Services
With Innovate21’s extensive experience in strategy and innovation, we partner with you today to be ready for tomorrow’s adventure.
Strategy is hard because it involves making tough decisions and the right answer is unknown.
Instead of running formal workshops, we use ground-breaking game playing experiences that provide practical and safe environments, building understanding of what is needed to strategically transform.
The game experiences are backed with an extensive, proven set of strategic tools that can be used by the wider organisation.
From each experience, Innovate 21 enables insights and learnings to be applied to each unique situation, providing clarity on purpose and future direction.
Sustainable innovation is crucial in creating future-proofed organisations. Innovate21 works with companies to determine and form unique innovation roadmaps which will deliver innovation success.
Innovation roadmaps focus on four areas:
- Identifying innovation focus areas and priorities
- Creating an environment and culture supportive of innovation
- Acting as catalysts to enable identification of new, creative ideas
- Coaching innovation teams to increase idea implementation rates.
Innovation can be risky, but the greatest risk is doing nothing. crucial
To be successful in strategy and innovation, continual learning is vital to remain relevant.
Innovate21 have an extensive range of practical innovation and strategy modules that build capabilities for individuals, teams and organisations.
We provide a discovery service that identifies skill-gaps and key needs to enable learning programs to be tailored to specific requirements.
From individual and team coaching through to organisation-wide delivery, we enable you and your team to be ready today to create tomorrow’s future.
About us
Harvey Wade
Innovate21 Founder
Harvey is an experienced innovation leader who drives business impact from transformation and change programs. He knows what it takes to create, drive and sustain improvement in organisations, changing cultures to increase engagement and buy-in at all levels, enabling better performance and results.
A regular conference speaker, award-winning blogger and contributor on MBA and Exec education programmes, his practical innovation experience spans many industry sectors. The problems are different, but his approach, tools and methods are universally applicable, delivering value to everyone he works with.
Contact: harvey@innovate21.co
What others are saying about Innovate21...
Harvey is an accomplished innovation management professional who I have called upon for advice a number of times when facing an intractable problem. It is rare to find someone with as much international experience in the innovation game. Such exposure to cognitive diversity gives him a unique lens on the evolving world of a 21st century skill set and how best to democratise innovation.
I believe it's important to think about the right person for the right project or engagement. Harvey is an excellent facilitator with the executive presence, patience, humour, business expertise and consultative approach to deal with even the toughest of audiences.
I have read a lot about Design Thinking, but this was my first workshop which applied this concept to an actual problem. The way you guys did your homework and tailored the workshop to the task at hand was simply superb. The outcome was brilliant and was far ahead of what I expected. Today, we are regaining trust back from the customer and a large part of that is due to the work that you guys enabled in this workshop.
Driving innovation in a complex corporate environment is a fascinating role, and Harvey had a great impact in this area. His thoughtful approach, helped by his many years experience of creating a culture of innovation, helped me develop a new perspective. His expertise in program management provided a valuable framework to build from, and I greatly enjoyed working with him.
My team and I were very impressed with Innovate21's thorough approach, ability to work in an ambiguous and changing environment and drive to deliver the work within the expected timescales. Their work will enable us to develop our innovation capabilities, creating the opportunity for a more innovative future.
Case study
EDF’s UK Innovation Centre, Blue Lab, wanted to create a set of training materials that would increase innovation skills and capabilities in both Blue Lab and the wider EDF organisation. Following an initial discovery phase to ascertain needs, we created fifteen innovation modules, which can be consumed individually or combined to make a more extensive offering. The modules covered setting innovation strategy and design thinking practices, through to prototyping methods and idea implementation. Each module was tailored to EDF’s specific needs and piloted with the organisation to test its effectiveness.
