Innovation Strategy
The most impactful and sustainable way to drive innovation is by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, empowering teams to become champions of transformation. Together, let’s amplify the impact of your innovation strategy through human-centered design principles, ensuring long-term success and competitive advantage.
We specialise in a hands-on no-nonsense human-centric approach that works in practice. We combine available background information with customer research to identify innovation opportunities and plot and validate solution directions. We guide you through this innovation strategy process and help you cultivate motivated, innovation-ready teams and foster essential internal connections.
Shaping Innovation Strategies for Sustainable Growth
So, how might we define an impactful and viable Innovation Strategy? Together, we identify key opportunities & define innovation directions that inform an innovation strategy that paves the way for sustainable value creation.
Adidas: Elevating UX in Adidas Global Team-wear Customization Platform
The global team sports (GTS) division at Adidas that oversees the platform recognized a focused user experience and user interface design strategy informed by solid user research and validation would elevate the entire LockerRoom experience. Together with the GTS team, we forged an ambitious vision for 2024, setting the stage for the platform’s immediate and enduring success, driving sales and brand engagement.
Cordstrap: Human-centricity in the product creation process
Cordstrap is a leading global company in cargo protection, providing products and solutions that secure all types of cargo on rail, sea, road, and air. As part of its transition from being a product-oriented organization, to becoming solution-focused, Cordstrap is facing a number of challenges involving innovation. To solve this, they decided to develop a new Product Creation Process (PCP) with people at the center.
Rainforest Alliance: Developing Criteria to Select Partners for Innovation
Using Design Thinking principles, we worked with RA to identify the criteria needed to select the right partners for innovation, based on defined drivers and values. Moreover, we also looked at what the partners expect from RA in a collaborative effort using empathy in research. This will help RA align their views with that of their partners, which will support co-creation and innovation.
L'Oréal: Future leadership amidst a department merger
The new Parisian department store offers L’Oréal Group growth opportunities through cooperation with the DFS Group. This partnership brings new ventures and questions about future strategic leadership. L’Oréal invited DesignThinkers to organize training sessions to co-create future success scenarios. Read on to learn about applying Design Thinking in luxury retail.
A Design Thinking approach
We work on three levels to enhance your Employee Experience. First, we focus on content, where we combine data and qualitative employee research to identify key opportunities and design viable solutions to elevate your Employee Experience.
"We empower you through content and capability."
Second, we build capability by enhancing your team’s skills, enabling them to continually design and improve the Employee Experience in a relevant and responsive manner. Third, we cultivate a culture that fosters a people-focused, innovative, high-performance environment. With our global Employee Experience Center in London, we continually expand our practical expertise for you to leverage.
Do you recognize this challenge?
Let’s make your employees happy, today.
Sounds good? Our services can help address your strategic HR challenges.
Our 2-day EX Design Sprint allows us to tackle one of your specific EX-related issues. For a broader assessment, our DT EX Assessment puts the thermometer into your organization, evaluating your EX from both an HR and overall organizational perspective. If your team needs to build foundational EX design skills, our DT EX Training can equip them with the necessary knowledge and mindset. Finally, for a comprehensive EX overhaul, our Full EX Design project guides you through the entire process, working closely with your organization.
Innovation Strategy Services
Innovation Opportunity Sprint
Tackle a specific HR challenge together
Often day-to-day HR operations limit the bandwidth available to tackle the more strategic HR challenges. Our EX sprint is the high energy push to break through that impasse. Together we tackle your HR challenge and bring it to tangible results quickly! The session is designed to rapidly generate insights and develop potential solutions.
Outcomes:
- Alignment and ownership of relevant
stakeholders - Market and customer insight
- Validated innovation opportunities
Innovation Opportunity Sprint
Tackle a specific HR challenge together
Often day-to-day HR operations limit the bandwidth available to tackle the more strategic HR challenges. Our EX sprint is the high energy push to break through that impasse. Together we tackle your HR challenge and bring it to tangible results quickly! The session is designed to rapidly generate insights and develop potential solutions.
