We help companies with strategy, innovation, and Building new businesses.

Over 50 years of combined new business growth, innovation, and strategy development experience.

BRI, LLC is a professional consulting service specializing in corporate innovation, new business growth, business and product strategy development. We help companies grow and innovate by sharing our decades of new business development experience through direct consulting, skills and best practices training courses, and software tools developed for the unique requirements of corporate innovation and growth organizations.

Services We Offer

Innovation, New Business Growth, & Strategy Consulting

We are available for ad-hoc or project-based consulting services in areas such as corporate innovation and new business incubation, business strategy, business modeling and financial analysis, digital transformation strategy, competitive analysis and new business development. While we have extensive domain expertise in technology, we can apply these skills in any business segment.
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Innovation Skills & Best Practices Training

We offer in-person, instructor-led and online training workshops courses from introductory through master's level in the area of corporate innovation and new business development and will be adding more over time in the areas of business strategy, platform strategy, and corporate culture and vision framework development. Courses can also customize the content for the specific needs of your company or organization.
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Growth Forge® Strategy & Business Modeling Software

We also offer our Growth Forge software. Integrating over twenty years of new business strategy development and corporate innovation learning and best practices into a suite of configurable tools for modeling, evaluating, and managing innovation projects or multiple portfolios of projects through their entire life cycle from ideation to scaling.
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Trusted by Industry Leaders

“As a large corporation, we are constantly searching for how make our Innovation efforts more effective. Stephen and Jim are well versed in industry's best practices, but more importantly brought the insights only gained by practicing and years of experience. Their lessons around corporate innovation, new business incubation and how to best structure innovation programs were invaluable and directly applicable to a company looking to improve.”
- Innovation Director
'multi-billion dollar materials manufacturer'
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Recent Posts & News

BRI's Position on AI in Innovation and our Growth Forge® Software
February 17, 2025

As artificial intelligence reaches new heights of capability and attention, organizations everywhere are grappling with how to effectively leverage these powerful toolswhile managing their inherent risks and limitations. This post briefly summarizes BRI's position on AI in new product or business innovation and how we will leverage AI capabilities in our Growth Forge software.

Growth Forge Update Q1 2025 - New Tools, New Features, AI, Oh My!
February 3, 2025

BRI Associates announces major update to it's Growth Forge Innovation Management Software. This update include several new strategy modeling tools for clearify strategic objectives and quickly exploring high level strategy options, as well as new tools and tool updates to discovery, refine, and prioritize target customer Jobs to be Done and solution requirements. There are also several updates to help new users and improve ease of use, including inital AI assist features. YouTube onboarding and overview videos and the new Discord community are now available to help support users as well. Full details in the blog post.

Trigate Coaching, PBJ, and BRI Associates Announce the Launch of the Strategy Foundations Suite in Growth Forge Software
January 29, 2025

Trigate Strategy Coaching, PBJ, and BRI Associates have collaborated to develop the Strategy Foundations Suite of tools for the Growth Forge platform. Together, the partners bring decades of world-class experience in business leadership, strategy, and innovation. The Strategy Foundations tools are software that help clients frame their strategic aspirations in the context of the dynamic environment they operate in, quickly explore a diverse range of strategy options to achieve their aspirations, and assess how effectively their strategy is understood by critical stakeholders within the organization once enacted. Clients of each partner can use these tools in workshops, coaching engagements, and as part of a subscription to the Growth Forge suite.

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