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Operating Principles

Our operating principle is that of know-who based co-creation. This principle fosters co-creation of breakthrough innovation by combining collaboration and competition in so-called collaborative competitions.
Our operating principle makes the impossible possible based on the following research and experience-based insights:
  • If an innovation challenge is not deemed impossible by the majority – it is not challenging enough to be solved by the selected few who really have the drive to do it;
  • To reach and sustain innovation leadership is simply about making the impossible possible;
  • The one attacking a challenge by thinking “how” in isolation has already lost the race to those thinking “who” in co-creation.