Rapid Innovation

Shape your game plan for the foreseeable future.

We're all struggling to make sense of the changing world. As a business leader, you need to know what's coming. More importantly, you need a game plan to tackle what's ahead. North Highland's Rapid Innovation^SM approach is an accelerated, 10-day sprint that helps you uncover signals of change, innovation opportunities grounded in levels of feasibility, rapid business cases, and fast-track implementation recommendations.

Pioneer what’s next.

When you only have so much cash, capacity, and time in a day, our approach can help you best ensure you’re maximizing value and reducing tensions across customer, workforce, and operational interests. The uncertainty of the near-term future calls for an approach that allows you to adapt as you learn more each day. Applying the core tenets of design thinking, Rapid Innovation helps you reimagine possibilities and alternatives—grounding those options in a view of what is desirable, feasible, and viable for your organization.

How we help

Discover

Understand drivers of change and identify opportunities.

In the first phase of our approach, we help you map change signals to your business to understand how your products, services, and capabilities relate to internal and external challenges. In this stage, our team helps you design prospective future scenarios, followed by ideation around potential opportunities to address those scenarios.

Define

Ideate on multiple solution possibilities and define value propositions for each.

In phase two, we then align the appropriate KPIs to your identified opportunities and work with you to brainstorm ideas for new concepts or ways to repackage existing services in your business. This process culminates in rapid business cases and a roadmap for moving into prototyping and development.

Design Thinking

Apply a living construct that evolves with your organization.

Rapid Innovation is powered by design thinking principles. When evaluating anticipatory trends and weak signals in the market, a design thinking-based approach helps you to plan for the things you don't know. It enables you to shape a transformation strategy, place bets, and lay the structural foundation for execution by deploying a process of divergent and convergent thinking.