About Business İnnovation

The Innovation Acceleration Group (IAG) is a leading organization. The group's manager is a well-known international serial entrepreneur. He has expertise in various fields including 3D printing, rapid prototyping, business software, cloud computing and consumer internet. He has also been the co-founder, CEO, and COO of many early-stage and growth-stage technology start-ups for over 20 years.

The IAG team also includes someone who serves as the group's vice president and program director. This person has gained experience in various jobs in international environments and has also worked in a start-up focused technology platform. This team helps entrepreneurs and corporate innovators apply Lean methodologies to their innovative ideas.

Another member, who also works at IAG, previously worked for a leading company and managed entrepreneurial ventures. He is also a founding board member of a global enterprise. Currently, this person is working on a Smart Village business accelerator prototype for e-commerce, energy and healthcare startups in India.

OUR PROGRAMS

Enterprise Startup Engagement

Enterprises can provide a platform for industry startups to accelerate the enterprises’ initiatives.

• The Enterprise Startup Engagement program provides a structured and systematic curriculum to maximize the benefits of enterprises that want to engage with and learn from startups. It also helps startups test new business opportunities with guidance from an established company.
• The enterprise ultimately benefits from the entrepreneurs’ fresh perspectives and from the creation of successful startups building and growing on their platform while startups gain from productive corporate engagement.
• IAG facilitates the interaction by providing and immersive, full-contact experience that utilizes our methodology including evidence-based customer discovery.
• The program is offered onsite and online, to enable enterprises to connect with the most successful startups and innovators around the globe.

Scaling Startup Ecosystems

Governments and institutions around the world sponsor entrepreneurship programs to foster local innovation and economic development. In the Scaling Startup Ecosystems program, IAG works with governments and institutions to teach teams of entrepreneurs with ideas, how to develop the skills necessary to validate and scale the business models. IAG teaches an evidence-based methodology, teaching the entrepreneurs proven processes to validate hypotheses about their business; pivot when necessary based on real life customer feedback and gather metrics that mater to investors.

An effective entrepreneurial ecosystem will draw new innovators into your local economy as well as create new jobs and prosperity.

Encouraging a culture of innovation will position your ecosystem as a leader in the startup and innovation spheres globally. Our program was the first virtual accelerator in the world. We typically kick-off and wrap-up onsite running the rest of the program online but the entire program can be run virtually, giving entrepreneurs and innovators access to knowledge and connections of Silicon Valley and other Global Startup and Innovation hotspots without leaving their target market or wasting valuable time and money relocating before they are ready or when they don’t even need to.

Internal Corporate Innovation

Whether we like it or not, most ideas are bad ideas

Most corporations today innovate incrementally, often spending months or years working on products and inititatives that ultimately never make it to market. This behavior causes the diversion of economic and human resources that could otherwise be used to generate revenue. Our research shows that over 70% of products and initiatives become these type of zombie ideas. This means that being capable of validating which initiatives should simply be put to end, and which ones should be pursued, becomes a key skill all organizations. IAG helps corporations in gaining this capability, teaching your leadership and employees how to funnel ideas into profitable and successful products and services. Our program helps you bring products to market in less than half the time and save up to 86% on costs. In 7 weeks, our instructors will lead your teams through an intensive, full-contact learning experience. All participants must run a rapid customer discovery process, which leads them to a validated or invalidated business idea.

Build and execute, or move on

Teams that don’t have a viable product are able to pivot or move on to a new project, applying what they’ve learned to their work within the company. Likewise, teams that discover they have a viable product or business model are able to move into Phase 2. During Phase 2, your teams will fine-tune the parts of the business model canvas that are the most relevant to your company’s innovation goals, while building a Minimum Useful Demo (MUD). This narrow focus helps the teams bring their ideas closer to reality. Teams discover customer pain points and what it takes to turn their product into a must-have rather than a nice-to-have. Ultimately, the program gives employees the tools they need to drive internal innovation and foster a culture of innovation throughout your company