How Allianz Trade funds the innovation customers actually want
Allianz Trade Multi-country rollout
Before: Projects everywhere, no filter.
After: Funding follows customer proof.
Ruurd Vander Veen, Digital Transformation Director
Selected Transformations
We work with a small number of organisations at a time. This isn't a scale play: it's how we maintain the quality of results.
Below are selected client projects, each one involving a structural shift in how the organisation validates and funds new products.
Building customer-centric leadership at Allianz Trade
Allianz Trade Two-day kickoff, three-month cycle
Before: Change by mandate.
After: Customer-first is the leadership default.
Fabrice Desnos, CEO Northern Europe Region
How Renault's Car Data Lab builds EV features its drivers actually use
Renault 3 years and counting
Before: Features chosen from the data.
After: Features built with real drivers.
Thomas Andre, Innovation Lab Lead, Car Data
How DIAC took its employees' ideas off paper and into their colleagues' hands
DIAC (Renault Group) Four months, one workshop a month
Before: Six fixes on paper.
After: Two fixes in daily use.
Céline Uzan, After-Sales Customer Experience Manager
How Schneider Electric's IoT division put customers back at the centre
Schneider Electric Industrial Technology
Before: About 70 people.
After: Root causes from about 20 interviews.
Aurelien Lesant, VP Internet of Things
How Mobilize made facilitation a team skill
Mobilize Financial Services 3 months
Before: One seat on a 3-day course.
After: 8 workshop leaders trained.
Louise Rouillon, Innovation Project Manager
How Schneider Electric stopped building in a vacuum
Schneider Electric Multi-year program
Before: Trained on case studies.
After: Trained on real customers.
Damien Carroz, VP Retail
How Nissan tested the car that changes color, before spending millions
Nissan Europe Automotive
Before: A prize-winning idea.
After: A prototype partner found.
John Ferguson, Technical Architect
How Butagaz put its own employees in front of customers to find new growth
Butagaz 12 weeks, 2018
Before: Innovation owned by a central few.
After: 11 employees ran projects like founders.
Olivier Eudeline, Director of Innovation
How Nissan's Lab builds with customers
Nissan Europe 12 weeks
Before: 4 strategic options with no product.
After: 6 MVPs with users.
Ivan Ollivier, General Manager, Innovation Lab
How Mobilize Financial Services turned employee ideas into three new concepts
Mobilize Financial Services Financial Services
Mobilize Financial Services (MFS), a subsidiary of Renault Group, stands out in the financial sector for its innovative, tailored solutions. To stay competitive, MFS asks its employees for ideas, an approach that builds engagement and initiative across the company.
Company-wide innovation program
Teams we have worked with
- Renault
- Schneider Electric
- Nissan
- Belden
- Butagaz
- Engie
- Framatome
- Groupe Atlantic
- TotalEnergies
- Quadient
- Lesaffre
- Allianz
- Allianz Trade
- Euler Hermes
- AXA
- BNP Paribas
- RCI Banque
- Mobilize
- Manulife
- L'Oréal
- Pernod Ricard
- Moët Hennessy
- Galeries Lafayette
- Leroy Merlin
- Lagardère
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