Enterprise
Innovation Services

We work with corporate innovators to find unsolved problems, untapped markets or underutilized assets, to ideate innovative solutions, and to test the solutions in market through the lens of desirability, viability, and feasibility.

We combine proven startup methodologies with a hands-on team that works with your innovators to speed up and de-risk your innovation pipeline and increase your successes.

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Highline Beta has strong expertise across a variety of industries. We wanted to learn from a team that had worked to identify growth-driving innovation across a wide variety of business models and categories and we knew how important it was to get insights from external sources. We also felt it was important to work with a team whose real core business was innovation and when we met with Highline Beta, we knew immediately that they fit the bill.

Pat Verduin

CTO Colgate-Palmolive

Our Approach

We meet your team wherever you are in your innovation journey, using our entrepreneurial backgrounds and toolkits to help:

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Innovation Strategy

We help you put into place a process for innovation at the organizational level that takes into account your strategy through core building blocks like: governance, innovation portfolio management, KPIs and measurement systems.

2

Venture Building

We help you build new businesses, or partner with startups already in the market. To do this we identify opportunities to launch new innovations, experiment and test your ideas, and build and launch them in the market.

3

Team Training & Capacity Building

We help you shift your organization’s mindset, working with your teams to get them to think more like entrepreneurs. We educate teams on new ways of working, lean startup frameworks, and even work with teams hands-on to help them shift their approaches to innovation.

Select Case Studies

Discovery / Validation

Colgate-Palmolive

How Colgate-Palmolive worked with Highline Beta to discover and validate six new venture opportunities

Discovery / Validation

Green Shield Canada

GSC enlisted Highline Beta’s help to find new ways to innovate for healthcare

Discovery / Validation

The Cincinnati Insurance Company

How Cincinnati worked with Highline Beta to discover and validate two new ventures

Venture Building

Global CPG Company

How Highline Beta helped people who cherish food get a better-informed bite

Training / Capacity Building

ZX Ventures (AB InBev)

How ZX Ventures worked with Highline Beta to create a repeatable program for venture building

Venture Building

Morneau Shepell

With Highline Beta, Morneau Shepell developed a new product and brought the MVP to initial customers in 9 weeks

Perspectives

Corporate Innovators: If you don’t start by validating a problem, you’ll fail

4 Ways Your Innovation Team is Getting Stuck

How to manage an innovation portfolio: Alexandra Savona of ZX Ventures on mastering uncertainty

Our Expertse, Your Needs

Whether looking for a new revenue stream, trying to leverage an under-utilized asset, exploring how to solve a problem, or working hard on a solution already, we meet you wherever you are on your innovation journey. We’re always up for a quick conversation to see how we can help.

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