Nick Lansley

Head of Open Innovation
Tesco

I am Head of Open Innovation at Tesco Labs. My job is to bring together great ideas, products and services from external organisations - concentrating on startups and SMEs but not forgetting the large companies and corporates! I then take this pool of wisdom and find product owners and managers throughout Tesco that would benefit from this endeavour.

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Day 1

Tuesday, October 6th, 2015

15:30 Outsiders Have Great Ideas Too! Embracing Open Innovation

Tesco has embarked on a programme of engagement with startups, SMEs and other organisations. This work has included sponsorship of startup hub Rainmaking Loft in London, and the creation of Nick Lansley's new role heading open innovation for the newly formed 'Tesco Labs' innovation group. In this presentation, Nick explores why Tesco is looking outwards (as well as internally) for great sources of innovation, and reveals what happens to those that respond to the challenge. It will cover:

• Creating centres of innovation excellence in research, development, open innovation, design and culture
• Tapping into the culture of innovation of colleagues through events such as 'hackathons'
• Tapping into the pool of wisdom in the start-up & SME community - and using our scale for good to help us succeed together
• Filtering the best ideas by asking the simple question, “How does this idea benefit our customers or colleagues?”