverages the multi-disciplinary insights and expertise of representatives from different backgrounds and organisations.

What is Innovation House?

Innovation House brings your organisation together with pro-fessionals in financial services and related ICT fields, such as mobile technologies, cloud computing and social networks.

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The Innovation House is a professionally facilitated Open Innovation dialogue that aims to develop new ‘out of the box’ ideas for innovation in banking and financial services, offered in collaboration by GFT and B&W

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Who brings you Innovation House?

B&W (www.baxwillems.eu) is a specialized consultancy firm dedicated

to helping clients in bringing new technologies and innova-tive business ideas to the market. For over 20 years, B&W has supported its clients in shaping and implementing their, innovation and new business development strategies.

GFT (www.gft.com) designs and implements IT solutions for the financial services indus-

try. Combining technological expertise and seamless project management with a deep understanding of the industry, GFT is the perfect strategic IT partner for many well-known companies in all corners of the globe.

GFT Group | T +49 6196 969-0 | www.gft.com | info@gft.com

Content of the Innovation House sessions

Concretely, in the course of Innovation House process, the participants:

■ Obtain a full view of the organisation’s capacity for innova-tion in different search fields, through an initial diagnosis

■ Generate insights and develop visionary ‘out of the box’ ideas on opportunities in these fields, through in a moder-ated dialogue with colleagues, business relations and experts

■ Develop most relevant ideas into a business model and plan of action through a structured ‘pressure cooker’ approach in 3 sessions

■ Learn from partners, experts and collegues, building relationships and trust for future collaborations

Together the sessions form an inspirational ‘pressure cooker’ that generates ideas for new business and works them out into concrete business cases.

What does Innovation House bring to your organisation?

Innovation House leads to tangible results, that support financial service companies in developing new business, both alone and in collaboration:

■ Innovation House increases the number of ideas, concepts and plans for future product and service offerings

■ It accelerates the progression of these offerings through the innovation funnel, by bringing them to a certain level of maturity

■ In addition, it offers a methodology for interacting with external organisations on innovation and new business development

For more information contact:

Bax & Willems Consulting Venturing Menno van Rijn Partner T +34 93 476 04 44 m.vanrijn@bwcv.es

GFT Group Miguel Reiser Director Business Marketing T +34 935 659 100 miguel.reiser@gft.com

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The Innovation House process

In the sessions, participants are taken through a creative but structured ideation process, that helps ‘kick-start’ the development of new business opportunities.

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