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Deep Discovery
When a junior analyst’s hunch or a late-night ChatGPT session isn’t enough to understand the water you’re swimming in, we use mixed discovery methods to build a clear picture of opportunities, barriers, and amplifiers across your customer, org, and ecosystem.
- Interviews, Workshops & Observation
- Service Auditing
- Industry & Competitive Reviews
- Journey & Service Mapping
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Feedback Loops
When the digital and human layers of your org are moving at different paces (and prices), we use rapid prototyping, co-design, in-context testing, and service piloting to tune out the noise and make a clear case for investment across channels and functions.
- Co-Design with Users & Teams
- Service Prototyping
- User Testing
- Service Piloting
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Catalyzed Alignment
When the problem to solve and how to solve it are clear but getting formed up for delivery-at-scale is a battle, we set a compelling north star for the whole team through service strategy, rich artifacts that articulate every front- and backstage detail, and sharp storytelling.
- Service & Innovation Strategy
- Service Blueprinting & Requirements Definition
- Service Roadmapping
- Service Delivery Operations and Team Structure Design
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Working With Us
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It's a big tent, not a black box
We work in a spirit of warm inclusivity, inviting stakeholders to ride along with us wherever they have capacity and interest. Our position is that momentum around good outcomes doesn’t start when we hand over the final deliverable, but instead is built by creating true believers along the way.
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It's sleeves up, not buttoned down
We’re not afraid to joyfully roll up our sleeves and dig into the messy muck of whatever problem you find yourself in, regardless of whether it falls neatly within our disciplinary boundaries. Need us to read a 100-page manual for an end-of-life software platform in order to imagine a radical new future? Sure. Want us to hand out pamphlets to patients as part of a pilot, while observing their reactions? We’re there. We’re here to drive impact, not just deliverables.
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It's curiosity first, not frameworks
Folks ask us to share our templates and frameworks all the time, and our answer is always “sure, but we rebuild from scratch every time.” This might not be optimally efficient for a consulting firm, but it’s the best way we know of simultaneously bringing to bear our deep toolbox and also ensuring that we’re led by curiosity, not the 2x2 we’ve used 1000 times. It’s like jazz: we know the rules super well, and this lets us improvise our way towards the brilliantly unexpected.
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It’s systems+people, not systems>people
Our approach is firmly grounded in both human centred design and systems thinking. It’s easy to fall into the trap of prioritizing one over the other, but great services balance both. You can expect to hear us share rich insights about a customer’s inner life in one breath before talking gritty details of your system architecture diagram in the next… and then tying them together in the third.