Scaled Enterprise & Citizen InnovationSMME & Supply Chain InnovationStart-up Innovation LabsInnovation Workshops & Future-skills TrainingBid Management
Scaled Enterprise & Citizen Innovation
Leading business unusual with a sustainable innovation roadmap and creative culture.
Our leadership framework for enterprise-wide innovation has been tried and tested by leading brands and organisations across the globe. It’s the ideal framework for managing complexity with resilience and creative edge, and sustaining competitive advantage well into the future.
Organic Innovation
The outcomes of a think-innovating organisation:
- Measurable innovation investment
- Innovation culture activation and sustained momentum unlocks contagious creativity.
- Leaders and staff are creatively liberated with a new skill set and way of working.
- Parallel to the incubation of your key innovation outcomes like new products, services and growth, people start to adopt a new way of working resulting in continued business improvement and applied creativity.
- Customer focus starts becoming intrinsic to the individual – new markets and opportunities are created and value is increased.
- Motivation increases
- Staff are challenged to stretch their thinking capabilities.
- Innovation starts to happen in places that never featured on the innovation agenda such as your bid office, the sales team and procurement, etc.
Innovation Roadmap Design
We provide a comprehensive re-education of thought processes, ways of working and decision making for the Creative Age to achieve breakthrough strategy execution.
Here’s how:
- Understand business strategy and innovation objectives.
- Assess the innovation operating model.
- Best practice benchmark and gap identification.
- Draft plan for innovation strategy and operational model.
- Create the roadmap and business case.
Our Innovation Enablers
SMME & Supply Chain Innovation
Our innovation and acceleration programmes catapult business growth with competitive, sustained advantage.
We speed up next-phase growth of SMMEs with our think innovation roadmap; strategic blueprints for accelerated growth and capacity building.
Achieve Next-level Growth
We inspire SMMEs by enabling them to re-imagine the future of their business and activate next-level growth with a strategy blueprint and innovation roadmap for excellent and rapid execution.
We use open innovation; our scaled innovation roadmap, blueprints for ideation, and the lean activation of visionary strategic blueprints.
Our hybrid approach ensures the transfer of skill and innovation knowledge to internal teams to ensure that innovation is executed with focus, excellence and pace.
Develop Capacity and Cohesion
- New framework for strategy design and innovation.
- Leadership capacity development for next-step growth; visionary execution, innovation strategy, collaboration, and networking for acceleration success.
- A blueprint for innovation and accelerated growth.
- Lean business model and MVP or MVS.
- Team capacitation and cohesion for next-phase growth; resourcing for acceleration.
- Execution management and growth support.
Our Innovation Enablers
Start-up Innovation Labs
Activating start-up cultures, future-thinking and contagious creativity at scale.
Create Innovation Culture
We ignite cultures of innovation in a sustained and novel way. Using our scaled innovation management programmes; blueprints for ideation, the lean activation of great ideas into minimally viable products, services and customer solutions.
Our hybrid approach ensures the transfer of skill and innovation knowledge to internal teams to ensure that your innovation programme is maintained and thrives with your internal “think team” capacity.
Develop Products and Services
We craft sustainable ideas and innovative business model blueprints to develop minimally viable products and services.
Our start-up innovation labs include scaled solutions for basic and higher education, as well as ED funding institutes and corporate.
“Scaled Campus Innovation”
- Cloud platform enables learners to showcase their virtual business experiments, side-kick projects and career aspirations, and connect with mentors from Alumni and enterprises to help support their plans.
- On-site innovation labs become home for serial commercial creativity and acceleration of high potential business experiments into minimally viable products and services.
- Our scaled innovation capacity-building programme for your institute, ED expertise and 21st-century workforce skills.
- Open IX sessions connect learners with businesses, community and the public sector.
“Scaled Company Innovation”
- Cloud platform enables internal collaboration to showcase business experiments, side-kick projects and career aspirations, and connect with internal mentors from within the organisation to enable knowledge sharing, collaboration, millennial engagement, and scaled idea exchange.
- On-site innovation labs become home for serial commercial creativity and acceleration of high potential business ideas aligned to the organisational strategy for quick turnaround into minimally viable products, services, and customer experiences – enabling innovation leadership.
- Our scaled innovation capacity-building programme ensures the development of creativity, innovation skills and 21st-century competence.
- Open IX workshops enable cross collaboration with business partners, brand leaders and customers.
Innovation Workshops & Future-skills Training
Our experiential Innovation training suite embeds new techniques and approaches which employees can apply on the job the very next day.
We ensure that your team has the skills to deliver on your organisational strategy and innovation agenda.
think Innovation master class
Get everything you need to start innovating like the pros; create ground-breaking ideas and take them from mind to market.
We have unique techniques in these areas:
- Absorption – how to start a task in the right way
- Explosion – idea generation
- Consolidation – how to select the best ideas
- Action – how to make things happen
- Capitalisation – how to measure performance and learn from it
Training delivered in a way that doesn’t feel like training
think Ambassador Development and Training Programme
To sustain internal innovation efforts, we can train and coach some of your key people to pass on the techniques we’ve created.
think future-skills bespoke programmes:
- Innovation and creativity learning journeys
- Design thinking
- Biomatrix systems thinking
- Operational innovation
- Lean business modelling
- Customer experience design
- PLUS a complimentary suite of over 70 soft skills courses.
To create a unique learning journey that unlocks your teams innovation and creative potential, get in touch now
Bid Management
Our Bid Management support programme is designed to help you win more bids by tapping into our proven strategies.
We work directly with your bid team to create compelling content, achieve presentation excellence and develop world-class collateral.
Develop Bid Excellence
Our blend of skills is guided from a background in global advertising agencies, innovation consultancy and corporate psychology. There is no other Bid Management organisation that approaches this activity the way we do.
We bring practical options, share the approaches of best practice, and work with the team to find the right answers. If needed, we can nudge their mindset to shift thinking and improve performance.
Provide Coordinated Support
To win bids, strategic and tactical support is essential and we have the world-class support services required. If all the right services are in place, the ‘noise’ is reduced enabling the bid team to focus 100% on the bid.
By placing your client at the centre of all activity, your bid team can stay focused through a diverse range of coordinated support.
“Think Bid Management”
- Differentiate from your competitors
- Inspire
- Professional execution
- Get the most important messages across
- Get the best chance of winning the bid