1000 Days Out
1000 Days Out
Get Closer to Your Customers
 
 

Helping You See the Future

We don’t predict the future with artificial intelligence or crystal balls - it’s much simpler - we’re obsessive about spending time talking with users. We collaborate with your teams to identify the pain points, opportunities and emerging trends that will impact your business. We look forward about 3 years (1000 days) to help you build the digital products, services and platforms your customers will love.

We work hand-in-hand with your team and your customers to strategically, meticulously, almost pathologically conduct interviews, explore user journeys, uncover nuances, reveal startling discoveries that help you shape the future of your product, your services, your success.

Using design thinking and an empathy-led approach, we bring you the unique insights, sound strategies and actionable tactics that will help you create the conditions for success now and 1,000 days out.  How do we do it?

  1. We identify the real problems to solve. Not the low hanging fruit problems, but the wicked problems - the ones that when solved will transform your business.

  2. We talk to your customers.  Using an empathy-led approach we tease out your customers’ real needs, desires, and pains. We don’t ask them what they think they want instead we help uncover these needs creating opportunities that few others are looking for.

  3. We pivot early and often because every successful company fails forward. We learn from every customer interaction so we can take that knowledge forward to fine-tune the strategy. When appropriate we move away from previous assumptions towards better options; it’s how good companies get to be great companies.

  4. We experiment to learn.  We help you conduct the right experiments which mean everyone gets smarter.  By creating better hypotheses, running lean experiments, and uncovering insights, everyone gets closer to the truth. And the truth is where success is found.

  5. We prototype toward success.  Small bets before big bets.  We help organizations reduce risk by building prototypes before scaling digital products.  We build prototypes quickly and inexpensively so those big bets have a better chance of big payoffs.

 
 
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
— Bill Gates
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Beyond Good Ideas

Good ideas aren’t enough for an innovation program. Innovation is a process, and it’s one that can be repeated again and again to improve the chances of success of each iteration. We leverage the principles of Design Thinking to drive a repeatable innovation process inside organizations so you can create a culture of innovation and a continual focus on your customers.


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