Whether you need to launch a new product or service or just want to improve your processes, innovation consulting firms can help. They work with you to identify what needs to change and help you develop a strategy to implement it.
Typically, these consultants have experience working with other clients and their own expertise and resources. They also often have a global ecosystem of partners, technology, and expertise they can leverage to find innovative solutions for their clients.
Doblin
Doblin is a leading innovation consulting firm that helps businesses imagine and build new businesses. They combine leading business experience, user research and a design-led approach.
Doblin was founded in 1981 and has grown to be a global innovation firm. They are now a part of Deloitte, where they help clients develop their innovation capabilities, systems, and structures that will support long-term success.
They identify 10 types of innovative tactics that companies can use to improve their performance. These include profit model, company network, company structure, product, process, innovative branding, and customer engagements.
They also recommend incorporating multiple types of innovation into your strategy in order to discover new sources of growth. This is especially important when it comes to business models & new marketing concepts, as companies often overlook these areas of innovation in favor of more traditional product and service innovations.
RKS
Founded in 1980, RKS delivers human-focused solutions with global impact. They use design as a strategic tool to advance their clients’ ability to focus on people’s needs and aspirations while creating sustainable business results and benefits to society.
Their services include UI/UX, brand design, digital marketing, industrial design and product development and engineering. Their expertise includes a wide variety of industries and products including healthcare, consumer electronics, appliances, and housewares.
They have received over 150 major awards and are recognized as one of the top innovation consulting firms. Their Psycho-Aesthetics methodology focuses on leveraging consumers’ needs and aspirations to create transformational and innovative products and experiences.
Woods Bagot
Founded in Adelaide, Australia, Woods Bagot is one of the world’s leading innovation consulting firms. Its global studio philosophy drives unprecedented knowledge sharing and true collaboration across time zones to produce innovative, inspired and functional design solutions.
With a history spanning over a century, the firm’s early Australian work includes Bonython Hall and the Barr Smith Library. 21st-century projects include the Qatar Science & Technology Park, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre and the SAHMRI building in Adelaide.
The practice has recently been ranked as the 7th largest architecture firm by employee count in Building Design magazine. With 16 global studios, Woods Bagot consistently inspires its work with a rigorous vocabulary that references urban and regional context, ecological and social sustainability, and innovation.
Kirsti is a key member of Woods Bagot’s Australian workplace interiors team. With a strong background in Brisbane, she brings a depth and calibre that will elevate our Northern Australian Hub, working seamlessly with ERA-Co UX.
Innosight
Founded by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and senior partner Mark Johnson, Innosight is a leading innovation consulting firm focused on disruptive change. The company’s innovative strategies and methodologies have helped Fortune 500 companies and other leading organizations navigate disruptive innovation to achieve transformational growth.
The company’s unique methodology is rooted in anticipating customer needs and developing capabilities to address those needs. It combines the best of traditional approaches to strategy and growth with a “future back” approach to disruptive innovation that creates portfolios of new innovations and growth businesses that serve changing customer needs.
The company’s impressive technology stack includes tools such as the business model canvas and the value proposition canvas that help organizations rapidly sketch their ideas in a way that is both practical and easy to understand. They also have a robust process for managing projects that can include a bit of friction from top to bottom, but is balanced with rigorous feedback.
