Your strategy will evolve as growth opportunities unfold.
Speed and quality of execution is the only sustainable competitive
advantage.

We have helped companies like BP, Diageo, Fannie Mae, ITV and
Unilever to build the right capabilities and project pipelines to systemise
the development, launch and scale of new growth opportunities.

This ranges from corporate venture units, incubation hubs, start-up
partnerships and joint venture capabilities. We build the new teams,
culture, processes, tools, governance and frameworks required to deliver. We
work alongside these teams to train them and enable them to perform.

Having worked with 20+ FTSE 100 companies, we understand the
challenges and know the risk factors for achieving innovative growth. We
design structures and processes to make entrepreneurial new business
ventures successful in your business and within your culture, applying our
learnings and best practices from across industries and organisational
structures.

Our Principles

Our Principles #

What Works

Leverage our deep experience and IP in designing and delivering
innovation blueprints such as incubators, accelerators and new revenue lines
for large corporates. Navigate common hurdles early from governance,
investment, monitoring and operating independence to culture and team
incentives.

Actionable Innovation
Metrics

Define rigorous commercial and innovation metrics to effectively
drive and empower teams, and to track if projects are driving meaningful and
long-term commercial impact.

Attract Entrepreneurial
Talent

Attract, incentivise and support the best entrepreneurial talent
from within and outside your organisation, tapping into our unrivalled
Founders Family network.

Extraordinary Access

Leverage our network to get unrivalled insight into relevant 3rd
party corporate innovation set-ups.

Our Approach #

  • 1. Diagnose

    Do we have clear visibility on the success of our
    current innovation projects and how we compare to others?

    Diagnose and benchmark current innovation strategy,
    capabilities, investments and project portfolio.

  • 2. Design

    Do we have full clarity on the model needed to deliver
    on our growth ambitions?

    Design a responsive blueprint and operating model,
    including the governance, talent and resource requirements and
    commercial metrics.

  • 3. Fund

    Do we understand and have buy-in for the financial
    backing required and projected return on investment?

    Develop the commercial and strategic vision and get
    the buy-in and resource needed to pursue defined growth
    opportunities.

  • 4. Hire

    Do we have the right talent from inside and outside the
    organisation to drive forward our ambitious growth set-up?

    Support the team in attracting, hiring and setting-up
    talent from inside and outside the organisation. Build teams who
    combine a deep understanding of your corporate assets with
    innovation skills and expertise.

  • 5. Embed

    Are you able to embed the new structures and talent by
    showing real commercial value quickly?

    Achieve early proof points and momentum, whilst
    navigating common pitfalls and building your entrepreneurial
    culture.