We take a holistic approach to innovation. From organizational design to strategy to specific initiative execution, and eventually to initiative portfolio management.  We meet our clients where they are and help to strengthen each facet of their innovation capability to drive value. Sprosty Network brings a wealth of experience as business operators combined with a library of innovation tools and process to create a pragmatic path to move from idea through execution.

Portfolio as a process is the key difference between a deliberate commitment to innovation, and innovative products and services. Our discipline managing an innovation funnel answers the questions of how many, how big, and how relevant. The portfolio approach is what drives new opportunities from insights and ideas to business concepts, experiments, and scaled businesses. Our focus here is driving fast, inexpensive learning and further development based on moving business concepts through three major stages of maturity: discovery, incubation and acceleration.

We complement core ecosystem analysis and business development with an execution framework for initiatives across Discovery, Incubation and Acceleration stages. The metrics in our management system provide the visibility needed by innovation leadership to manage and drive their portfolio.

Team² is Sprosty Network’s approach to project-based, active learning that combines traditional advisory services with team-based working groups working on a live, important project. It is supported by consultant coaches who guide the teams and often, key individual employees. The overarching intent of the Team² framework is to accelerate the path to results through an engagement model that builds productivity, teamwork, alignment and professional development. Project success is measured by a client’s individual employee’s role in achieving results plus our success in delivering the additional benefits of accelerated professional development (leadership, business acumen, and team-building skills). Often, driven client employees experience enhanced career progression as a result of the experiences and opportunities that result from this process.

Ultimately, upon the project completion, the client talent is left with the ability to run with new set of best practices, tools and capabilities on their own.  As new businesses and initiatives are developed and launched, the Team² approach fosters knowledge transfer from consulting team members to client employees with the intent of establishing operational readiness throughout the innovation process.

Our approach to organizational readiness takes a pragmatic look at the people, process, and political components of innovation capability design.  This review surfaces strengths and gaps leading to client appropriate recommendations to raise innovation acumen.

The combination of Sprosty team operational and innovation experience provides the backdrop for how we approach initiative execution.  This experience, combined with our Innovation Framework (stages, milestones, techniques) is what underpins our ability to drive projects form early concept stages to scale as a stable business.  The ability to “get it done” differentiates our innovation approach from many others.

Our corporate clients are universally interested in leveraging the innovative new solutions offered by startup companies.  To support this interest, we built the RetailXelerator program to specifically accelerate our clients desire to engage the startup community. We tailor each program specifically to the needs of our clients, vs. leveraging the broader accelerator ecosystem which focuses more on driving, and extracting, value from the startups themselves.