Innovation
We support leaders to unlock AI-enabled products and digital-first processes, purpose-led and sustainable innovations, and future-proof regenerative business models.
Maximize breakthrough outcomes—while minimizing costly mistakes, wastage, and frustrations—by leveraging our proven “Exponential & Sustainable” process and toolset for innovation.
“Insightful and incredibly strategic with long-term exponential value creation.”
Head of Mobile Division, Microsoft
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Some Of Our Work In
Innovation Consulting With Multinationals
Genentech
Global Biotech Company (Silicon Valley)
Working with C-Suite leaders to develop systemic and breakthrough innovations in healthcare delivery in the complex US sector beyond R&D—leveraging our transformational innovation process, toolset, and experiential workshops.
Nesta
National Innovation Fund
Design and prototype a digital social and systemic innovation platform that can engage high-impact changemakers in collaborative action—leveraging our unique transformational innovation process and toolkit.
Lendlease
Construction & Property Company (European Region)
Innovate new business models for commercial property with cross-functional engagement with final deliverable a multi-stakeholder innovation roadmap—leveraging our transformational innovation process and toolkit.
Zalando
Tech Company (Global)
Design and deliver highly-experiential leadership and innovation program to harness Artificial Intelligence across all functions aimed at emerging leaders and top talent—leveraging key elements from our transformational leadership programs and transformational innovation process.
UK Green Building Council
Industry Sustainability Non-Profit
Design and co-facilitate a cross-sector and collaborative systemic innovation lab process to ideate breakthrough, systemic, and sustainable innovations, whilst cultivating and driving collaborative activities between major member companies (e.g. Canary Wharf Group and Marks & Spencers)—leveraging our transformational innovation approach.
Novartis
Global Pharmaceutical Company
Design and facilitate a disruptive innovation process to unlock breakthrough ideas for non-pharmaceutical healthcare solutions bringing together multiple internal functions and external industry partners—and supporting the internal innovation function across the global business to become more influential a change leaders—leveraging our transformational innovation process and transformational leadership programs.
“Very real and exciting innovations being shaped and processed—in our case, a step change to what we do.”
Managing Director, Lendlease
The Next Level Of Innovation Consulting
Most corporate innovation programs fail across a number of success criteria.
Over 20+ years on the frontlines of disruption we have developed a sophisticated, strategic, and systemic approach that delivers both extreme discipline and rigor and radical creativity and inventiveness to ensure your innovation efforts reap the rewards you deserve—future-proofing your organization, inspiring your stakeholders, and regenerating our crisis-hit world,
Unlock Exponential Value
Explore 10x-100x value-creation opportunities that transcend the diminishing returns of cost reductions/acquisitions/improvement by identifying and solving the growing pain points of emerging customers/consumers
Safely Disrupt Your Business Model & Industry
Avoid being disrupted by more nimble, creative, and insightful competitors by safely challenging the assumptions of your existing business model without damaging existing operating efficiencies and revenues
Leverage The 4th Industrial Revolution
Proactively, systematically, and creatively interrogate the capacities of digital technologies (AI, Blockchain, CRISPR etc.) to unlock game-changing innovations that can scale, adapt, and evolve in unprecedented and non-linear ways
Step Change To Be Sustainable & Regenerative
Turn constraints into creativity to invent the sustainable and regenerative business models of the future—and then backcast to your existing model—rather than attempt to minimize the negative footprint of new ideas after they have been created
Build A 5-10 Year Innovation Roadmap
Develop a roadmap to ensure your business units and vertical functions work effectively together to deliver game-changing innovations through shorter-term incremental and evolutionary innovations that create the foundations for the realization of your long-term vision
Derisk Your Innovation Investment
Maximize your returns, reduce consultancy over-reliance, and demystify “black box” innovation consulting by leveraging our proven process and teachable toolset with multiple teams within one program—amortizing costs whilst building long-term innovation capability
Attract & Keep The Most Innovative Talent
Attract the most creative talent, retain the best existing team members, magnetize ESG investors, and improve engagement to harness discretionary energy—by empowering teams with authentic purpose-led innovation
Build An Innovation & Experimentation Culture
Avoid the many pitfalls of innovation—and the dangers of poor innovation leadership—by using our programs and tools to upskill your leaders and team members as they do
“Both a compass and a Gale Force 9 wind!”
Chief Marketing Officer, Tesco
“Extraordinarily rigorous and strategic—yet also had a creative passion that led to breakthrough ideas designed to serve new customer needs.”
Brand Director, Virgin Atlantic
A World-Class 8-Stage Strategic Innovation Process
Evolved Over 25 Years Of Continuous Optimization
8 proven steps to deliver transformational innovations to your organization.
Harness 100+ Codified Tools To Drive Forward Innovation
Across Multiple Teams
Rigorously developed to enable cross-functional team to unlock breakthrough innovation—and empower multiple teams to innovate. Save costs and avoid consultancy over-reliance.
E.g. The Future Operating Context Engine
E.g. The Transformational Challenge Definition Engine
E.g. The Breakthrough Innovation Engine
E.g. The 10-Year Innovation Roadmap Engine
“Uniquely combine deep systemic thinking, expert knowledge of human behavior, and a strong creative flair. And lots of fun to work with!”