Venture Clienting

Harness the transformative power of client venturing and drive effective and agile innovation, collaboration and growth in your organization with this practical guide.

Venture Clienting provides a practical, step-by-step guide to how organizations can drive innovation and unlock value through venture clienting. Venture clienting enables companies to tap into new technologies, business models and ideas and foster a culture of agility and growth. This book presents a set of frameworks, tools and methodologies designed to help readers master venture clienting in their organizations. It takes a deep dive into the fundamental building blocks of venture clienting, exploring everything the reader needs to systematically build and run a successful venture client unit. From strategy and organization to infrastructure, communication, process, enabling processes, governance and control, culture and stakeholder management, the book delves into the practicalities of each component. Venture Clienting answers key questions such as: how can you build effective venture client units? What are the secrets to running a venture client unit that is lean, agile and cost-efficient? What are the key challenges in venture clienting and how can they be overcome? It is packed with practical insights, examples and cases such as the Microsoft and OpenAI Moonshot Partnership, BSH Startup Kitchen and AVL. Empower your business to innovate faster and more efficiently with this essential guide for companies and startups seeking to drive strategic growth through venture clienting.

Draws on the authors' experience working with world-leading venture client units at renowned corporations, top-tier investors and a wide range of leaders spanning Fortune 500 companies, venture capital firms, emerging start-ups and social ventures

Autorentext
Christian Hüttenhein is the founder of Corporate Startup Readiness, a consultancy advising companies on venture clienting and startup solutions. He has also founded and led Bosch Industry Consulting, worked for Bosch Ventures, a global venture capital firm with $1bn assets under management, and served as the Venture Partner and Co-Founder of Open Bosch, the Venture Client Unit of the Bosch Group. He is also a serial entrepreneur and sold his third startup in 2022. He is based in Frankfurt, Germany.

Klappentext

Venture Clienting provides a practical, step-by-step guide to how organizations can drive innovation and unlock value through venture clienting. Venture clienting enables companies to tap into new technologies, business models and ideas and foster a culture of agility and growth. This book presents a set of frameworks, tools and methodologies designed to help readers master venture clienting in their organizations. It takes a deep dive into the fundamental building blocks of venture clienting, exploring everything the reader needs to systematically build and run a successful venture client unit. From strategy and organization to infrastructure, communication, process, enabling processes, governance and control, culture and stakeholder management, the book delves into the practicalities of each component. Venture Clienting answers key questions such as: how can you build effective venture client units? What are the secrets to running a venture client unit that is lean, agile and cost-efficient? What are the key challenges in venture clienting and how can they be overcome? It is packed with practical insights, examples and cases such as the Microsoft and OpenAI Moonshot Partnership, BSH Startup Kitchen and AVL. Empower your business to innovate faster and more efficiently with this essential guide for companies and startups seeking to drive strategic growth through venture clienting.

Inhalt

• Section - ONE: Exploring Venture Clienting;
• • Chapter - 01: Introduction;
  • Chapter - 02: The history of corporate venturing the path to Venture Clienting;
  • Chapter - 03: The corporate venturing toolbox the Swiss Army knife of corporate innovation;
  • Chapter - 04: Venture Clienting defining the concept;
• Section - TWO: Venture Clienting in action;
• • Chapter - 05: Laying the groundwork with strategy;
  • Chapter - 06: The basics organization, infrastructure, communication;
  • Chapter - 07: The process;
  • Chapter - 08: Enabling processes;
  • Chapter - 09: Governance and control;
  • Chapter - 10: Culture and stakeholder management;
• Section - THREE: Challenges, solutions and possibilities;
• • Chapter - 11: Challenges and solutions overcoming the hurdles of Venture Clienting;
  • Chapter - 12: The future trends and predictions in Venture Clienting;
  • Chapter - 13: Closing thoughts the future of corporate innovation and strategic consideration;