Innovation Consulting
Our broad and deep experience working in a wide range of fields forms the baseline for our Innovation Consulting services. We offer an outside viewpoint to help your company work better and achieve your innovation goals.
We work with you to build the potential of your team and to help you deliver better results through your own R&D programmes. This includes advice on innovation, commercialisation, and capability development through audit, review, and advisory services.
CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
We are an NZTE-accredited Capability Development Provider and have worked with a number of businesses to develop their capabilities in product development and commercialisation.
We offer a three-part workshop series designed to help companies become better at developing new products and delivering them to market. The workshops explore the key reasons why you need to innovate, show you why an effective product development process is your company’s most valuable asset, and provide a framework for how to commercialise new ideas successfully. They are aided by NZTE funding and are invaluable for a business.
AUDIT, ADVICE & REVIEW
We use our own custom frameworks to review and advise on the performance of your company’s product development and commercialisation process, R&D structures, and programmes. We have developed the ‘Six Lenses for Innovation’, a framework that looks at all the key aspects of a business that influence its ability to innovate successfully. The lenses evaluate a business from groups, teams, and culture to management and process. We use this tool to understand how R&D is structured within a business and how each area, activity, and discipline interacts and interfaces.
COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
Commercialisation is inherently embedded in our process. Everything we do has the end goal of commercial success. We are trained to understand what is required at every stage of development to ensure a good outcome. We can help clients with anything from developing commercialisation frameworks or writing a business case, to assisting with capital raising, development of marketing and sales collateral, or setting up supply chains.
MENTORING AND SUPPORT
We can also step in to help clients with specific issues or projects in an advisory capacity. Our broad experience base means we can make valuable contributions across a range of areas. This mentoring and support work can be ongoing support over time, mentoring on a short project, or participation in specific strategic discussions. It can be quite fluid, flexible, and cost effective and is tailored to your unique needs.
Discover what our wide array of skills and expertise can do for you. We are a pretty friendly bunch, so get in touch if you have any questions.
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Six Lenses
We developed the Six Lenses for Innovation to help companies to review and assess the performance of their product development and commercialisation process. It seeks to understand how R&D is structured within a business and how each area, activity, and discipline interacts and interfaces together.
The framework looks at your company through six different lenses to identify areas of concern or issues that may limit innovation. The process draws out insights and recommendations that have the ability to change practice and behaviour to improve development outcomes.
Integrating the Influential Areas
Product development and commercialisation are often erroneously viewed as distinct and separate processes. Successful innovation requires a fully integrated approach to be truly effective — this means applying a broad and concurrent approach, considering all relevant aspects of management, product development and commercialisation at the same time.
SIX LENSES
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INNOVATION
A detailed performance rating is given to each of the six lenses, which highlights where the strengths lie and where improvement is needed.
Case studies & constraints
Constraints, expectations, barriers, successes and failures.
Consumers & Markets
Customers, problems or needs, market research, brand and marketing, user research.
Commercialisation process
Business case, handover and transition, market entry, intellectual property, partnerships and alliances.
Management & process
Processes and approach, gates and milestones, programme management, testing, validation and compliance.
Groups, teams & culture
Group modes, cross pollination, culture, learning and environment.
Creativity & vision
Idea sources, originality, inventiveness, creative power and vision.
Find out more about each of the lenses and the process we use to apply them in our Six Lenses for Innovation Resource.
TIME FOR A REVIEW?
Feel like your company could benefit from our Six Lenses process? We can come into your business to observe and assist with a pathway forward.