Innovation

Futures Consortia

Collaborative strategic innovation for organisations ready to go beyond what acting alone can accomplish.

We have a track record of bringing together diverse organisations to build cross-sector Enterprise Futures Consortia, designed to lead thinking, re-shape business and spin off new ventures.

Our current crop of facilitated consortia, developed against the background of the preparations and repercussions of the Copenhagen Summit, COP15, brings together selected, passionate organisations under the heading ‘Climate Challenges; New Ventures 2010’.

Membership. Consortium members receive individual strategy development support and in-depth intelligence from international think tanks. Summits build shared visions, aligning thinking and actions and forge new partnerships and ventures.

Visible responsibility. Each consortium has a unique personality driven exclusively by the collaborating brands. Results are openly published and publicised: seminal and actionable pieces of forward thinking timed for maximum exposure by abutting a strategic event.

Joining & shaping. If you are ready to shape things on a whole new level contact us about joining or starting a consortium.

Perpetual Innovation

"My god it's full of stars" (entering the monolith) Kubrick's '2001'

Perpetual Innovation uniquely combines horizon scanning, innovation support and idea management to transform your organisation into a social network of creative hubs.

The end of silos. Facilitated by innovation professionals, ideas develop by linking the innovation latent in disparate teams and sites, cross-pollinating creative problem-solving and people-powered R&D.

Intelligent Speculation. Futures specialists inject frontier research and emerging signals into these interconnected hubs and your organisation's bloodstream. Curated remotely, grass roots ideas bubble up and evolve while strategic focus can be communicated top-down to bring all your creative minds to bear on key areas and challenges.

Timely interventions. Trained idea managers call in tailored interventions (like Base Camps and bespoke workshops) as they are needed creating the culture and capability to harness ideas, prototype, pilot, monitor, nurture and deploy innovations at higher speeds and lower costs.