FUSION INNOVATION CHALLENGE
An empirical framework for bringing together actors and innovators wishing to provide solutions to problems identified in a given sector and thus derisk their initiative thanks to rapid prototyping (MVP)
STOP PITCHING, START EXPERIMENTING and making decisions based on business evidence
Whether you are an organization, a government actor, a company that needs to test its ideas or even a start-up entrepreneur, Fusion Challenge will guide you to minimize the risks associated with your project and produce relevant commons to make available to users..
DISCOVER OUR NEXT CHALLENGES
We are always on the lookout for opportunities for collaborative innovation and the creation of commons regardless of the area of specialization. These are the sectors in which we are working during the innovation challenge:
At the moment these challenges are only available in French.
Contact us, if you are interested in participating in English.
Did you know that entrepreneurs are exposed to a high rate of social and professional isolation? And about 54% of entrepreneurs experience that their stress level affects their level of concentration at work. Join us in the innovation challenge to develop creatives initiatives for the well-being of entrepreneurs.
October – December 2021
The great challenges of mobility require the joint work of several parties. If working together to shape better mobility for your community is important to you, join us to capitalize on opportunities in carpooling, parking, and data analytics, through the innovation challenge.
November 2021 – January 2022
PHASES OF THE CHALLENGES
The Fusion Challenge framework, centered around business experimentation and open innovation, takes place in 3 main stages. You can participate in the innovation challenge at the stage of your choice! So, you have the possibility to choose where you want to contribute without any commitment to participate in each of the phases according to your profile to problem solving or manufacturing solutions
Identify opportunities and ideate possible solutions
Develop innovative solutions, from ideation to MVP
IDENTIFICATION
Collaborative exploration sessions
with challenge-oriented teams:
- Exploration sessions (Open Forum)
- Empathy workshops: persona, user journey, 5 why
HYPOTHESES
Collaborative sessions
with all stakeholders
to explore possible solutions:
- Ideation sessions: Crazy 8, brainstorming workshop
- Idea prioritization and risk mitigation workshops
EXPERIMENTATION
Collaborative sessions
with solution-oriented teams (Squads):
- Experimental Culture and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) workshops
- Guided experimentation cycles
- Board of empirical measures for the advancement of teams
- Intervention backlog to de-risk the initiative
The activities for each phase are chosen during the identification of the themes with the actors. The time to plan for each may vary depending on the complexity of the challenge tackled.
BENEFITS FOR ACTORS, PARTICIPANTS, AND THE COMMUNITY
FOCUS ON THE ORIENTATION OF THE GOOD FUNCTIONING OF THE TEAMS
We rely on methods such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Design Sprint, to guide innovation teams in order to find a balance between 4 fundamental axes :
- How the team works
- Working methods
- Incremental delivery of solutions
EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT BOARDS
We use business evidence to build boards of empirical measures, complementary to your performance indicators to accelerate your rate of growth and reduce your initiatives.
A VALIDATED INNOVATION APPROACH
Our framework is validated for:
- stimulate the creativity of work teams (inter-organization, interdepartmental, complex or hybrid contexts)
- Mitigate the risks associated with developing new ideas
- Adapt projects or business models in different sectors
- Help improve ROI by focusing on user-centric solutions
TESTIMONIALS
Challenging your business model is the best thing you can do before entering a new market. It’s much easier to adapt when you are at the beginning of your internationalization
Thanks to the facilitation experience of Sylvain and Paola, we managed to achieve an energetic, productive, and collaborative first design sprint. Their help was essential to introduce us to this framework.
We had an amazing experience as participants of the Fusion Montréal Program. It was really helpful not only when it comes to understanding how the Canadian ecosystem works, but also to test the viability of our company in this new market. We were able to, in a smart way, go through the analysis of our competition in detail. Fusion’s support throughout this process was remarkable as they put us in touch directly with renowned Canadian professionals. On top of that, Fusion’s team provided us with mentorship and valuable feedback that we applied even on the development of the company in our home country, Brazil.
The Design Sprint really allowed us to ask the right questions about the product and put ourselves in the spirit of “Am I ready to go international or not?” Coming here has made us ask questions that we have never thought about before and it is extremely positive.
We loved the experience. Actually it wasn’t our first Design Sprint, but I can really say that this was the best. Sylvain is a great facilitator. We got a lot of new concepts for our company. It was really great, even to increase our knowledge about our market, the Canadian market, the Quebecer market. It was amazing.
READY TO TAKE ON THE CHALLENGE?
We are not an incubator, an accelerator, or a VC. We are a non for profit organization, a Center of Excellence in Business Experimentation. Our team uses business experimentation to mitigate innovation-related risk and improve the odds of success of a new product.