We Partner with Leading Organizations to Realize Innovation
A proven process for retailers & brands to facilitate meaningful technology adoption
some of the organizations we work with include
Innovation Management as a Service
In an industry where change is a constant and innovation is entering the market at an exponential pace, it is difficult to keep up. We take a direct and effective approach to managing your organization’s innovation. Imagine pairing together a customized curated trade-show with a technology incubator on-site for all of your executive team. Our follow up and a managed feedback loop enable us to support your entire innovation lifecycle.
Your core competency is your customer, our core competency is technology innovation.
The Innovation Program
How it All Works
We build a regular event cycle to highlight tech innovation and education that matches an organization’s goals, developed within a cadence to refine and operationalize across the organization.
THE MARKET IS FULL OF POSSIBILITIES. BUT rarely do THINGS GET DONE.
Have you ever noticed after a great presentation, conversations die down, excitement gets lost and eventually you might never hear back from the customer again?
This disconnect is a function of how decisions are made inside of organizations. The people you have a meeting with have to socialize the idea, get buy-in and commitment from a whole host of others that have never seen the solution before. In fact, the network of conversations leaves most solution presentations diluted before they can even reach the ears of all the people that need to hear it. It’s kind of like a corporate version of the telephone game.
For those that haven’t played, the game is very simple. A group of people stands in a line. A simple sentence, starting with the first person, is whispered into the next person’s ear one by one until the message reaches the end of the line. Typically, the sentence that is revealed by the person at the end of the line is significantly different from the one that it started with. Just as in the game, this phenomenon of simple miscommunication exists in the workplace.
How Ideas Travel without the Innovation Program
Why this is different…
How Ideas Travel with the Innovation Program
As much fun as the telephone game may be at a party, nobody wants their technology roll out to work that way. When you have everyone together in one conversation, the loss of communication is mitigated. INNOVATION (OF ANY SORT) REQUIRES BIG CONVERSATIONS WITH KEY DECISION MAKERS AND THEIR SUPPORTING TEAMS.
Inside the Innovation Program, we break down organizational silos by having all of an organization’s team in one room listening to you.
And we take it a step further
The Qualified Yes
As innovation realization specialists we work with organization leadership to curate solutions specifically around what they’re looking for. After solutions apply to programs we filter out the best of the best and work with the host’s leadership team to determine which solutions are the best fit for their needs and who they actually want to hear from. That means: if you’re accepted into a program, they specifically want you to be there.
Expert Coaching
Communication is harder than we realize. We tend to spend countless hours refining our marketing, the business model, the financials and everything else that makes the business run. And we have to do that. But we also have to take time to be sure we’re communicating what’s important to potential clients. We take solution providers through extensive training so that they are able to communicate their offering powerfully and effectively.
Executive Buy-in
Every one of our programs have buy-in from decision-making executives who support and engage in the process and how it works. Which means there’s allotted budget to pilot, roll out and try new things. With the entire team in the same room as the same time with the intention to move things forward, things get done.