Innovation pathways

Challenging, collaborative and always enjoyable, we’ve honed three product and service innovation pathways to bring clarity, reveal high-value opportunities, and make the intangible, tangible.

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One of these pathways is for you, if any of the following are true:

  • You have an idea for a new product, proposition or service, but you’re not sure where to start
  • You’re being disrupted by an external force, and want to work out how to respond
  • You used to be in first place, but not so much anymore
  • You need to align a set of stakeholders around a clear, shared understanding of the near-future and how to get there

Explore

Venture into the future of your products or services

You don’t need to have a specific new service in mind to capitalise on probing the future.

This approach delivers clarity, the case for change, and a suite of product or service concepts that drive customer behaviour shifts on three horizons – now (inside 6 months), next (6–12 months), and in future (18+ months).

What you'll get

A range of experience concepts designed to create customer behaviour shifts across now, next and future horizons, vetted and prioritised by key stakeholders.

  1. Customer propositions and service concepts
    A comprehensive suite of feasible solutions to create the behaviour shift you wish to see. Personas describe the needs, desires and pain points of those audiences we’re designing for. An experience blueprint details the end-to-end CX – mapping channels and touchpoints.
  2. Experience framework
    Includes the strategy for how people experience the new product or service, and an experience arc for how it evolves across three horizons (NOW, NEXT, FUTURE). You’ll receive a bespoke set of audience takeaways, design principles, unique experience themes, opportunities, Ownable Moments™, and the elevator pitch for your vision.
  3. Product arc
    This high-level roadmap shows the way forward for developing features, and how opportunities can be delivered over time. An emergent brand and visual design system provides a brand and marketing-approved toolkit for delivering propositions.

Case study

Exploring with Nivea

Service concepts that help build an intimate one-to-one relationship with your skin.

Accelerate

Launch a new product or service

Transforming your customer experience doesn’t have to take forever.

This approach is fast, comprehensive and collaborative – for businesses looking to launch a new product or service that attracts an audience, engages them, and evolves their experience over time.

What you'll get

Your product or service vision is realised in a tangible way, and an approach to making it real.

  1. Experience strategy
    Sets out how people will experience the new product or service, and how it evolves: a bespoke framework of audience takeaways, design principles, unique experience themes, opportunities, and Ownable Moments™.
  2. Audience shift
    A set of personas describing the needs, desires and pain points of the audiences we’re designing for, and the behaviour shift we aim to bring about in them. The Experience Blueprint details the end-to-end CX – mapping channels, touchpoints, and Experience Arc.
  3. Prototype and roadmap
    A high-fidelity prototype demonstrates features, functions, interactions, and Ownable Moments™ across the customer lifecycle. The product roadmap shows the way forward at a higher level. And the emergent brand and visual design system provides a brand and marketing-approved toolkit.

Through prioritisation and alignment sessions, we’ll make sure you have the required consensus and key stakeholder buy-in to the new product.

Case study

Accelerating SmartWealth

UBS set us the challenge to help them democratise 150 years of premium Swiss banking heritage. Read how we went from idea to prototype in just 90 days. Together, we launched a wealth ‘robo-advisor’ for the masses in 18 months.

Evolve

Make incremental improvements for maximum impact

Elevating your current product or service can unlock significant value from your existing digital estate.

This is an incremental innovation approach to improving a product or service that’s already in-market.

What you'll get

An assessment of how well your digital estate performs to support and engage the needs of your customer, along with strategies to improve the current state, and a set of sprints to evolve this incrementally.

  1. Audit
    We’ll look at how current journeys through your digital estate perform against key tasks and objectives, benchmark against your competition as well as lateral product/services, and build a blueprint to uncover the highest value areas of improvement.
  2. Audience understanding
    A set of personas describing the needs, desires and pain points of the audiences we’re designing for, and the behaviour shift we aim to bring about in them.
  3. Benchmark report
    Your report will clearly outline a grade for the current experience across each key journey, where you sit against your competitors, as well as where the potential change might happen.
  4. Sprints
    Based on the agreed objectives and timescale, each sprint will focus on a set of prioritised small, medium and large improvements, along with all associated design assets.

Case study

Evolving Fred.Olsen digital estate

For Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, we created a digital vision to equal their exceptional service at sea. We synchronised strategy and tactics within a compressed timeline and the results smashed all targets. Digital revenues hit the same figures for 6 months in 2023 as the whole of their last normal year in 2019.

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