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Hello innovator,

One more crazy quarter full of unexpected challenges, great experiences, and new insights lies behind us. We are crossing fingers that you mastered the challenges with maximized learning effects, and besides that could enjoy the beautiful late summer in Zurich or wherever you are.

Today we focus on partnerships.

Not all of you might know, but we at DAY8 believe in trusted and flexible partnerships more than classic company growth. The latter can become a burden, with increasing costs and thus the need to run after customer assignments possibly leading to loss of focus and, in the end, quality. That is why our goal for 2020 was to build up prospering partnerships with trusted experts and companies.

^{Our business partners: A colorful mix of expertise.}

We encourage you to check our partner area on “our about us section” on our website to learn more with whom we are working closely. As we believe they all are market leaders in quality rather than in market shares, we recommend asking them first if you face a challenge in their field of expertise.

Our growing network so far supports various topics like communication (e.g. content marketing), service design, research, moderation, sustainability (e.g. circular economy), market tests, co-working, PR, startup growth, intrapreneurship, negotiation training. Wow, we just realized, this is already quite a list. Proud to have a network like this.

^{Experts and maybe even more important: decent human beings.}

From time to time, we will introduce you to one of our partners so you can learn a bit about them. Today, we would love to introduce you to:

Kickstart Innovation.

The first time we worked with Kickstart was for the Snackathon, which is still the largest workshop we have run to this date. 25 teams / 100 attendees in a multi-desk Design Sprint over the course of 3 days. Kickstart cared for the whole organization of this crazy event including creating the idea competition for over 20.000 employees over the course of 8 months. But we learned that there are additional things they do. Bridging the gap between startups, corporates, and even cities, foundations, and others. They nurture and encourage entrepreneurship throughout all their customers. Companies like Axa, Swisscom, Coop, Migros, PostFinance, Nespresso, and many more trust in their service – and we know why. They just rock.
Want to get to know them better? Drop us a line and we will arrange something. For sure you can get in contact e.g. via LinkedIn too and say “Hello from DAY8”, they will be happy to connect.

Best,
Rafa & Fritz

Some interesting reads in case you missed it:

• Partner-Innovation in practice: Lego & Ikea (LINK)
• Training Lottery – still one free training to be raffled if you share this post on LinkedIn (LINK)
• From human-centered design towards humanity-centered design (LINK)
• DAY8 talk for XING about our view on New Work and Agile (LINK)

All event dates on http://day8.eventbrite.com/

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