CreateFuture first accredited 5 Ways to Innovate global partner

Nathan Fulwood, Strategy Director, introduces an exciting new partnership, and explains what it means for clients.

At CreateFuture, we've been innovating products and services for our clients, day in and day out, for the last eight years. We're rightly proud of the ways in which we've been able to help our clients evolve and grow, and we're proud of the brands and propositions that have made it into the marketplace.

But our biggest motivation, and most satisfying outcome, is when we leave our clients in a better place. When they take on the new tools, the new ways of working and collaborating that help them enjoy their work more and create great things, with or without our help. 

But innovation in practice is hard to sustain. Despite good intentions and significant investment, 80 to 90% of innovation centres still fail. 

So, we were interested and excited when we were introduced to Amer and Roshan, a Facebooker and a Googler, and former Deloitte and Accenture consultants, who've spent their careers helping traditional corporates with their innovation efforts.  

Together they have refined their combined decades of experience into a system to help close the innovation gap. A system that helps ambitious companies to objectively evaluate their innovation capabilities and blockers, and align around the right mix of 5 simple, proven innovation tactics and the activities needed to implement and start delivering results within 100 days.

The more we talked, the more closely we realised how closely our cultures, and the human-centred, design thinking principles underpinning theirs and our work, were aligned. 

Earlier this month we spent three intense days together unpacking the 5 Ways to Innovate Framework. We immersed ourselves in it, challenged it, and tested it on the kind of client environments we typically work in. 

Having done so, we are excited and confident in what the 5 Ways to Innovate framework, implemented by CreateFuture and supported by Roshan and Amer, can offer to our clients: a way to assess, align and implement practical, sustainable, outcome-focused innovation programmes that deliver results.

" It feels like a natural evolution of our journey at CreateFuture, to help clients innovate and build their own capability, leaving them in a better place. "

The journey starts with a simple (free) self assessment. If you work in a large corporate and struggle with delivering innovation consistently, or you just want to find out more, please drop me a line.

Successful smiles after 3 Days of Training with Roshan and Amer in the 5 Ways to Innovate framework.