SOME OF OUR CLIENTS

Engage//Innovate’s experience spans innovation clusters, energy, pharma, industry, financial services, technology, space, offshore and more.

Our clients hail from Switzerland, Malaysia, Germany, Sri Lanka,
Brazil, Sweden, Spain, the Emirates, Norway and beyond.

HOW WE’VE HELPED

RB (Reckitt Benckiser)

Our role: Train innovation managers at global FMCG on how to use new strategy & innovation tools. Help them develop new digital business models. We facilitated two 2-day workshops. Worked over a period of 18 months to facilitate innovation across the company.

Impact: A shared language for innovation. New tools for strategy and innovation. Several new Breakthrough Innovation projects launched following these workshops.

Norwegian Innovation Cluster Program

Our role:Engage // Innovate won a four year framework agreement to help reinvent and transform the Norwegian Innovation Cluster Program.
The Norwegian Innovation Cluster program is the Norwegian Government’s premier innovation program and considered a backbone in the national innovation policy framework.

The project includes:
– Insights and analysis; help understand how global innovation clusters and cluster policy is changing

– Develop a strategy for the new Innovation Cluster Program

– Develop a Learning & Development Platform to build skills and capabilities

– Develop and translate a large number of Strategy Tools for Innovation Clusters

– Write multiple books and report for the Norwegian Cluster Program

– Design and run a Train-the-trainers cluster program for cluster experts

– Design and run a large number of workshops and training programs for clusters, cluster managers and cluster boards

– Support the cluster program through strategic advisory

Impact: The Norwegian Innovation Cluster Program is considered one of the leading cluster programs in Europe. Currently undergoing a number of changes, the program will continue to evolve in line with global changes and trends within clusters, ecosystems and innovation policies.

EPIM

Our role: Develop a new strategy for EPIM and EPIM’s wide industry network.
Work with top management and the Board of Directors to design, align and implement new strategy to drive digital transformation across the oil & gas industry.

Impact: Designed a new business model with a large number of stakeholders with opposing views on the need for business model innovation.

Achieved strong, strategic alignment across the owners (all oil & gas companies), the Board of Directors and top management at EPIM. This strategic alignment was critical to EPIM and the on-going digital transformation of the global oil & gas industry.

Worked very closely with the CEO, new CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors to make a number of strategic choices around business model, strategy and execution.

In 2019, EPIM merged with Norsk Olje og Gass to be better positioned to achieve impact on their portfolio of digital transformation initiatives.

Steiner

Our role: Work closely with Steiner’s Project and Business Development team to create bid strategy and bid documents for IPZ – Innovation Park Zurich, Europe’s largest innovation park; Innovation Park Zurich.

Engage // Innovate was invited in as partners and special advisors on Innovation Superclusters. Over the span of several months, Engage // Innovate’s team worked closely with Steiner and the broader Swiss ecosystem to develop a strategy for both “hardware & software”.

This was a brand new approach to building commercial innovation parks, as Steiner developed the capabilities to deliver both the “hardware” (i.e buildings) and the “software” (i.e. the innovation programs, accelerators and Innovation Superclusters).

Impact: Steiner AG, working with a number of industry partners and the Zurich Canton Government aimed at developing an old airfield into IPZ. Engage // Innovate brought global perspectives and best practices in innovation programs, ecosystem engagement, accelerators and Innovation Supercluster development.

We assembled a global team, ranging from Californian Venture Capital firms, Swiss Startups, business angels, Asian ecosystem builders and Nordic Smart City Experts to support the project as global advisory board.

Steiner gained deep insights into global trends on co-working spaces, commercial real estate industry shifts, building innovation ecosystems, creating Innovation Superclusters and how to combine the “hardware & software” strategy to large real estate projects.

Read Swiss Innovation Superclusters Report

Aker Solutions

Our role: Worked closely with Aker Solutions’ Innovation Team to design, plan and run their first ever global hackathon. Built around three strategic themes for the company’s strategic growth, with teams in five global locations, the hackathon was a major success and a big win for the innovation team.

Impact: As planned, the top ten teams pitched to senior management and five were selected to proceed to the next stage. Those five internal startups are now developing their scale up strategies and new teams go to work to build and launch new growth areas for Aker Solutions.

NCE Seafood Innovation Cluster

Our role: Worked with the CEO, Management team and Board of Directors to develop a new, future-fit strategy for the world’s leading seafood innovation cluster. Based in Bergen, the world’s seafood capital, the Innovation Cluster represents the industry’s leading companies, startups, investors and researchers.

Engage // Innovate partnered with the Seafood leadership team to create learning, understanding and alignment around the new strategy.

Impact:
The Seafood Innovation Cluster successfully developed and implemented a new strategy to build ecosystem for growth and competitiveness in Norwegian seafood. The cluster used this process to shift from a Triple Helix understanding to the Five-point, or Pentagon model of cluster development.

Built around three areas; knowledge, Innovation, Entrepreneurship & commercialization, the strategy was highly relevant and created significant interest and support from the cluster members.

