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We help you incubate new strategic roles
We help you incubate new strategic roles

We design and run a series of [Experiment] Incubators to test value and riskiest assumptions
We turn the successful experiments into business outcomes to demonstrate value and quick-wins
Our end goal is to turn this value into internal demand, thought-leadership, job-spec, and approved business-case for a new role
Example strategic roles
One way we are going to our organisations is to create new strategic roles that deliver new capability, capacity, systems and impact
Transform
Innovate
Change
"There is a ridiculous amount of waste and baggage in the pursuit of "innovation". How do we strip out the complexity, by focusing on helping our people run the right experiments better, faster, and cheaper?
Chief Operations Officer
problems

thought leadership
solution
Head of Experimentation
We run [Experiment} and [Outcome} incubators to generate the demand, the quick-wins, and the business case for the Head of Experimentation role
If you're a Foundation, an incubator program or VC investment outfit, you probably use mentors-as-a-support model - to provide support to the startups in your portfolio. However, the mentor model is not the most powerful when it comes to delivering highest-value to the startups.

If you're a Foundation, an incubator program or VC investment outfit, you probably use mentors-as-a-support model - to provide support to the startups in your portfolio. However, the mentor model is not the most powerful when it comes to delivering highest-value to the startups.
If you're a Foundation, an incubator program or VC investment outfit, you probably use mentors-as-a-support model - to provide support to the startups in your portfolio. However, the mentor model is not the most powerful when it comes to delivering highest-value to the startups.
problems

Quim, CEO, EdPuzzle, Spain
A teacher who had an idea but was failing significantly. We incubated his journey from teacher to co-founder, by make a strategic pivot, Now he has a startup that has now raised $m+ round, 15 staff, million+ users

Founders
70 teachers turned entrepreneurs
raised $8m+ seed funding
valued at $50m+
71% of ideas changed "very significantly"
solutions reaching millions of users
impact
programs

We run [Experiment] and [Outcome] incubators to help teachers, scientists, doctors to transition to entrepreneurship as founders.
thought leadership
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example
Founders
problem
There are a hundred and one change initiatives, new strategies being communicated, values, customer insights, new products features, client wins, failures, etc. This humdrum of activity is captured in word or powerpoint documents locked in "knowledge portals" and rarely ever read, or locked in peoples' inboxes through newsletters - without a real-time visual view of what's happening across the organisation
impact
1 Head of Stories role created
the role has directly contributed to $millions in new funding.
100K+ views of stories
programs
Head of
Stories

We run [Experiment] and [Outcome] incubators to showcase the value of Head of Stories role, before creating the business case, onboarding of the role inside your own organisation.
thought leadership
Head of Stories is part producer, part videographer, part editor and storyteller (a hiring-case coming soon)

What new strategic role would you like to create within your company?