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Building Collaborative Networks for Innovation
Dr Hubert HenryHead of Innovation and R&D
Bord na Móna plc
InterTradeIreland 2010 Innovation Conference
University College Dublin
28-29 June 2010
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Developing Our Vision
External Sources
Internal Sources
Consumers
S.E.I
Media
Customers
E.P.A.C.E.R.
Opinion Formers
Shareholder
Department
Employees
Board
Leadership Team
Objective – To engage with and obtain inputs from both External and Internal sources
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Our Vision
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Five Main Businesses:
Energy (Feedstock, Power Gen)
Horticulture Growing Media
Residential Heating Products
Environmental Solutions
Resource Recovery
Business Development:
Land and Property
Water Project
Community Heating
Bord na Móna Group of Companies
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Defending the Three Horizons
Profit
Time (years)
Horizon 1
Extend and defend
core businesses
Horizon 2
Identify and build
Emerging businesses
Horizon 3
Create
Viable options
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Horizon 1
Is the current cash generative business activities within BnM. Any
innovation here is about doing what we do better or incremental
improvement of our current product/service offering.
Innovation is centred around ‘Mastering the Basics’.
Horizon 2
Is new business activities proposed which will enable BnM to expand past
the next number of years and become cash generative to enable further
innovation to proceed. It is about what do we do next to create a competitive
advantage and generate tomorrows cash generative businesses. Any
innovation here is focused on Step change improvements.
Innovation is centred around ‘Raising the bar’
Horizon 3
Is the future business activities or ‘tomorrow's world’ which will shape the
business in the future. It is the so called ‘blue skies’ innovation.
Innovation here is centred around ‘Changing the Game’
The Operators
The Builders
The Visionaries
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My Objective
‘To Put Innovation at the Heart
of All We Do’
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Achieved by delivering on the following Aims:
(i) Establishing an Innovation Centre within BnM to conduct applied
Innovation activities
(ii) Establishing Cross-Functional Satellite Groups within each
Operational Directorate to conduct business specific innovation
activities.
(ii) Building internal and external collaborative networks (an innovation
‘eco-system’) to facilitate this process
(iii) This will be in turn be overseen at a senior level in the company by
introducing and operating the concept of ‘Balanced portfolio
management’
Aims
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ENERGY
ENVIRONMENTAL
FUELS
The Innovation Ecosystem Model in BnM
RESOURCE
RECOVERY
HORTICULTURE
LAND
DEVELOPMENT
INNOVATION
CENTRE
MARKETING &
CONSUMER
INSIGHTS
UNIVERSITIES/
IOT’S
INDUSTRIAL
PARTNERS
INTERNAL
NETWORK
EXTERNAL
NETWORK
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External Partners in the BnM Innovation
Ecosystem
Academic Institutions:
IOTs
Universities
Companies:
Partnerships
Licencing agreements
M&A
Suppport Bodies
EI, SFI, SEAI, EPA etc
Competence Centres:
Industry Led R&D
Private Entrepreneurs:
Partnerships
Licencing Agreements
M&A
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Where Are We Now?
We operate a WBS approach to assist in achieving our
objectives as follows:
(i) Refinement of the Innovation Management Process
(ii) Embed this Innovation Process Internally
(iii) Drive innovation by:
a. Feeding ideas into the pipeline, starting projects and delivering
new products/services
b. Demonstrate value to Stakeholders (internal and external)
c. Create and monitor innovation behaviour
d. Strengthen existing, and develop new, external collaborative
networks
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Ideas Management Across the Group
June 2010
OBU/DBU/Area Ideas Logged Ideas Banked Live Projects
Feedstock/
PowerGen
80 72 19
Environmental 102 52 29
Fuels 63 25 8
Horticulture 102 95 19
Resource Recovery 30 30 10
Innovation Centre 72 66 9
Community Heating 12 11 4
Biodiversity 17 3 15
Total 478 354 113
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Thank [email protected]
InterTradeIreland 2010 Innovation Conference
Delivered as part of the InterTradeIreland All-island Innovation Programme
www.innovationireland.org
University College Dublin
28-29 June 2010