Impact stories

Building an innovation hub to identify and deliver digital use cases

A major global pharmacy company with ~10,000 employees in Greater China aspired to create an innovation hub, as a spearhead of the organization's digitization efforts, to bring lasting impact to China’s healthcare system, patient care and become a source of inspiration for the broader healthcare industry

The journey

Designed an innovation center
  • Set the overall vision​ for innovation
  • Developed their digital strategy
  • Defined the overarching cross-functional operating model
Implemented case portfolio management
  • Ideated and prioritized digital ideas​ to boost business performance
  • Defined a multi-year​ implementation​ roadmap
  • Collaborated to design and develop MVPs​ with a user-centric approach
Instituted agile ways of working
  • Supported E2E talent management​ including acquisition,​ onboarding and capability building
  • Codified agile​ ways of working and piloted​ on use case implementation

Impact
The new innovation hub seeks to capture

180M EUR

in topline contribution through a portfolio of robust digital use cases over 10 years

20%

increase in DAQ (digital and analytical quotient) within 6 months

2 week

co-creation sprint across all uses cases and BUs within the first year

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