Innovation Consulting
Demystifying innovation.
Investing in innovation is obvious. Doing it well isn’t. Too many frameworks and buzzwords make the process feel foreign, and every company has to tailor innovation to its own assets, constraints, and long-term vision. We’ll help your team challenge the status quo, retain and attract top talent, and consistently bring new ideas to life.
Our consulting expertise
Innovation strategy & portfolios.
If you have an organizational strategy, you should have a complementary and concurrent innovation strategy. Our framework brings clarity to the who, what, where, when and why behind your innovation intentions, mitigates shiny-object chasing, elevates ecosystem collaboration, and promotes impact-focused teams.
Perhaps the hardest, most frustrating part of innovation is taking an idea from inspiration to impact. Leveraging our experience in startup tech and global innovation best practices, our team will guide or lead the innovation journey for a product, service, or process anywhere in your business.
Our signature framework
The NoW Hackathon.
Brought to over 100 companies, conferences, and communities since our first event in 2015. It blends the essence of Design Thinking and Jobs-to-be-Done with the spirit of the hackathon — a full-day, non-technical (no coding required), rapid ideation, concept-building, and pitch session that brings cross-functional teams together to solve any organizational challenge or opportunity.
- “How might we create a more equitable, diverse and inclusive company culture?”
- “How might we rethink our sales process for a changed market?”
- “How might we accelerate our involvement in an emerging technology shift?”
What teams say
“After three inspiring hackathons with our internal team, The NoW of Work is now delivering the same amazing experience to our member events.”
“We progressed quickly from concept to practice and we are already rolling out ideas that our teams developed with Rocky into our operations.”
“The framework and facilitators were unbelievable, but maybe more importantly, we witnessed the power of collaborative problem solving within our ecosystem.”
“I left the Hackathon feeling inspired, energized and grateful for the day spent with the team, and the connections I built throughout the day.”
Building AI into your innovation practice
Innovation and AI adoption run on the same muscle: a team that’s used to testing ideas fast. If AI is the specific opportunity on the table, book a call and we’ll show you how it applies.