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🎓 Training Activity 4: Corporate-Startup Collaborations & Thinking Hats

Welcome!

Welcome back! This next activity will help you accomplish two things:

🌻 Get acquainted with Corporate-Startup Collaboration (CSC) and learn hacks to prepare for a future pilot

🌻 Step back and look at your own business model from a different point of view

Apply your knowledge!

Scenario:

Imagine you are approached by a scout from an innovation intermediary which runs a CSC program for a big corporate client.

Try on the below thinking hats and look at your own business model from different perspectives.

Green Hat: Judge the risk in your business model from the point of view of a technical expert at the potential corporate client.

Blue Hat: Judge the risk in your own business model from the point of view of a commercial expert at the potential corporate client.

Red Hat: Judge the risk in your business model from the point of view of future investors.

Based on this exercise, how can your business model become more attractive to the different perspectives?

Leveraging your Universal Skills

While helping your team improve in this Team Development area, you can simultaneously be leveraging and enhancing your Universal Skills & Character Strengths. To do that, go to your Team Growth board to review your Universal Skills & Character Strengths results and priorities, and then see how you can adapt this team growth activity to also help you improve your individual skills.

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