We Turn Complexity into Opportunity
At Innovation Ecosystem, we help organizations see the big picture, act strategically, and deliver transformational outcomes.
Our Value Proposition
We began with a simple belief: the complexity of today’s world is not a barrier—it is a powerful source of opportunity. In an era of rapid change, we help organizations overcome disruptive threats and claim bold opportunities by embracing complexity rather than avoiding it.
Our approach combines strategic systems thinking, bold creativity, and deep innovation expertise. It’s a combination of cutting edge skills that positions your organization to create powerful solutions that are transformative, sustainable, and strategically impactful. We help leaders connect the dots across systems, revealing opportunities that others might overlook, so that you and your teams can DO BIGGER THINGS.
Dan McClure is an innovation thought leader who has pioneered systems innovation practices for over three decades. As Innovation Ecosystem’s senior leader and advisor, he provides deep, hands-on experience rooted in innovation challenges from around the world. His big picture systems innovation perspective has enabled Fortune 100 companies, UN and government agencies, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs worldwide to develop sophisticated impactful responses to hard challenges.
Because we work across a wide range of sectors, geographies, and organization types, we tailor our innovation teams to unique opportunities. We call this a “Hollywood Model”. Just like a film studio hires a unique crew for every movie, we dynamically assemble teams of world-class experts and partners custom-fit to your exact challenge. This approach guarantees speed, specialized knowledge, and a fresh perspective on every project.
How We Work: Thought Leadership and Dynamic Teams
Examples of Doing Bigger Things in Action
We combine systems insight, strategy, and execution to enable powerful creative action
Assessing Enterprise Barriers to Powerful Ideas
What do you do when your organization faces fast moving threats and opportunities, but you’ve lost the ability to take bold creative action? Complicated operations built to satisfy past needs may support billion dollar operations and global reach … but their tangled complexity eventually blocks leaders from doing ambitious new things.
We’ve helped unlock creative action in organizations like this. In manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, media, and non profits, we dove deep to reveal their hidden complexity.
Our broad review explored how market change, technical agility, and creative capacity are all connected. We provided leaders with a unique cross enterprise view of the barriers and opportunities, to bold organizational action.
Building Creative Muscle Across the Enterprise
What does an organizations do when the status quo is falling short? Like a one hundred year old commercial firm that is leaking market share because of repeated industry change. Or an international non-profit facing a transformed sector desperately in need of a series of big new ideas.
When facing a world of dynamic change it isn’t enough to make one painful round of ‘transformation’ and then settle into the new status quo.
So, we worked with visionary leaders to build organizations with a new kind of creative muscle. We helped them design an organization that can set bold empowering goals, implement dynamic portfolio management to support fast moving ideas, and set up the enabling practices, policies and culture that engages the entire enterprise in delivering new ideas.
Creating Big Picture Views of Hard Challenges
How do you understand the systems that drive something as big and complicated as climate change? We worked with ambitious philanthropies to created practical visual models of complex system challenges in energy, transportation, and agriculture.
The highly collaborative process enabled these strategic leaders to create a shared vision building on the insights of partners spanning three continents. The final product was a powerful big picture view of how these diverse actors fit together and how they could jointly create powerful new systems to address urgent climate challenges.
Coaching Innovators Doing Bigger Things
Why do so many exciting impactful ideas stall on their creative journey? Innovators and their sponsors often focus on the easy parts of inspiration and early testing. But they fail when they need to take control of complexity and real world messiness.
We’ve worked with a huge variety of teams building system innovations for hard challenges from around the world.
We’ve coached bold system innovators responding to the international COVID crisis in Zambia to Mongolia. We’ve provided guidance for big picture strategies enabling renewable energy programs in Malawi and Bangladesh. We’ve help creative innovators structure a big vision for transforming industries in transportation, media, energy, medical care, and education.
Turning complexity into powerful innovations is difficult, but it’s possible if teams get the support and guidance they need along their creative journey.
Want to collaborate on doing bigger things?
We help leaders turn complex change into powerful opportunity. Let’s start a conversation about your bold ambitions.