WHAT WE DO

WE DO TWO THINGS, AND WE DO THEM WELL


  1. We help organizations tackle their biggest and most pressing growth challenges.
  2. We help organizations become relentless innovators in their own right…  capable of leveraging innovation to accelerate their growth and shape the future of their markets.

We do the first by leveraging innovation to connect businesses and their markets at entirely new levels.   Whether it's through radically reimagined business models, or products and services that get at real customer needs and motivations, the end result is the same… a new – or reinvented – business delivering a compelling brand experience that engages markets and gets them to act.

We do the second by leading organizations in redefining their strategies, their cultures, their structures, and their processes to become fully–integrated and systemically–led engines of innovation.   We understand that no one piece of the ‘innovation ecosystem’ in isolation is going to allow an organization to become a relentless innovator.   It requires the holistic integration of an extremely broad range of innovation practices — all of which have to be brought together into a culture that's fully committed to relevance, and through an overarching architecture that allows them to work in harmony.   We are among only a small handful of firms in the world who know how to do this properly.

We accomplish our work through a broad portfolio of services that each address a particular aspect of strategic innovation and innovation-driven growth.

Our services are divided into three practice areas…  Discovery, Design, and Management.

These reflect the three foundations of effective business innovation  —  insight, creativity, and delivery.

In practice, many of our engagements involve some combination of these.

Select from the links below for more information on each practice area.

 

Or… if you have a specific challenge you're wrestling with, see if one of these common challenges resonates with you.

THE PROBLEMS WE SOLVE
 

OUR THINKING

Four Traits Your Next CEO Must Have For Your Organization to Thrive

CEOs come and CEOs go.   Some are excellent.   They generally ‘get it’.   Others not so much.   They really ‘don't get it’.   What makes the difference between these?

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Let's Settle the Debate — Innovation Both Is & Is Not Everyone's Job

There's an insidious debate that's bounced around for probably the better part of twenty years now.   It's the debate of whether or not ‘innovation is everyone's job’...

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The Secret to High Energy Innovation Spaces

Innovation Spaces – which can refer to any space intentionally designed to foster and facilitate good innovation work – come in all sorts, shapes, and sizes...

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