Innovation Service Providers

Our Innovation Service Provider (ISP™) network wires up a fragmented market.  We have built relationships with peers in innovation agencies, design companies and venture capital firms so we can seamlessly address total project needs, end to end.  The network currently includes the following partners:

Adaptive Lab creates digital applications, products and services for clients ranging from small technology start-ups to Plc’s. In addition to innovative work for clients, AdaptiveLab produces web platforms that help creative organisations to share collaborate and innovate. These include a whitelabel crowdsourcing platform and an internal communications tool that helps to track and share insights, ideas and work. Find out more about Adaptive Lab at http://adaptivelab.co.uk.

Amplified is a not-for-profit organization that uses social media to enable and encourage community participation around events, conferences and public conversations. The Amplified team facilitates and documents the sharing of ideas, opinions and resources, and aggregates this content online to enable the conversations from all parties to continue and spread. Find out more about Amplified at www.amplified10.com.

Bluenove – Founded in 2008, bluenove is the leader of Open & Collaborative Innovation consulting and services in France. Find out more about Bluenove at www.bluenove.com.

Chaordix is a leading provider of managed crowdsourcing communities. Through expert services and its crowdsourcing platform, Chaordix helps organizations apply crowdsourcing to a wide range of needs including products or services innovation, predicting market reaction, enhancing brand relevance, or tapping the problem solving capability of crowds to develop research, technology, policy and product solutions. We enable organizations to engage a crowd via the web to submit, discuss and often refine and rank submissions to discover the most-likely-to-succeed solutions. The crowd may be consumers, employees, partners or other select memberships. Find out more about Chaordix at www.chaordix.com.

Crowdworks is a web-based software platform that allows businesses and organisations to build collaborative communities around their customers, employees, members or constituents to capture and share ideas and feedback in real-time. Once published, ideas can be universally collaborated on, voted on and market researched by the community, and eventually, in the case of the most influential, be adopted by the organisation in whole or in part. Find out more about Crowdworks at www.crowdworks.net.

Entheo is the Leadership Innovation Company. We work with ambitious organisations that are, or aspire to be, leaders in their field. We use a blend of approaches including: facilitation, skills development, coaching and consultancy, to develop your business culture into one that innovates effectively and consistently as a means to achieving leadership status. This can be from creating compelling customer focused propositions through to increasing your win rate on bids. What is important is that innovation becomes core to the way that your organisation thinks and works, not just something that is technologically driven by R&D. To find out more about Entheo at http://entheo.co.uk.

The Future Laboratory is recognised internationally for its innovative approach to trend forecasting, consumer insight, innovation and brand strategy. Via their global network and in-house team of trend analysts and ethnographic researchers, they offer clients qualitative and quantitative insights into future consumers and how to target them. Since 2001 they have developed a consultancy that unites editorial work, independent research and creative thinking of the highest calibre with engaged, bespoke client operations that respond to a brand or company’s individual need for research, enquiry and ideation. Find out more about Future Laboratory at www.thefuturelaboratory.com.

Happen works with companies across the globe to make new things happen. Whether inventing new products/services or reinventing a business to be more innovative, the journey starts with people – whether customers or employees.  Happen uses cutting edge approaches to get insight into the often unarticulated needs/desires/beliefs that drive behaviour.  These insights drive the invention and implementation of compelling solutions that consumers will buy or employees will buy into.  Within organisations, Happen also helps build innovation capabilities, embed ‘make-it-happen’ behaviours and introduce processes/practices to unlock people’s potential to innovate.  In just four years, this insight-led approach to making new things happen has delivered over $500M in incremental revenue for Happen clients. Find out more at www.happen.com.

HYVE merges expertise in co-creation, crowdsourcing and open innovation to provide a unique offer for companies which want to integrate consumers throughout all stages of the innovation process. HYVE`s expertise in co-creation, open innovation and crowdsourcing is based on 4 pillars: 1) Thought leadership 2) Development of methods and tools 3) Interdisciplinary teams of community managers, market researchers, product designers and Lead Users 4) More than 10 years of practical co-creation experience working for leading companies across all product fields and businesses. Find out more about HYVE at www.hyve.de.

