Your customers may be your co-innovator in a business. Customers are not always the co-innovator though. It can also be a company works with another organization to cooperate with each other. There are four stages that a co-innovator must go through to make the process work. First there is an autonomous strategy needed to help the organizations concentrate on innovation strategies. Next for a co-operative strategy a company needs to work together with both companies. There also needs to be a founding of one organization rather than having two separate places. During the co-innovator operation there needs to be a realization of innovations. This is when the ideas will be created. These four options help a co-innovator do their job in getting both companies producing again.