Get beyond the Ordinary

Business is not usual. Today we see multiple shifts occurring simultaneously. Shifts that are broad, complex, and at high velocity and are driving new levels of disruption and value creation. The risks of not acting or acting in yesterday’s innovation paradigms are far too great. The current situation demands doing something beyond the ordinary. Organizations must confront the new realities and develop an intrinsic ability to apply innovation.

Who we are

The Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE) is Capgemini’s global platform that leverages a framework for action, a network of exchange locations, and a high-performance engagement experience together with a broad community of designers, technologists, sector experts, business and technology partners, academics, research organizations and startups.

What we do

The AIE is designed to enable enterprises to discover relevant innovations and to contextualize and experiment with them within their specific industry. The cohesive network of Exchanges provides organizations an immersive and transformative environment for the exploration, discovery, testing and application of innovation, as well as the rapid deployment at scale and sustainability of their target business impacts.

Discover your Possibilities

Capgemini helps clients explore emerging technologies, sector trends, business issues, and associated organizational impacts through our Applied Innovation Exchange Discover services.

Technology and business shifts we help organizations with:

Innovation Abundance

Cloud, social, mobile, artificial intelligence, big data, cybersecurity, quantum computing, internet of things, autonomous vehicles, drones…
An ever increasing level of innovation supply, with all its consequences, is a certainty. Capgemini’s Applied Innovation approach helps manage the significant complexity of the new supply landscape.

Digital Literacy

Leaders today must develop their digital literacy to navigate and apply the new supply of innovation.
Capgemini’s Applied Innovation approach helps leaders improve literacy on digital technologies as well as methods to adjust core processes and cultures to compete with the new disruptors.

Modern Problem Statements

Organizations are confounded with their innovation opportunity along with the added disparity between the scale of promise and monetization.
Capgemini’s Applied Innovation approach helps frame and implement the solution to modern problems in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous situations.

AIE Devise

A 2-minute video to provide viewers with an understanding of how Capgemini gives shape to ideas and enables them with business models, prototypes and technical architecture. Powered by design thinking, Devise rapidly iterates models to quickly advance and validate concepts.

Applied Innovation Exchange Ecosystem

The AIE’s global curated Ecosystem ranges from startups and academics to the largest...

Applied Innovation Exchange Framework

The AIE Framework adds structure to the innovation process and helps instruct people on how...

Applied Innovation Exchange Global Network

The Applied Innovation Exchange Global Network provides an immersive and transformative...

Applied Innovation Exchange: Core Product Portfolio

A New Way to Curate and Apply Innovation

Pillar 1: Discover with AIE Services

Exploring emerging technologies, sector trends, business issues and associated organizational...

Pillar 2: Devise with AIE Services

Shaping idea and insights into business models, prototype, and technical architectures.

Pillar 3: Deploy with AIE Services

Guiding launch, test, and team alignment to ensure innovation is adopted at speed and scale.

Pillar 4: Sustain with AIE Services

Helping advance innovation process, improve proficiency, and implement best practices.

Success Stories

Making a theory test that is fit for the future with Capgemini’s AIE and DVSA

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, DVSA, is the government agency responsible for road...

Making a theory test that is fit for the future with Capgemini’s AIE and DVSA

Boulanger kickstarts its big city stores with exciting new concept

Capgemini and Intel partner with Boulanger to create an exceptional customer experience via...

Boulanger kickstarts its big city stores with exciting new concept

The Innovation Podcast

What does ‘innovation’ really mean? How can companies incorporate this in their DNA and what are some of the challenges they face in achieving digital mastery? And finally, what does success look like? Lanny Cohen, Chief Innovation Officer and Frank Wammes, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer, Europe share their insights in this podcast.