Innovation

We design innovations that go beyond product development and include customer experience, services, channel, as well as partnerships and profit models.

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    Innovation

    Our Strategy

    Innovation is a powerful tool when it addresses emergent needs with comprehensive improvements in what is offered and how it is sold, distributed, and supported.  Our goal is to help clients develop innovations that improve customer value, accelerate profitable growth, make competitors play catch-up, and establish or reinforce market leadership.  We offer a wide range of innovation plays to drive shareholder value.

    Our Core Offerings

    Innovation Agenda

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    Mapping opportunities and unmet needs to identify focus areas with highest probability of yielding successful outcomes and producing higher return on investment

    Concept Development

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    Leveraging agile sprints to enable rapid design and development of concepts and accelerate time to market

    Market Validation

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    Launching MVP and gathering market feedback to prove the offering and de-risk further investment before launch

    Launch & Scale

     
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    Defining targeted launch for faster growth, often leveraging an innovation ecosystem to distribute the costs and risks

    Competence Building

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    Establishing and codifying innovation functions, processes, and teams, such that your organization can improve overall efficiency of doing innovation with confidence

    Innovation Agenda

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    Mapping opportunities and unmet needs to identify focus areas with highest probability of yielding successful outcomes and producing higher return on investment

    Concept Development

    icon

    Leveraging agile sprints to enable rapid design and development of concepts and accelerate time to market

    Market Validation

    icon

    Launching MVP and gathering market feedback to prove the offering and de-risk further investment before launch

    Launch & Scale

     
    icon

    Defining targeted launch for faster growth, often leveraging an innovation ecosystem to distribute the costs and risks

    Competence Building

    icon

    Establishing and codifying innovation functions, processes, and teams, such that your organization can improve overall efficiency of doing innovation with confidence

    Contact Us

    Please fill the form:

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