Equinor (Formerly Statoil)

Our role: Train and develop the global strategy team at Equinor (formerly Statoil). Worked with Head of Corporate Strategy to develop a training program for the global strategy team. Trained them in new strategy tools, innovation processes, growing beyond your core and venturing into radical new growth areas.

Impact: New strategy tools and practices implemented across the company. New top level conversations. Over time, led Equinor to become the most transformative oil and gas major in the world, with New Ventures and New Energy Solutions.

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Tenaga Nasional

Our role: Worked closely with top management and investment management division of Tenaga Nasional Berhat (TNB) to develop strategic innovation capacity in the organisation – Special focus on finding new growth avenues, with radically different cost structure and cash flow mechanisms than core business model. Advisory services to the internal consulting arm.

Impact: Trained 130+ senior leaders from 10+ subsidiares over a 3 day workshop and 13 new business models were launched – 6 of them got board approval for further development. Handed over the mandate to further develop those into SBU’s to internal consulting arm of TNB.

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Mundi Pharma

Our role: Work with the emerging markets business areas to strengthen the innovation engine at the global pharmaceuticals company Mundipharma. Apply new tools to drive consumer insight innovations.

Impact: Developed a new language on business model innovation and business model pipelines. Drove new innovation practices across Asia, Middle East and Europe.

Halliburton

Our role: Designed and developed the executive program, Strategic Innovation in the Global Oil and Gas Industry with BI. Adapted the program to a five-week, rapid talent development and new business development program at Halliburton. Significant work on new partnerships, new learning and applying new innovation tools.

Impact: Project teams developed five high-potential new business areas for Halliburton. Each business area outside the realms of the oil price. Significant positive executive feedback, with this program beating out Halliburton’s own corporate strategy and development programs.

WHAT THEY SAY

In my 12 years with this company, this is the best breakthrough innovation session I’ve ever been to.

Pietro CaputoR&D and Innovation Manager, Reckitt Benckiser, Venice, Italy

Working with Engage // Innovate has given us new insights and inspiration, and we have been challenged to think beyond what we used to.

Helen RothCEO, Norwegian Tunnel Safety Cluster

We ran a one-week strategy bootcamp on smart city, designed and led by Christian Rangen. This was perhaps the most powerful learning experience I have been through. The bootcamp led to the formation of Nordic Smart Buildings, with a rapid go-to-market strategy, allowing us to jump-start our smart city strategy.

Grethe S. SkundbergDirector, Apply TB, Norway

Christian Rangen has great knowledge on cluster development on an international level that he happily shares. His insight and studies are a value for us when we work with both new, experienced and mature clusters in Norway. He challenges us on how we best work with clusters all the time – and it increases our competence.

Clusters are complex organizations and their aim is to solve complex problems for the benefit of a large number of entities. In order to do so, they need different ways of attacking different problems. The visual strategy tools that we’ve co-developed with Engage // Innovate have given us a set of instruments to provide them with different angles of attack.

They have been a great resource to run discussions with and between people from many different backgrounds and companies within the clusters. It helps cluster members structure their conversations and really dig deep into their “real” problems and challenges.

The fact that we co-develop tools on the run as we get more and more insight in the complexity of cluster development is a huge benefit for both the clusters and Innovation Norway.

Martin HennumSenior Advisor, Innovation Norway

I have been to many of these type of meetings throughout my career, but this was the most inspirational and thought provoking , and by far the best and most productive meeting I have been to in a very long time.

Steve JordanChief Scientific Officer, Biotage, UK

Working with Christian Rangen and Engage // Innovate has led a more structured process both internally and working with our cluster clients. I have really enjoyed working with Chris – he shakes things up, goes the extra mile and has genuinely brought great value to Innovation Norway.

Vivian LundeSenior Advisor, Innovation Norway

Engage//Innovate provided a new perspective for us on generating business income via innovation rather than focusing on our current core business

Mohd Najib Bin MohammadBusiness Development, Tenaga Nasional Malaysia

In 3.5 days we did what we normally do in 6 months.

Eirik GundegjerdeExecutive Vice President of Smart Utility, Lyse Norway

Working with Engage // Innovate has been great so far! They helped structure our work and was great help in the building of our accelerator program and investor network. For Christian Rangen, the sky is the limit! This is exactly the perspective we needed.

Trine Kopstad BerentsenCEO, Solar Energy Cluster Norway

Working with Christian Rangen and Engage // Innovate has led to a more structured process both internally and when working with our cluster clients. We’ve co-developed new visual strategy tools which are core to our workshops – helping to define common goals and create impactful discussion within our working groups. I have really enjoyed working with Chris – he has been a great asset. He shakes things up, goes the extra mile and has genuinely brought great value to Innovation Norway.

Vivian LundeSenior Advisor, Innovation Norway Bergen

We now have a strategy for Scale-Ups and Capital which is the direct result of working with Engage // Innovate. Chris brings with him deep insight on cluster work that has been invaluable to us.

Arild KristensenCEO, Smart Care Cluster Norway

I really loved working with Christian Rangen – he challenges you and your team and brings innovation and new thinking to a higher level in the company, breaking traditions and comfort zones.

Niels J. KindbergCFO & EVP at Jet Time

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