It is possible to innovate 200% to 400% faster, and more accurately. So why are you still looking at Lemons?

What if there was an affordable, reliable, repeatable, measurable way to accelerate innovation and revenue growth at every company you invested in?

For the last 15 years, innovation speed and accuracy has risen in the list of “most important things” for company CEOs. Around 80% of CEOs rank innovation in their 3 most important things. Yet with vanishingly rare exceptions, it remains an art, not a science. A wish, not a manageable process. Eicorn can change that for you and your investee companies.

Over 4 years, Eicorn in Scandinavia has demonstrated the ability to increase both the speed of innovation  and the successful exploitation of those innovations at clients at every scale: from Startups to Volvo, from family business to WSP, from University spin outs to HSB. Could that help you?

Eicorn has taught clients to use the Enterprise Ignition toolset to increase speed of innovation, conversion of products to revenue, enhance product portfolios, and increase customer delight. Once taught, the clients “own” the processes and continue to use and evolve them based on proven and rigorously evidenced protocols.

Those protocols come from deep academic and business research across hundreds of companies in the US, EU, Asia and Africa. Eicorn synthesized that learning into a practical toolset, tested it in Scandinavia, proved it, and are now building out an offering in the UK.

Most VC portfolios contain:

·      A star, that can return 10x or more the investment

·      Some dogs, that will return less than the money invested

·      A ‘difficult middle’ that will probably return 1x to 3x the money invested.

Eicorn believes that it can help venture investors shift the innovation performance of the “difficult middle” dramatically upwards, thereby raising overall fund performance. The stars may not think that they need help, or may be too busy, but the impact of shifting them from 10x to 20x return is also worth considering.

Eicorn is investing in bringing the Enterprise Ignition Toolset to the UK, and wants to work with forward thinking investors who have access to companies that recognize the need for innovation processes.

Eicorn wishes to work with topflight VCs who have a broad portfolio of companies at “A-Round” or beyond, with 25 or more employees, ￡1m of revenue or more, an investment in intangible assets, and a “contender” product or service in a well-defined segment.

Do you have any companies in your portfolio that have these characteristics?

At the invested company, our process starts with a limited level of external due diligence, a two-day workshop, then ongoing training and support. From that, the key senior management team generally see positive results within 13 weeks and increasing pace of improvement over the next 19 weeks.

We also return to the investor a report on the innovation quality and processes in the invested company.

If this is of interest, please get in touch to arrange a short presentation leading to a costed proposal deck.