Outcomes:
- Alignment and ownership of relevant
stakeholders - Market and customer insight
- Validated innovation opportunities
Innovation Opportunity Sprint
Tackle a specific HR challenge together
Often day-to-day HR operations limit the bandwidth available to tackle the more strategic HR challenges. Our EX sprint is the high energy push to break through that impasse. Together we tackle your HR challenge and bring it to tangible results quickly! The session is designed to rapidly generate insights and develop potential solutions.
Outcomes:
- Alignment and ownership of relevant
stakeholders - Market and customer insight
- Validated innovation opportunities
Full Innovation Strategy Project
Embark on an innovation journey.
In 10 steps from an initial challenge to thorough research and customer insights, and ultimately to impactful concept solutions piloted in the market.
Outcomes:
- Alignment and ownership relevant stakeholders
- Deep insight through employee research
- Validated improvement opportunities
- Validated concept solutions
- Development Project Charters for prioritised concept solutions
Full Innovation Strategy Project
Embark on an innovation journey.
In 10 steps from an initial challenge to thorough research and customer insights, and ultimately to impactful concept solutions piloted in the market.
Outcomes:
- Alignment and ownership relevant stakeholders
- Deep insight through employee research
- Validated improvement opportunities
- Validated concept solutions
- Development Project Charters for prioritised concept solutions
Full Innovation Strategy Project
Embark on an innovation journey.
In 10 steps from an initial challenge to thorough research and customer insights, and ultimately to impactful concept solutions piloted in the market.
Outcomes:
- Alignment and ownership relevant stakeholders
- Deep insight through employee research
- Validated improvement opportunities
- Validated concept solutions
- Development Project Charters for prioritised concept solutions
Capability Development
Empower your team with the right skills & mindset
We believe that the biggest impact we can make is by elevating the capabilities of your team and your organization. We tailor our learning programs to fit your specific goals. We offer options from in-depth certification courses to short awareness modules, and we can even create a complete training portfolio for your broader organization to ensure maximum impact.
Outcomes:
- Solid innovation skills, mindset & approach
- Common innovation language
- Broader organizational & stakeholder
awareness of the innovation mindset
Capability Development
Empower your team with the right skills & mindset
We believe that the biggest impact we can make is by elevating the capabilities of your team and your organization. We tailor our learning programs to fit your specific goals. We offer options from in-depth certification courses to short awareness modules, and we can even create a complete training portfolio for your broader organization to ensure maximum impact.
Outcomes:
- Solid innovation skills, mindset & approach
- Common innovation language
- Broader organizational & stakeholder
awareness of the innovation mindset
Capability Development
Empower your team with the right skills & mindset
We believe that the biggest impact we can make is by elevating the capabilities of your team and your organization. We tailor our learning programs to fit your specific goals. We offer options from in-depth certification courses to short awareness modules, and we can even create a complete training portfolio for your broader organization to ensure maximum impact.
Outcomes:
- Solid innovation skills, mindset & approach
- Common innovation language
- Broader organizational & stakeholder
awareness of the innovation mindset
DT Value Assessment
Provide shared insight in your value potential and value creation performance.
An organisation-wide digital survey combined with in-depth interviews provides deep insight into your organisation’s base value potential, value delivery & realisation performance, and value retention potential. This is a solid basis to define focused initiatives to maximise the value you create now and in the future.
Outcomes:
- Insight in value creation performance against
best-in-class - Identification of key improvement areas
- Value creation strategy and action plan to
address these opportunities
DT Value Assessment
Provide shared insight in your value potential and value creation performance.
An organisation-wide digital survey combined with in-depth interviews provides deep insight into your organisation’s base value potential, value delivery & realisation performance, and value retention potential. This is a solid basis to define focused initiatives to maximise the value you create now and in the future.
Outcomes:
- Insight in value creation performance against
best-in-class - Identification of key improvement areas
- Value creation strategy and action plan to
address these opportunities
DT Value Assessment
Provide shared insight in your value potential and value creation performance.
An organisation-wide digital survey combined with in-depth interviews provides deep insight into your organisation’s base value potential, value delivery & realisation performance, and value retention potential. This is a solid basis to define focused initiatives to maximise the value you create now and in the future.
Outcomes:
- Insight in value creation performance against
best-in-class - Identification of key improvement areas
- Value creation strategy and action plan to
address these opportunities
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