The Corporate Venturing Handbook

Learn how to initiate and manage a corporate venturing programme successfully to realize financial and strategic growth for your organization.

Corporate venturing is a key strategic growth tool, but it is also complex and most programmes fail. Learn how to successfully manage, measure and improve a corporate venturing programme with this one-stop strategic guide. The Corporate Venturing Handbook delivers phase-by-phase guidance on the effective set-up, operation and termination of a corporate venturing programme. Shedding light on how corporate venturing actually works in practice, it outlines how to manage its underlying dynamics and avoid pitfalls. Its intuitive and systematic framework navigates users through meeting objectives and expectations so they can successfully generate value for their organizations. The framework is evidence-based and data-driven, steering users to make informed decisions specifically tailored to their own organizational needs, and also offers a valuable tool to help measure and capture the financial and strategic return on innovation, improving the transparency and traceability of value creation. Readers will also benefit from best practice insights, cases and examples from some of the biggest and most longstanding corporate venturing programmes in the world, including Siemens Healthineers, Shell Ventures, AXA Venture Partners, PM Equity Partner, Nestle and Samsung.

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Auteur
Michael Hilb is founder of DBP Group, chair of the Board Foundation and a member of multiple corporate, foundation, and advisory boards. He is a Titular Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and teaches strategy, entrepreneurship and corporate governance at several universities in Asia and Europe. Previously, he led group strategy and digital business of $11 billion company DKSH, where he and his team built a profitable pan-Asian digital business in eight markets.

Contenu

• • Chapter - Introduction: Getting Started;
• Section - ONE: Profiling;
• • Chapter - 01: Your Corporate Venturing Profile;
  • Chapter - 02: Financial vs. Strategic Returns;
  • Chapter - 03: Strategic Renewal;
  • Chapter - 04: Innovation;
  • Chapter - 05: Culture;
  • Chapter - 06: Promoters Who is Involved and Who is Your Main Promotor?;
  • Chapter - 07: Funding What Financial Commitment is Required?;
  • Chapter - 08: What is Your Main CV Investment Focus?;
  • Chapter - 09: CV Cockpit I;
  • Chapter - 10: Summary CV Mandate;
• Section - TWO: Designing;
• • Chapter - 11: Structure & Governance;
  • Chapter - 12: Your Team;
  • Chapter - 13: Communications;
  • Chapter - 14: Portfolio Strategy;
  • Chapter - 15: CV Cockpit II;
  • Chapter - 16: Summary CV Program;
• Section - THREE: Investing;
• • Chapter - 17: Sourcing;
  • Chapter - 18: Screening for the Right Startup;
  • Chapter - 19: Due Diligence;
  • Chapter - 20: Business Valuation;
  • Chapter - 21: Negotiation of Deal Terms: The Term Sheet;
  • Chapter - 22: CV Cockpit III;
  • Chapter - 23: Summary: Investment Decision;
• Section - FOUR: Harvesting;
• • Chapter - 24: Choosing the Right Harvesting Path;
  • Chapter - 25: Portfolio Optimization;
  • Chapter - 26: Integration;
  • Chapter - 27: Exits;
  • Chapter - 28: Rejuvenation & Incubation;
  • Chapter - 29: CV Cockpit IV;
  • Chapter - 30: Summary: Corporate Venturing Performance;
  • Chapter - 31: Your CV Navigator Toolbox