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Innovation Phase:

Innovation Workshops:  Minds work best together.  AndSpace Consulting uses a combination of proven facilitation methods to help people innovate.  Many of our methods draw on the seven conditions for innovation developed by Steven Johnson in “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.” Providing the right mix of people, precursors, and structured activities, we pull the maximum amount of creativity out of an organization in ways that increase the odds that they are implemented.

Customer-centered Innovation:  Ideas grounded in a thorough knowledge of current and future customer needs and desires stand the best chance of success.  AndSpace Consulting uses a network of ethnographers and workshop approaches to surface and develop these customer-centered insights.  These include current pain-points as well as future spaces where customers will be negotiating conflicting forces and constraints that create new opportunity spaces for innovation.

Open Innovation: New technologies are allowing organizations to leverage the minds of all of their employees, supply chain partners, and end consumers.  Depending on your organization’s strategic needs, these projects may include online contests and challenges, or more collaborative team-based innovation forums. AndSpace Consulting has experience designing and implementing open innovation processes for small groups or global initiatives spanning continents.

Strategy Phase:

AndSpace Innovation Maps (AIM): AIM combines an understanding of your company’s assets and capabilities and those of your competitors with the major implications from foresight.  The map that results clearly shows where your company is best positioned to take advantage of future trends, and where it should instead ignore or disrupt spaces best fit for competitors.

Point-of-View (PoV) Options Modeling:  Many organizations perform foresight and innovation projects only to stall at implementation due to uncertainty and risk.  Action starts by developing a perspective on the future based on proprietary insights.  Where does your company have a unique understanding of the future, either through external trends research, customer and supply chain assets, or internal R&D investments?  These insight are combined into PoV statements that allow your company to place a bet.  That bet is considered alongside other PoV bets within a portfolio of options that is tied to the future. As developments change PoV Options Modeling allows the company to calibrate its investments to the future.

 

Innovation Phase:

Innovation Workshops:  Minds work best together.  AndSpace Consulting uses a combination of proven facilitation methods to help people innovate.  Many of our methods draw on the seven conditions for innovation developed by Steven Johnson in “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.” Providing the right mix of people, precursors, and structured activities, we pull the maximum amount of creativity out of an organization in ways that increase the odds that they are implemented.

Customer-centered Innovation:  Ideas grounded in a thorough knowledge of current and future customer needs and desires stand the best chance of success.  AndSpace Consulting uses a network of ethnographers and workshop approaches to surface and develop these customer-centered insights.  These include current pain-points as well as future spaces where customers will be negotiating conflicting forces and constraints that create new opportunity spaces for innovation.

Open Innovation: New technologies are allowing organizations to leverage the minds of all of their employees, supply chain partners, and end consumers.  Depending on your organization’s strategic needs, these projects may include online contests and challenges, or more collaborative team-based innovation forums. AndSpace Consulting has experience designing and implementing open innovation processes for small groups or global initiatives spanning continents.

Strategy Phase:

AndSpace Innovation Maps (AIM): AIM combines an understanding of your company’s assets and capabilities and those of your competitors with the major implications from foresight.  The map that results clearly shows where your company is best positioned to take advantage of future trends, and where it should instead ignore or disrupt spaces best fit for competitors.

Point-of-View (PoV) Options Modeling:  Many organizations perform foresight and innovation projects only to stall at implementation due to uncertainty and risk.  Action starts by developing a perspective on the future based on proprietary insights.  Where does your company have a unique understanding of the future, either through external trends research, customer and supply chain assets, or internal R&D investments?  These insight are combined into PoV statements that allow your company to place a bet.  That bet is considered alongside other PoV bets within a portfolio of options that is tied to the future. As developments change PoV Options Modeling allows the company to calibrate its investments to the future.

Services Overview

We customize an integrated process to fit your needs.  Each of our steps can deliver stand-alone results, or feed further steps in the process of moving from idea to reality. 

Our products are designed for use.  They are meant to overcome the internal barriers to innovation and the external uncertainties of new investments.  What are your growth and innovation needs? We will architect the right engagements to fit your organization’s capacity and strategy requirements.

Design Phase

Foresight and Innovation Audit: Through interviews and document research our team identifies your organization’s critical strategic needs, assumptions about the future leaders are using to make decisions, and barriers to innovation and growth.

Trends Report: An outside-in view of the current global and market trends impacting your company’s strategy and innovation goals.  Using a human-centered model for understanding change, the report finds trends that highlight how people are creating, consuming, connecting, relating, and defining their world in new ways.

Foresight Phase:

Forecasting: trends reports only tell us what is happening now. To get out into the future these trends need to be extrapolated forward in time.  AndSpace Consulting uses qualitative and quantitative techniques to explore how selected trends will grow and change.  These include expert summits, surveys, technology forecasting, statistical modeling, implications wheels and morphological analysis.  AndSpace Consulting can execute the forecasting models that work best for your organization’s goals.

Scenario Planning: Forecasted trends do not operate in a vacuum.  Scenario planning explores how future states of trends may interact with each other to create transformational change.  Different scenario planning methods deliver different results.  For corporate strategy or company growth initiatives, the familiar deductive method using an uncertainty matrix works best.  Inductive scenario planning, using systems thinking, surfaces rich opportunity spaces for innovation. Grassroots organizational change often requires participatory foresight processes that embrace open innovation technologies.  AndSpace Consulting has the experience and people to design the right scenario planning process to fit your company’s needs.