Proven Approach with strategic partners
Meet directly with large corporates who have reviewed your capabilities and see opportunities for collaboration. Members are Global 1000 companies interested in collaborating with and purchasing from midsize businesses.
funded programs
Business leaders from our member companies are working on funded development programs. They are looking to incorporate new capabilities into their products and processes. This creates unique opportunities for commercial and near-commercial solutions to accelerate speed-to-market.
New Markets
Your capabilities were developed to serve specific markets and applications. The opportunity to partner with large corporates can help expand your ability to pursue new markets at scale. Collaborate with established value chain partners to pursue growth opportunities in new markets.
FAQs
What is the value chain forum?
The value chain forum is a membership program to help large corporate partners access highly relevant small and midsize businesses aligned with specific priority areas. The program helps accelerate pilots, collaborations and ultimately speed-to-market. The forum incorporates invitation-only collaboration events and facilitated one-on-one discovery meetings with large corporate partners. Invitations are offered to midsize companies pre-selected by our corporate partners. Midsize companies have the opportunity to meet directly with large value chain partners seeking to be early customers for unique product, process and differentiated technologies.
What is a lead customer?
Lead customers buy unique solutions that demonstrate commercial or near-commercial capabilities addressing problems they face today. They benefit from purchasing your product, technology or process. A lead customer helps quantify your unique value proposition into factors like: How big is the market? Do other value chain partners need to be involved? Will purchase commitments be available to help scale? Lead customers help validate the market potential and address the application requirements that matter.
Who are the members?
Members are Global 1000 companies interested in collaborating with and purchasing from midsize businesses. Why? Midsize businesses have commercial products and existing capacity. Partnering with midsize businesses provides the opportunity to adapt solutions from one market and determine whether they can be scaled for even larger markets. Essentially, partnering is faster than developing.
Members participate in-person at the forums and engage virtually for individual discovery meetings to discuss potential areas for working together.
What to expect?
The forums and discovery meetings are facilitated, invitation-only events where midsize businesses and large corporations allocate time to learn about each other and determine potential areas to work together. Members prioritize the midsize companies they would like to meet, increasing the potential for collaborations to occur.
services for small & Medium enterprises
SME Member Meetings
SME Sponsored Forums
SME Sponsored Forums
Join GrowLogic and SME leaders in a quarterly meeting to address growth topics amongst peers. Meetings facilitated, all SME presenters are invited.
SME Sponsored Forums
SME Sponsored Forums
SME Sponsored Forums
Custom value chain forums are open for SME sponsorship. GrowLogic recruits large companies on SME derived topics. SMEs share costs at reduced rates.
Product Roadmapping
SME Sponsored Forums
Product Roadmapping
Define and evaluate gaps and opportunities. Facilitated product roadmapping, customer interviews, partner evaluations, and facilitated advisory boards.
Featured Members & Clients
Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors - Sr. Manager, New Technologies
Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors - Sr. Manager, New Technologies
Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors - Sr. Manager, New Technologies
"GrowLogic began by helping us shape our external innovation strategy. Over time, GrowLogic has become an important partner bringing deep expertise in strategic business development and collaborative innovation. GrowLogic understands the dynamics in large and small companies; and has a firm grip on the changing nature of the automotive industry."
Adient - Director Global Innovation
Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors - Sr. Manager, New Technologies
Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors - Sr. Manager, New Technologies
“With more and more of our innovation projects requiring external partnerships, a process framework was critical for us to identify, assess, select, form and manage the various types of partnership agreements. The GrowLogic team provided strategic guidance and operational support to our cross-functional teams to create, pilot and successfully implement this framework.”
Spartan Chemical - Vice President
Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors - Sr. Manager, New Technologies
Spartan Chemical - Vice President
"GrowLogic helped us initiate our product road mapping process. This led to probably the most productive conversation we’ve had on this topic in years. Historically our product planning had been conducted in silos. GrowLogic helped us frame our thinking and provided us structure to achieve a successful outcome. This was a huge step forward and you can trust GrowLogic with the unique needs of your organization. "