IPSO Ventures creates commercial value from intellectual property and technology generated by universities and other research institutions. Working with industrial partners we act as a bridge between them and the amazing research ideas found in universities and other research establishments, not only in the UK but worldwide. Working with our research partners we help them identify potential commercial opportunities and add value to them so they can be used by industrial partners. Find out more about IPSO Ventures at www.ipsoventures.com.

iScout’s clients want to innovate more successfully, quickly, cost effectively and with more certainty. We help by finding great problems for them to solve & exploit. Too much time developing solutions, instead of framing great problems, means innovations are not as valuable as they could be; to our clients or their customers. iScout has found filtered and framed over £100m worth of actionable innovation opportunities. We did so in less time than it would take our clients, at a fraction of the cost and with less risk. If you are looking for ways to add value to your innovation process, please get in touch. If not, no problem. Find out more about iScout at www.innovationscout.co.uk.

Moving Brands Moving Brands is an independent, award-winning creative business. With locations in London, San Francisco, Tokyo and Zurich, we work seamlessly across time zones and geography for our global clients. We believe in ‘creativity for a moving world,’ where the traditional branding, advertising and design silos are no longer relevant. Since our formation in 1998, we have set new benchmarks in creativity which have the power to transform brands for a modern, moving world. We believe creativity is a business advantage, not just an aesthetic, with the power to build connections with people, differentiate from competitors and add value to brands.. Find out more about Moving Brands at www.movingbrands.com.

NineSigma provides open innovation services to help companies increase their competitiveness through access to new technologies and capabilities. Our custom consulting programs and open innovation services enable companies to better leverage external innovation to meet critical business goals. NineSigma’s unique open innovation approach and constantly expanding innovation network provide an unparalleled advantage in the global innovation marketplace. Find out more about NineSigma at www.ninesigma.com.

Pipeline Project are a small team with a big network that connects people and purpose to make stuff that matters.  Our mission is to reframe the way that people in business approach their commercial, social and environmental challenges using disruptive innovation and the positive power of brands. We back the pioneers who want to take a more positive, thoughtful and open approach to building their future. Innovation with purpose. www.pipelineproject.co

The Scarlett Mark takes on a small number of large scale projects per year, working with brands and media owners to diversify and build new revenue streams as well as unlock existing physical and brand assets. The Scarlett Mark takes projects beyond “consultancy”, completing the loop from idea, research, design and production, through to IP protection and licensing and revenue. Find out more about Scarlettmark at www.thescarlettmark.com.

Syngal Corke Wallis is the Indian arm of Corke Wallis. We create brands and communications tools. We build them in real time, in market. Our combination of creativity, business knowledge and rigorous, smart testing, allows our client to innovate faster and more safely. Syngal Corke Wallis was founded and is run by Shruti Syngal, who has extensive experience and a strong track record in leading and managing multi disciplinary branding projects (creative, strategic and execution) and has worked with some of the most influential thinkers in branding. Clients have included: Discovery Channel, Barclays Bank, Lloyd’s of London, Orange and TATA. Fine out more at http://syngalcorkewallis.com.

Wecreate help teams build more innovative, creative, ethical and entrepreneurial mindsets for good – through training programs and peer-led toolkits; and we consult across the world on social innovation and sustainable leadership projects. Our mission is to make the tools and techniques for leadership, collaboration and innovation available to as many people as possible so that individuals, communities and organisations of all shapes and sizes can come together to co-create change. Find out more about wecreate at www.wecreate.cc.

Building the Network

The network only consists of agencies we’ve worked with and would recommend highly. Through engaging the ISP network, enterprises can have one point of contact for one programme, even though it will encompass diverse skills in the three different phases of innovation.