Establish your presence in Silicon Valley and quickly plug into its ecosystem by partnering with Silicon Valley Innovation Center as your outpost. You will receive consistent monitoring of Silicon Valley’s new innovative technologies, emerging trends and opportunities, based on a deep understanding of your goals and needs.
Why Open an Innovation Outpost?
Sense, Scan and Scout
Get Actionable
Insights
Monitor Silicon Valley for new innovative technologies and companies as emerging threats or potential tools for disruption
Access Unique
Resources
Take full advantage of the rich innovation ecosystem of Silicon Valley (think tanks, universities, startups, technology corporations, industry leaders, venture capital, seed investors, etc.)
Connect With
Key Players
Develop a network of direct business relationships with the most important players
Create
New Products
Turn the insights into new products and disruptive business models before competition
Identify Investment
Targets
Find and invest in new startups that are working with emerging technologies
Build Strategic
Partnerships
Connect and collaborate with key stakeholders in Silicon Valley to develop a disruptive new solution using their innovations to achieve your goals and objectives
Why Silicon Valley Innovation Center
Rather than go-all-in and invest in setting up a physical Innovation Outpost (which can be costly, time-consuming and difficult), partner with SVIC to take advantage of our presence, expertise and connections in Silicon Valley. We can help pinpoint trends and capabilities that could lead to the disruption of industries in which our clients serve.
We help organizations think through the right model for building innovation as a sustainable capability within the organization (IO or otherwise) and execute it end-to-end by leveraging the principles of autonomy, creative tension, strategic alignment, and modular design.
What You Get
Match speed of innovation with scale of execution with Silicon Valley resources
- Start immediately receiving highly relevant, curated intelligence and market insights aligned to your innovation agenda and corporate initiatives
- Quickly plug in to the SIlicon Valley innovation ecosystem through our extensive partnership network with all key players
- Get introduced and have value-creating business meetings with top executives in Silicon Valley guaranteeing that your agenda is prioritized and the correct key stakeholders are in the room
- Take full advantage of SVIC hundreds-strong network of experts, connections and partners developed in the last 8 years of SVIC operations
Moonshot’s service
Incubate first-of-kind “blended” Horizon-3 services into our go-to-market
Leverage the investments in “horizon 2” capabilities
Identify opportunities for resource acquisition (products, services, people)
Leverage innovation outpost to optimize and transform Moonshot’s internal Ways of Working/Operations
Differentiate recruiting and attract top-tier talent
How It Works?
Networking & Partnering
- Understand opportunities where disruption is most crucial to your business from your peers
- Get to know who the key technology innovators in Silicon Valley
- Learn about how other companies are doing their innovation strategy
Research & Development
- A dedicated technology scouting expert will be assigned to do the work
- We provide a global technology search and analysis
- Research and scout key target identification and technology solutions and/or vendors
Productising The Solution
- Provide technology adjacent and new emerging technology identification research report
- Understand current enterprise integrations and capabilities for prodcut development
- Implement Lean Startup Methodology
Roadmap to Outpost Success
STEP 1: Innovation Outpost Strategy Kick-Off
A one-day immersion program that will introduce the leadership and strategy team to the technologists and innovation practitioners at Silicon Valley’s top companies. The program will culminate in a half-day workshop, where SVIC and our network’s experts perform a deep dive to understand, analyse, and advise on your current innovation strategy and outline the main objectives for the outpost.
STEP 2: Actionable Insights
Quarterly customized research reports around key topics of interest for your organization and cover the most critical aspects of you company’s strategy. These reports will level-up the knowledge of the leadership team and can be scaled out to the broader organization.
STEP 3: Connections
Get white-glove introductions and value-creating business meetings to the key leaders in the Silicon Valley community to quickly expand your local network and connect your organization with new opportunities.
STEP 4: Strategy Reviews and Recommendations
½ day to a full day quarterly workshops with a core group of experts to analyze the execution and validate and advise on strategy. Our team does not only help diagnosis specific issues and provide recommendations, but will procure aid in assisting with the implementation of recommended solutions and facilitate client learning.
