hellofutureDENT THE UNIVERSE

overviewhellofuture is an innovation, foresight and patent development consultancy, focusing on developing new products and services, strategic directions and targeted IP by tapping the collaborative intellect of your internal inventors and innovators

Our main services address ideation in three specific time frames: ◦ Invention and Innovation Programs (now -5 years)◦ Patent Development Programs (5-10 years)◦ Foresight and Futurist Programs (10+ years)

We work with groups and individuals of all sizes and types, and can design an effective program from enterprise wide to individual coaching, engineering or product management. Any group which needs to develop insight into the future of your product, company, customer and market.

Clients include: Citigroup, Hilton Worldwide, City of Palo Alto, Realtor.com, Walmart.com, Wells Fargo, Yahoo

services

services ideation timeframe now - 5 years 5-10 years 10+ years

goal Generate ideas for new products and services for immediate development and launch

Generate patentable ideas specifically for patent portfolio expansion

Generate future corporate directions for integration into long-term strategic plans

service Innovation and Invention Programs

Patent Development Programs

Foresight and Futurist Programs

results New products and services which can be immediately launched and monetized

Creation or expansion of patent portfolio for licensing, protection or defense

Strategic Direction from internal employee POVImproved morale, possible IP

size enterprise departmental Individuals/teams

takes the form of Overall program management, planning, marketing, tools, review process and rewards

Workshops, ideation sessions, and targeted challenges

Individual or team coaching, training and workshops

innovation and invention programs

hellofuture develops innovation and invention programs to help you unlock the innovation in your organization, focusing on new product development. These programs generate ideas that can be implemented and monetized immediately.

◦ Plan and design the right program for the culture of your company, department or team: marketing, rewards, review process, stakeholders

◦ Implement internal tools to empower open exchange, debate, and refinement of ideas, especially ones that cross organizational boundaries

◦ Capture these ideas, let the best rise up to the top through internal crowdsourced review

◦ Connect inventors with builders and keep the process moving forward

◦ Ensure that no good idea is left behind: if you can’t build it yet, protect it

◦ Expose the big innovators and ideas in your company Our crowdsourced innovation programs come in many forms: from small workshops and hackathons and pre-storms, to time-boxed challenge-based programs, to continuous enterprise-wide programs.

patent development programs hellofuture develops strategic invention frameworks, product innovation, and enables robust intellectual property and IP practices. Unlike traditional approaches to innovation, our targeted, talent-based approach to invention creates value and secures tangible assets well ahead of general market awareness, consistent with client objectives and operating contexts. Our process has successfully generated hundreds of patent applications and issued patents, as well as a robust patent strategy.

◦ Patent Pipeline: Setup and manage the flow of ideas to your internal or external legal teams

◦ Disclosure Management: Organize and facilitate disclosure sessions, optimizing time and cost

◦ Inventor Relations: Manage your inventor relations. We know that keeping your inventors happy keeps your supply of ideas flowing

◦ Patent Award Programs: Create & manage patent awards programs to keep your inventors motivated and productive

foresight and futurist programs hellofuture develops fun, crowdsourced foresight programs, bringing your entire company, department or team into the disruption conversation.

Whose job is it in your organization to look into the far future? Whose job is it to look out 5-10 years and determine where your company will be, where the world will be and where your customers will be?

Our futurist programs are time-boxed, online and offline far forward thinking innovation challenges which help your employees to truly envision the future of your company, resulting in greater insight and employee engagement

Using a combination of tools from artifacts-from-the-future to utilizing Second Curve  techniques, we will help guide your employees into envisioning and living that far future. Our program provides pre-planning, capture tool setup, reward definition, parameter definition, internal marketing, artifact generation, idea submission and review, pre-storms, program guidance, idea review, and execution.

work

citigroupFor Citigroup, we ran three major projects:

1. Envisioned and managed the development a large number of prototypes of innovative new product ideas for US & Singapore Innovation Labs, generated within the lab and from other internal groups

2. Developed and Implemented an enterprise wide IP strategy in order to reboot a stagnant patent program

3. Developed and implemented an extensive patent development program for the institutional products group. Global teams ideated hundreds of interesting, forward thinking product ideas which filled the patent pipeline – which had lately only seen 5 patents a year

realtor.comFor realtor.com, we developed an internal crowdsourced foresight program, wrapped around their 20th anniversary festivities. ◦ In a very short time frame, we developed a program which resulted

in hundreds of interesting ideas, in 6 different categories. ◦ The winner’s ideas were presented at the client’s year-end parties,

and a time capsule with the ideas was locked up, to be opened in 5 years to see how many of the ideas generated turned into reality.

◦ In collaboration with the client (who developed their own internal tool to capture the ideas generated), hellofuture: 1. mapped out the program, which also included identifying

stakeholders and reviewers, rewards and outcome management2. assisted in the development of branding and materials for the

program3. wrote the artifacts from the future for release on a daily basis

walmart.comAt Walmart.com, we developed and ran the internal corporate innovation program, which generated hundreds of productizable and patentable ideas.

1. Developed overall strategy and outcomes, marketing themes and materials, configured and managed innovation management tools, developed review process, rewards and communications.

2. Organized “Innovation Days” where employees would hold collaborative ideation sessions and present ideas to each other

3. Facilitated focused innovation sessions to develop ideas for specific groups and challenges

yahooFor Yahoo, we developed and ran innovation and patent development programs

We took a very moribund program with few new ideas, to a powerhouse which generated thousands of ideas for both product and patent. 1. Developed the program from end-to-end, identifying outcomes,

stakeholders, review process and rewards. Specified and developed the idea capture tool

2. Produced product requirement documents for hundreds of patentable products and features around consumer targeting, advertising, online and mobile technologies.

3. Coordinated with global resources to create satellite IP teams around the world (India, Singapore, and Barcelona) to ensure even distribution of Yahoo IP output.

4. Successfully launched a company-wide IP campaign after obtaining the CEO’s approval that fulfilled 20% of the patent quota within the first month and identified new IP collaborators.

contactCHRIS KALABOUKIS, FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL CONSULTANTHELLOFUTURE.CO / 650-437-7755

SILICON VALLEY HQ / TORONTO / ATHENS