Urgent Innovation: 4 ways to master ‘the pivot’ by re-using, re-purposing and re-imagining your business

Posted by Stratos Innovation Group on Apr 20, 2020


The coronavirus-inspired shutdown of the global economy has led to profound existential conversations within the business community. Executives around the world are asking questions like  “How can we position ourselves for success when this is over?” or even “Can we survive this?”

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Tags: Innovation

Hacking innovation methodologies: DT + JTBD

Posted by Anthony Weiler on Jun 28, 2019

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before...
You and your team just wrapped up a maj
or innovation effort… and you’re left with a nagging suspicion that you could have accomplished more if only you could have combined another approach. Sure, you uncovered some opportunities buuuuut it still doesn’t feel like you are getting the whole picture.

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Tags: Innovation, Design Thinking, Front End of Innovation, jobs-to-be-done

Your Customers are Creative. It's Time to Build with Them.

Posted by Stratos Innovation Group on Mar 5, 2018

New Needs, New Technologies, New Expectations

Right now, we’re seeing a renaissance of innovation as tech companies jump out of our screens and into the physical spaces where we work, live, play and shop.

Technologies once relegated to obscure, downstream or mundane tasks are taking in a refreshed limelight—and forcing customers to recalibrate to a new normal.

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Tags: Innovation, Codesign, Co Creation, Design Strategy, Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Front End of Innovation

6 Strategic Tips for Facilitating Innovation

Posted by Stratos Innovation Group on Sep 14, 2016

At Stratos, we’ve played a range of roles in the strategic front-end of the innovation process. In our experience, we have found that clients often need more than research insights. They need help bridging the gap between design research and the implementation work streams of their project. If you want to add value to your offering, your role might go beyond that of a design researcher or even a design strategist and become that of a “facilitator of innovation.” Here are some lessons we’ve learned from working on innovation projects:

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Tags: Innovation, UX, Design, User Experience, Design Research

We are Stratos, and we are here to share and start conversations!

Posted by Stratos Innovation Group on Jan 14, 2015

Let’s navigate change side-by-side.

After a few years of engaging in a range of design research and strategy work, we have started a blog space where we can share what we’ve learned and what we’re up to. We also want to invite a dialogue between other design researchers, strategists, leaders of innovation, members of the continuous improvement community, the user experience community, and beyond. Our goal is to share our thoughts, to share the things we find useful, and to generate conversation across industries.

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Tags: Service Design, Innovation, UX, Design, User Experience