A team innovating together at a table.

Corporate Innovation

We work with you to identify new insights and opportunities within your core business. We then develop and test new concepts quickly by getting market feedback to address the biggest uncertainties.
What we Do

We help you turn opportunities into real business growth.

Innovation Strategy, Governance 
& Capability Building

Our venture process is customized to your organization, based on your unique opportunities and resources. We will help you establish an appropriate governance process to create the conditions for successful venture-building.

Opportunity 
Pipeline Development

What people “Say” is often different from what they “Do.” Early prototype testing is how our venture teams get to the commercial truth.

Discovery Research & Concept Development

We test and refine key go-to-market variables (e.g., the business model, pricing, customer acquisition, fulfillment, and partnerships) to ensure the venture has the right ingredients to be profitable, sustainable, and scalable.

In-Market Experimentation

We stand up your venture, getting your first customers and revenues while we develop your scaling strategy.

Clients we've been privileged to serve

How we do it

We’re your hands-on corporate innovation fast-trackers.

We leverage human-centered design and lean start up methods to design, test, & launch new offerings so you can reach your goals in weeks or months, not quarters or years.

01

Scoping and Framing

Good framing helps you see what was always there, but hidden. We will frame the opportunity together, then align on project goals, methods, timing, and roles.

Opportunity framing

Defined learning plan

02

Opportunity Exploration

With your strategic objectives and capabilities as a foundation, we explore your users and market forces to uncover new growth opportunities.

Discovery research, market scans, and SME interviews

Early adopter and target customer definition

03

Concept Development and Testing

We develop product concepts and execute multiple learning experiments, in parallel, to gather “Say” and “Do” data, in-market, against our biggest make-or-break assumptions.

Rapid prototypes for testing

Product simulations

Initial business model and early adopter insights

04

Build 
and Pilot

We create a live end-to-end experience for the first cohort of users. We get first revenues, even though the back-end is scrappy and affordable to enable pivots.

MVP feature set defined

Behavioral research

Business model insights with willingness to pay/refer

05

Transition
and Scale

We make sure you have the clarity, confidence, and roadmap to drive forward.

Plug and play new offering

Clear scalability requirements

Our Capabilities

We play every role to learn quickly and get traction.

Our team does what it takes to learn at high speed, from facilitating research and design to customer acquisition, analytics, customer service, and more.

Human Centered Research and Design

Discovery Research

Persona Development

Early Adopter Profiling

Co-Creation

Diary Studies

Product Simulations

In-Market Experimentation

Behavioral Research

User Testing

Product Strategy and Development

Competitive Analysis

Rapid Prototyping

Wireframing

UI/UX Design

Product Development

Product Management

MVP Feature Set Definition

Commercial Feature Set Definition

Product Roadmapping

Service Mapping and Blueprint Design

Business Strategy and Execution

Opportunity Framing

Commercial Thesis Development

Tripwires and Success Milestones

Strategic Planning

Pipeline Development

Governance Design

Early Adopter and Target Customer Definition

Business Model Design and Validation

Pitch Deck Tests

Ads, Landing Page and Channel Testing

Customer Acquisition

Go to Market Strategy

Revenue Model Definition

Corporate Alignment and Activation

Team Capability Building

Collaborative Design Sessions

Product and Business Building Sprints

Roadmap Creation Sessions

Executive Alignment Sessions

Stakeholder Management Support

Resource and Funding Request Strategy

Partnership Strategy

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