What we can do for you

As a collective, we are powered by collaboration. We apply research, creativity, strategy, design and data to imagine and build products, programs, services, experiences and businesses that address modern-day challenges, and that help people, organizations and societies realize the future in impactful ways.

1. Research & Insights Generation

We help organizations develop deep understanding and insights around their stakeholders, or topics of interest, through various field research techniques. Research may cover areas such as:

Design and management of venture-building programs
User and customer research
Product and service interest or usage research
Value chain mapping and analysis
Problem understanding for challenge brief formulation.
Exploratory and Validation research

2. Innovation Programs Design & Management

With decades of experience working in social innovation across Africa, we support organizations to conceptualize, launch and manage customized innovation programs. In particular, we can support you in the:

Design and management of incubation programs, accelerator programs and bespoke entrepreneurship programs.
Design and management of open innovation challenges, ideathons and hackathons
Design and delivery of learning and facilitated programs
Research and development of Innovation challenge briefs
Design and creation of transformational learning programs for your team and stakeholders
Design and management of venture building programs

3. Strategy Design & Implementation

Strategy is about making critical decisions under uncertainty and competition, informed by evidence.

We work with organizations to design and implement ambitious strategies that deliver impact and business goals.
We support organizations in designing and managing complex projects, aligning stakeholders, carrying out pilots and bringing transformational projects to life.

4. Product and Services Concept Building

Leveraging our expertise in behavioural design, human-centered design, data, product and service design, we help translate innovative ideas into viable concepts through prototyping and testing. This can be in the form of digital products, services, experiences and programs.

5. Innovation Facilitation

We empower teams to innovate better products, services, processes and experiences through our tailored workshops. Our workshops are in forms such as:

Design Sprints: 1 to 2 weeks long programs that bring together diverse teams to define problems, prototype ideas, and test solution concepts
Design Thinking and Human-centered design workshops (one day to 1 week) – empowering teams to learn and practice human-centered design
Innovation challenge workshops – these are customized workshops helping teams address specific challenges

6. Social Venture and Business Design

We support social enterprises, companies and entrepreneurs in launching new or refining existing products, services and business models.

We test ideas and concepts by leveraging human-centered design, lean and agile methodologies and strategies, helping organizations make business decisions quickly and affordably.

We additionally support organizations to ideate and test new business models to help propel the business forward.

Where We Work

As a consultancy, our work is deeply rooted in social impact. We are keen to push boundaries, rethink approaches and co-design interventions that lead to better outcomes economically, socially and for the environment (planet). While our innovative approach can be applied to any sector, the collective is keen to drive innovation and impact in:

Sustainable Food Systems and Regenerative Agriculture

Education, Learning and Development

Health and Wellbeing

Entrepreneurship & Digital Economy

Climate & Sustainability

Care economy and Social Services

Humaniterian Services

Sustainable Communities and Cities

Some of our Partners and Clients

Our success is linked to the success of those we serve, so we strive to deliver at every interaction and prove why we’re the right choice.