Learning expedition

Organization of a learning expedition with a leader in medical devices that wanted to define its service offer for hospitals by 2030. In order to better understand the hospital of the future, Alcimed organized a learning expedition composed of visits to the most advanced hospitals in the world and innovative start-ups developing the new hospital services of tomorrow.

This study tour allowed our client to project the evolution of the hospital and to define a roadmap for the creation of new services in order to be a pioneer in responding to different needs projected by hospitals in its market segment.

Our team organized a learning expedition with a global leader in the food industry to exchange with other industrials on the question of transparency towards consumers.

Our client wished to rethink its global approach to bring more transparency to its consumers, especially on all stages of product development. This objective of transparency raised many internal questions on its operational declination from production to marketing. To answer them, we organized a learning expedition with our client to exchange with more advanced players on the topic, to understand their practices and inspire our client’s project team.

This exercise allowed our client to understand the different steps to consider and the actions to be taken to achieve greater transparency for its consumers.

We supported a leading healthcare player on a robotics and automation project with the final objective to answer one key question: how to achieve an automated end-to-end analytical workflow in all their laboratories? To do so, we proposed and organized a learning expedition to our client to explore how other manufacturers’ laboratories and production facilities were organized in terms of robotics and automation in this field and to get inspiration from their practices.

In collaboration with our client, we therefore visited and interacted with counterparts in several other industries such as aeronautics, food processing, or automotive. This exercise allowed us to generate inspiring ideas that were then transposed to our client’s environment in order to improve their own analytics workflow.

Our team supported a leading player in the food industry who wanted to move from a local product design and compliance approach to a global and harmonized approach between each region of the world. This important change generated many questions about the operational model of such a new department at our client.

To answer them and facilitate the creation of the new model, we organized a learning expedition with our client’s team, and thus held 5 peer-to-peer meetings in non-competitive environments: with an energy player, a materials player, a pharmaceutical company, a beverage player, and a appliances leader. These various exchanges allowed our client to learn from the experience of other players who have either undergone a similar transformation or have already been organized for a long time as its target organization.

This “study tour” finally helped to decide on the operational structure of the new department and generally facilitated the decision making on the various outstanding issues.

Our team helped the business unit head of a leading industrial company in re-energizing its innovation process through the organization of a Learning Expedition with other inspiring industrial players.

First, our team defined the concrete objectives and criteria with our client to further identify interesting companies and stakeholders to contact. We then validated a list of potential targets with our client prior to launching discussions and reaching agreement for the organization of two learning expeditions. By organization, we mean initiating contact, taking care of the logistical aspects, facilitating the exchanges, as well as summarizing of the various outputs arising from these two moments.

These expeditions enabled our client to identify levers to re-boost their innovation process, involving his team in meeting peers and exchanging on best practices, sharing different innovation approaches but also building a network of people having a common interest.

One of our clients, an industrial player, recently conceived and designed an innovative approach for its products by offering its customers rental packages. The objective of this new approach was to enable the group to move from an approach centered on the sale of products and associated services to a full-service value proposition centered on customer use.

In this context, our team helped our client in selecting and preparing 5 main themes of interest, identifying players who have successfully set up a service offering for the circular supply of consumables in industrial environments, and organizing a learning expedition.

The main output of this project for our client was identify key success factors and additional operational insights for setting up their new service offering.