Business, Strategy & Innovation Consulting Services

Successful businesses are often challenged to grow in new ways, whether new market segments, product categories or new business models. Even if they have some success, they may struggle to repeat that success efficiently. We can help develop strategies and operational practices to maximize your probabilities for success.

Business model innovation is a powerful tool for disruption. Whether you are trying to respond to a disruptor or looking to use a disruptive business model as a competitive or new business strategy, we can help identify and evaluate different business model options and help assess how they may or may not align with your core business competencies and how to best pursue them.

Even companies with proven product success may need help when exploring new products or business models that go beyond extensions of their products. We can help with all aspects of product and business strategy, from market opportunity and competitive analysis to business modeling, to staging and market validation. 

In most large organizations, roles tend to become more narrowly defined and specialized, which can be highly efficient for a mature core business but can also create significant skills gaps for the entrepreneurial aspects of innovation, new business development, and disruptive strategy. We provide skills training to help fill these gaps. We customize training programs based on your needs and they can be online with digital content, virtual or in-person workshops, or multi-week action-based programs where participants apply their new skills to real projects.

We have seen first-hand the power of platform strategies in the technology industry, but platform strategies are not limited to high tech. Strategies that create ecosystems of complementary products and services can create significant competitive barriers and increase profitability. We are well versed in platform and ecosystem development strategies and can help identify and assess the opportunities and implications for your business. 

Growth Forge® is a cloud-based software as a service that helps innovation teams define, model, and evaluate business strategies to iteratively develop concepts from a hypothesis into a real business. The software builds on many well-established tools, methods, and best practices but makes them interactive and interoperable. It combines aspects of project management, analytics, financial, and collaboration software, all integrated and optimized for managing innovation, strategy, and new business growth at the project or company-wide portfolio level.